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Abolish the RUC (Free article)
20 November 1997
The advice offered by the Chairperson of the Northern Ireland Police Federation against reforms in the RUC has deeply angered Northern nationalists. It demonstrates the level of resistance there is within the paramilitary force to even minimal reforms and shows the contempt with which they hold the views of nationalists.
Mála Poist (Free article)
20 November 1997
Justice needed A chairde, The Robert Hamill case points up all that is wrong with this society. Last April Robert, a 25 year old Catholic, was kicked unconscious by a crowd of thirty loyalists in the centre of Portadown while the RUC looked on. His friend was also beaten but survived. Robert died from his injuries eleven days later. After his…
US threat to Cuba grows (Free article)
20 November 1997
These are good times to be an armchair warlord in Washington. While US forces in the Gulf flex their muscles, the men who foment conflict are busy acclimatising US public opinion to the notion of direct military action against Cuba.
Conspiracy to silence dissent (Free article)
20 November 1997
Robert Allen reports on a British court case aimed at suppressing the radical press
Fíorlaochra an Chéad Chogadh Domhanda (Free article)
20 November 1997
Léiriú maith é ar bhanchbhristeacht mhorálta nua-aontachtaithe Thriantán Dhomhnach Broc na himeachtaí atá ar bun acu rómánsaíocht a athchruthú faoin Chéad Chogadh Domhanda agus páirt na nEireannach ann. Tá sé mímhacánta amach is amach a bheith ag teacht i dtír ar na hainniseoirí bochta a fuair bás sa chogadh sin le hiar-Bhriotanachas a chur chun…
Lavery snowbound in USA (Free article)
20 November 1997
After years of talking about it, months of procrastination, and weeks of toing and froing at the US consulate, North Belfast Councillor Bobby Lavery finally landed in the USA - in the middle of a snow storm.
Workers in struggle: McCreevy's mind games (Free article)
20 November 1997
It's budget time again and now with the demise of our rugby and soccer teams it is time to turn to a more dependable national pastime, that of predicting the details of the 1998 spending and taxation plans of the Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrat coalition.
Newry confronts drug dealers (Free article)
20 November 1997
A new campaign against Newry drug dealers got off to an angry and emotional start in the centre of the town last Saturday. A large anti-drugs rally heard the mother of a murder victim break down as she said, ``I wouldn't like to see any other family going through what we are going through today.''
Sportsview: There's always another day (Free article)
20 November 1997
Despite its nine-year vintage, `'Who put the ball in the English net?'' is as familiar a cry to Irish soccer supporters today as it was when Ray Houghton headed the ball over Peter Shilton's despairing reach in Stuttgart during Euro `88.
The wartime agenda (Free article)
20 November 1997
It is said that a good gauge of society is how it treats its prisoners. In the Six Counties prisons and the issue of imprisonment has always been prominent, whether it be the issue of internment, the hunger strikes, strip searches, daring escapes, transfers, compassionate parole or the release of prisoners. How the British government, rather than…
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