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Pride `97 is biggest yet (Free article)
19 June 1997
Belfast's 7th Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival takes place this week, as a range of venues host what has been tipped to be the city's best ever Pride week. Running from 15 to 22 June, the festival is the largest ever seen in Belfast.
Television: How TV learned to tell the news (Free article)
19 June 1997
When television started in the United States, just after the war, the two big networks, CBS and NBC, had to hire people with no broadcasting experience to work on the news. Their own radio news journalists didn't think television would last and refused to leave their jobs.
Editor's desk (Free article)
19 June 1997
In light of the dismal performances from Democratic Left and the Labour Party in the Leinster House elections, a Donegal reader sends me this little gem of a poem by HL Dixon which first appeared in the 1920s. It's called The Labour Fakir: Oh, he preached it from the housetops, And he whispered it by stealth, He wrote whole miles of stuff…
Adams urges vigilance (Free article)
26 June 1997
With the news that over a dozen Belfast people have been told by the RUC that loyalist death squads have their personal details, Gerry Adams has urged caution and increased vigilance.
The joys of a global market (Free article)
26 June 1997
The Derry City Partnership's widely acclaimed document outlining a vision for the city in the next 25 years was dropped through our letter boxes at the same time as United Technology dropped their bombshell, through a hired PR company, of the closure of their Blighshane plant in Derry after 27 years. On the same day Adam Ingram, the New Labour…
Detailed examination needed (Free article)
26 June 1997
Sinn Féin has pledged to give the proposals from the two governments - announced by Tony Blair on Wednesday - their ``fullest attention and consideration''. They are quite right to examine them in detail.
Mála Poist (Free article)
26 June 1997
Support indigenous peoples A chairde, I am writing to urge all Irish people at home and abroad to demand that Mary Robinson, the new UN Human Rights Commissioner from Ireland, and Bill Clinton, immediately adopt the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the minimum international standard of protection for those on whose…
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