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Students launch homophobia awareness campaign (Free article)
13 October 2000
The Union of Students of Ireland (USI) is launching a ``Coming Out Campaign'' to mark National Coming Out Day. The campaign will raise awareness amongst heterosexual students about the difficulties faced by lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) students in Irish colleges and universities. The USI claims that a number of students have recently received…
A last resort: Prelude to hunger strike (Free article)
19 October 2000
As we ponder on the period of the Blanket protests and the Hunger Strikes, it is easy to allow the monstrous shadow of 1981 to overcast the hunger strike that brought seven men close to death the previous year.
Finucane confession suppressed by RUC (Free article)
19 October 2000
It has been revealed that the RUC had a detailed verbal confession to the killing of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane two years after his assassination but the Special Branch stopped the pursuit of a prosecution to protect British military intelligence agent Brian Nelson and other RUC informers.
Workers demand their due (Free article)
19 October 2000
Aer Lingus received a barrage of blows from its employees this week, the latest in a growing list of Irish companies to receive wake up calls from their workforces.
Adams urges fightback against corruption (Free article)
19 October 2000
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams officially opens the Sinn Féin Sligo/Leitrim Constituency Office and Advice Centre in Sligo last weekend at the conclusion of an extremely successful two-day trip to the constituency. Adams said that ``while people are extremely concerned over growing crises in matters such as housing, health, education, farming…
Time to end Tribunal pantomimes? (Free article)
19 October 2000
They can also inflict serious wounds on political careers. Add to this an ability to enrage the public with revelations of systematic corruption and abuse of power while at the same time boring us with their endlessness and tediousness. It raises the question of is it time to end the Tribunal pantomimes?
Kelly rejects Castlerea sentence review (Free article)
19 October 2000
Reacting to a ruling in the High Court in Dublin setting a 22 January 2001 date for the State's appeal to increase the sentences of republican prisoners Kevin Walsh and Pearse McAuley, Sinn Féin spokesperson Gerry Kelly said it ``makes no difference to the essential fact that these men, and those held with them in Castlerea, were and still are…
Fluoridation - Mandatory Medication of the people (Free article)
19 October 2000
Could it be true that phosphate fertiliser has a byproduct, so serious a carcinogen that it cannot be released into the air or water, that is disposed of by pumping it into the drinking water supply, at 1 to 4 parts per million rate? It's called fluoridation of water. And, in the 26 Counties, fluoridation of drinking water is mandatory.
Sportsview: Not boxing clever (Free article)
19 October 2000
As Aer Lingus planes litter the runway and Dublin Airport looks like a Ballymena swingpark on Sunday, Scotland is about to be gripped by its own wave of industrial unrest.
Barnes and McCormack remembered (Free article)
19 October 2000
There was a large attendance outside the gates of Winson Green Prision, Birmingham, for the Barnes/McCormack Commemoration on Saturday 7 October. The two republicans were hanged in the prision in 1940. The event, organised by the Phoenix Society, also remembered Volunteer James McDade.
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