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Restored Pearse home officially opened (Free article)
20 July 2000
The Ireland Institute proudly opened the doors of the restored Dublin family home of Padraig and Willie Pearse last Friday, 14 July. Padraig Pearse, the executed leader of the 1916 Rising, was born in the basement of Number 27 Pearse Street, which in the late 19th century, then Number 27 Great Brunswick Street, housed the Pearse family's stone…
Successful Sinn Féin lobby in Strasbourg (Free article)
20 July 2000
Mitchel McLaughlin and Sean Crowe, accompanied by party press officer Dominic Doherty, visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this month. The purpose of the visit was to update the parliament on developments in the Irish Peace Process, outline Sinn Féin's views on the Patten report and the British policing bill and to discuss the…
Crack down on ``slum landlords'' (Free article)
20 July 2000
Sinn Féin Mayor of Sligo Sean MacManus has hit out at the revelation that, according to the Dublin government's latest quarterly report on housing, not one rented property has been inspected in either Sligo or Leitrim in the period covered by the report. He has also called for a major crackdown to put slum landlords out of business or to force…
Spencer Dock - Democracy wins the day (Free article)
20 July 2000
People in Dublin's Docklands community were hailing as a victory for democracy this week the decision by An Bord Pleanála to block a major part of the £1.2 billion development plan for the area.
Educational disadvantage persists (Free article)
20 July 2000
The 26 Counties' thriving economy has relied heavily on attracting high-tech multinationals, and this in turn has increased the number of people in third-level education in recent times. But more third level students has not led to any radical change in the way colleges and universities have traditionally reflected the divisions in our society.…
Radio Ga Ga (Free article)
20 July 2000
It has been yet another week of sensation at the tribunals as further details of the alleged bribery of leading Fianna Fáil members have again emerged, this time in relation to the zoning of the airwaves rather than the zoning of land.
West Belfast snubbed for drugs funding (Free article)
20 July 2000
A leading anti drugs activist in West Belfast has accused the British government of excluding the area from the latest round of funding for drugs programmes announced on Tuesday, 11 July.
How do you teach a nationalist child he's a second class citizen? (Free article)
27 July 2000
There's a small grassy square between a nationalist housing estate at the top of North Belfast's Cliftonville Road and the predominantly loyalist Torrens area. In the harsh urban landscape of terraced housing and back yards, this small green area provides the only relief from tarmac, concrete and brick.
Do homeless children have constitutional rights? (Free article)
27 July 2000
The Dublin government is to appeal to the Supreme Court the right of the High Court to injunct the health boards to provide accommodation for troubled children, which the boards have failed, consistently to do.
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