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The politics of mental health (Free article)
20 December 2001
The current Irish mental health system is rooted in Ireland's history as a British colony.
Scrooge landlord at Hill Street (Free article)
20 December 2001
Residents at Hill Street Flats, Dublin, have hit out at regulations, imposed by their landlord, that they describe as mean-spirited and unfair. One resident even claimed, this week, that she was forced by her landlord to take down Christmas decorations. The reason he gave is that the accomodation is only temporary, she says.
Casualty around Christmas (Free article)
20 December 2001
There were 31 people left queuing in James Hospital, casualty, at 2.30 am. Two old women in their seventies, one had come in by ambulance, still in a night-gown. She had been in casualty since just 1 pm that day. They were waiting to see a doctor. Others had been waiting even longer.
THE HEALTH CRISIS: A republican response (Free article)
20 December 2001
While 26-County Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, is at pains to assure people that his government has the health crisis in hand, most people who have had dealings with the state's healthcare system, in recent times, will beg to differ. Sinn Féin offers an alternative view, in an edited text of the party's 2002 health strategy, set out below.
They don't care it's Christmas time at all (Free article)
20 December 2001
An Phoblacht's MICK DERRIG again cries of the Seasonal celebrations to deconstruct the notion that the world is united in celebrating the birth of Christ (or of Coca-Cola's Santa Claus) on 25 December. With typical begrudgery, he points out that only a minority of the planet's six billion human beings are in any way nominally Christian.
Harney attacks Sinn Fein zealots (Free article)
20 December 2001
Mary Harney wants the media spotlight turned on Sinn Féin's economic policies. She claimed in Leinster House last week that the party were "economic zealots" of the "North Korean variety".
Surfin' with Santa (Free article)
20 December 2001
Have you ever wondered how to measure if you have been naughty or nice? Can you name all of Santa's reindeers. Do you want to email Santa? Or maybe you are finding it difficult to get that Christmas cheer going? Well wonder no more, Christmas cheer and much much more is out there on the world wide web from the naughty and nice to the twisted and…
Sudan, where oil means death (Free article)
20 December 2001
Despite Sudanese co-operation with the US - providing intelligence on the whereabouts of the Al-Qaida network - this empoverished country has been singled out together with Somalia, Yemen and Iraq to figure as targets for the broadening of the "War Against Terrorism".
Double taxation looms large for 2002 (Free article)
20 December 2001
Bin Charges are set to be a feature of household budgets for tens of thousands of Dubliners, following a series of defeats for the anti-Bin Tax campaign in council chambers across Dublin this year.
Plenty of choice for festive book worms (Free article)
20 December 2001
For republicans and socialists looking for a good read this Christmas there's no shortage of choice.
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