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Implement the Agreement (Free article)
7 January 1999
The agreement before Christmas on Assembly departments and all-Ireland bodies brought with it disappointment as well as hope that the six-month delay in forming the Executive and North-South Ministerial Council will now end.
Mála Poist (Free article)
7 January 1999
Praise for Balcombe Four A chairde, I was very pleased to see the coverage in An Phoblacht (10 December 1998) regarding the `Balcombe Street Four' republican prisoners, now entering their twenty-fourth year of incarceration. I am writing in particular to confirm the paragraph on page 14 in the article by Róisín de Rossa, where it tells of…
Another look under history's carpet (Free article)
7 January 1999
By the First of January every year, most of us are just about ready to hang out a Do Not Disturb sign on our lives, in the hope that no one will come bothering us until an appropriate period of time has elapsed to allow recuperation from the Christmas season.
Roma group in appeal to Taoiseach (Free article)
7 January 1999
A delegation from the County Monaghan Roma Support Group met Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin two days before Christmas. The Group supports the Roma community of 47 people currently living in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, and awaiting the outcome of their appeal against orders for their deportation from Ireland.
Spinning out of control (Free article)
7 January 1999
The rapid demise of British Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson shows that you can't spin all of the people all of the time. Mandelson was hailed as the architect of New Labour's stunning victory in 1997 after 18 years of Tory rule in Britain.
Orange Volunteers continue attacks (Free article)
7 January 1999
A Catholic workman narrowly missed death when a loyalist bomb exploded on a building site in Magherafelt in South Derry on Wednesday 6 January.
Wicklow celebrates end of `98, start of `99 (Free article)
7 January 1999
On New Year's Eve, in a fitting tribute to 1798, pikemen and women from Wicklow and Wexford braved pouring rain to unveil three plaques in the Wicklow hills. Pike people came from Glen of Imaal, from Carrickbyrne, Courtnacuddy, Coolgranny, Enniscorthy, Bunclody.
More of the same from Unionism (Free article)
7 January 1999
Laura Friel sees Unionism still mired in the past as the old year gives way to the new
UVF attacks (Free article)
7 January 1999
South Belfast Sinn Fein councillor Sean Hayes has said that UVF members from Donegall Pass were involved in a series of sectarian attacks over the Christmas period which have left a Catholic man from East Belfast critically ill in hospital. In a separate incident loyalists attempted to fire on two men with a handgun but the weapon jammed and they…
Smurfit stay silent on Colombian claims (Free article)
7 January 1999
There is an area of land in Colombia, less in size than Michael Smurfit's golf course in Straffan, Co Kildare, that has been a thorn in the side of Smurfit Plc since 1986. The area known, as Buenos Aires, is in the Paila district in the south-west of the country and has been the home of the Paez Indians for longer than anyone can remember.
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