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Release ALL political prisoners (Free article)
27 July 2000
This week is a milestone in the long history of imprisonment of Irish republicans. The H-Blocks of Long Kesh are closing and all but a small number of republican prisoners held in jails in both the Six and 26 Counties are being released as agreed by both governments in the course of the peace process. It is an unprecedented event. Never before…
Mála Poist (Free article)
27 July 2000
Punts or sterling? A Chairde, Recently whilst bundling up my wife's old copies of An Phoblacht for recycling I noticed a curious anomaly in the annual subscription rates quoted on the back page. Subscription rates for Europe Surface, Airmail and Elsewhere are quoted in pounds sterling. To me this reflects either ra colonialist nostalgia, or…
H is for history (Free article)
27 July 2000
With the final closure of the H-Blocks of Long Kesh this week, and the release of all but a small number of the remaining republican prisoners in both the Six and 26 Counties, ex-prisoner Peadar Whelan reflects on the toll of years, and of republican lives, lost in those jails.
$750 million PR party for G8 (Free article)
27 July 2000
What a weekend it must have been to blow $750 million. Yet this this is what the leaders of the self styled G8 did at their summit in Okinawa last weekend. The G8 is made up of the eight largest global economies. Having access to nuclear technology and weapons also seems to be a common factor among many of the G8 members.
Drumcree shows that we need future together as equals (Free article)
27 July 2000
The events surrounding the Drumcree parade issue clearly shows the nature of the state we all live in. At the heart of this issue, is not in my view, the principle of the right to march in relation to the orange Order. Rather it is about unionism and in particular orange unionism recognising and ac cepting the right of nationalists in places like…
Haughey wriggles on the hook (Free article)
27 July 2000
It is unclear what the actual end value of the two ongoing tribunals at Dublin Castle will be. Some political careers have foundered, some more will definitely follow and the public have been left with a remarkable insight into political life in the 26 Counties. The chances of anyone being sent to jail seems at best remote. However there are still…
Loyalists intimidate Catholic holiday makers (Free article)
27 July 2000
A West Belfast mother and her ten year old son were the target of sectarian thugs at a Spanish holiday resort.
Scandal of homelessness worsens (Free article)
27 July 2000
Despite homelessness being one of the most recurrent and high profile issues in Ireland over the past twenty years, government funding and strategy are far from meeting the needs of Ireland's homeless population, Michael Pierse writes.
Graves Association refused compensation over damaged graves (Free article)
27 July 2000
The Northern Ireland Office has refused compensation to the National Graves Association over the destruction of headstones in the republican plot in Milltown cemetery.
The Disaster of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (Free article)
27 July 2000
Last week we carried the first part of a report on the Tuna Fishing fleet where four trawlers have been arrested in so many weeks by Irish Naval Patrols, which fishermen claim to be persecution in face of the far more powerful rival Spanish fleet. In the second part of a two-part investigation of the Tuna Fishermen's raw deal, Roisin de Rosa looks…
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