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Dublin anti-deportation rally (Free article)
21 June 2001
A large rally against the deportation of asylum seekers took place outside of the Department of Justice last Saturday, 16 June, followed by a march through the crowded streets of Dublin to a further rally at the GPO.
EU dogmatists must be challenged (Free article)
21 June 2001
In the aftermath of the Nice Referendum, few in the Leinster House establishment seem to be learning. Bertie Ahern, Michael Noonan and Ruairi Quinn were out mending fences internationally, as they saw it. In the case of Noonan and Quinn, they were also criticising Ahern and the coalition cabinet for daring to admit that they, like the population…
Mála Poist (Free article)
21 June 2001
Plastic bullet scandal A Chairde, Laura Friel says it all in her article of 7 June on the new L21A1 Plastic Bullet Round (PBR). The report of the Defence Advisory Scientific Council makes alarming reading. The notice at the head of the title page, `NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL PARLIAMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT', clearly categorises the subject matter of the…
Cavan hospital strike - Board urged to talk (Free article)
21 June 2001
With the imminent approach of all-out industrial action by all non-nursing staff at Cavan General Hospital this Friday, Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has called on North Eastern Health Board management to engage in immediate and meaningful talks with the representatives of striking porters to avoid the serious escalation of the current…
The price of power (Free article)
21 June 2001
The public hearings of the Moriarty Tribunal ground to a halt this week amid bitter acrimony between the family of former ESAT founder and leading entrepreneur Denis O'Brien and the chairperson of the Moriarty Tribunal.
U-turn on dual mandate ``a legislative farce'' - Ó Caoláin (Free article)
21 June 2001
Hot on the heels of their defeat in the Nice referendum, the Fianna Fáil/PD government has made an ignominious retreat on a key piece of legislation after a revolt by the four government-supporting Independent TDs and by other backbenchers. The government's U-turn on its own proposal to end the dual mandate is its second major political…
Is your water safe to drink? (Free article)
21 June 2001
The debate on the safety of adding fluoride to the Irish water supply is hotting up North and South. Here, UALTAR Ó GRÉACHÁIN puts the case for those who believe that water fluoridation is little more than mass poisoning.
Labour blocks anti water privatisation motion (Free article)
21 June 2001
The Sinn Féin group on Dublin City Council proposed at the June meeting that the Council ``oppose any attempt to privatise Dublin City's water supply and services, and fully endorses the Corporation workers in opposing privatisation''.
Smurfits in Colombia: Vandals or environmentalists? (Free article)
21 June 2001
The presence of Colombian campaigner Nestor Ocampo at the Jefferson Smurfit Group's Annual General Meeting at the beginning of May highlighted the impact of globalisation and multinational companies on the livelihoods of communities in developing countries. This was not the first time the complaints of those affected by the Smurfit Group's…
Edinburgh march remembers Hunger Strikers (Free article)
21 June 2001
Scotland's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike continued last week with the largest ever republican march held in the East of Scotland. Larger than expected, a crowd of over 3,000 people joined the annual James Connolly march in Edinburgh. Two weeks ago, a commemoration march in Glasgow also attracted record numbers.
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