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Belfast City Council votes through new power-sharing scheme (Free article)
4 March 1999
The days of unionist domination on the Belfast City Council may at last be numbered after the council on Monday voted through an historic scheme for sharing power in line with party strength.
Co-op effort to help tackle Dublin's housing problem (Free article)
4 March 1999
As the housing crisis continues in Dublin, Sinn Féin representative for the South East Inner City Daithí Doolin has welcomed an innovative effort to help alleviate the problem. The National Association of Building Cooperatives (NABCO), has built another batch of rental co-ops in the city. This time Townsend Street was the area targeted.
Sinn Fein initiates joy-riding task force (Free article)
4 March 1999
A proposal by Larry O'Toole, Sinn Féin representative for Dublin North East, for the establishment of a community-led task force to deal with the problem of joyriding which has beset many Dublin communities has met with progress.
Social Welfare checkpoints slammed (Free article)
4 March 1999
New powers for social welfare inspectors to mount joint vehicle checkpoints with the gardai were strongly criticised in the Dáil this week by Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. The powers are contained in the Social Welfare Bill which also implements the social welfare changes announced in the Budget.
Mother of Peter Ward to unveil plaque (Free article)
4 March 1999
Mary Ward, the widowed mother of Peter Ward who was shot dead by the UVF in 1966 in what is regarded as the first death of the present conflict told AP/RN of her disquiet at seeing Gusty Spence interviewed on the BBC programme Loyalists.
Violence against women a major issue (Free article)
4 March 1999
Ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March, Sinn Fein Assembly member Michelle Gildernew, spokesperson on Women's Issues, told AP/RN there are five issues central to women today - Domestic violence and rape; education, training and employment; Childcare; Health; and Poverty.
The People's Tribunal (Free article)
4 March 1999
Opening the Belfast session of the People's Tribunal on Friday February 26 human rights activist Fr Des Wilson said it's aim was, ``to start a process by which the exact truth of what happened to our people will be recorded, gathered together and open to scrutiny and the people who were responsible for the damage to our people will have to be…
Travellers' way of life under attack (Free article)
4 March 1999
A Co. Mayo Fine Gael councillor, John Flannery, came before the court in Galway this week in the first case to be brought under the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, of 1989, where the councillor was charged on the basis of abusive remarks he reportedly made about travelling people at a Western Health Board meeting. The meeting was…
Lawyers Alliance for Justice in Ireland visit the Six Counties (Free article)
4 March 1999
Following a session in Derry where the Lawyers Alliance took submissions on the RUC on Thursday, Martin Finucane of the Pat Finucane Centre told to AP/RN: ``This fact-finding mission for the Lawyers Alliance who will be preparing a report for Ben Gilman's US congressional hearing on the RUC in April was very informative and constructive. People…
RUC put Maghrafelt children at risk (Free article)
11 March 1999
A mother of three from Maghrafelt awoke on Monday March 1to the RUC smashing in the front door. In a statement the woman said, ``I was in bed. I heard banging at the front door. I heard the front door being put in, then I heard people walking about.''
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