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RUC assault couple at gunpoint (Free article)
10 February 2000
A North Belfast couple told An Phoblacht they feared for their lives when the RUC rammed their car and dragged them out of the vehicle at gunpoint.
Orange Card dealt again (Free article)
10 February 2000
This week may turn out to be one of the bleakest we have faced in this peace process. Despite the immense strides that have been made since the IRA cessation of 1994, the Good Friday Agreement being the most significant of these, the unionists, backed by the British government, are even now prepared to plunge the entire process into chaos.
Mála Poist (Free article)
10 February 2000
Comprehension problems A Chairde, Pretty powerful stuff this politics! Eight weeks of it and the UUP are running scared. It looks as if they've discovered that they can't quite stomach real democracy. But because of the overwhelming support of the people of this island for the peace process they can't do a 1974 on it - although it looks as if…
Mexican students attacked (Free article)
10 February 2000
It was six in the morning on Sunday, 6 February, when 2,500 police officers surrounded the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) campus. Behind the barricaded entrances, 632 students slept, oblivious to the police activity. Just minutes later, the police moved in and arrested the students, ending 291 days of protest by the students.
Sinn Féin calls on CIRA to disband (Free article)
10 February 2000
Following the bomb explosion in Irvinestown, County Fermanagh on Sunday, 6 February, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness unequivocally condemned the attack by the self-styled Continuity IRA and called on them to disband.
Crainn Draíochta (Free article)
10 February 2000
`Dá dtiocfadh le duine teagmhail a dhéanamh le spiorad an chrainn, bheadh sé abalta cur lena chuid eolais ar mhaithe le tuiscint ar an tsaol nó le leigheasanna difriúla a fhoghlaim'. Tá barúil ag an Draoi Rua nach bhfuil a dhothain ráite aige go fóill faoi thábhacht na gcrann in Éirinn. San alt fada seo, pléann see stadas na gcrann i mbéaloideas…
RUC assault officers face jail (Free article)
10 February 2000
Three RUC officers and a British soldier may be jailed after being convicted of a number of charges, including attempting to pervert the course of justice, threatening to kill, assault and causing actual bodily harm. The presiding judge described the convictions as ``serious'' and if any custodial sentences are imposed it will be the first time…
Remembering the Past: An address to the Free Nations (Free article)
10 February 2000
As early as July 1918, following Arthur Griffith's victory in the East-Cavan by-election the previous month, the Sinn Féin leadership was becoming confident that Sinn Féin would win the next general election. With this in mind, James O'Mara (Director of Elections at the time) asked Robert Brennan (Director of Publicity the following year, 1919) to…
DUP low blow on hospital decision (Free article)
10 February 2000
DUP Assembly member Iris Robinson has refused to withdraw sectarian comments in which she described Health Minister Bairbre de Brún's decision to site regional maternity services at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast as ``building a Catholic hospital for Catholic people''. Robinson's remarks, made during a speech to the DUP's Strangford…
Back issue: No European unity without Irish unity (Free article)
10 February 2000
Despite the mist of censorship which enveloped it, last weekend's Sinn Fein Ard Fheis clearly marked out the road to peace. Again and again, the British and the Dublin governments were reminded of the need for talks with republicans. While pretentious Dublin premier Charles Haughey milked his position as EC president for all the publicity it was…
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