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Two women (Free article)
20 February 1997
This is the story of two women. Both ordinary women, normal sensible human beings. Women who have never seen each other, living in the last colonies of the British Empire. Both subjected to intense media coverage destined to change their lives forever.
John Bruton's judgement (Free article)
20 February 1997
John Bruton delivered yet another of his diatribes against Sinn Féin this week. Speaking in Dublin on 17 February Bruton accused republicans of having a ``nightmare version of unity''. He compared republicanism to the ``traditional version of unionism'' and said it did not recognise ``the possibility of multiple alleigances''. Republicans had a…
Mála Poist (Free article)
20 February 1997
1798 to be remembered A Chairde, I read with interest articles concerning the bi-centenary of 1798 in the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune which spoke of a memorial to be erected ``as an apology and a gesture of reconciliation from the people of Wexford'' for an incident at Scullabogue the day following the massacre at Ross. I wonder were…
Sketching a new landscape (Free article)
20 February 1997
Eight nationalist MPs, unionist MPs reduced to ten, a Labour government, the bi-partisan Labour/Tory approach to the Six Counties ended, the Tories in opposition reunited with the Ulster Unionists, and an end to "a thousand years of British history".
Nurses' militancy is deep-rooted (Free article)
20 February 1997
Although the lamp of Florence Nightingale has long been quenched, many of the shadowy illusions it threw out are still flickering like old cinematic tape in the minds of senior Irish politicians. The outdated perception of nursing as a passive, vocational duty was evident as the proposed national nursing strike unmasked a culture of complacency…
Rescue plan would have killed hostages (Free article)
20 February 1997
Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori has never been one to let either common sense or reason interfere with his plans. So when rebels from the supposedly defunct Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) stormed the residence of the Japanese Ambassador in Lima before Christmas, Alberto was more than a little upset.
Loyalist mob run riot in Waterside (Free article)
20 February 1997
Nationalists in the Waterside area of Derry say the RUC turned a blind eye to one of the worst instances of intimidation in the area in recent months.
Teachtaí ceannasacha SAM in Eirinn (Free article)
20 February 1997
Tháinig teachtaí ceannasacha ó Chomhdháil Stát Aontaithe Mheirceá go Béal Feirste ar an Aoine 14 Feabhra. Bhuail siad le Uachtarán Sinn Féin Gerry Adams agus Leas-Uachtarán an pháirtí Pat Doherty.
Don't negotiate, says new loyalist group (Free article)
20 February 1997
The latest loyalist grouping to join the Six County fray, the County Antrim Support Movement (CASM), has called on the Orange Order not to negotiate with residents groups opposed to Orange marches.
``Spotlight'' back on SDLP (Free article)
20 February 1997
BBC's Spotlight current affairs programme on Tuesday of last week - which claimed to be investigating electoral malpractice in the Six Counties - ignored information from a former senior member of the SDLP that the SDLP engaged in serious malpractice in Derry.
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