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The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
20 November 2008
FEW would disagree with the sentiments expressed by Cardinal Seán Brady that the creation of a representative police service with independent oversight facilities and the prospect of direct accountability to a locally-elected administration are essential to the future peace and stability of this island as a whole. That's why the transfer of…
Media View (Free article)
20 November 2008
HOW about a competition to come up with a floral or other visual response to the poppy, that symbol of "financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served and are currently serving in the armed forces and their dependants". That's how the Royal British Legion, purveyors of the poppy, describes the emblem that Kevin Myers et al…
Poll politics by Irish Times (Free article)
20 November 2008
FOUR consecutive days of front page opinion poll articles in the Irish Times have focused 26-County news coverage in the last week. The level of coverage, intent and subject matter of the questions leave the Times open to questions about the paper's impartiality and political agenda.
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
20 November 2008
THE sensitive subject of players betting against themselves was the subject of some discussion recently in relation to certain Eircom League soccer players apparently wetting their beaks. Given that the matter is still, presumably, under investigation, we will say no more.
Ballymurphy internment massacre families meet Dermot Ahern (Free article)
20 November 2008
FAMILIES from the Ballymurphy Massacre Committee, accompanied by representatives of Relatives for Justice and Sinn Féin West Belfast MP Gerry Adams MLA, met Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern in Belfast on Monday.
Basque activist to fight extradition (Free article)
20 November 2008
BASQUE nationalist Iñaki de Juana Chaos voluntarily appeared in court in Belfast on Monday, 17 November, following the issuing of a European arrest warrant by the Spanish Government to the PSNI on Thursday, 13 November. The Spanish warrant states that, on 2 August, de Juana Chaos, a former ETA prisoner, gave a woman a letter to be read out in his…
Remembering the Past: Gerry Adams elected president of Sinn Féin (Free article)
20 November 2008
THE Ard Fheis of 1983 marked a significant stage in the political development of Sinn Féin. The historic gathering came in the wake of the campaign in support of the H-Block and Armagh prisoners, the epic Hunger Strikes, the intervention of prisoner candidates, North and South, in 1981 and Sinn Féin's electoral rise in the Six Counties in 1982 and…
Concern at lack of progress on Dáil collusion motion (Free article)
20 November 2008
SINN FÉIN Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has expressed concern at the lack of progress on the part of the British and Irish governments on the motion on collusion passed unanimously by the Dáil on 10 July. He also raised concern over the uncertainty of future funding for the Justice for the Forgotten group. He was commenting after hearing…
Cúlchaint (Free article)
20 November 2008
Bhí mé ag cóisir breithlá cara liom an tseachtain seo, Comhairleoir de chuid Shinn Féin, agus mall san oíche thug duine den chomhluadar uillinn sna easnacha dom. ''Bhfeiceann tú an bhean thall ansin; tá sí ag caitheamh poppy!"
Congress accepts pay deal (Free article)
20 November 2008
THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions has held a special delegate conference for members of trade unions to vote on whether to accept or reject the social partnership pay deal that would give workers a 3.5 per cent pay increase in the 26 Counties.
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