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Back issue: Welcome home Brian (Free article)
31 August 2000
BRIAN KEENAN'S sisters are right. The welcome home for their brother is huge, warm and genuine. It's so deep that no one even begrudged Gerry Collins his bit of reflected glory after the state jet touched down at Dublin Airport. Ireland breathed a sigh of relief when it saw the Belfastman finally step off the aircraft. Nobody minded if anyone else…
900 jobs for North Belfast (Free article)
31 August 2000
There was good news at last for the North of the city last week as the computer giant TeleTech confirmed that it will be occupying a hi-tech factory in Duncairn Gardens within weeks with an £11 million investment package.
International protests against Clinton's Colombia visit (Free article)
31 August 2000
Demonstrations across the United States and around the world took place on Wednesday, 30 August, to coincide with US President Bill Clinton's trip to Cartagena, Colombia. The main demands were: ``Stop the US war against Colombia! No to Plan Colombia!'' In Dublin, a soliodarity vigil was held on Wednesday evening outside the US Embassy in…
Artists protest pylon vandalism (Free article)
31 August 2000
Members of Altan and Clannad performed at a successful fund-raising event in Gortahawk on Sunday, 27 August organised by the Alternatives to Poles and Pylons (ATP) group in Donegal. The big name acts participating demonstrate the strength of feeling in this scenic area against an ESB plan to route a 110kv power line overland from Letterkenny to…
Residents reclaim Dunville Park (Free article)
31 August 2000
Children, pensioners, community workers and other residents of the lower Falls Road rolled up their sleeves on Monday, 28 August, for a major clean-up operation of Dunville Park in West Belfast. Armed with bin bags and brushes, hundreds demonstrated their determination to reclaim a park that has become a focal point for drug addicts and joyriders.
Vested housing interests must be tackled (Free article)
31 August 2000
There was a victory of sorts in the Supreme Court this week with the decision that the Dublin Government's planning bill proposals to make developers devote 20% of their land to social and affordable low cost housing is constitutional.
McAleese an `EU propagandist' (Free article)
31 August 2000
President Mary McAleese came under strong criticism at the Desmond Greaves Summer School in Dublin last weekend for her active support for EU propaganda campaigns in Eastern Europe. Speaking at the Twelfth Desmond Greaves Summer School in the Irish Labour History Museum in Beggars Bush, Green MEP Patricia McKenna said that she was extremely…
Newry voters disenfranchised (Free article)
31 August 2000
Hundreds of voters in Newry/South Armagh could be struck off the electoral register after it emerged that voter registration forms have not been received or were being delivered too late.
Supreme Court ruling legalises discrimination (Free article)
31 August 2000
Those fighting to uphold the human rights of asylum seekers in the 26 Counties suffered a major setback this week with the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the `Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Bill. Monday's interpretation of the constitution enshrines the very racist, discriminatory attitudes that Gerry Adams condemned so…
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