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Sheila Downey (Free article)
11 May 2006
Sheila Downey was born in the Markets area of Belfast on 23 February 1928. When her own mother tragically died at the young age of 36, Sheila raised the family of whom six sons were blind. At 19 she married Joe, a deep sea docker, and raised her own family in the Markets. Sheila Downey was born in the Markets area of Belfast on 23 February…
Margadh na Striapach Tráchtaithe - LE CATHAL Ó MURCHÚ (Free article)
11 May 2006
Ó a thit an córas cumannach as a chéile ag tús na naochaidí in Oirthear na hEorpa, is léir go bhfuil na sochuithe úd imithe chun siobarnaí le muintearas, comharsanas, dlúthpháirtíocht imithe go gairid ina ndiaidh, Ceann de na gnéithe is gránna den chóras caipitleach nua atá tar éis dul i bhfeidhm sna tíortha seo, ná tráchtú idir bhan is páistí…
Thomas Kent honoured (Free article)
11 May 2006
Thomas Kent, the only Volunteer shot in Cork during the wave of executions immediately following the 1916 Rising was comemorated last week. He and his brothers were arrested after a fierce gun battle on the night of 1-2 May when the RIC and British army came to arrest them in their farmhouse near Castlelyons. He was executed for resisting arrest…
Mitchel Mclaughlin - Investment needed to stop Northwest decline (Free article)
11 May 2006
Sinn Féin launched its Campaign for the Infrastructural development of the Northwest and Border Counties in Omagh last Monday. This will intensify over coming months through lobbying of Government Departments in Dublin and Belfast as well as seeking the support of business, community and other interested bodies. We will be seeking to impress on…
Media View by Frank Farrell - Tory hacks attack Rossport 5 (Free article)
11 May 2006
Business journalists, dominated these days by liberal, free marketeers (Tories, although the Irish variety don't like to admit it) have had to clench their teeth and restrain their hostility to the Rossport 5 given the open and almost universal admiration for their principled stand. But Environment Minister, Noel Dempsey's endorsement last week of…
The Fifth Column (Free article)
11 May 2006
Bertie looks the other way - Bertie Ahern last week told the Dáil (so it must be true) that he himself came across no fewer than 80 people in one single house in his own Dublin Central constituency who were registered to vote.
Casting off the burden of tradition (Free article)
11 May 2006
Given all the terrible stuff that has been said about Mayo over the past number of years it is only right that we pay tribute to their Under 21 football team who captured the first All Ireland title of the year last Sunday when they beat Cork in Ennis.
Last Words (Free article)
11 May 2006
The Proclamation of the Irish Republic, read aloud by Pádraig Pearse outside Dublin's GPO on Easter Monday, 1916 bore the signatures of seven men, members of the Provisonal Government of the Irish Republic. The seven signatories were among 16 alleged leaders of the Rising executed by the British. Fifteen of these were executed between 3 and 15 May…
ETA speaks (Free article)
18 May 2006
An incipient peace process is unfolding in the Basque Country. The cornerstone of this process was ETA's declaration of a ceasefire on 22 March 2006. This Sunday, the Basque daily GARA published an interview with two spokespeople from the Basque pro-independence organisation. We carry here an extract from that interview.
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