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Axed community workers fast to shame Ahern (Free article)
28 August 2003
A group of job scheme workers from Dublin's North Inner City staged a 24-hour hunger strike outside the historic GPO on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, appropriately enough on the 90th anniversary of the 1913 Dublin Lock-Out, to protest the decision by FÁS not to renew their contracts.
The Story of the Drumboe Martyrs (Free article)
28 August 2003
This year marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Irish Civil war, a sad and tragic chapter in our country's history.
Who pays for coalition mistakes?: Builders and developers make §1.9 billion 'excess profits' in 2002 (Free article)
4 September 2003
Warning to all readers, hold on to your wallet, the government are back from their long and no doubt lavish holidays and they desperately need money. It's not that they are skint personally, as if!
The trouble with drink (Free article)
4 September 2003
A Chairde, I was really disturbed by the attitude of Paul O'Connor to drink in his article, 'Drunken Paddies' (21 August). What country is he from, exactly? While I agreed with his sentiment that Michael McDowell's drink legislation is over the top and doesn't deal with the social problems that lead to alcoholism, I…
Scandal of North Belfast attacks (Free article)
4 September 2003
As we go to print, another family in an interface area of Belfast are packing their bags to leave their home, under threat from the UDA.
Encroaching deserts a problem for us all (Free article)
4 September 2003
Climate change is more than rain or drought, it is about the impact that misdirected developmental policies have on the life of human populations around the world.
Voter registration nightmare continues (Free article)
4 September 2003
Just when you thought that the appalling mess that plagued the last electoral registration drive might actually be sorted out in time for the still-to-be-announced date of the next "scheduled" election, it seems the nightmare has begun all over again.
Side-letters, graffiti guarantees and backroom deals failed to deliver unionism (Free article)
4 September 2003
Once again we approach the spectacle of David Trimble going in front of the 900-strong unelected Ulster Unionist Council ostensibly to secure backing for his tactical approach to the implementation of the Agreement as opposed to that of Donaldson and Burnside.
Sceachs and beachs (Free article)
4 September 2003
A Chairde, Councillor Ann O'Leary, Bantry should be commended for recently highlighting the very serious issue of the council not cutting the dykes of the roads of Co Cork when it seems all other elected local representatives have gone into hiding . Despite the fact that Cork County Council are collecting §1.5 million…
Belfast solicitors help Iraqis sue US (Free article)
4 September 2003
Belfast law firm Madden & Finucane is helping the families of Iraqi civilians shot at a US Army checkpoint to take legal action against the American military.
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