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Tenants' rights must wait (Free article)
11 January 2001
After years of protest and lobbying, the Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal, Bobby Molloy, announced last week his `reform package' for tenants of private landlords.
Monaghan prisoners' vigil (Free article)
11 January 2001
Monaghan republicans turned out for their annual prisoners' vigil on Christmas Eve. Some 50 members of Sinn Féin participated in the traditional show of solidarity, taking up positions on both sides of the busy Diamond area of the town.
5,000 complaints against RUC expected (Free article)
11 January 2001
The new `Police' Ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan has received over 700 complaints against the RUC in her first two months in office!!
Doherty calls for an extra £250 million (Free article)
11 January 2001
Sinn Féin Vice President Pat Doherty, Chairperson of the Assembly's Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee, welcomed Tuesday's CBI report calling for an extra £250 million to spent every year over the next decade on health, education transport and sewage in the Six Counties. He called for the Assembly to be goiven tax gathering powers and for…
Rebel Heart ruffles feathers (Free article)
11 January 2001
Rebel Heart, the latest drama by novelist and writer Ronan Bennett, a joint BBC/RTE production, has already annoyed unionist and British media sensibilities.
Patrick Sheehy Commemoration (Free article)
11 January 2001
On a cold but sunny afternoon, around 60 republicans from across Munster attended the 10th annual Packie Sheehy comemoration on Sunday, 7 January, at Ballysteen, County Limerick.
Government urged to talk to teachers (Free article)
11 January 2001
South Dublin County Council has backed a Sinn Féin motion urging the Government to open talks, without preconditions, with the secondary teachers' union to solve the pay dispute. The Sinn Féin motion was tabled by Councillor Seán Crowe at Monday night's meeting.
Tracing Red Hugh's footsteps (Free article)
11 January 2001
Sixteen brave hearts took to the Wicklow hills on Sunday last and sampled the kind of conditions that Red Hugh O'Donnell and Art O'Neill suffered after their escape from Dublin Castle in that bitter winter of 1592. The walk was organised by the Dublin former republican prisoners group, Tar Isteach. Unlike poor Art O'Neill, who died of his injuries…
Fierce opposition to Louth/Meath incinerator (Free article)
25 January 2001
In the tiny village of Duleek, County Meath, last Thursday, between 500 and 600 people filled a hall to capacity. They were overflowing out to the street. Indaver, a Belgian multinational company, had applied for planning permission four days earlier to build an incinerator on the village's doorstep, at Carranstown.
EU dictates - we told you so (Free article)
25 January 2001
Its not often you find yourself having sympathy for Charlie McCreevy, but this week is the rare fleeting exception. The announcement that the EU Commission is to formally censure the Dublin government and the finance minister in particular for producing a budget that is not in line with the policies of the EU Stability Pact is an alarming one.
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