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The 5th Column (Free article)
8 January 2004
Going for a gong CELTIC FC manager Martin O'Neill's acceptance of the dubious honour of being given the Order of the British Empire in Queenie's New Year Honours List (to go alongside his MBE from 1982) should be even more disappointing to one-time fans alongside the revelation in leaked documents that the spectacularly unsuccessful British…
I nDíl Chuimhne, Comhbhrón agus Buíochas (Free article)
8 January 2004
I nDíl Chuimhne Jan. 2nd 1991: Vol Patrick Sheehy, Limerick Brigade; Jan 5th 1979: Vol Frankie Donnelly, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion; Jan. 5th 1979: Vol Laurence Montgomery, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion; Jan. 7th 1972: Vol Danny O'Neill, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion; Jan. 8th 1992: Vol Proinsias Mac Airt, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Batt; Jan.…
Boundary changes favour bigger parties (Free article)
8 January 2004
The report by the Constituency Commission released on Wednesday has no surprises and is pretty much as expected, which is not good news for smaller parties and Independent TDs. The Commission was very limited in what it could recommend because of the 1997 Electoral Act, which places an upper limit of five seats per constituency.
No More Excuses (Free article)
8 January 2004
A Chairde, Three former Fine Gael and Labour Ministers have tried to discredit the Barron Report into the Dublin/Monaghan bombings by challenging Justice Barron's finding that the FG/Labour Government didn't show much concern about the perpetrators or victims of the massacre. One would have thought that they could have come up with some more…
Basque left produces new plan for progress (Free article)
8 January 2004
The Basque pro-independence movement starts the year with new hope for a negotiated solution to the conflict in the Basque Country. It has presented a new peace proposal, the Bergara Agreement, as the basis for a common strategy for all those Basques who want to see the right to self-determination for the Basque Country. The proposal was supported…
Inquest families demand full access (Free article)
8 January 2004
The decision of the British Ministry of Defence to limit access to documentation relating to a number of controversial killings in Tyrone has been slammed by the relatives of those who died. The MoD has agreed to provide the coroner investigating the ten killings, including the deaths of seven IRA Volunteers, with access to documentation relating…
Free State planned to transport Republican prisoners to St Helena (Free article)
8 January 2004
- BY PAT BURKE "To end my lamentation, I'll make this declaration, None want for recreation until the days do dawn, For without hesitation, we're charged with combination, And sent for transportation from the hills of Mullaghbawn." - late 18th Century ballad, The Boys Of Mullaghbawn From the Cromwellian Wars of the 17th Century, right through…
EU Constitution - on the right track to 1984 (Free article)
8 January 2004
George Orwell's 1984 envisaged a world divided into three countries, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Humanity and individuality are suppressed and people's very thoughts are controlled.The idea may sound extreme, even in today's world of globalisation and, closer to home, Europisation, but if the debate surrounding the new EU constitution is…
Zapatistas call on Indigenous people to organise (Free article)
8 January 2004
The first of January 2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the rising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas in Southern Mexico. In the last days of December, the EZLN called on the Indigenous people to take their future into their own hands. It was Commander David, one of the indigenous leaders of the EZLN, who made public…
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