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Sligo Council slams suspension of institutions (Free article)
9 March 2000
Sligo County Council has adopted a motion expressing opposition to the British government's decision to suspend the Six-County institutions set up under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. The motion, which was proposed by Sinn Féin Councillor Sean MacManus, was seconded by Fianna Fáil Councillor Jimmy Devins and was adopted unanimously.
End prejudice against Travellers - O'Toole (Free article)
9 March 2000
``For once Sinn Féin, which has campaigned down the years to close Sellafield, was able to make the running against the cosy consensus of politicians on Dublin City Council''. Christy Burke took the other parties by surprise with an emergency motion calling on the government for the closure of Sellafield in the light of the most recent scandalous…
Kerry roads anger (Free article)
9 March 2000
Councillors Martin Ferris, Cathal Foley and Anthony Curtin and a group of angry campaigners from Kerry came to Leinster House on Tuesday, 7 March, to protest at ``the appalling and dangerous conditions of the roads in County Kerry, the result of decades of mismanagement, underfunding and downright neglect, especially by ministers of this…
Equality debate in Down (Free article)
9 March 2000
A public debate, titled Nationalist Equality, Can It Be Delivered? was organised by Mourne Residents for Equality at Glassdrummond AOH Hall south of Newcastle, County Down on Saturday, 4 March.
Clonakilty UDC opens doors to public (Free article)
9 March 2000
After 100 years, meetings of Clonakilty UDC will at last be accessible to the public, after Sinn Féin Councillor Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin successfully steered a motion to this effect through a recent meeting of the local authority. He was disappointed, however, that another motion calling on the council to display minutes and agendas of council…
Scrap RUC game, pleads victim's mother (Free article)
16 March 2000
A North Belfast mother whose 15-year-old son was shot dead by the RUC has called on a local soccer team, Newington FC, not to play against the RUC in a match due to take place this Saturday, 18 March.
Hebron's child victims (Free article)
16 March 2000
Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers regularly target minors in their ongoing occupation of the West Bank. They argue that their policy of deterrence and punishment is a response to a legitimate perceived threat, but there is a sense of David and Goliath about such rivalry.
Refugees face internment (Free article)
16 March 2000
You might be forgiven for thinking that 26-County Justice minister John O'Donoghue is at a loss to know quite what to do with what he chooses to call `illegal immigrants' - the people who have quite legally applied for asylum. You would, of course, be quite wrong.
Mála Poist (Free article)
16 March 2000
Drugs betrayal A Chairde, In 1997 Bertie Ahern personally launched Fianna Fáil's position paper ``A Radical Approach to Drugs and Drug Related Crime''. This paper was launched with such phrases as `the big fight back' and the `most comprehensive' anti-drugs strategy. But its promises have emerged only as paper tigers of the Fianna Fáil…
Travesty of justice on Achill (Free article)
16 March 2000
``I'm a man of principle and I'll not pay any fine'' says Sinn Féin man Patrick Gavin.
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