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A week of drug prevention (Free article)
19 November 1998
This week saw the launch of European Drug Prevention Week. The European Commission initiative lasts from 15-22 November.
Editor's desk (Free article)
19 November 1998
Our old and esteemed friend, Finlay Spratt, Chairman of the Prison Officers Association in the Six Counties, has caught everyone by surprise with the vehemence with which he is defending his highly skilled members' interests. But of course, for screws, the issue on which he is campaigning is the most important thing in the whole wide world to…
New Labour, Old Order (Free article)
26 November 1998
It must have been a strange meeting. Tony Blair, practising the British Labour government's latest political mantra, ``modernisation'', hardliners from the Orange Order, all well past their sell-by date, beating the ``traditional'' drum, Harold Gracey fighting shy of the camera.
Intimidation of Lurgan nationalists (Free article)
26 November 1998
Nationalist workers at the Wilson double deck trailers factory in Lurgan have been subjected to sectarian intimidation with threats being painted on factory walls.
Blair must implement Agreement (Free article)
26 November 1998
Tony Blair's visit to Ireland this week should have had one aim, the implementation of the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Mála Poist (Free article)
26 November 1998
Equality of treatment A chairde, I am concerned at the growing usage by some republicans of the phrase ``equality of opportunity''. Some people seem to think that this phrase is equivalent to, and even interchangeable with the phrase ``equality of treatment''. It is not. The crucial distinction between the two concepts can be seen in the…
Burghers to go... (Free article)
26 November 1998
Half way down the main shopping street in Galway, just at the entrance to the town's last surviving open air market - what a sad fate for a town which began its life as a centre of trade - and nestling in beside Saint Nicholas Cathedral's railings you'll find a castle. A small castle. In fact, a Thimble Castle. As castles go, it certainly isn't…
Orange marches planned for Portadown (Free article)
26 November 1998
The Parades Commission's green light for a loyalist parade in support of Portadown Orangeman has been greeted with dismay by Garvaghy Road residents. The parade has been organised by the `Portadown women's branch of the Ulster Coalition for Justice'.
Patten member defended Marines (Free article)
26 November 1998
When Peter John Caraher made an oral submission to the public meeting of the Patten Commission in Crossmaglen, South Armagh last Thursday evening, it was made in good faith. Those present were assured by Commission members Peter Smyth QC and Sir John Smith that they would be heard with ``an open mind''.
Jingo fever (Free article)
26 November 1998
It may have fizzled out now (except in the letters page of the Irish Times) but for the past month we have been subject to a barrage of media-driven jingoism berating us for not enthusiastically wallowing in World War 1 commemorations.
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