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Deportations without even a court hearing (Free article)
22 February 2001
Last week, the 26-County Department of Justice announced that 222 people, who had sought asylum in this state, had been deported since July 1999, when the Immigration Act came into force. Six had been deported in 1999, 187 last year, and 29 so far this year. The figure went up to 30 on Thursday, when the Department whisked an asylum seeker away…
The Cúl na Cathrach ambush (Free article)
22 February 2001
The story of one of the bloodiest engagements of the War of Independence will be recreated by local historians as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Cúl na Cathrach Ambush, east of Baile Mhic Íre (Ballymakeera), Co. Cork this Sunday, 25 February.
Drug rape campaign launched (Free article)
22 February 2001
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) launched a campaign this week to raise awareness about drug rape in colleges nationwide.
Draíocht and Féile FM launched (Free article)
22 February 2001
``Something for everyone'' was how children's festival organiser Carol Jackson described this year's Draíocht Féile programme: ``We have the usual mix of arts workshops, mask-making, mime, music, jewellery craft as well as painting workshops with two top Irish artists Jim Fitzpatrick and John Kennedy.''
Seattle community supports Gaelscoil (Free article)
22 February 2001
A gathering of Irish dancers, musicians, Irish language enthusiasts and supporters filled the Irish Emigrant in Seattle, America, to raise funds toward the rebuilding of a County Antrim Gaelscoil destroyed by loyalist arsonists in the early hours of 26 November 2000.
InterTradeIreland strategy plan agreed (Free article)
22 February 2001
Despite the impasses on policing and demilitarisation, one aspect of the Good Friday Agreement is making headway. Last Friday, the operating plan of InterTradeIreland (ITI), the Trade and Business Development Body set up under the agreement, was approved by Reg Empey, Assembly minister for Enterprise Trade and Investment and Mary Harney, Dublin…
500 names on loyalist death list (Free article)
1 March 2001
North Belfast Sinn Féin Assembly member Gerry Kelly has described the discovery of a loyalist death list containing the names of as many as 500 people as ``extremely worrying.''
Cherish the children (Free article)
1 March 2001
``I would like to be given a chance to prove myself. I am asking you as a human being to please consider my request to go back to John of God's or somewhere less secure soon. My life is being destroyed at the moment. The other night I tried to choke myself, I felt at my lowest and really wanted to die.''
Lockerbie: Guilty Of Being Libyan (Free article)
1 March 2001
Twelve years after the explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, three Scottish judges convened in a special sitting in the Netherlands to try Al Amin Khalifa Fimah and Adbel Basel Ali Mohameh Ali Megrahi. The former was acquitted, but the latter - a Libyan intelligence officer - was convicted to 20 years for his alleged role in the bombing.
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