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No smoke without a fine (Free article)
11 September 2003
HERE WE GO AGAIN. A new law is being introduced and the Irish are falling over themselves to see who can come up with the best doomsday predictions. Seemingly, if the planned 26-County legislation for a smoking ban is allowed to come into effect next year, every pub, restaurant and hotel is going to have to close down. Yes, that's right, the Irish…
MI5 Takeover Bodes Badly For Policing (Free article)
11 September 2003
SPECULATION that `intelligence gathering'in the Six Counties will, in the near future, be handed over by the PSNI Special Branch to their superiors in MI5 offers no assurance that the policy of collusion that has operated in the state for the last two decades - and been sanctioned at the highest levels - will be abandoned.
Basque musician forced to cancel tour (Free article)
11 September 2003
MANU CHAO and Basque musician Fermin Muguruza played a great gig in Dublin on 20 August last. However, both musicians decided to cancel their gigs in the Spanish State after some politicians from the governing party in Spain, the conservative and post-Francoist Popular Party, together with an association in support of the victims of ETA attacks,…
Alcohol - time for a complete rethink (Free article)
11 September 2003
A chara, I write in relation to Ireland's alcohol problem. It seems that Republicans are good at applying our analysis to the peripheral issues surrounding alcohol, without looking at the central issue. Alcohol is the most available drug in Irish society and, along with tobacco, causes serious harm to society, through…
H-Block escape event in Letterkenny (Free article)
11 September 2003
AN HISTORIC EVENT to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1983 H Block escape is to be held in the Holiday Inn in Letterkenny, County Donegal, on Friday night 19 September.
Giving everyone a part to play (Free article)
11 September 2003
MANY REPUBLICANS are aggrieved by the continued failure of the British Government to call elections for the Assembly - with all its attendant implications for North-South institutions. Some may feel that this heralds the end of the Good Friday Agreement as a vehicle to forward the pursuit of national liberation. This may be true, and we might be…
Can do needed at Cancun (Free article)
11 September 2003
AGRICULTURE MINISTER Joe Walsh leads the Dublin Government delegation at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks, which began in Cancun, Mexico yesterday. With him are, no doubt, the lobby documents from Irish employers and farming groups. Employers want more deregulation and access to markets, while farming groups want no more cuts in the amount…
Psychiatrist fails in challenge to PSNI blacklist (Free article)
11 September 2003
THE ACTIVITIES OF the PSNI's Special Branch are once again under the spotlight, after it emerged in court that a counselling psychiatrist was blacklisted because Special Branch passed on false information about her.
Robert Emmet: enigmatic revolutionary (Free article)
11 September 2003
Historian RUÁN O'DONNELL assesses the real significance of one of Ireland's most iconic and misunderstood national heroes, the United Irishman Robert Emmet, who was executed 200 years ago in the wake of the failure of the 1803 Rising.
Lost in the post (Free article)
11 September 2003
THE GOVERNMENT needs your help to solve a mystery. Well, communications minister Dermot Ahern needs your help. Here are the facts as we know them. Ten months ago, John Hynes, the chief executive of An Post, told Ahern in a letter that the company would return to profitability in 2003.
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