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Back issue: ``Good year for RUC'' says Newman - only 23 killed (Free article)
28 August 1997
Last Wednesday Kenneth Newman, head of the RUC, issued his annual report of ``successes'' and ``achievements''. However, certain admissions had to be made, the most important of which was the fact that military attacks by the Irish Republican Army rose by 1000 to 8,500. Incidentally these figures don't take into account the recent increases in…
New in print: Leitrim and the Great Hunger (Free article)
28 August 1997
Leitrim and the Great Hunger By Gerard McAtasney Published by Carrick on Shannon and District Historical Society
Television: Don't keep it to yourself (Free article)
28 August 1997
How galling it must be for the true blue-blooded aristocracy of Old England to see so many of their hallowed institutions now owned by dirty foreigners. The Al Fayed brothers are two such, owning the Queen's corner shop, Harrod's and the Ritz Hotel group. They also used to own at least one Tory Minister, Jonathan Aitken, who grew accustomed to the…
Editor's desk (Free article)
28 August 1997
I noted a crazy little instance of revisionism gone out of control on RTE last week. In a report on the plight of the people of Montserrat in the Caribbean who may have to evacuate the island if a volcano continues to erupt a news report referred to the island's Irish connection. Many of them, the news reader said, are descended from Irish people…
Consent is mask for British policy (Free article)
4 September 1997
A foretaste of negotiations to come was given this week when Mo Mowlam dealt with the issue of consent in a Belfast Telegraph interview while Gerry Adams set forth in detail in the Irish News the Sinn Féin position on this key issue.
The dead are owed the truth (Free article)
4 September 1997
I heard the news of the car crash in Paris as I was sitting in bed reading an excellent book by Patrick Campbell, called Death in Templecrone.
Unionists should consent to talks (Free article)
4 September 1997
Three Unionist MPs have now come out publicly against the UUP sitting at the talks table with Sinn Féin. The three - Ross, Smyth and Thompson - are part of an old guard who are finding it increasingly difficult to come to terms with a changing world. But their views are not unrepresentative. There is an air of crisis within Unionism as the talks…
Mála Poist (Free article)
4 September 1997
Support equality A Chairde, The equality agenda which Sinn Féin brings to the table descends directly from the nascent civil rights movement in the North in the late 1960s. If any event can be taken as a watershed, it is Bloody Sunday in Derry. Sinn Féin can now mark full circle. What began as a nonviolent march ends with a commitment to…
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