Search results
Found 21210 results.
Soldiers of misfortune (Free article)
23 August 2001
During the Great War, 26 Irishmen serving in the British Army were executed by firing squad on the flimsiest of pretexts. Many were underage. Some were mentally handicapped. None deserved their fate. MICHAEL MULQUEEN writes on the campaign to clear their names.
Reid must face facts (Free article)
23 August 2001
What was lost amid the outlandish hype that followed the arrest of three Irish men in Colombia last week was a sense of perspective on the peace process and the problems currently facing it, never mind the right of the men to be presumed innocent before proof of guilt.
Mála Poist (Free article)
23 August 2001
Inspired by the Ten A Chairde, I read Jim Gibney's article today, 21 August, and tears came to my eyes. It was the death of those ten young men that started me writing letters some 20 years ago. Your article brought back many memories of the ``Kesh'' and people like Oliver and Margaret Hughes, Francis' mom and brother, who I had the pleasure…
Calls for Shanaghan inquiry (Free article)
23 August 2001
A weekend of remembrance organised by the Castlederg/Aghgaran Justice Committee to mark the tenth anniversary of the murder of Patrick Shanaghan attracted hundreds of local and not so local people to the Aghgaran Centre.
Supergrass system alive and well in Germany (Free article)
23 August 2001
PAUL O'NEILL highlights the plight of a number of people imprisoned in Germany through the authorities' use of a ``paid perjurer'' system. O'Neill is chairperson of Tar Isteach, a republican ex-prisoner support group based in the New Lodge area of Belfast and was himself imprisoned on the word of paid perjurer Christopher Black. He became aware of…
Sean Russell Remembered (Free article)
23 August 2001
Local republicans braved the elements on Saturday, 18 August, to remember former IRA Chief of Staff Sean Russell, who died 61 years ago this year.
Where is the G8 now? (Free article)
23 August 2001
Hundreds of thousands of Irish people went to work this week, doing probably the same things they did last week, last month, last year even, but knowing that something is different. The news from General Semiconductor in Macroom and Fujitsu's 15,000 redundancies worldwide were just two more chill winds telling us that the Tiger days are over.
Australian leaders urge progress (Free article)
23 August 2001
A group of senior Australian trade union leaders and MPs have written to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, urging them not to let unionist politicians frustrate the peace process.
Back issue: The People's Choice (Free article)
23 August 2001
THE election of Owen Carron in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election has revealed once again, both nationally and internationally, the H-Block prisoners' choice of candidate to be the nationalist people's choice of representation.
Tallaght builders oppose black market (Free article)
23 August 2001
Building workers in Tallaght, Dublin, marched on Wednesday morning, 22 August, in protest against what they term `exessive levels of sub-contracting and black-market employement' on a site in the area.
Page 631 of 2121