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MoD deny responsibility in shooting (Free article)
28 January 1999
The MoD has refused to accept liability for a British soldier who, while on duty in 1993, opened fire on mourners outside the home of dead IRA Volunteer Thomas Begley. Ardoyne Republican Eddie Copeland was shot in the stomach as British soldier Andrew Clarke fired up to 20 shots at mourners.
Time to leave victimhood behind (Free article)
28 January 1999
There were eighteen people in the small room, in the silent house, on that January day seven years ago. The sense of pain and grief was visible, though not a tear was shed nor a word spoken.
Scottish police accused of attempted murder (Free article)
28 January 1999
Belfast republican Dan Kelly has told An Phoblacht that Scottish police tried to kill him when they loosened the wheel of his van after they arrested him last Friday. Kelly said it ``was a case of attempted murder''.
A week of concerted efforts to wreck peace process (Free article)
28 January 1999
On the 1999 calendar, yet another week has been ticked and still no progress has been made. The peace process, already described as a ``pace process'', is hitting new obstacles. This week was not only characterised by an absence of moves to set up the Assembly Executive. A concerted campaign of actions aimed at wrecking the Agreement has further…
BBC censors ex-prisoners (Free article)
28 January 1999
Michael Ritchie, project manager of the ex-prisoners committee Coiste na nIarchimi, has claimed that the BBC is operating a form of indirect censorship which is keeping ex-prisoners out of the media. He said that BBC producers' guidelines that relatives of a prisoner's victims must be informed before the prisoner appears on radio or television…
Searching for the disappeared (Free article)
28 January 1999
Rosario Ibarra is the president of the Committee for the Defense of the Prisoners, the Prosecuted, the Disappeared and the Political Exiled, an organisation created in Mexico in 1974 by the relatives of people who vanished following their witnessed detention by army and police forces.
Go seasa O Cuív an fód! (Free article)
28 January 1999
Ar bhealach tá rud beag íoróine ag baint leis an gcinneadh comhlacht trasteorann um chúrsaí teanga a bhunú. Glacadh leis an gcomhlacht seo le go seachnófaí comhlacht eacnamaíoch a mbeadh ``tábhacht'' ag gabháil leis. Géilleadh an comhlacht teanga toisc gurb í an tuairim choitianta gur ceist imeallach í an Ghaeilge, nach bhfuil inti ach siomból.…
Securocrats causing rundown of NHS (Free article)
28 January 1999
Toni Carragher of the South Armagh Farmers and Residents Committee has slammed British securocrats for wasting money that would be better spent on health and education in order to finance their massive military occupation of South Armagh.
Workers in struggle: Crisis across the political divide' (Free article)
28 January 1999
What did he know? When did he know it? Yes, it is time once again for the now ritual dissection of a political figure and possibly another Dublin Government. This time it is Bertie Ahern in the hot seat. There seems to be no end to the ongoing repercussions from EU Commissioner and former Fianna Fáil minister Padraig Flynn's Late Late Show…
O Caoláin presses for big increase in roads funding (Free article)
28 January 1999
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin, as a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Local Government, this week engaged directly with senior Department of Environment and Local Government officials on the failure so far of central government to provide necessary funding to address the deplorable state of the county roads in his…
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