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Clarke Acknowledgement (Free article)
13 July 2000
Mary, Marie and Seámus, wife and children of the late volunteer Terry `Cleaky' Clarke, wish to thank most sincerely all those who sympathised with us in our recent sad bereavement.
Hierarchy's belated Drumcree shame (Free article)
20 July 2000
Church of Ireland Bishop Walter Empey told his congregation in Dublin last Sunday that he, and his Church, had been deeply shamed by the events surrounding Drumcree, carried out in the name of Protestantism. But laudable as this criticism might be, why wasn't he - and Robin Eames for that matter - equally voluble last year when the Quinn brothers…
Battle of the burn hots up (Free article)
20 July 2000
Dublin government plans for a network of waste incinerators throughout the 26 Counties are running into trouble and Sinn Féin councillors are to the fore in the battle. The Draft Waste Management Plan for the North East region is now in limbo after council meetings in Louth and Monaghan on Monday, 17 July. In Louth, councillors voted to defer a…
The end of Guinness in Ireland? (Free article)
20 July 2000
The announcement of the cutting of 300 jobs at a Guinness plant in Dundalk came as a huge shock to people living in the region. Sinn Féin Louth County Councillor Arthur Morgan put the most apt context on the weekend disclosure. He described the media reports of Guinness announcing ``the loss'' of 300 jobs as ``misleading public relations gloss on…
Mála Poist (Free article)
20 July 2000
Plastic Bullets - Never Again! While the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets (UCAPB) welcomes the fact that plastic bullets have not been fired in huge numbers during the present state of unrest, we do take notice of comments being made by many people from the nationalist community. They ask the question ``Why don't the RUC shoot plastic…
Plastic Bullet victims commemorated (Free article)
20 July 2000
A mural at Gardenmore Road in Twinbrook was commissioned by Sinn Féin in the area and was painted by muralist Andrea Redmond. Local woman Eileen Kelly, whose daughter Carol Ann was one of those commemorated, attended the unveiling.
Restoring our Gaelic placenames (Free article)
20 July 2000
There's a beautiful bay near the tip of Mizen Head in West Cork called Barley Cove. Signposts in the area give its Gaelic version as Baigh Na Heornan, and for me this illustrates perfectly the absurdity of the official so-called bilingual approach to placenames in the 26 Counties.
Relatives of RUC victims meet Taoiseach (Free article)
20 July 2000
The Relatives for Justice group met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at Government Buildings in Dublin on Wednesday, 19 July.
Peltier remains unbeaten (Free article)
20 July 2000
Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied consideration for parole on 12 June last, despite having served almost 24 years in US federal custody. The following is a statement by Peltier from Leavensworth Penitentiary to mark the 25th anniversary of the shoot-out which led to his unjust incarceration. Leonard is…
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