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Protesting Columbus Day (Free article)
17 October 2002
October, known as Columbus Day (US) or Race Day (Spain and Latin America), thousands of indigenous activists and supporters, from Canada to Chile, blocked borders, closed main roads and conducted various other direct actions to demand basic human rights for all native peoples.
UN Committee Calls for Plastic Bullet ban (Free article)
17 October 2002
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on the British government to ban plastic bullets as a method of riot control in the North.
Bille Teanga na Nollag? (Free article)
17 October 2002
The 2002 Fianna Fáil election manifesto promised that the Bill of Rights for the Irish language would be passed. It is not, however, on the agenda of discussion for this Dáil session. Another election promise broken? Don't be surprised, says AN DRAOI RUA.
Ógra up and running in Drogheda (Free article)
17 October 2002
A branch of Ógra Sinn Féin has been set up in Drogheda under the guidance of local party member Christopher Clarke.
Law student shot dead (Free article)
17 October 2002
The shooting dead by a loyalist UVF gang of 29-year-old Lurgan law student Sheena Campbell at the York Hotel in Belfast, was a further extension of a campaign to assassinate anyone who had the courage of their convictions to stand openly and articulate a positive way forward to Ireland's democratic future.
Shannon warplane protest (Free article)
17 October 2002
Hundreds of protesters from all over Ireland converged on Shannon Airport on Saturday 12 October to protest at the use of the airport as a refuelling stop for US warplanes.
The IRA and nationalist culture (1926-36) (Free article)
17 October 2002
The IRA, 1926-36, is a new academic study of the army based in large part on the papers of Maurice (Moss) Twomey, who was chief of staff during this period and left a vast quantity of written material to which author Brian Hanley was given access. Over this and next week, we will print edited extracts from this valuable historical record. The book…
Nice - the real winners were? (Free article)
24 October 2002
So, after the Nice vote, how did it feel waking up in the heart of Europe? While you might not have felt heart warmed, it was clear that in the 26 Counties the changed political landscape signalled in May's Leinster House election was even more crystallised.
Hypocritical Dáil rule changes (Free article)
24 October 2002
Speaking on the proposed changes to Standing Orders to accommodate the Labour Party and the Taoiseach
The enlargement myth (Free article)
24 October 2002
As the dust settles on the great publicity scam pulled to date by institutions of this state that was the second Nice Referendum, already it will be apparent to those who voted Yes that the establishment parties and the media placed an overemphasis on the enlargement issue.
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