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SDLP run true to form (Free article)
27 January 2000
The SDLP strategy of appeasement of unionists at any cost, which we have witnessed for many years in arenas such as Belfast City Council, is beginning to emerge within the Assembly. In three key debates since 17 January, the SDLP have allowed the No camp of unionism to put forward and win votes on motions on decommissioning, flags and the Patten…
Rubbish refuse policies (Free article)
27 January 2000
Recent short-sighted efforts to supplement local authority budgets by privatising refuse services and charging householders for collection have caused strikes and provoked angry responses in Drogheda and Wicklow.
Mála Poist (Free article)
27 January 2000
Media blinkers A Chairde, Can someone please explain why, in the extensive coverage on the British Government's response to the Patten Report on the RUC, the media interviewed several relatives of dead and injured RUC officers, but not a single relative of those killed by the RUC or the many hundreds who have been injured by the RUC (nearly all…
Indigenous coup attempt in Ecuador (Free article)
27 January 2000
Ecuador is a very small and nearly unknown country in the north of South America. It is enduring, like its neighbouring countries, the effects of an acute economic crisis, the consequence of years of government mismanagement, aggravated by international debt and the effects of Hurricane Mitch.
Keep the rubbish. Get rid of the council (Free article)
27 January 2000
Over 500 people crowded into a packed hall last week at the Westcourt Hotel, Drogheda, and hundreds more queued back into the street, for a meeting called to protest the privatisation of refuse collection in the town. There hadn't been anything like it since the Pope visited the town.
Rialtas Don Phobal? (Free article)
27 January 2000
Tá cruinnithe an chaibinéid á dtabhairt go bailte ar fud na tíre anois dar le plean an rialtais. Ach níl Eoghan Mac Cormaic róchinnte go bhfuil an pobal ag déanamh níos fearr dá bharr.
Send Élian home now (Free article)
27 January 2000
And so Elián González has finally been reunited with his father, Juan Miguel, after five months of legal, diplomatic and political activity, culminating in the intervention of the US federal police.
Family evicted by bailiffs and RUC (Free article)
27 January 2000
The sight of a family forced out of their home by hired thugs backed up by members of the crown forces would, to many, evoke thoughts of the famine era. However, forced evictions are a modern reality and could become an increasingly frequent scourge.
Remembering the Past: Ireland's independence declared (Free article)
27 January 2000
Following the Roll Call of the members of An Chéad Dáil Éireann (The First Dáil) on that significant afternoon of 21 January 1919, the next business of the assembly was to adopt a provisional Constitution.
Glen protestors face jail (Free article)
27 January 2000
For 12 years now, environmental protestors at the Glen of the Downs in County Wicklow have campaigned to save the scenic woodland from road development. To the admiration of thousands of supporters, the protest has foiled the efforts of Wicklow County Council to destroy the Glen. The beautiful trees in the Glen of the Downs are still standing, but…
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