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Editor's desk (Free article)
26 March 1998
Hard luck to the makers of the excellent short film, Dance, Lexie, Dance, which lost out on Oscar night this week. The film was about a Protestant girl who wants to be a Riverdancer. She overcomes the initial reluctance of her widowed father and, with his help, she dances in the Feis in Derry's Guildhall. Many of its ``cross-community''…
Youth co-ordinator arrested (Free article)
26 March 1998
The Sinn Féin Youth co-ordinator in Dublin, Matt Carthy, was wrongfully arrested last Thursday 19 March under an alleged abuse of the Litter Pollution Act, while fellow SFY member Frank O Laocha was verbally and physically assaulted.
No ban on plastic bullets (Free article)
26 March 1998
NIO minister Lord Dubs last week rejected calls for a ban on the use of plastic bullets by the RUC and British Army in the Six Counties.
Amsterdam Treaty opposed (Free article)
26 March 1998
Caoimhghín O Caoláin TD voiced Sinn Féin opposition to the Amsterdam Treaty when the proposed amendment to the constitution to ratify the Treaty was debated at the committee stage. Speaking on Wednesday he said:
Is New Deal a raw deal? (Free article)
26 March 1998
Community groups in West Belfast have claimed that Labour's `New Deal' for the unemployed is ``dishonest and opportunistic'' and fear that despite it being linked to the much trumpeted arrival of new fair employment legislation it seriously fails to address the equality agenda.
New cumann (Free article)
26 March 1998
Sunday 1 March saw the founding of a new Sinn Féin cumann in South Armagh at the annual commemoration of the tragic deaths of IRA volunteers Brendan Burns and Brendan Moley.
The bashful Brothers (Free article)
2 April 1998
Trauma. It's a difficult one to measure, isn't it? I think I was traumatised by an experience I once had in the Christian Brothers' school in Derry.
Cearta speaks in Dublin (Free article)
2 April 1998
``Nobody is going to tell me that my children don't have a right to be Irish,'' were the words of Caitríona Ruane, director of Féile an Phobail, to a crowd of 350 people at a Cearta meeting in the Royal Dublin Hotel on Wednesday 25 March.
British Army and RUC must go (Free article)
2 April 1998
A number of issues which go to the heart of the Six County state have been brought into clearer focus by both the latest evidence of the United Nations report regarding RUC intimidation of solicitors and separate revelations regarding British Army collusion with loyalist death squads.
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