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The Politics of Six-County Poverty (Free article)

27 November 2003

According to a recently-released report on poverty and social exclusion produced by researchers at Queens University and the University of Ulster, one in three people in the Six Counties are living in poverty, and more than a third of those are children. Although the statistics are shocking, the fact is that poverty levels in the Six Counties…

Irish Coca-Cola bottling workers say yes to Colombia solidarity, no to boycott (Free article)

27 November 2003

Last week, An Phoblacht published an interview with Colombian trade union activist Luis Eduardo García, calling for people and organisations to join the boycott against Coca-Cola products pioneered in Ireland by the Latin America Solidarity Centre. Since then, students in UCD have voted to maintain their boycott of Coca-Cola. Here, trade union…

Imeachtaí (Free article)

27 November 2003

• FUNCTION/CANDIDATE LAUNCH: Featuring the Irish Brigade and Blarney Pilgrims. Saturday 29 November, Sidewalk Café, Cathal Brugha Street, DUBLIN. Speakers: North Inner City SF Candidates Cllr Christy Burke and Ciarán Mac Annraoí and Dublin EU candidate Marylou McDonald

I nDíl Chuimhne (Free article)

27 November 2003

DUFFY, Patsy (25th Ann). In proud and loving memory of a husband and father, Volunteer Patsy Duffy, Derry Brigade, Oglaigh na hÉireann, who was killed on active service on 24 November 1978. Lay him away on the hillside, along with the brave and the bold. Inscribe his name on the hall of fame in letters of purest gold. Sadly missed but proudly…

Mála Poist (Free article)

27 November 2003

A Chairde, It beggars belief that Margaret Thatcher has been awarded the highest honour that the Catholic Church can bestow for her work in "promoting better understanding and dialogue between different faiths" (my quotation marks).

Gardaí need to be accountable (Free article)

27 November 2003

Attention on policing largely focuses on the PSNI, but An Garda Síochána, as the 26-County Minister for Justice himself has conceded, is also in dire need of change. The force has remained largely unreformed since its establishment.

Cormac (Free article)

27 November 2003

Sectarian attacks on Catholic taxi drivers in Derry (Free article)

27 November 2003

Catholic taxi drivers are being singled out for attack by a loyalist gang in the Waterside area of Derry. In the latest in a series of eight recent attacks, a woman driver was attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning 23 November.

Greeks back down as hunger strikers near death (Free article)

27 November 2003

Five anti-globalisation activists in the advanced stages of a hunger strike to protest their incarceration in Greece have been given assurances that they will be released on bail. The decision came after doctors this week refused the state prosecutor's demand to start force feeding.

Anamacha Eiteogacha (Free article)

27 November 2003

This week, AN DRAOI RUA deals with the folklore beliefs of how some of us may come back as birds. Of course, some of us may already be 'away with the birds'.