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On the threshold of real talks (Free article)
4 September 1997
On Friday 29 August British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam formally invited Sinn Féin to take part in the talks at Stormont. The historic announcement came 41 days after the restoration of the IRA cessation on 20 July.
Historic nationalists rally in Lurgan (Free article)
4 September 1997
Nationalists achieved a historic first last Sunday 31 August when hundreds of people, young and old, defied the miserable weather and years of RUC and unionist bigotry to march into Lurgan town centre for the first time ever.
From New Zealand to an Irish prison cell (Free article)
4 September 1997
Twenty years ago a young Maori, Ana Meihana, left New Zealand for Belfast. She intended to search out her Irish connections. What she found was Armagh Jail.
Suspicions about Algerian massacres (Free article)
4 September 1997
On the same weekend in which three people were killed in a car crash in the city of Paris, several hundred people lost their lives in the not-too-distant country of Algeria.
Sellafield `mess' slammed (Free article)
4 September 1997
The Celtic League in describing the British government's monitoring of pollution in the Irish Sea as ``an uncoordinated mess'' have called for urgent independent assessment of the Sellafield plant.
Go hifreann nó Antigua! (Free article)
4 September 1997
Maireann Charles Trevelyan in Whitehall i gcónaí. Is léir sin ón gcaoi a bhfuil Londain ag caitheamh le haothú Montserrat. Tá sé spéisiúil mar a d'imigh an focal ar Clare Short nuair a dúirt sí: ``It will be golden elephants next'' agus í ag tagairt d'éileamh mhuintir Montserrat go n-íocfaí cúiteamh réadúil leo agus iad ag teicheadh ó bhrúchadh…
RUC attack Newry protestors (Free article)
4 September 1997
The RUC forcibly removed protestors from Kildare Street in Newry last Saturday to allow a Royal Black Preceptory march through the nationalist town.
`Not in Derry!' says RUC man on perjury charge (Free article)
4 September 1997
RUC constable Brian Hassan, who won notoriety by admitting on the witness stand during the `John Major trial' of over 30 republicans in 1995 that he had lied under oath about previous testimony, now claims he cannot get a fair trial in Derry.
Sportsview: Dismal weather - dire football (Free article)
4 September 1997
What were the Kerry Gaelic football team doing last Sunday afternoon. Maybe they were all out on a light training exercise, honing their skills and fitness levels for the 28 September final. A more likely scenario is that they were ensconced somewhere more dry and cosy than Croke Park watching the second semi-final between Offaly and Mayo.
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