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Arthur Morgan visits Indaver in Belgium (Free article)
1 March 2001
Louth County Councillor Arthur Morgan recently travelled to Belgium as part of a delegation organised by LMFM radio station to investigate Indaver, the company that has applied for planning permission to build an incinerator at Carranstown, beside Platin CRH works on the County Meath side of the Louth border. Already thousands of people have…
Irish News picketed over RUC charm offensive (Free article)
1 March 2001
In the first of a series of protests against the new RUC recruitment campaign Sinn Féin activists picketed the offices of Northern daily The Irish News on Wednesday, 28 February.
Cork City Manager ignores council over Kinsale Dump (Free article)
1 March 2001
In an amazing display of contempt for the vote of councillors, Cork Corporation executive has continued to propose use of the Kinsale Road dump as the proper place for a Waste Recovery Facility (WRF). Three times councillors have asked the City Manager to go back and find other more suitable accommodation for the city's WRF; three times he has…
Newtown House inquiry opens (Free article)
1 March 2001
This week saw the opening of a High Court inquiry into into the East Coast Health Board's running of Newtown House, a place of ``secure accommodation'' for disturbed young people who needed special care. The inquiry was ordered by Judge Peter Kelly in November last following the death from a drugs overdose in Dublin of 15-year-old Kim O'Donovan,…
Students need more support to lower drop-out rate (Free article)
1 March 2001
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is calling for an increase in the provision of career guidance in second-level schools as well as increases in student grants and financial support at third level. This is needed to alleviate the problem of drop-out in Irish universities. The student body was reacting to a distressing report by the Higher…
Women must take victory (Free article)
1 March 2001
``Women need to take up more space, insinuate themselves into all aspects of the struggle and ensure that the tenets of the Proclamation of 1916 are adhered to. We are capable of not only training ourselves for victory but we are capable of taking victory.''
Adams launches Michael Young campaign (Free article)
1 March 2001
Michael Young was 15 years of age when he decided to experiment with sniffing aerosols. Many people associate solvent abuse with anti social behaviour but Michael was a quiet, helpful teenager who was ``kind to his family and well liked by his neighbours''. His death two years ago was as sudden as it was unexpected. He only sniffed aerosols once…
Two new Mayo Sinn Féin cumainn (Free article)
1 March 2001
Sinn Féin has set up two new Cumann as part of the ongoing development of the party in Mayo. One is centred in Newport and he other in East Mayo, taking in the Swinford, Charlestown and Kilkelly areas.
Freedom doesn't come easy for RUC (Free article)
8 March 2001
Up to 50 Sinn Féin activists staged a highly successful anti-RUC protest in Antrim Town last Saturday. It was staged to coincide with a ceremony granting the `Freedom of the Borough of Antrim' to the RUC.
Fine Gael have questions to answer (Free article)
8 March 2001
Lauded by the establishment as an example of entrepreneurial genius and persistence, Denis O'Brien's sale of his stake in Esat Digifone last year landed him a whopping £238 million. He was on the cusp of a wave that swelled from the decision of a Fine Gael-led coalition government in 1995 to grant Esat the lucrative second mobile phone license for…
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