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Maggie gets an earful in US (Free article)
15 May 1997
The dogged determination of Irish activists from five states and the Internet proved too much for Margaret Thatcher last week, as scores of people converged on York, Pennsylvania, to protest against her appearance at a function held by the local Junior League.
Sham fights and real battles (Free article)
22 May 1997
MICHEAL MacDONNCHA profiles the Sinn Féin candidates and constituencies in Dublin, Meath and Louth
Prisoners transferred (Free article)
22 May 1997
British Labour Party Home Secretary Jack Straw has announced the transfer of two Irish political prisoners to jails in the six counties. Miscarriage of justice victim Danny McNamee and POW Liam McCotter will be transferred to Maghaberry Prison on a temporary basis for six months. Prison service officials said the length of their sentences will not…
The only honourable members (Free article)
22 May 1997
In 1981, after Bobby Sands was elected MP for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, the British parliament changed the rules to ensure that prisoners could not stand for election. It was a straightforward denial of the people's right to choose their representatives.
Mála Poist (Free article)
22 May 1997
Britannia waives the rules - again A Chairde, The Irish community in Britain looked to a New Labour government with a degree of optimism (perhaps naively), hoping that New Labour with its overwhelming majority would bring real change for all people in British society and that Tony Blair's vision of ``Nation'' where people's ``different…
RUC video filmed victim's car (Free article)
22 May 1997
An Phoblacht can confirm that the loyalists who kidnapped and killed Bellaghy GAA stalwart Sean Brown on Monday night 12 May drove through Toomebridge past the town's RUC barracks. We can also confirm that video cameras on the barracks that monitor every vehicle passing on the main Derry to Belfast road picked up the registration number of Brown's…
US resistance to Cuban blockade (Free article)
22 May 1997
Last year, a UN report estimated that 4000 children were dying every month in Iraq, as a direct result of US-driven sanctions on that country. The sanctions are in place supposedly to achieve what the Gulf War failed to achieve, namely unseat Saddam Hussein.
Mowlam meets residents groups (Free article)
22 May 1997
British Direct Ruler Mo Mowlam sent a clear message on Wednesday to all concerned with contentious parades when she said, ``agreement must be sought at local level between residents and parade officials and the only way this can been done is through dialogue''.
Comóradh an Chéid - leabhar cuimhneacháin (Free article)
22 May 1997
Lainseáil Conradh an Gaeilge tráthnóna Dé Sathairn 17 Bealtaine Ostán an Royal Dublin leabhar cuimhneacháin ar Oireachtas na Gaeilge, príomhfhéile na Gaeilge, a bhunaigh an Conradh 100 bliain ó shin. Ba í Seomra Cruinn an Rotunda (pictiúrlann an Ambassador atá ann anois) a reachtáladh an chéad Oireachtas ar 17 Belataine 1897. Féile aon lae a bhí…
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