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Derryman accuses RUC of brutality after attack on family (Free article)
26 April 2001
Derryman John Deery is accusing the RUC of brutality after an incident in the city last Monday 16 April when the RUC arrested him. The man's 18-year-old son Sean and 16-year-old daughter Tina were also attacked and arrested by the RUC.
Reasons to Vote No 4 - No to a two-tier Europe (Free article)
26 April 2001
`A rich man's club' was how, in the late 1970s, former Fianna Fáil leader Jack Lynch described the EU he didn't want to see happen. But this rich person's club was the EU we were part of then and still are now. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact has only intensified the us and them, rich and not so rich, nature of the EU and…
Sharing the wealth with the learning poor (Free article)
26 April 2001
``If the poor and the learning poor cannot be reached after years of boom, the chances are they will never be helped.'' This indictment of the Irish education system north and south came this week from a cross border study that showed over 1.1 million adults on the island have left school with little or no educational qualifications.
Mála Poist (Free article)
26 April 2001
Open letter to John Reid A Chairde, As a democrat, and supporter of peace with justice in Ireland, I honestly can't understand your apparent lack of interest in sorting out David Trimble's illegal ban on Sinn Féin ministers attending North-South meetings. That one weak politician can hold up the enforcement of an International Treaty, shows…
The Laughter of our Children (Free article)
26 April 2001
With rehearsals in full swing for The Laughter of Our Children, a new play about the 1981 hunger strike, director Pam Brighton of the Dubbeljoint Theatre Company spoke to An Phoblacht about the production and its importance in this, the 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike.
Yaba daba doo, Any excuse will do (Free article)
26 April 2001
Here we go again. Armed and masked UDA gangs roaming the streets of North Belfast peddling the lie that they are under attack and threatening to revisit the bloody sectarian pogroms of 30 years ago upon the nationalist community. And we've seen it and heard it all before.
Hunger Strike play to tour Ireland (Free article)
26 April 2001
The H-Block hunger strike is brought to vivid life in Peter Sheridan's controversial play, Dialann Ocrais/Diary of a Hunger Strike, which goes on national tour from 4 May until 19 June.
The Battle of Quebec: Free trade and plastic bullets (Free article)
26 April 2001
Members of the Quebec-Ireland Committee were at Quebec City last weekend for the anti-globalisation demonstrations (getting tear-gassed in the process) and present this eye-witness account:
Ceapadh Iarrthóirí Shinn Féin (Free article)
26 April 2001
Chruinnigh baill de Shinn Féin i gContae na Gaillimhe le chéile ag deireadh na seachtaine le hiarrthóirí a roghnú don chéad olltóghchán eile.
Portlaoise Sinn Féin highlights housing crisis (Free article)
26 April 2001
``You could scarcely credit it, that in these days of a booming economy, I have people coming to my door every week looking for a place to live,'' says Brian Stanley, a town commissioner in Portlaoise. ``There are people who are working two or three jobs, yet who cannot afford a house. People have been on the council housing list for years and…
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