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Sinn Féin stands 15 candidates in general election (Free article)
15 May 1997
Sinn Féin is standing fifteen candidates in the general election in the 26 Counties. The election comes at a crucial moment as efforts are made to rebuild the peace process. The party is aiming to make the breakthrough into Leinster House which would greatly strengthen the republican mandate.
Back issue: Toomebridge Ousts Loyalists (Free article)
15 May 1997
The Orange farmers who blocked Toomebridge at the Antrim/Derry county border last Tuesday got more than they bargained for when local people mobilised against the bigots, burnt their spick agricultural machinery and dumped the expensive rest into the River Bann.
McGuinness calls for halt to sectarian attacks (Free article)
15 May 1997
Martin McGuinness has called for a halt to sectarian attacks following the death of Catholic Robert Hamill in Portadown on Thursday and a series of attacks in Derry that left Protestant Ivan Hetherington on a life support machine.
RUC man convicted over Orange violence (Free article)
15 May 1997
An RUC man was found guilty last week of taking part in loyalist protests during last summer's Drumcree violence.
Television: A forgiving legacy of war (Free article)
15 May 1997
As every good rebel knows, the Americans lost the Vietnam war because a small group of badly-trained and under-equipped local kids wearing pyjamas were patriotic, resourceful and smart enough to whip the US army's sorry ass.
Row over Sunday Times article (Free article)
15 May 1997
Bernadette McAliskey and Rogelio Alonso, a Belfast-based Spanish journalist, have jointly lodged a complaint against The Sunday Times for an article which McAliskey calls ``deliberately and vindictively misleading and mischievous''.
Editor's desk (Free article)
15 May 1997
The Irish News spent the run-up to the Westminster election waving the flag for the SDLP (prompting Gerry Adams to tell Irish News editor Tom Collins on TV that his paper was ``the SDLP's An Phoblacht'' - an insult to us which we have suffered quietly). Now there is evidence that the trauma of the Sinn Féin victories was too much for Tom. In an…
DHSS attacks unemployed (Free article)
15 May 1997
Unemployment benefit claimants with ``care of'' addresses will be sanctioned by the Department of Social Welfare, according to Sinn Fein councillor for Twinbrook Michael Ferguson. Claimants will have to sign on every day, will have their mail address for Social Security mail changed to their Social Security Office and risk losing their current…
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