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Looking at the small pictures (Free article)
22 May 1997
She lit one cigarette from the butt of another which she had smoked in the space of a few minutes. No doubt this was a procedure that had been repeated several times already. She offered me one but I declined saying I had given them up some years ago. ``I still like a cigar though,'' I added, ``but I don't inhale them, something Bill Clinton and I…
Television: Tame, lame Pat (Free article)
22 May 1997
On paper, RTE's premiere chat show, Kenny Live (Saturdays, 9.20pm) looks fine. Last week it had interviews with Garth Brooks, Mick McCarthy and an actress who has written a play about bigotry in the North, with live music from Trisha Yearwood and a newcomer.
Support for Swampy (Free article)
22 May 1997
As the bailiffs move in Robert Allen speaks out in support of the those campaigning to prevent a second runway at Manchester airport
Editor's desk (Free article)
22 May 1997
A very strange SDLP election leaflet was delivered to houses in Newry last weekend. It was replying to a Sinn Féin leaflet which for the last three weeks has been distributed by Sinn Féin canvassers. As reported in An Phoblacht last week, it presented evidence of SDLP Councillors' many trips abroad at Council expense. The first strange thing…
Hunger strikers remembered in Scotland (Free article)
22 May 1997
On Sunday 4 May the people of Blantyre in Scotland came out in their hundreds to commemorate the hunger strikers and to show their solidarity with Roisín McAliskey. The march was organised by the Blantyre Republican Flute Band.
Helicopter crashes in Derry (Free article)
29 May 1997
The lives of local people were endangered when a low flying British army helicopter severed a high voltage electric cable near Ivy Terrace in Derry last Thursday 22 May.
The rising people (Free article)
29 May 1997
We have just been through a decisive month. History will record that in May 1997 the political landscape of the Six County state changed, perhaps forever. In two elections, the nationalist people came out and demanded fundamental change to outdated political structures. By backing Sinn Féin in record numbers, by electing two Sinn Féin MPs and by…
Mála Poist (Free article)
29 May 1997
Britain responsible in McAliskey case A Chairde, May I comment briefly on the article headlined German Confusions (15.May)? From my own reading of letters being issued by the German Embassy in London concerning Germany's application for the extradition of Róisín McAliskey, it seems that Germany's part in this case is being misinterpeted. The…
Shell's dirty PR war (Free article)
29 May 1997
When confronted with evidence of its complicity in the `legal murder' of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists in Nigeria, multinational giant Shell Oil feigned ignorance and summoned the PR consultants.
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