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Fr Des urges careful progress (Free article)
24 August 2000
The Creggan Festival, Féile an Chreagain, this year hosted its second annual Óglach Ethel Lynch Memorial Lecture. The lecture this year complemented the theme of the Féile; People-Nature-Technology. It asked whether we, as a people, can find ``balance'' between these three areas in the year 2000, or whether this was even possible.
The Awá in Brazil: Uncontacted Indians face extinction (Free article)
24 August 2000
Survival International, a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples, has warned that unless the Brazilian government, the World Bank and the mining company, CVRD, take urgent action, uncontacted Awá Indians in Brazil's Amazonia could soon be wiped out.
Easons accused of censorship (Free article)
24 August 2000
Eason and Son, the largest book retailer in Ireland, has been accused of political censorship after it emerged that it has refused to stock Bill Rolston's new book about British state killings in the north of Ireland, Unfinished Business.
Léachtaí na Mílaoise 2000 (Free article)
24 August 2000
Tá sreath léachtaí á neagrú ag Conradh na Gaeilge ar oícheanta Mháirt idir an 29ú Lúnasa agus an 12ú lá de Mí na Nollaig.
British Government `climb down' on Shayler claims (Free article)
24 August 2000
The former MI5 agent now charged with breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act has claimed an initial victory this week in what he has termed a `climb down' by the British government.
Cobh pylon protest (Free article)
24 August 2000
About 300 mothers and children took a protest letter to the ESB offices in Cork last Friday, 18 August. The Cobh people are protesting the ESB's decision to construct a 24-kilometer, 220 KV power line on pylons across their island, instead of running the cable four kilometers under the sea.
Back issue: Prisoners warn: ``we'll take no more'' (Free article)
24 August 2000
THE REPUBLICAN prisoners in Crumlin Road Jail have said that the Northern Ireland Office has had its chance to introduce ``meaningful changes'' and they warned of the consequences of rising tension and worsening conditions provoked by the Brtiish Government's forced integration policy.
Fund women's support services - Mayo Sinn Féin (Free article)
24 August 2000
``There is an overwhelming case for increased funding and support for groups concerned with Women's refuge and Support Services here in Mayo.'' Says Vincent Wood, Mayo-based member of Sinn Féin's Ard Chomhairle.
Scandal of rip-off money lenders (Free article)
24 August 2000
Sinn Féin has severely criticised the Director of Consumer Affairs for granting new licences this week to money-lenders charging interest rates of almost 200 per cent (APR).
Silvermines victory (Free article)
24 August 2000
To the great relief of people in North Tipperary, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that they had they rejected Waste Management Ireland's (WMI) application to build a mega-landfill dump at Silvermines.
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