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Doherty calls for all-island energy market (Free article)
7 March 2002
We need an affordable, nuclear free, renewable energy-powered all-island energy market. This was the major finding of a report published this week by the Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee of the Six-County Assembly. The report has cross-party support, including the DUP.
Insurance rip-off must end (Free article)
7 March 2002
Reacting to Hibernian Insurance Group's results, Sinn Féin Candidate for Galway West, Daniel J Callanan, has called for an independent inquiry into the entire insurance industry.
Legal Challenges to bin charges (Free article)
7 March 2002
As thousands of people in Dublin City face prosecution for non-payment of bin charges, two recent court decisions have placed the legality of collection charges in doubt.
City Hall scrooges won't stop the Carnival (Free article)
7 March 2002
"When is a grant not a grant?" I asked myself after hearing that Belfast City Council, rather than fund the St Patrick's Day Carnival for this year's parade, agreed to set £50,000 aside for anyone wishing to apply for grants to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
Burns and Moley honoured (Free article)
7 March 2002
Around 1,000 people turned out in South Armagh for the 14th annual comemoration honouring Volunteers Brendan Burns and Brendan Moley on Sunday 3 March. Councillor Elena Martin chaired proceedings at the monument to the IRA Volunteers and the main oration was delivered by Assembly member Conor Murphy.
Three heroes honoured (Free article)
7 March 2002
Between 600 and 800 republicans from the Beechmount and Iveagh areas of West Belfast attended a commemoration parade last Sunday, 3 March. They paraded through the area before assembling at a point along Beechmount Avenue where a memorial plot was dedicated in memory of three former H Block POWs.
EU convention president wants European superpower (Free article)
7 March 2002
The 105 members of the newly formed EU constitutional convention met last week in Brussels to "write a new chapter in the history of Europe", according to convention president Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
Euro cost of living increase (Free article)
7 March 2002
The changeover to the Euro has led to a rounding up of prices and has led to an increase in the cost of living, especially for those on low incomes. So said Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin when he spoke in the Dáil last week on the Social Welfare Bill. The Sinn Féin TD also raised what he termed inequalities with regard to the treatment of lone parents.
Kerry arrest "an outrageous interference" (Free article)
7 March 2002
Sinn Féin Councillor Martin Ferris has described the arrest of the party's Director of Elections for Kerry North, Jamesie Sheehan, last Friday as an outrageous interference in the political process. Sheehan was later released without charge.
Ferris unbowed (Free article)
7 March 2002
It was nice that the good folk of Kerry had laid on a special welcome for Derrig from Donegal. The weather was Inishowen-like and they had laid on specially Gweedore type roads for me. I had this Donegal notion that things in Kerry were hunky dory, but the roads in the north of the county were as bad as any at home.
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