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British military campaign was a failure (Free article)
2 August 2007
The British military campaign of almost 40 years in the North of Ireland ended in failure this week. British troops were deployed on the streets of the Six Counties in August 1969 as the one-party Orange state crumbled under the weight of its own sectarianism and as the nationalist population rose up to demand their civil rights.
Mála Poist (Free article)
2 August 2007
Cuireann An Phoblacht fáilte roimh litreacha ónár léitheoirí. Scríobh i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla, 200 focal ar a méid. Déantar giorrú ar litreachta más gá. Cuir do litir chuig [email protected] An Phoblacht welcomes readers' letters. Write in Irish or English, 200 words maximum. Letters may be edited for brevity. Send your letters to…
Calls for Ombudsman to investigate Ballymagroarty incident (Free article)
2 August 2007
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has called for zero tolerance and the full rigours of the law to be brought to bear on drug dealers.
Interview : Internment and The Hooded Men (Free article)
2 August 2007
The formal ending of the British Army's 'Operation Banner' comes as we approach the 36th anniversary of the introduction of internment without trial in the Six Counties in August 1971 when British soldiers, acting on the instigation of then Six County premier Brian Faulkner dragged hundreds of people to prison camps, where many were tortured.…
Veiled Ministerial threat to Pavee Point unacceptable - Ó Snodaigh (Free article)
2 August 2007
Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has called on 26 County Justice Minister Brian Lenihan to clarify his comments regarding the possible withdrawal of exchequer funding to Pavee Point.
Interview : Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty (Free article)
2 August 2007
Last week saw Councillor PEARSE DOHERTY elected as Sinn Féin's first member of the 26 County Seanad, exceeding the quota of 89 to take 103 votes to top the poll on the Agriculture Panel. Here he talks to ELLA O'DWYER about his election and his intention to work towards the formation of a more representative and relevant parliamentary forum.
Interview : Begoña Errasti President of a Basque nationalist party, Eusko Alkartasuna (Free article)
2 August 2007
At the beginning of July, BEGONA ERRASTI, President of Eusko Alkartasuna, the social democratic Basque nationalist party which together with the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and United Left (IU) is in government in the Basque Country, visited Ireland and Scotland. Begoña Errasti met politicians and academics in Ireland to learn about the Irish…
All-Ireland co-ordination of work on an healthcare stepped up (Free article)
2 August 2007
Sinn Féin Health spokespersons Caral Ní Chuilín (Assembly) and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Dáil) together with their political advisors Colm Glover and Mícheál MacDonncha, met in Dundalk on Thursday 31 July to step up co-ordination of their work on an all-Irela
Sinn Féin submission to Constituency Commission (Free article)
2 August 2007
Even before the first leaflet was pushed through a letterbox or the first billboard unveiled there were serious problems this year with the 26-County electoral system. The first issue was an electoral register that was seriously at variance with the actual adult population across the 42 constituencies, lifetime voters taken off the register, new…
Death of Volunteer Paddy Markey (Free article)
2 August 2007
Around a thousand mourners gathered on Monday morning in the Oldpark area of North Belfast for the funeral of Volunteer Patrick Markey.
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