Search results
Found 21210 results.
Fleadh funding reinstated (Free article)
7 August 2003
Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly has applauded a decision to address the shortfall in funding experienced by two community festivals in north Belfast. The announcement comes nearly a week after a meeting between organisers of the Ardoyne and New Lodge festivals and the British Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Angela Smith.
Kennedy avoids court in "Stakeknife" affair (Free article)
7 August 2003
The attempt to have NIO Security Minister Jane Kennedy face courtroom questions over the 'Stakeknife' spy affair was thrown out by Judge Carswell on Tuesday 6 August at Belfast High Court.
McCartney targeted by securocrats (Free article)
7 August 2003
Two cars acting suspiciously in Derry's Fernabbey estate made off at speed when challenged by a Sinn Féin councillor and local residents. Residents said they became aware of the blue Mondeo and silver Astra cars at around 9.30am on Friday 1 August. Locals claimed the Astra had 'some sort of camera' fitted to it and was seen taking photographs of…
Ballymurphy shares its story (Free article)
7 August 2003
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives celebrates the lives of 33 IRA and Fianna Volunteers from the Ballymurphy area whose names appear on the Ballymurphy Roll of Honour. It is a deeply personal play, clearly a labour of love. One of the things that makes it particularly poignant is the fact that it was written by the families, friends, and…
Brophy demands justice (Free article)
7 August 2003
Sinn Féin North Belfast councillor Gerard Brophy has called for immediate action to be taken after it was revealed the Police Ombudsman's office had to postpone its investigation of a PSNI member who wrongly accused Brophy of rioting because the man concerned is on sick leave.
What price human rights? (Free article)
7 August 2003
In the second part of her report on the crisis in the Six-County Human Rights Commission, UNA GILLESPIE examines the controversial role of HRC chair Brice Dickson in a human rights case brought by a Holy Cross parent
Appointment of Daphne Trimble criticised (Free article)
7 August 2003
The West Belfast Economic Forum has criticised the appointment of Daphne Trimble, the wife of former first minister and Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, as one of nine new Equality Commissioners by NIO minister Paul Murphy.
Disabled secure rights at last (Free article)
7 August 2003
Few people around the world would have suspected that Irish disabled people were ever treated with anything other than respect in their own land. Home to the Special Olympics, the country pulled out all the stops to ensure that its guests were looked after like heroes when they arrived and that the Games went off without a hitch. The booing…
1981 Hunger Strike exhibition and talk (Free article)
7 August 2003
On the 22nd anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike and the subsequent election of Kieran Doherty POW as TD for Monaghan-Cavan, Sinn Féin in Ballybay, County Monaghan, is hosting a major exhibition and talk on the historic events of that summer. The event will be chaired by Ballybay Town Councillor Gene Duffy.
Through an Emerald lens (Free article)
7 August 2003
American activist and artist Elizabeth Billups has worked with Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety and the American Indian movement, but it is her deep love of Ireland that has inspired her new photographic exhibition at the Conway Mill in West Belfast.
Page 821 of 2121