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Human Rights Commission critical of Stevens (Free article)
11 May 2000
The Six-County Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has criticised the restricted remit of the Stevens inquiry into the killing of Belfast civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane and has added its name to the list of those calling for an independent judicial inquiry.
Recruitment attempts in London (Free article)
11 May 2000
Irish activists in London are being approached by the intelligence services in what appears to be an effort to recruit informers.
Textile workers locked out (Free article)
11 May 2000
THIRTY REDUNDANT workers have been picketing the offices of the Colmeg clothing company in Dublin's Cork Street for the last two weeks. The company is owned by Brian Tucker, a well known name in Dublin's clothing trade. The workers had been involved in negotiations to secure adequate redundancy payments with the company when they found themselves…
Mast wars in Carrick-on-Shannon (Free article)
11 May 2000
Eircell, along with a small army of `security men', sneaked into the ESB sub-station in Carrick-on-Shannon at 6am last week to erect a high mobile phone mast.
Rich get richer (Free article)
11 May 2000
There are now 55,000 ``super rich'' people across the globe, according to a new survey by US investment bank Merrill Lynch and Gemini Consulting. These super rich individuals own assets worth $7.9 trillion and their wealth grew by 20% in 1999. To qualify for this group, you have to have assets of over $30 million.
Wexford Fianna Fáil Councillors fight social housing plans (Free article)
11 May 2000
``It's a typical example of the inertia of local councils. Never mind about meeting local housing needs, the councillors have failed to maintain the housing stock they already have, even when the local authority didn't have to pay for the repairs,'' says John Dwyer of New Ross, County Wexford.
CRJ: Community response to crime (Free article)
18 May 2000
With the row over British legislation on RUC reform ringing in our ears the debate over the response to teenage crime and anti-social behaviour in working class communities across the North rages on.
Welcoming the New Irish (Free article)
18 May 2000
Ireland, North and South, is visibly becoming increasingly multicultural. There are always a lot of sentiments involved when people feel that, using Bob Marley's words, ``things are not the way they used to be''. As a Russian, I probably understand it better than many people, because my own entire country, with its entire different social system…
Diluting Patten/Threatening Process (Free article)
18 May 2000
The Peace Process, so recently invigorated by an IRA initiative of unprecedented proportions, faces yet another major crisis, again of unionist and British making.
Mála Poist (Free article)
18 May 2000
The first blanket man A chairde, It was with great sadness that we learn of the death of Kieran Nugent, the first blanket man. We send our sincere sympathy to his family, friends and comrades. I have a very special recollection of Kieran. In June 1981, in the middle of the Hunger Strike, we organised a delegation of trade union and Labour…
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