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Irish group seeks meeting (Free article)
11 September 1997
Irish language group Forbairt Feirste chief Philip Campbell has called for an immediate meeting with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Campbell wants to raise the British Government's denial of funding to the group for a programme where Irish speakers could communicate with statutory agencies as Gaeilge.
Wreaths laid where Volunteers fell (Free article)
11 September 1997
A very touching commemoration was held on Tuesday 26 August in Drogheda to mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Liam Leech, Patrick Cooney, Bernard Daly, Tim Flanagan and Patrick O'Mainin.
Ken and the spindoctors (Free article)
18 September 1997
In George Orwell's ``1984'' one of the characters Winston Graham, works in the records department of the ``Ministry of Truth''. His job is to correct the newspapers and books so that they reflect the government's political thinking and values.
Brutal English prison unit still operates (Free article)
18 September 1997
Contrary to recent media reports, one of the widely condemned Special Secure Units (SSU) used to hold Irish political prisoners still operates at Belmarsh Prison in London.
Another inevitable step (Free article)
18 September 1997
David Trimble has finally - and reluctantly - brought his party to the Stormont talks table, with the PUP and UDP following dutifully behind.
Mála Poist (Free article)
18 September 1997
Sympathy or not A chairde, The recent utterances of sympathy to the English people on the death of a member of their royalty is a contradiction for republicans, and should not have occurred, as Ciaran Heaphey rightly stated (AP/RN 4 September). Instead of falling into line with the status quo that the death of high-living manipulative,…
IRA deny Markethill bomb (Free article)
18 September 1997
The IRA has said it was not involved in the car bomb attack on the County Armagh town of Markethill on Tuesday 16 September.
A Nation Once Again? (Free article)
18 September 1997
Does the Scottish referendum result herald independence? David Hewitt writes.
Children hurt in spate of sectarian attacks (Free article)
18 September 1997
Over a dozen children have been injured in a series of sectarian attacks on Catholic school pupils in Belfast and Lisburn last week. In eleven separate incidents, children returning to school after the summer holidays were forced to flee from stone throwing mobs. Children were injured as school buses were ambushed and pupils attacked as they…
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