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Healing plant faces restriction (Free article)
25 November 1999
St. John's Wort is an effective herbal treatment for depression and many other ailments. Robert Allen argues that plans to make this extraordinary healing plant available only on prescription from 1 January next will severely restrict its use, as so few medical doctors in Ireland have herbal medicine knowledge
Back issue: A sad loss (Free article)
25 November 1999
A West Belfast Sinn Féin member and well respected community worker was shot dead at point blank range by loyalist assassins last Friday morning, 16 November, as he arrived for work.
Policing the future - A Conference on the Patten proposals (Free article)
25 November 1999
There was complete silence. All morning we had discussed the fine detail of the Patten proposals for the future of policing and now we were confronted with the reality of the RUC. The conference, organised by the Falls Community Centre, had not attracted the numbers but within the community sector, the key activists were there. And now the…
Prentice paid money to LVF leader's wife (Free article)
25 November 1999
Portadown businessman Albert Prentice, one of two brothers currently suing the author of ``The Committee'' Sean McPhilemy for libel in the USA, must disclose details of the money he admittedly paid to the wife of his nephew, Mark ``Swinger'' Fulton, a US court has ruled.
Prisoner welfare group relaunched (Free article)
25 November 1999
Veteran republican Joe Cahill has called for a renewed focus on the welfare needs of republican prisoners in the coming months.
The real Diarmuid O'Neill (Free article)
2 December 1999
Along with all the other anguish suffered by the families of IRA Volunteers who die violent deaths is the additional distress caused by routine dehumanisation and demonization of their loved ones by both the media and the authorities. In death, their public image, such as it is, can become utterly detached from the reality of their lives and who…
A life worth saving (Free article)
2 December 1999
A decision to deny Lower Ormeau Concerned Residents' spokesperson Gerard Rice security protection was overturned during a hearing at Belfast's High Court last Thursday, 25 November. News that the Lower Ormeau spokesperson will be admitted onto the Key Persons Protection Scheme came after NIO officials requested an adjournment to reconsider their…
A time for hope (Free article)
2 December 1999
These have been turbulent days indeed. The peace process has been marked by interminable delays, punctuated by short bursts of movement. Only a week or two ago, we had no idea if the Mitchell review even had a chance of succeeding.
Mála Poist (Free article)
2 December 1999
The Good Friday Agreement A Chairde, I wonder if your readers are as confused as I am following the vote of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) on Saturday, 27 November, 1999. What exactly have the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) decided if anything? Why are they going into the Northern Ireland Executive? If the UUP enter the Executive is their…
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