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The Mitchel McLaughlin (Free article)
12 October 2006
The period leading up to 24 November will present challenges to the leadership of all the political parties but none more so than Ian Paisley. He has arrived at the pivotal stage of his long political career. He now faces a similar challenge to that which has confronted every Unionist leader from Terence O'Neill to David Trimble, as each of them…
The Matt Treacy Column (Free article)
12 October 2006
There is a 1932 film about a boxer called Jimmy Nolan starring, if that is not putting it too strongly, Regis Toomey. Regis who? Indeed, you may well ask. Perhaps if I tell you that he also starred as Detective Smiley North in the 1934 classic Murder on the Blackboard and as Ted Hall in the 1939 film Smashing the Spy Ring you will know who I am…
Launch of new book on Hunger Strike (Free article)
12 October 2006
Author and journalist Danny Morrison launched Hunger Strike, a fascinating collection of essays on the 1981 Hunger Strike from over 50 individuals, in Hughes & Hughes bookshop in Dublin on Saturday, 7 October.
Review - BBC documentary confronts Ludlow murderers (Free article)
12 October 2006
On the 2 May 1976, 47-year-old Seamus Ludlow, from Dundalk, was abducted by unionist paramilitaries and murdered just outside the town. BBC television's Spotlight programme, broadcast on Tuesday 9 October covered the story and while not revealing much in the way of new information, gave us a fascinating insight into the characters of the alleged…
Bellaghy vigil marks end of hunger strike (Free article)
12 October 2006
A candlelight procession, marking the end of the 1981 hunger strike, was held in the County Derry village of Bellaghy on Sunday 8 October.
Media View (Free article)
12 October 2006
The 'crisis' over Bertie Ahern's gifts/loans/debt-of-honour petered out last week, with journalists frothing over an issue that, yet again, underlined the gulf between the media and the public.
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
12 October 2006
IMPACT seeks pay rise for Ryanair pilots, SIPTU publishes unique 1916 pamphlet and Midwives ballot for industrial action
Short Strand to remember its fallen (Free article)
12 October 2006
Thirty years ago, on 16 October, the night sky over Belfast suddenly turned bright orange. I watched this strange occurrence with other republican prisoners from the top landing of C Wing in Crumlin Road jail and wondered about the source of it. It was not long before we heard on the radio that an explosion had occurred at Belfast's gas works in…
Cúlchaint (Free article)
12 October 2006
Is trua an duine nach bhfuil splanctha i ndiaidh rud éigin. Tá aithne agam ar fhear darb ainm Decco atá ag fail bháis faoi láthair le hailse.
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