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Building the political alternative (Free article)
14 August 2003
Building the political alternative A Chairde, In a recent hysterical rant (Irish Times diary, 15 April), several flying bats came in for a pasting, amongst them Sinn Féin, Woodstock, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, the UN, Bill Clinton and a curious new entity called 'Woodféin'. The latter is apparently a hybrid of the cultures of Woodstock…
Bringing them home - The PJ McGrory Lecture (Free article)
14 August 2003
This year marked the 15th year of the West Belfast Festival and the 15th year of the tragic train of events which provided the inspiration for the community demonised and marginalised to assert its pride in its identity by instituting Féile an Phobail.
Curran calls for removal of British Army patrols (Free article)
14 August 2003
Sinn Féin Councillor Brendan Curran has called for the removal of British Army foot patrols in the centre of Newry. On Tuesday, several large British Army foot patrols, accompanied by members of the PSNI, met at the Town Hall, Newry and made their way out the Belfast Road.
Straight talking from Michael Moore (Free article)
14 August 2003
Michael Moore, the American film-maker and political commentator, received a tumultuous welcome when he spoke to the thousand or so people who had crowded into the festival marquee on Saturday to hear what the Oscar-winning director of Bowling for Columbine and author of Stupid White Men had to say. Such was the genuine delight to see him in West…
Ex-RIR soldier to seek compensation (Free article)
14 August 2003
An unemployment tribunal in Belfast has found that a former British soldier was driven to attempt suicide after being subjected to a relentless campaign of sectarian abuse, threats and harassment by his Protestant collegues. Private Patrick Murphy was born a Catholic in the Andersonstown area of West Belfast, but all that changed one day in 1996,…
UDA issue new threats in North West (Free article)
14 August 2003
The UDA in Derry issued a new threat of violence at a loyalist press conference in the Waterside on Thursday 7 August, when members of the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG) read the paramilitary group's latest statement.
Tawdry splendours of our new aristocrats (Free article)
14 August 2003
The 26-County state describes itself as a republic, but for the new elite enriched by the Celtic Tiger, it is a republic only in name. The Lord Rackrents and Squire Grindums of the past have been replaced by a new set of wannabe aristocrats. But instead of land-thieves and the sons of royal mistresses, our new aristocracy is recruited from talent…
Lissadell House sold privately (Free article)
14 August 2003
Sinn Féin's Mayor of Sligo, Sean MacManus, has expressed extreme disappointment at the failure of the government to purchase Lissadell House and Estate, which is closely associated with Irish patriot Constance Markievicz. MacManus, who is Chairperson of the Lissadell Action Group, expressed extreme disappointment at the failure of the government…
11,000 Irish nationals to be deported - from Ireland! (Free article)
14 August 2003
Think about it. You are born in Ireland. You are an Irish national. You'd think you should have the right to stay here, and, as a child, to be with your parents. But Justice Minister McDowell has decided otherwise. Over the past ten days, he has issued 700 deportation notices to parents of Irish-born children, and added that he will not be…
Drogheda doctors oppose incinerator (Free article)
14 August 2003
Sinn Féin's Arthur Morgan and Joe Reilly have welcomed the open letter by 18 family doctors in Drogheda that they have serious concerns about the building of the 26 Counties' first incinerator in Carranstown, County Meath.
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