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Siúl na mBan (Free article)
19 July 2001
On Sunday 15 July, the Tar Isteach Bog Trotters set out once again for the Dublin Mountains, this time with a difference.
The human rights and wrongs of plastic bullets (Free article)
26 July 2001
Brice Dickson, head of the Human Rights Commission, recently defended the group's failure to back calls for an outright ban on the use of plastic bullets by reminding us that RUC officers had human rights too.
Puerto Rico meets Garvaghy (Free article)
26 July 2001
Puerto Rico, La Isla del Encanto - the Enchanted Island - as it is referred to by its people, has a 500-year history of colonialism; 400 years under Spanish rule, when the native Taino people were wiped out and a subsequent 100 years under the rule of the world's last great empire, the United States.
A depressing analysis (Free article)
26 July 2001
``Weston Park and the marching season showed us, in one short week, what is so wrong, and so depressing, about Northern Ireland and its effect on this state.
State of the West report a call to action (Free article)
26 July 2001
Who was surprised at the State of the West Report produced by the Western Development Commission? Better still, who believes that the necessary policies are in place to tackle the wholesale underdevelopment of the region? It seems that it is only the Dublin government that still clings to the forlorn belief that the National Development Plan can…
Colombia's unreported killing fields (Free article)
26 July 2001
At the end of June, a leading Colombian trade unionist, Luis Hernández, vice-president of the public services union SINTRAEMCALI, was invited to Belfast by the recently elected Sinn Féin councillor Eoin O'Broin. He met with Joan O'Connor of Sinn Féin's International Department, with trade unions and the One World Centre, highlighting the horrific…
Police brutality in Genoa (Free article)
26 July 2001
In the last of his series on globalisation, JUSTIN MORAN examines the lessons to be learned from Genoa.
Crossbarry 2001: McGuinness praises unionist courage (Free article)
26 July 2001
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness told a gathering in County Cork at the weekend that he wanted to pay tribute to the courage of the majority of unionists who had recognised that there could be no return to the days of unionist domination.
Time for action on education (Free article)
26 July 2001
Educational inequality, and the indifference of the Dublin government to the same, were brought into sharp focus by two major news stories this month. One of them outraged the people of Ireland, the other barely commanded a whimper.
IRA rubbishes drugs stories (Free article)
26 July 2001
The following statement from the leadership of Óglaigh na hÉireann was received by An Phoblacht on Wednesday, 25 July:
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