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British soldier fired brick at youth (Free article)
29 January 1997
18 year old Lurgan youth Brendan McCartan received six stitches in a head wound after being hit by a brick thrown by a British soldier from the top of a landrover.
``Be on red alert'' warns UVF (Free article)
30 January 1997
Nationalists living in South and East Belfast have been urged to be vigilant after a number of people in the area received death threats, accompanied by UVF propaganda. Dates were marked on the handwritten notes with the message `some important dates for your calender', and the warning, `we have begun military activity again, be on red alert'.
Editor's desk (Free article)
30 January 1997
The Tories of Kensington are certainly a peculiar bunch. Following their deselection of Nicholas Scott who got drunk once or ten times too often, they have selected former Tory Minister Alan Clark who Richard Ingrams of the Observer considers ``bonkers''. I couldn't agree more.
Idiocy of British rule (Free article)
30 January 1997
Two statements by Patrick Mayhew this week showed up the idiocy of British rule in Ireland.
Mála Poist (Free article)
30 January 1997
Letter to CBS News Dear CBS, As a viewer of 60 Minutes for two decades, and an Irish history college student, I am deeply outraged at your one-sided reporting on 19 January 1997. The interview with Sean O'Callaghan was a blatant attempt by the British government to use 60 Minutes to misinform all Americans. Sinn Féin is not the IRA! All funds…
Speculation as Whitemoor trial collapses (Free article)
30 January 1997
Last week's collapse of the trial of six prisoners, five of them Irish, charged with breaking out of Whitemoor Prison in September 1994, has fuelled rather than ended speculation about what really happened.
Anti-joyriding activists claim success. (Free article)
30 January 1997
Communities at Poleglass and Twinbrook have claimed a victory in the first leg to defeat the plague of joyriding in their areas.
Back issue: POLICE FRAME-UP EXPOSED (Free article)
30 January 1997
LAST MONDAY, 24 January the trial of four young Irish republicans began in the Old Bailey, London. Three of the young men bravely stood up in the court and admitted bombing soldiers pubs in Guildford and Woolwich in October 1974 and for which innocent people were serving life imprisonment.
Syringe law `counter-productive' (Free article)
30 January 1997
Legislation on syringe attacks will have little impact on offenders who wield syringes as weapons but may make matters worse for health providers trying to curb the spread of infectious diseases. The concern has emerged following the announcement last week by Minister for Justice Nora Owen that a Bill will be published in the coming weeks creating…
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