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Sit down and talk to your kids (Free article)
26 February 2004
Suicide is the number one killer of young men under the age of 25 in the North. In the wake of the recent double suicide tragedy in North Belfast, An Phoblacht's ÁINE Ní BHRIAIN spoke to Ardoyne community worker PHILIP McTAGGART about the growing crisis and the area's PIPS project, Public Initiate to Promote Awareness of and Prevent Self-harm…
Loyalist lip service as Catholic families are targeted (Free article)
26 February 2004
Over the past week, a 105-year-old grandmother and a four-month-old baby were among the targets of unionist paramilitaries operating in North Belfast, as loyalists embarked on yet another series of sectarian attacks directed at Catholics and their homes. Seven homes were damaged when a unionist mob broke windows and lobbed paint and petrol bombs…
The United Ireland: Doing the Joined Up Writing (Free article)
26 February 2004
-BY ELLA O'DWYER In his article entitled For a Radical Campaigning Party; Think National, Act Local, published in An Phoblacht (8 January) Pat Treanor talked of the importance of "political integration between our elected and unelected activists". Cllr Treanor was addressing the issue of how best the Republican Movement might advance our aims and…
Catholic driver attacked (Free article)
26 February 2004
A Catholic bus driver has been threatened that he will be shot by the Orange Volunteers if he ever returns to Milltown in Dunmurry, near Lisburn, after being beaten by loyalists who boarded the bus he was driving on Tuesday afternoon 10 February. The man suffered head injuries and bruising to his body in the sectarian attack, which began when he…
Starting to frame the New Ireland (Free article)
26 February 2004
-BY BARRY McELDUFF & MARTINA ANDERSON What is the New Ireland to look like? What should the institutions of government be? How can we bring about an Ireland of Equals? They are the key questions in front of us today? The process of seeking answers to them is the same process as will bring it about, because it is a discussion that needs to involve…
Nationalists protest 'aggressive' RIR searches (Free article)
26 February 2004
Nationalists in Roslea, County Fermanagh, held a protest outside Roslea PSNI Barracks on Friday 13 February in response to the increased harassment of nationalists by Royal Irish Regiment patrols (RIR). The protest, organised by Farmers and Residents Against Military Bases (FARM), took place outside the joint British Army/PSNI base because of the…
Mallacht na nGutháin Pócaí (Free article)
26 February 2004
Great and all as they are, writes AN DRAOI RUA, haven't we Irish gone a bit overboard with our mobile phones? Níl aon guthán póca agam. Ar cheart dom mo leithscéal a ghabháil as a leithéid a rá? In Éirinn an lae inniú tá gutháin pócaí ag timpeall 80% de dhaoine fásta. Níl amhras ar bith ann go bhfuil mo leithéide sa mhionlach.
SDLP slammed over CS gas (Free article)
26 February 2004
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Human Rights Issues Caitríona Ruane has accused the SDLP of 'arming the PSNI with weapons of repression'. Ruane's comments come after the SDLP supported the issuing of CS gas to the PSNI. "Anybody with a passing knowledge of human rights and civil liberties will well know that arming the PSNI with yet another means of…
The 5th Column (Free article)
26 February 2004
An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Read on...
Heavy handed PSNI raid (Free article)
26 February 2004
South Belfast MLA Alex Maskey has hit out at the heavy-handed nature of a PSNI raid on a home in the Markets area of Belfast on Wednesday morning. The family were at home at around 10am when three PSNI Land Rovers and a transit van arrived outside. During the raid, which lasted several hours, the family's bathroom was extensively damaged and an…
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