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Colombian human rights activist speaks out (Free article)
11 March 2004
Yolanda Amaya Herrera, General Secretary of the Foundation Committee of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Colombia, was imprisoned for 30 months due to her work as human right defenders. She has travelled to Europe to highlight the civil rights situation in Colombia and to promote the work of her organisation, which monitors the human rights…
Funding crisis for St Patrick's Day celebrations (Free article)
11 March 2004
As An Phoblacht goes to press, Belfast St Patrick's Day organisers are warning that next week's celebrations - scheduled to take place outside City Hall - are in grave jeopardy after the Carnival was refused British Government funding. The stunning announcement comes after an application for £27,000 to help stage the St.Patrick's Day concert was…
Short-sighted SDLP (Free article)
11 March 2004
The decision by the SDLP to reject a Sinn Féin proposal for the parties to meet and discuss a strategy to deliver two nationalist seats in Europe in the Six-County EU election constituency is short-sighted. Republicans and nationalists want a strong voice in the Europe to stand up for their rights and entitlements.
New cover-up of Garda files on Dublin/Monaghan bombings (Free article)
11 March 2004
Reports that a senior member of the Gardaí ordered a key Garda file on the May 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings to be removed from an office and that this file was later found under the seat of a patrol car were raised with the Taoiseach in the Dáil by Sinn Féin's Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin on Wednesday.
The Processes of Nation Building project (Free article)
11 March 2004
The republican prisoner and ex-prisoner community have provided a consistent dynamic in political developments in this country over recent decades, but particularly during the last ten years. Against that backdrop of political engagement, ongoing developments within Coiste na nIarchimí mark a consistent progression. Very many of those leading and…
Donegal's awake (Free article)
11 March 2004
BY MICK DERRIG - For such a long time, Donegal seemed - in every sense - like a backwater. Geographically marooned by the border, tied to the Free State by a thread of ground at Ballyshannon. Cut off from its natural conurbation of Derry City, Donegal, of all the 32 counties, was fecked by Partition. During the conflict, given its neighbour status…
Thomas Devin Reilly remembered (Free article)
11 March 2004
The 150th anniversary of the sudden death of a Young Irelander was marked at his Washington DC graveside on Friday last 5 March. Thomas Devin Reilly, writer and revolutionary and key member of the Young Irelanders, was born in Monaghan Town in 1824 and died in Washington at the age of 30. Fellow Monaghan town man and Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó…
Talking and listening (Free article)
11 March 2004
BY VINCENT WOOD - The Peace Process took hold because republicans identified the need to build alliances and then went about the business of not only talking to others, but also listening to the genuine concerns, fears and aspirations of people who shared some or part of our vision of a United Ireland of Equals. Some were more focused on the…
Anderson addresses Barcelona rally (Free article)
11 March 2004
Sinn Féin's All-Ireland Policy Co-ordinator, Martin Anderson, received a rapturous response when she addressed a rally of over 6,000 Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) supporters on Saturday night in Barcelona. Speaking on behalf of Sinn Féin, Martina addressed the theme of conflict resolution. She stressed that while no two conflicts are the…
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