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Back issue: Relaunching national consciousness (Free article)
16 December 1999
MacBride Principles activist Oliver Kearney, Father Des Wilson, Fianna Fáil dissident Nora Comiskey, Green Party member Patricia McKenna, veteran union activist Matt Merigan and artist Robert Ballagh were just some of those on the platform at a press conference held in Buswells last Friday.
Television: Christmas movies and millennial humbug (Free article)
16 December 1999
Welcome to An Phoblacht's annual and highly selective trawl through some of the best and worst of this year's festive TV movie offerings. A quick word of warning. This reviewer harbours a blatant bias towards the Christmas celebrations at this time of year at the expense of all that pointless mularkey about the New Year, not to mention the…
Hawkes Bay must meet obligations (Free article)
6 January 2000
Sinn Féin Councillor Arthur Morgan has urged the Dublin government to ensure that plant machinery and stock at Ardee's Hawke's Bay denim clothing factory are not removed until the company meets its obligations to the 300 employees.
The killing of John Francis Green (Free article)
6 January 2000
At a remote mountainside farmhouse one bleak January night, the body of a young man, shot dead and lying in a pool of blood, was discovered by a farmer returning home after milking a neighbour's cow.
Ruairi Quinn's fit of pique (Free article)
6 January 2000
The leader of the Labour Party in the 26 Counties, Ruairi Quinn, had a swipe at Sinn Féin this week. What was interesting about his outburst was that it was not along the predictable and well worn lines of attacking Sinn Féin for ``links with violence''. Instead, the Dublin TD accused Sinn Féin of having ``right-wing politics''.
Basque trade unionists visit Ireland (Free article)
6 January 2000
A progressive trade union, anti the European Union's economic and monetary policies, active on social political and economic issues, with a thriving youth section and leading the campaign for a 35-hour week and a social wage - I had to pinch myself.
Scotland's neglected Irish community (Free article)
6 January 2000
At the end of the Tan War, Eamon de Valera stated that the exiled Irish community of one country had been THE vital logistical base for the War against British rule in Ireland. In fact, this country, he said, had made a bigger financial contribution to the Irish republican war effort than all the other countries put together.
De Brún pledges funds for flu crisis (Free article)
6 January 2000
Six-County Health minister Bairbre de Brún has vowed that any additional cash needed by health boards to cope with the worst flu epidemic to hit the north in years will be found.
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