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An evening for Robert Hamill (Free article)
2 March 2000
Guardian columnist Jeremy Hardy will be joined by Ardal O'Hanlon and Jo Brand in an evening of stand-up comedy and music on Sunday 5 March in the Jazz Café in Camden, North London to raise money for the Robert Hamill Family Campaign. The line-up also includes London Irish band Neck as well as comedians Kevin McAleer, John Moloney, Robert Newman,…
Unprovoked RUC assault (Free article)
2 March 2000
A young man from North Belfast was attacked and injured by the RUC last Sunday, 27 February.
Gas find must benefit Mayo (Free article)
2 March 2000
Joe McHale, Sinn Féin's representative in Castlebar, has called on all the people of Mayo to demand that their political representatives ensure that the maximum benefit comes to the county and the region from the gas find off our coast.
Paratroop regiment promoted in Derry Journal (Free article)
2 March 2000
``I never thought I would live to see the day when the `Derry Journal' would carry recruitment ads for the Paras,'' said John Kelly of the Bloody Sunday Trust. Kelly's comments came after an advertisement promoting the British Army, including the Paratroop Regiment, responsible for the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, appeared in an edition of Derry's…
High Court decision welcomed (Free article)
2 March 2000
Belfast Sinn Féin Councillor Michael Browne has welcomed the decision to grant the city's St. Patrick's Day Carnival Committee leave to apply for a judicial review challenging Belfast City Council's decision not to fund the parade. The judicial review had been sought by Caitríona Ruane, chairperson of the Carnival Committee, and was granted by…
Human rights victims take on RUC (Free article)
2 March 2000
A new poster highlighting RUC human rights abuses was launched at RUC headquarters at Knock on Monday 28 February.
Unions oppose O'Donoghue's measures (Free article)
2 March 2000
IMPACT and SIPTU, the two unions which represent the 550 Community Welfare Officers who work with refugees in the 26 Counties, have deplored the ``new practice of compulsorily assigning refugees and their families to full board hostels around the state, with just £15 for living expenses''. Spokespersons for the unions said that this policy was…
Welfare Bill creates two-tier poverty (Free article)
2 March 2000
In providing smaller increases to welfare recipients other than the elderly, the government is creating a two-tier system of ``deserving'' and ``undeserving'' poor. So said Sinn FéinTD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin when he spoke on the Social Welfare Bill 2000. He also called for the increases in Child Benefit to be brought forward from September to May.…
Wexford roundabout needed (Free article)
2 March 2000
Wexford Sinn Féin Councillor Anthony Kelly has told the residents of Bishopswater and the surrounding areas he has had a motion for a roundabout and pedestrian crossing in their area and also in the area of the Gaelscoil, which now has 182 pupils attending.
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