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Mary Lou voices concern over human trafficking (Free article)
14 July 2005
Concern has increased this week about links between the sex industry in Ireland and human trafficking. Voluntary organisation Ruhama, which offers support to prostitutes in Ireland, said this week that it met or supported 91 women trafficked into the country to work in the sex industry. Sinn Féin MEP for Dublin Mary Lou McDonald has added her…
Lessons for Ireland in devastating Shell report (Free article)
14 July 2005
A devastating new report has been published as part of a week of action in Holland and England coinciding with Shell shareholder meetings. The report, published on 25 June is dedicated to human rights and environmental activist Ken Saro Wiwa and opens with Saro Wiwa's last words before he was hanged with eight other activists on 10 November 1995…
PSNI blamed for Derry trouble (Free article)
14 July 2005
Donncha Mac Niallais of the Bogside Residents Group has said the blame for the trouble that broke out as local Orangemen returned from a parade in Derry has to be laid firmly at the feet of the PSNI.
Live 8 roars, G8 whispers (Free article)
14 July 2005
Aid for Africa will be doubled by 2010 to $50 billion, with a renewed commitment to invest in free basic healthcare and education for all Africans. The US government has agreed that "climate change is happening now", urgent action is needed and the G8 as a group will work to develop clean energy technologies. The EU and the US have pledged to act…
Paras Louth incursion (Free article)
14 July 2005
Heavily armed members of the notorious British Parachute Regiment and PSNI were involved in an incursion into County Louth last week where they were confronted by local people
Why we must oppose British ID cards (Free article)
14 July 2005
The London atrocities occurred at a time when the British government's plan for compulsory identity cards for all persons in its jurisdiction was running into trouble. Now, under cover of reaction to the horrific attacks, the plan is being accelerated. But this British ID card plan is one of the most serious assaults ever on civil rights and, in…
Marines whitewash disrupted (Free article)
14 July 2005
It was billed as a day of musical fun and entertainment as Belfast City Council was to beam, on a big screen, a live performance of La Boheme from the 'Royal' Opera House in London, to an open air audience in Botanic Gardens on Thursday 30 June. But organisers hit the wrong note when they invited the band of the British army's infamous Royal…
TV fantasy of 'The Twelfth' (Free article)
14 July 2005
This year, like every other, television viewers throughout Ireland have witnessed the ludicrous spectacle of the BBC and ITV attempting to present an entirely surreal image of the Orange Order as it struts it sectarian stuff around the Six Counties offering offence at every opportunity.
Lies and cynicism at Sunday World (Free article)
14 July 2005
The Sunday World this week published another tissue of lies aimed at Sinn Féin. The Garda's pet hack Paul Williams, notorious for his fabrication of countless, groundless stories designed to damage the party and who lacks any credibility as a serious journalist was given free reign by the Sunday World to once again make wild allegations. As usual…
Using political strength to effect change (Free article)
14 July 2005
NERF Chairperson, Meath County Councillor Joe Reilly, recently spoke to An Phoblacht about the workings of the Forum and what role he wished to see it perform for the party and its reperesentatives in the time ahead.
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