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Editor's desk (Free article)
15 October 1998
Last year we told how the Chinese People's Liberation Army made a tidy sum from opening its firing range outside Beijing to rich Western tourists. After handing over their US dollars tourists can fire off anything from a handgun to an anti-tank missile. Many, particularly Americans, do so with great glee. Little did we think that this piece of…
Fógraí bháis: Jimmy McKenna (Free article)
15 October 1998
All those involved in the Border Busters' campaign of some years ago, both the border communites and people from all over Ireland and further afield who travelled to the many road-opening and bridge-building events, will mourn the loss of one of the leading voices in that campaign - Jimmy McKenna.
Impressed but not overawed (Free article)
22 October 1998
London is an impressive city. It's hard for me to admit that. Until Monday I associated London only with the armed conflict and all the attendant heartache. Although it is now Tony Blair's Britain to shape in his image, when I thought of London I thought of Thatcher and all the pain she brought to Ireland.
False debate on Objective 1 slammed (Free article)
22 October 1998
Caoimhghín O Caoláin TD this week raised the demand for retention of Objective 1 Status for EU Structural Funds for the Border region, the West and the Midlands in a Dáil debate.
Prize should spur Trimble (Free article)
22 October 1998
Much has been made in the media over the past week of the fact that Gerry Adams was not a recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The man himself was in no way disappointed and had no such expectations.
Mála Poist (Free article)
22 October 1998
Nobel Prize A chairde, It must not be too grand an honour to win the Nobel Peace Prize when people such as David Trimble are recipients. In northeastern Ireland today, there is still sectarian violence and more atrocities to come, because peace does not exist until there is freedom and equality for all. There is no peace, and Trimble played…
Church of Ireland Drumcree turmoil (Free article)
22 October 1998
The rift between Church of Ireland ministers remains unresolved after Robin Eames backed the Orange lobby north of the border this week. The inability of the Church of Ireland to shake off the shackles of its association with the Orange Order continues to threaten the integrity of the Church as an All Ireland body.
Kosovo, a war by massacre (Free article)
22 October 1998
As the massacres continue and hundreds of thousands of Albanian refugees flee their destroyed villages, NATO hypocrisy and diplomatic bellydancing continue.
Informer recruitment attempts (Free article)
22 October 1998
Sinn Fein councillor Sean McGirr has condemned the recent attempts by the RUC to recruit three nationalists from Armagh as informers as ``unacceptable''.
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