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Remembering the Past: Battle of Limeridge (Free article)
6 June 1997
Throughout history we have learnt of the brave men and women who did whatever they could to strike a blow for the freedom of Ireland. Among the bravest was Colonel John O'Neill who a year prior to the Fenian Rising in Ireland took on British forces abroad.
Back issue: Election worker shot (Free article)
6 June 1997
Only a week after the sectarian shooting and serious wounding of Belfast Sinn Féin's chairperson, Alex Maskey, loyalist gunmen again shot and wounded a Sinn Féin election worker in a betting office in the Markets area of South Belfast.
Television: Diet Fine Gael debates the Thatcherite axe-vixen (Free article)
6 June 1997
Spurred on by their own boredom and schadenfreude, many readers will have tuned in to Prime Time (RTE, weeknights, 9.30) to watch Dick Spring and Mary Harney attack one another. They got a special treat before the ``debate'' even began - Prionsias De Rossa stuck in a hole, digging.
Editor's desk (Free article)
6 June 1997
Some candidates will do anything to get votes. Labour TD in Dublin North East Seán Kenny agreed to be a judge in a talent competition in a local pub last Sunday night but little did he know what he was in for. After a week of encountering many new republican voters on the doorsteps Seán settled down for what he thought would be a relaxing…
Walking past history (Free article)
13 June 1997
It was a week of comings and goings in Derry, as the City prepared to commemorate the 1400th anniversary of Colum Cille, who founded a monastic settlement among the oak forest in 557 and which four centuries later gave the city its name, Doire Colum Cille. The Gaelic settlement of Doire lasted for almost a thousand years until the plantation in…
Transfers welcomed (Free article)
13 June 1997
SINN FEIN COUNCILLOR and spokesperson on prison issues Michael Browne has welcomed the transfer of Irish prisoners Danny McNamee and Liam McCotter to Maghaberry prison in County Antrim.
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