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SF in Six Counties builds for future (Free article)
12 February 2004
"We need to analyse, organise and act if we are to succeed in building a party capable of carrying this struggle forward. We need to develop new thinking, create new methods and crucially we need to advance, particularly in the present political climate, our All-Ireland Agenda." These were the words of former POW Harry Maguire concluding his…
Imizamo Yethu Township devastated by blaze (Free article)
12 February 2004
Last week, An Phoblacht featured an article about the Imizamo Yethu Township in Hout Bay near Cape Town in South Africa. The article described how Irish property developer Niall Mellon, along with 150 Irish builders, had brought hope to the cramped and impoverished township by building 26 brick houses to replace jerry-built shanty dwellings, and…
Bogus base closure (Free article)
12 February 2004
This week, the British Army announced they are to close their border base in Aughnacloy. Good news on the demilitarisation front? Actually no. The British Army occupy a section of the PSNI Barracks in Aughnacloy. The effect of this announcement will be to remove one small part of the PSNI military fortress in the town.
Why republicans should care about science (Free article)
12 February 2004
BY MICK DERRIG. I realise that I will have to argue for this, but I think it is a worthwhile exercise. As republicans on this island we have been, for generations, concerned with human progress - basically, the democratisation of this island. The 1916 Proclamation is, in its essence, about the establishment of a structure, The Republic, which will…
Cullen decision (Free article)
12 February 2004
Sinn Féin Environment spokesperson Arthur Morgan reacted angrily last week to the announcement that the State's biggest industries will not actually have to cut levels of carbon dioxide emissions under Kyoto targets. Instead, they will be able to emissions trade with economies whose pollution levels are lower than agreed Kyoto limits.
Nuclear power by the back door (Free article)
12 February 2004
One of the more incredible announcements of the week was that from Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Dermot Ahern, who has given the green light to importing electicity from Sellafield. Electricity interconnectors will be built between Ireland and Wales, he says. The fact that we will then be buying in electricity…
Daonlathas leictronach (Free article)
12 February 2004
This new electronic voting system is to be introduced this year, but there are a few questions about it that haven't quite been clarified, says AN DRAOI RUA. Caithfidh mé a admháil nach bhfuil mé go hiomlán ar mo shuaimhneas maidir leis an chóras úr vótála atá le teacht i bhfeidhm ar fud na sé chontae is fiche i mbliana. Ní dóigh liom go…
Branchmen deny concocting statements (Free article)
12 February 2004
As the Bloody Sunday Inquiry entered its last week of oral hearings, three former Special Branch members who were present on the day gave evidence to the tribunal. The inquiry heard how the statements of the men, Samuel Donnelly, Samuel Davidson and William Kilfedder, were almost identical and that, most significantly, all three only recalled…
United Ireland starts in your community (Free article)
12 February 2004
At the end of the day, all politics are local. It's at the local level that your needs are met, or not: that you have enough to eat, somewhere to live and a way to earn a few bob. It's at the local level that your human rights are vindicated, or denied. It's at the local level that people live. But there's another sense in which this is not true…
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