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Ritual battles - Tales from the Christmas trenches (Free article)
18 December 2003
Pagan, puritan, politically correct, religious, Christian, commercialist consumerist... what sort of Christmas are you planning this year? With the festive season already kicked off in offices, schools and homes around the island, ROBBIE SMYTH navigates the competing claims for the true spirit of Christmas.
BRO leaves Belfast Community Groups in the lurch (Free article)
18 December 2003
West Belfast community workers are furious with the Belfast Regeneration Office (BRO) after a number of funding applications for much needed projects based in the Twinbrook and Poleglass areas of West Belfast were rejected or deferred over recent months.
Countdown to success (Free article)
18 December 2003
You might think that, flushed with the success of the Assembly elections, Sinn Féin is now taking it easy. You are probably imagining that the party's various election candidates are now, like the rest of us, only concerned with what's going to be filling their Christmas stockings. You'd be wrong.
Sinn Féin meets Electoral Office (Free article)
18 December 2003
Sinn Féin Chair Mitchel McLaughlin met with Chief Electoral Officer Dennis Stanley on Monday 15 December to discuss the difficulties surrounding the Assembly elections on 26 November. Noting that tens of thousands of people who were entitled to vote had that right taken away from them at the November election, McLaughlin said every effort must be…
How well do you remember what happened in 2003? (Free article)
18 December 2003
Most of these events have been covered in An Phoblacht's pages over the past year. As an antidote to the British queen's speech, strain the brain to see how far you get with what happened in the real world.
Portfolios announced for new Assembly team (Free article)
18 December 2003
Sinn Féin Assembly group leader, Newry Armagh MLA Conor Murphy, announcing details of the portfolios for the new Assembly team on Monday, said the British Government's suspension of the institutions is hindering the work of MLAs. He said that in the immediate period ahead it is vital that elected representatives challenge direct rule ministers and…
No St Patrick's Parade for Belfast - again (Free article)
18 December 2003
In spite of the fact that St Patrick's Day is celebrated worldwide by people of all races and religions, it is still viewed as "offensive" by unionists within the Six Counties. At least so it would seem - based on the recent determination of Belfast City Council's "Good Relations" Steering Panel, which, for the second year in a row, has voted not…
BOOK REVIEW - Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World (Free article)
18 December 2003
By Mark Curtis, Vintage Books (London, 2003) Price £7.99/€12 War is a continuation of politics by other means, the Prussian military strategist Von Clausewitz once famously said. The Peace Process here would suggest that the maxim also works in reverse, that politics is the continuation of war by other means.
More die from drugs than on roads (Free article)
18 December 2003
More people die in Dublin City from drug overdoses than road accidents. Health board figures reveal that 86 people died from drug-related overdoses last year but that two thirds of these deaths were preventable.
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