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Féile ag fás (Free article)
7 August 2003
Féile an Phobail is steadily and strongly moving through its early teenage years, reaching fifteen this time out. It is unlikely that those attending the festival who are under 30 years of age remember what life for nationalist Belfast was like before am Féile.
Confusion over Hutchinson abduction claim (Free article)
7 August 2003
Republicans in north Belfast were sceptical yesterday about the PUP's claims of an apparent attempt to abduct Billy Hutchinson in the city on Wednesday morning. PUP leader David Ervine said he believed nationalists from Ardoyne had been involved in the bid to kidnap the former Assembly member.
Extend the passport scheme (Free article)
7 August 2003
Sinn Féin's Barry McElduff is gaining a reputation in Omagh as something of a diplomat. Those familiar with his brand of straight talking may find this hard to believe but the title is less for his tactful style than for his work on behalf of the Passport Office in Dublin. McElduff wrote to the Passport Office some two months ago requesting 500…
Plus ca change... (Free article)
7 August 2003
A Chairde, The renewed PSNI "investigation" into the murder, 29 years ago, of Cllr Patsy Kelly is an implicit admission that a proper inquiry was never carried out by the RUC. What I want to know is what happened to those RUC officers who failed to perform their basic policing duty over the past 29 years. Were they…
Liberians welcomes peacekeepers (Free article)
7 August 2003
More than 3,000 West African peacekeepers had started arriving to Liberia on Monday 4 August, and they were being welcomed by a population tired of the fighting and massacres that have devastated the country for years. African peacekeepers may yet be the saviours of the Liberians, though when the fighting reached Monrovia in June, the population…
Barghouti speaks in Belfast despite Israeli restrictions (Free article)
7 August 2003
Leading Palestine spokesperson, Dr Mustafa Barghouti, addressed a packed hall in St Mary's Teacher Training College on Tuesday evening 5 August. Dr Barghouti was not in Belfast to speak on the Palestinian situation on the invite of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign because the Israeli government barred him from leaving Palestine, but the…
Butler attack bears hallmarks of collusion (Free article)
7 August 2003
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said there are serious concerns about collusion in the attempted bomb attack on the home of party councillor Paul Butler on Monday night 4 August. A highly flammable device was thrown from a passing car at the house Butler shares with his partner and three children.
Criminal justice (Free article)
7 August 2003
Criminal Justice was one of the key areas raised by Sinn Féin in the negotiations with the British and Irish governments leading up to the publication of the Joint Declaration. The party argued that the new Act and accompanying Implementation Plan would not achieve the changes necessary in the criminal justice system.
Profits from propaganda (Free article)
7 August 2003
The British media wields enormous influence on the British voters and consequently has significant impact on the British government, Roy Greenslade told an audience in West Belfast during Féile week.
Woman attacked for befriending Catholics (Free article)
7 August 2003
Members of South Antrim UDA beat and kicked a 31-year-old Protestant mother so hard she lost her unborn baby, because she had Catholic friends. Mary Norris told of the nightmare at around 10.45pm on Sunday night 27 July when seven masked UDA men smashed their way into her Rathcoole home, destroying everything in their way and stealing £800 in…
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