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Government deliberately misinterprets law on UN primacy (Free article)
6 November 2003
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Defence Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD on Tuesday accused the Dublin Government of deliberately misinterpreting the law in an effort to clear the way for Irish forces to join non-UN established international forces for overseas duties.
Fifth Column (Free article)
6 November 2003
THE DUP put on a weird show on Halloween in a laboured bid to put a seasonal boot into David Trimble by depicting a victory for pro-Agreement unionists as a nightmare scenario. The defected UUP Assembly member Peter Weir (a man who always seem bewitched, bothered and bewildered) fronted the rocky horror show behind a podium decorated with a…
Public showing of award winning documentary (Free article)
6 November 2003
At the recent national media awards in Dublin, three journalists from a Galway-based film company won the overall Journalist of the Year Award for their outstanding documentary, Chavez: Inside the Coup. On Thursday 13 November at 8pm in An Taibhdhearc, the people of Galway will have the unique opportunity both to view this film and to listen to…
Bin protestors carry on, despite court sentences (Free article)
6 November 2003
On Tuesday morning Justice Finnegan in the High Court in Dublin fined six anti-bin tax protesters €1,500 each and jailed them for three weeks. The previous day, he had fined eight bin charge protestors €200, despite the fact that they had undertaken not to further disrupt bin collections.
Doherty selected EU candidate for Connacht/Ulster (Free article)
6 November 2003
Sinn Féin representative for Donegal Southwest, Pearse Doherty, was last weekend selected as the party's candidate for the Northwest region in next year's European Parliamentary elections on the proposal of Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. With the addition of County Clare, the Connacht/Ulster constituency is to be renemed Northwest for the…
Ahern and Harney challenged on insurance rip-off (Free article)
6 November 2003
The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste have been challenged in the Dáil by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin over their failure to tackle the huge cost of insurance. The Cavan/Monaghan Sinn Féin TD pointed out that Tánaiste Mary Harney had said she was willing to be "benchmarked" on this issue and that it was her number one political priority but the government has…
Court told of horrific attack on Catholic (Free article)
6 November 2003
A sectarian attack on a Catholic man in the Harryville area of Ballymena, County Antrim on 11 October was described by a judge as "one of the most horrific acts that had come before the court".
Anger as murder charges are quietly dropped (Free article)
6 November 2003
An Ardoyne man fears for his life after charges of killing a 26-year-old RUC member Edward Spence in Lower Crescent in South Belfast in 1991 were quietly withdrawn by the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at a sitting of Belfast Petty Sessions on Friday 31 October.
Greater Ballymurphy remembers its dead (Free article)
6 November 2003
Hundreds of people gathered at Milltown Cemetery on Sunday 2 November for the annual commemoration of the republican dead of the Greater Ballymurphy area. Led by a Republican Colour Party, the relatives, friends and comrades of the dead marched in formation to the Republican Plot, where Seany Adams, a former POW and friend to so many of those…
James Byrne Commemoration (Free article)
6 November 2003
Ross Connolly, grandson of 1916 leader James Connolly, is pictured speaking at the grave in Deansgrange Cemetery of James Byrne, Dún Laoghaire trade union activist with the ITGWU, who died as a result of the effects of a thirst and hunger strike undertaken following his arrest and imprisonment during the 1913 lockout.
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