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St Patrick's Day is for everyone (Free article)
29 January 2004
A total of £65,000 is needed to fund this year's St Patrick's Day Carnival and organisers of the event are appealing to the public for support. The theme of this year's Carnival is "Cathrom Agus Gaelach - Scleip Agus Craic," which translates to the English, "Irish And Equal - We Just Want To Have Fun," but Belfast City Council has repeatedly put…
Adams attends Belfast anti-racism rally (Free article)
29 January 2004
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Belfast in a public protest aimed at demanding an end to racism. Protestors from a wide range of backgrounds carried hundreds of banners and placards bearing anti-racism messages as they assembled outside Belfast City Hall. Representatives of all the main political parties were in attendance, including…
Beyond the Good Friday Agreement - BY SEÁN McCANN (ÓGRA SHINN FÉIN) (Free article)
29 January 2004
Lenin said in 1917: "The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of…
Roddy's hosts Truth and Reconciliation discussion (Free article)
29 January 2004
This past Saturday 24 January, the Roddy MacCorley Club in West Belfast was the scene of a lively two-hour discussion about future prospects for a Truth and Reconciliation Project in the Six Counties. The event was organised by Coiste under the aegis of its Process of Nation building programme.
Féile FM gets new studio (Free article)
29 January 2004
The actor Dan Gordon on Wednesday officially opened the new custom-built studio for Féile FM, the radio station linked to Féile an Phobail, the West Belfast Festival. Dozens of people from across Belfast attended the opening of the studio, which is now located in the Conway Mill Complex on the Falls Road.
More funding needed to target anti-social crime (Free article)
29 January 2004
At the launch of the Safer Neighbourhoods Project on Tuesday, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said that anti-social crime could not be tackled without support and resources from statutory bodies. The project has been running in the Poleglass area for nine months and tackles issues such as car theft and drug abuse, among other community issues.
Sinn Féin backs An Post workers (Free article)
29 January 2004
Sinn Féin is supporting the campaign by An Post workers for their shares in the company. A Transformation Agreement that provided for the establishment of an Employee Share Ownership Plan for postal workers was signed off in July 2000 by the Government, the company and unions. The workers kept their part of the agreement but, as in the past, the…
Cancer treatment services urgently needed (Free article)
29 January 2004
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has criticised the appallingly poor provision of cancer treatment services in Ireland. Speaking at a Cancer Care Alliance Press Conference in Dublin on Tuesday, which brought together health spokespersons from the main opposition parties in the Dáil in response to the report of the Expert Group on Radiation Oncology Services…
Ó Caoláin challenges Martin over Medical Cards (Free article)
29 January 2004
New income guidelines for Medical Card qualification mean that "families must choose which of their daily needs to do without in order to visit a GP with a sick child", said Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin this week. The Sinn Féin Health spokesperson challenged Health Minister Mícheál Martin in the Dáil on Tuesday over the Government's failure to fulfil its…
UDA target children at GAA club (Free article)
29 January 2004
A distress flare attached to a gate leading on to the pitch at the Lámh Dhearg GAA club at Hannahstown on the outskirts of West Belfast at the weekend had the potential to kill. The device was found by a GAA official at around 1pm after about 40 children, aged between 10 and 14, had passed unaware through the gate at 11.30am to start a training…
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