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Coalition can avoid winter of discontent (Free article)
16 November 2000
Nearly 50,000 rail passengers and up to 350,000 secondary school students had one day of work and study disrupted this week. Added to this is the disruption of travel plans for thousands of Aer Lingus passengers who will have to cope with a strike by 400 caterers at the airline this week.
Tackling the neglect of the North West (Free article)
16 November 2000
The appalling neglect and consequent social economic problems experienced in the Border regions, especially the North West, led Derry Sinn Féin Comhairle Ceantair to host a major conference on the potential for Cross Border Economic Regeneration in the Region.
South Derry anger at slow pace of Brits (Free article)
23 November 2000
Speaking at a picket outside Magherafelt British Army barracks, Vice-Chairperson of Magherafelt District Council Séamus O'Brien said this week that republican and nationalist anger at the slow pace of demilitarisation is growing.
How the US media backs Israeli colonialism (Free article)
23 November 2000
In an article abridged from Al-Ahram Weekly, November 2-8, 2000, Issue No. 506, noted Palestinian academic, author and human rights campaigner DR EDWARD SAID discusses the biased coverage of the US media towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That coverage, he says, amounts to a victory for Zionism, a travesty of justice given the reality of…
Government to blame for transport chaos (Free article)
23 November 2000
Fianna Fáil, the PDs and other political elements have long sought to depict taxi drivers as inefficient, self-serving and culpable for the inadequate transport service faced by commuters, especially in Dublin. It is easy for politicians to point to long taxi queues at the weekend while ignoring their own culpability for the inadequacies of public…
Mála Poist (Free article)
23 November 2000
Cork Commemoration A Chairde, The annual Bros Delaney (80th anniversary) and Sean O'Donoghue (78th anniversary) commemoration will take place in Cork City on Sunday 3 December. The commemoration will assemble at St. Oliver's Church in Glenheights Ballyvolane at 3pm and the Youghal Volunteer fife & Drum celebration will be Cllr. Johnathan…
Former Armagh jail governor shamed (Free article)
23 November 2000
A former governor of Armagh jail, Tom Murtagh, has been fiercely criticised by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee in a report published last Thursday into a disastrous raid last May at Blantyre House in Kent. A highly regarded and progressive resettlement prison, Blantyre House was brought to the brink of anarchy by the raid and trust and…
Peru celebrates as Fujimori goes (Free article)
23 November 2000
On Sunday 19 November, the longest serving Latin American leader, Alberto Fujimori, announced while on a private visit to Japan that he would quit his position as president of Peru within 48 hours. Fujimori's exit ends a decade of hard-line rule, leaving a country embroiled in economic downturn, a spy chief still at large and an uneasy military…
Private incinerator planned for Louth/Meath border (Free article)
23 November 2000
Just weeks after Louth County Council rejected the North East Regional Plan for waste by incineration, the County Council executive attempted, last Monday, to reactivate the discussion in the council meeting. Councillor Arthur Morgan sought legal opinion, and informed the council executive in writing that it would be illegal and a contravention of…
Comhdháil le Caomhnú nó Cur i gCéill (Free article)
23 November 2000
Thosaigh comhdháil mór ar an Luan 13 Samhain in Le Hague le staidéar a dhéanamh ar an timpeallacht agus an tionchar atá ag an chine daonna air. Mairfidh an comhdháil ar feadh coicíse agus 180 náisiún páirteach.
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