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Travellers - Citizens Rights (Free article)
14 December 2000
Negative attitudes towards the small immigrant population that has arrived here in recent years have attracted much media attention, but the reality is that discriminatory attitudes were ingrained in Irish society long before a few black faces arrived. This week, ROISIN DE ROSA exposes the plight of one group of Travellers, which highlights the…
Three Irish language schools opened (Free article)
14 December 2000
Three Irish language schools in Belfast were officially opened by Education Minister Martin McGuinness and the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in the past week.
WMI has not gone away (Free article)
14 December 2000
Two years ago, a huge meeting of over 1,000 people gathered in Nenagh, Tipperary, voiced a community's opposition to a proposed `superdump' at Silvermines. The following year a protest march took place in the town, where thousands of people, and school children from local schools, voiced their opposition.
Fógraí bháis: Kevin Fitzgerald O'Dowd (Free article)
14 December 2000
Kevin O'Dowd, born and raised in Philadelphia but more recently of San Francisco, was an Irish American activist who worked for the cause of Irish republicanism. Over the last seven years, he especially dedicated himself to the cause of the anti-extradition cases of the H-Block escapees.
RUC nab non-truants (Free article)
11 January 2001
While loyalists continued their relentless attacks on nationalists over the Christmas period, the RUC also continued their harassment of the nationalist community.
Loyalist violence 2000 (Free article)
11 January 2001
An Phoblacht's LAURA FRIEL details another year of loyalist attacks against vulnerable nationalists across the Six Counties
Orange Card must be trumped (Free article)
11 January 2001
When it comes to deciding what issues are of most importance to the Peace Process, the British government seem to gravitate towards one in particular.
Mála Poist (Free article)
11 January 2001
US has interests, not friends A Chairde, Clinton's visit to Ireland appears to have sparked a debate about the US role in the peace process. To many republicans this debate might seem trivial and a distraction from the real issues. An article in the Irish Times (23 December) by Congressman Ben Gilman - a strong opponent of British policy in…
Damages awarded against RUC (Free article)
11 January 2001
North Belfast Assembly member Gerry Kelly was awarded £9,000 plus costs in an assault case taken against the RUC. Kelly sued RUC Chief Ronnie Flanagan for damages after he was batoned on the head by an RUC officer during a protest against an Orange Parade marching through a nationalist area of Belfast.
2000 and 2001 - The best and worst of times (Free article)
11 January 2001
Wealth and poverty, boom and bust, crime and punishment, superhighways and gridlock, corruption and denial, new technologies and old inequities. - This was the Ireland of the millennium year and will probably be the Ireland of the new 21st century.
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