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Full employment should be the goal (Free article)
29 July 1999
``A full employment Ireland is now attainable.'' This was the analysis from the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) General Secretary Mike Allen after the Central Statistics Office (CSO) published new labour force figures that show one measure of unemployment dipping below 100,000 for the first time.
Johnnie be good (Free article)
29 July 1999
As Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats, the employers organisations and the trade union movement begin a series of public exchanges on what they expect from the new round of wage negotiations, a small dispute in a well known pub in the Dublin mountains shows how far there is to go to achieving real social partnership in the 26 Counties.
Important decisions for asylum seekers (Free article)
29 July 1999
At last the division in the cabinet over the right of asylum seekers in this country to work has been resolved - not unusually of course - in the PDs' favour, though not necessarily in favour of the refugees. There are about 6,000 refugees here waiting to be granted asylum, who have been forced to live in idleness, giving the impression that all…
Festival film coup (Free article)
29 July 1999
Hot on the heels of their success in bringing Hollywood star Martin Sheen to Belfast for the premiere of his latest film, The War at Home, the West Belfast Film Festival has scored another double.
Blair holds the key (Free article)
4 August 1999
Thirty years on from the burning of Belfast's Bombay Street, when the full sectarian force of the Orange state was unleashed on a defenceless nationalist population, the fundamental issues about the nature of society in the Six Counties have again been cast in stark relief.
Falls taxi drivers save Shankill man (Free article)
4 August 1999
FALLS taxi drivers scared off a sectarian attacker assaulting a Shankill Road taxi driver and his passenger on West Belfast's Grosvenor Road last week. The driver needed hospital treatment for head wounds and shock.
Talk to walk (Free article)
4 August 1999
THE Apprentice Boys of Derry this week rejected face-to-face talks with the Bogside Residents' Group to try and reach a compromise over next week's contentious Relief of Derry parade along the city's walls.
Mála Poist (Free article)
4 August 1999
Dixie and the Sash Thank God for Fern Lane's observations. I keep working to convince people on the western side of the Atlantic that marching season is an important human rights issue, that we white Americans would be no more guilty by running through a ``black'' section of town playing ``Dixie'' and shouting ``nigger'' than Orangemen are with…
Homelessness - The forgotten people (Free article)
4 August 1999
THE SIGHT of someone bedding down for the night in a doorway or on the steps of a church is one of the most potent symbols of social exclusion that exist in Ireland today.
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