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Ireland's planning power deficit (Free article)
12 August 1999
A LOT OF PEOPLE have serious concerns about the way that planning permission is granted in Ireland - and it's not just about brown envelopes. There is a major conflict brewing between developers and local communities as the developers tear down whole districts for `profitable redevelopments' and select sites to dump or burn our waste, or sites for…
Omagh one year on (Free article)
12 August 1999
This Sunday, 15 August, marks the first anniversary of the Omagh bombing. Twenty-nine people lost their lives and over 300 were injured, many critically, when the so-called Real IRA launched an attack rivaled in sheer scale only by the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1972.
Mála Poist (Free article)
12 August 1999
Drugs Task Forces funding A Chara, As an anti-drug activist in Dublin City I must commend Michael Pierse for highlighting the drugs issue again (An Phoblacht, 5 August). Sinn Féin's Daithí Doolan commented that the task forces had a positive impact. While this may be true for all those who got funding, the real issues of supply and demand…
Loyalists target Belfast nationalists (Free article)
12 August 1999
Loyalist warnings that the UDA's ceasefire is on ``tenterhooks'' are being ``underscored by an increase in loyalist activity in Belfast'', Sinn Féin councillor Tom Hartley has told An Phoblacht.
Do the carers really care? (Free article)
12 August 1999
THERE IS AN ILLNESS in modern Ireland that dare not speak its name. It is characterised by a professional attitude and a public image, but rarely is a diagnosis asked for by those who suffer it. It is known by a variety of names. It affects most of us intimately and indirectly.
Plastic Bullets Kill (Free article)
12 August 1999
A new report into the use of plastic bullets in the North says that two in every five plastic bullet injuries inflicted during the 1996 Drumcree standoff were potentially life-threatening.
Hostages of race (Free article)
12 August 1999
As Mexico's wealthy elite proudly boast their OECD status, the country's jails are teeming with indigenous people too poor or too proud to lie down.
Construction workers plan mass meeting (Free article)
12 August 1999
Cuts in holiday pay and exclusion from partnership negotiations are just two of the issues that could lead to industrial unrest among construction workers this week
Omós na Gréine (Free article)
12 August 1999
Is dócha go bhfuil neart daoine tógtha fá urú na gréine a bhí le feiceáil 11 Lúnasa agus nach mbeidh le feiceáil arís go dtí an bhliain 2080.
Doolan welcomes task force money (Free article)
12 August 1999
The announcement on Tuesday, 10 August, of an additional £15 million for drugs task forces in Dublin, Wicklow and Cork has been welcomed by the Dublin Sinn Féin representatives.
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