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Committee recommends Special Court be retained (Free article)
9 August 2001
At long last, the committee set up two years ago under the Good Friday Agreement to review the Offences Against the State Acts (OASAs) and the continued existence of the Special Criminal Court (SCC), delivered its interim report last week to the Oireachtas and UN Human Rights Committee.
Duleek incinerator decision slammed (Free article)
9 August 2001
Two steps backwards for local democracy have been taken by Louth and Meath County council. On Tuesday, 31 July, the Meath County Manager gave planning permission to build an incinerator at Duleek, despite the thousands of letters and petitions, submissions and protests from local people saying they do not want an incinerator on their doorstep.
Left Behind? (Free article)
9 August 2001
The second issue of Spark, the magazine for young republicans, hits the streets this week.
Jack Lawlor honoured in Ballyheigue (Free article)
9 August 2001
Tháinig slua mór le chéile i mBaile Uí Thaidhg, Co Chiarraí, ar an Luain seo caite, chun comóradh a dhéanamh ar bás Sheáin Ó Leathlobhair i 1923.
Momentous victory for Spanish telecom strikers (Free article)
9 August 2001
Spain's longest-running industrial dispute came to an end on Sunday night last, not with bread and roses but with champagne and fireworks. Striking telephone engineers, who had set up a massive shanty town in the heart of Madrid's financial district to protest the elimination of their jobs, winning the wholehearted support of ordinary Madrileños…
Phone home Mary (Free article)
9 August 2001
The bids for Eircom's fixed line business might be increasing, but at the same time the cost cutting has already begun. Eircom are proposing to close 700 of their 8,300 payphones in the 26 Counties.
Ríthe na hÉireann (Free article)
9 August 2001
Mar phoblachtánach, ní chreidim i gcóras ríoga ar bith ach tá románsaíocht ar leith ag baint leis an seanchóras Ceilteach, nuair a bhí ríthe agus árdríthe i réim in Éirinn.
Rent control back on the housing agenda (Free article)
9 August 2001
What is the one word not to be raised with landlords in the private rented sector? It is rent control. Mention of this leads to dire warnings of investors leaving the market, not enough supply of accommodation, no refurbishment of dwellings and just general potential chaos in the housing market. However, the beginning of August marks also the…
Long Kesh revisited (Free article)
16 August 2001
At approximately 12.30 pm last Friday, 10 August, I stood in silence in the cell where Bobby Sands died 20 years ago. A few minutes later, I was in the cell where Francis Hughes died and a few minutes after that in the cell where Raymond McCreesh died
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