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New Deal is a sham (Free article)
15 January 1997
``This is a very proud day for me,'' proclaimed Environment minister Noel Dempsey this week. Dempsey was unveiling his New Deal for Local Government. The main points of the New Deal are a much needed increase in funding for local government and a change in the sources of funding. Over the next two years motor taxation is to be increased by 6% and…
Derry petrol bombs (Free article)
16 January 1997
Nationalists living in Derry's Waterside are warning that lives will be lost if loyalist attacks on Catholic homes continue.
Ceasefires in Wonderland and Garda drugs strategy (Free article)
16 January 1997
It is easy to spot the double standards in Patrick Mayhew's attitude to the loyalist ceasefire. By his logic, because the CLMC has not claimed their recent attacks, their ceasefire is still in place.
MALA POIST (Free article)
16 January 1997
Not so independent, Remembering Bloody Sunday, Destroy the statelet, EU and Cuba and Garda targeting communities
Bomb in Twinbrook (Free article)
16 January 1997
On the day that Patrick Mayhew said he was ``very glad'' the loyalist ``ceasefire'' was intact the Laurel Glen Roadhouse on the Stewartstown Road in Twinbrook was being cleared after local residents noticed a device attached to a security grill.
The old boys (and girls) of the brigade (Free article)
16 January 1997
I saw the Irish Brigade for the first time on 30 December last. Well, I heard them rather than saw them and from what I was told they were a slimmed-down version of what they once were, three members rather than five.
Ceasefires in Wonderland (Free article)
16 January 1997
It is easy to spot the double standards in Patrick Mayhew's attitude to the loyalist ceasefire. By his logic, because the CLMC has not claimed their recent attacks, their ceasefire is still in place.
Mála Poist (Free article)
16 January 1997
Not so independent On Saturday 4 January my grandmother passed away at the age of 94. When her family submitted her death notice to the Irish Independent, the newspaper refused to print it because they said it might be seen as inflammatory considering the current ``situation.'' The notice, in part, read: ``Mary Byrne, former member of Cumann na…
Sinister Tyrone raids (Free article)
16 January 1997
FOUR MEN WERE ARRESTED in Crown Force raids in Tyrone on Tuesday morning 14 January and taken to RUC interrogation centres.
Tiger-hunting in Leinster House (Free article)
16 January 1997
The tiger is one the world's endangered species but there is a population explosion of metaphorical tigers in Ireland at the moment. We are reminded daily of how the economy of the 26 Counties is the tiger of Western Europe. The message from Finance Minister Ruairi Quinn, who presents his budget next week, echoes that of Tory Prime Minister Harold…
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