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Harney is wrong on jobless challenge (Free article)
13 July 2000
With Leinster House in mothballs for the summer and the long August break beckoning for the Dublin Government, what better to hype up than the latest unemployment figures. It helps detract from the tribunals, the negative poll coverage, and the ongoing attacks of foot and mouth afflicting various coalition members.
Break up the old boy's club (Free article)
13 July 2000
The Second World War ended 55 years ago. Out of the ashes arose the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But the victors in the war were determined that their supremacy would prevail and they contrived the Security Council as the real controlling body of the UN. Imperialism triumphed over idealism. Despite all that has…
Dublin City Council votes for waste charges (Free article)
13 July 2000
Dublin City Councillor dessie Ellis has vowed that Sinn Feein will ``fight tooth and nail against the introduction of bin charges as a form of double taxation''.
Who will control the gene code? (Free article)
13 July 2000
Dr. John Sulston, who has mapped a third of the human genome (the gene map of the human body), received an honorary degree from Trinity College, Dublin, last Friday, 7 July. He also delivered a public lecture in the university to explain his groundbreaking work.
Dublin Coiste officially opened (Free article)
13 July 2000
Former republican prisoner Brian Keenan did the honours in Dublin city centre on Saturday, 10 July, as the Dublin premises of Coiste na nIarchimí was officially opened. Also present was national Coiste director Mike Ritchie, 26-County director Ann O'Sullivan, Ella O'Dwyer and Eamonn Nolan of Dublin Coiste and Jim Monaghan of Tar Isteach a related…
Coillte agus an Comhshaol (Free article)
13 July 2000
Is íomaí comhrá a bhí agam le mo chara an Seandraoi Liath agus mé ar saoire in Alban ar na mallaibh. I measc na hábhair a bhí a phlé againn ná tábhacht na gcrann lenár ndúlra a chaomhnú. Leoga, ba léir dom go raibh i bhfad níos mó crainn dúchasacha le feicéail thall ná atá ar fáil in Éirinn.
Donegal community fights ESB vandals (Free article)
13 July 2000
The ESB are planning an act of outrageous environmental vandalism across probably the last unspoilt part of Ireland. It plans to run huge pylons taking a 110 kv power line from Letterkenny to the industrial estate in Derrybeg, Gweedore.
New in print: Enemies of the state (Free article)
13 July 2000
Unfinished Business, State Killings and the Quest for Truth By Bill Rolston Beyond the Pale Publications £12.99
McCabe remembered in new mural (Free article)
13 July 2000
``To die young is an injustice, for we never expect the young to die. Death, coming before its expected time, is inexplicable and heart wrenching. But to die young because of an injustice adds to the pain of this unbearable loss and becomes an unbearable weight on family, friends and community. When the injustice of such a death is sustained…
Back issue: MacBride speaks out (Free article)
13 July 2000
SEAN MacBRIDE former Irish republican leader and politician, and today an internationally respected Unitied Nations diplomat, has spoken out against the H-Blocks for the first time. He did this in the course of a newspaper review of Tim Pat Coogan's book, On the Blanket, published in the Irish Press on Thursday 3 July.
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