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Mála Poist (Free article)
2 September 1999
Learning from 1981 A Chara, With the year 2000 fast approaching, it strikes me as absolutely essential that today's young people should be taught about the hunger-strikes of 1980-1981. It was the hunger-strike experience which made such a huge impact on `my generation' of teenagers/school pupils, providing for us the political education of a…
Gold medals and determination in Euskal Herria (Free article)
2 September 1999
The brightest gold medals of the World Athletics Championships held in Seville undoubtedly go to the two fake Giraldillas (Giraldilla was the Championship's mascot) who, for over 20 minutes during the inaugural ceremony, exhibited on the main stage slogans calling for the repatriation of Basque prisoners. The event was televised live to a…
COCAD says crisis is here (Free article)
2 September 1999
The Coalition of Communities Against Drugs (COCAD) said this week that the heroin problem in Dublin and across the country is now developing to worse than 1996 proportions..
Rogha na bPortaigh (Free article)
2 September 1999
Níorbh é gur smaointe nua-aoiseacha rotha uisce agus muilte gaoithe a úsáid ach tá sé in am dúinn a leithéid a fhorbairt i gceart agus a bheith ag smaointiú ar na foinsí eile óna dtig linn fuinneamh a fháil gan truailliú ar bith..
TV democracy (Free article)
2 September 1999
``I don't think it lends itself to a yes or no decision''. This was just one of the incredulous assertions of Paddy Mullarkey ,current secretary general of the Department of Finance, at the Leinster House Public Accounts inquiry this week. Mullarkey's contribution was one in a long line of similar ones from him and other government officials who…
Orange march halted by Royals (Free article)
2 September 1999
And so the 1990s will end as it began, with Cork and Meath contesting the All-Ireland football final in September.
SF Assembly member charged over Ormeau (Free article)
2 September 1999
SINN FÉIN Assembly member Sue Ramsey has been charged with public order offences around the civil rights protest against the Apprentice Boys march on Belfast's Ormeau Road on 14 August.
Remembering the Past: Sinn Féin organiser assassinated in Cavan (Free article)
2 September 1999
Sinn Féin members have been targets for the murderous intent of members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary for many years. Several members have been assassinated by the members of this infamous force in the last 30 years, many others have died because of the collusion of RUC officers with pro-British deaths squads. Many of these death squads are…
Nationalist anger at sectarian parade in Newry (Free article)
2 September 1999
TWENTY-NINE loyalist bands and over a thousand Orange marchers paraded through Newry on Friday, 27 August, hemming nationalists into their houses for over three hours. Sinn Féin Councillor Davy Hyland called the move a ``clearly sectarian exercise''.
Back issue: Ambush at Narrow Water Castle (Free article)
2 September 1999
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IRA attack against British forces in 50 years took place at Narrow Water Castle, close to Warrenpoint in South Down, five hours after the execution of Lord Mountbatten. A full platoon of paratroopers was wiped out in an ambush which, according to a British Army spokesman, was laid ``with enormous skill''.
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