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Remembering the Past - The Lockout (Free article)
25 August 2005
In 1913, the conditions of Dublin workers were appalling. Nearly 40% of the population lived in tenement slums. The slums were the worst of any city in Europe and 20,108 families were recorded as living in a single room. Infant mortality was the highest in Europe and thousands worked a 70-hour week, for as little as 70p. Women's wages could be as…
Re-birth of Galway hurling (Free article)
25 August 2005
Last year I cut a lonely figure in Matt the Miller's pub in Kilkenny City. Proudly wearing the maroon and white of my native Galway in a city of black and amber I watched with growing horror as Galway went down to a 19-point hammering at the hands of Kilkenny in Thurles.
Notes from abroad (Free article)
25 August 2005
As you read this I am in the South of France probably still trying to find out what happened in the matches last weekend. I did my best to persuade Ciara that a trip to Kilkenny to see the Dublin Minor Hurlers in the All-Ireland Semi-Final would be an even better holiday but she is becoming too wise for me.
PSNI fuel Castlederg trouble (Free article)
1 September 2005
Trouble that broke out during a loyalist parade through the mainly nationalist Ferguson Crescent area of Castlederg, County Tyrone, on Saturday night 27 August was worsened by the actions of the PSNI.
The World Today - Countering the 'information dictatorship' (Free article)
1 September 2005
"Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is" -Danny Glover, civil rights activist and United Nations' Goodwill Ambassador, praised the launch of the new channel and dismissed the idea that the…
Gerry Fitt (Free article)
1 September 2005
The differences between Irish republicans and Gerry Fitt, who died on 26 August aged 79 years were many and profound. From the days when he won the West Belfast parliamentary seat as a Republican Labour candidate, unveiled a memorial to James Connolly on the Falls Road and sustained a very public beating at the hands of the RUC, Fitt was to stride…
Orange Order exposed (Free article)
1 September 2005
Orange Order exposed In a week that the Orange Order cosied up to the paramilitaries of the UDA and UVF to launch the ludicrously titled Love Ulster campaign, nationalist children have been the primary targets of the other side of unionist campaigning — indiscriminate, paramilitary terror. This week witnessed the second…
Mála Poist - the republican letters' page (Free article)
1 September 2005
Unionists in Leinster House A Chara, Political parties and their membership island wide that refuse to work towards re-unification are in my mind as unionist as any party that openly considers itself to be of that persuasion. For it is their actions or lack of action, that supports the current political status of six Irish…
Imeachtaí - republican events (Free article)
1 September 2005
o REPUBLICAN COMMEMORATION: For Liam Lynch. Assemble 2.45pm Sunday 4 September, the Monument, Knockmealdown Mountains, GOATENBRIDGE, County Tipperary. Speaker: Pat Doherty MP o REPUBLICAN COMMEMORATION: Annual Seán Russell commemoration. Assemble 2.30pm Saturday 10 September, Five Lamps, North Strand, DUBLIN and march to…
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