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Tan War Volunteer honoured (Free article)
1 April 2004
Denis Hegarty, a 29-year-old IRA Volunteer who was killed by British Forces at Barry's Hall, Timoleague, County Cork, on 19 January 1921, was commemorated on 21 March in a simple ceremony organised by the Clonakilty Sinn Féin Cumann. Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin explained that the Clonakilty SF Cumann had initiated a project last year to attend to…
Mála Poist (Free article)
8 April 2004
Reject armed EU superstate A Chairde, Article 42 of the proposed Constitution for Europe states in part that: "The Union and its Member States shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a Member State is the victim of terrorist attack or natural or man-made disaster. T
What can politics do for young people anyway? - The Feargal O'Hanlon Memorial Lecture (Free article)
8 April 2004
Over 120 people attended the Feargal O'Hanlon Memorial Lecture in the Hillgrove Hotel in Monaghan on Sunday 28 March. The lecture has been held annually since 1982 in commemoration of the young Monaghan townsman who was just approaching his 21st birthday when he was killed in action during a republican attack on Brookeborough RUC Barracks on New…
Chechnya: The forgotten war (Free article)
8 April 2004
On New Year's Eve 1994, a large Russian force tried to storm Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The attempt failed and a drawn out urban battle raged until the Russians two months later claimed to be in control of the city. One year later, a Chechen force entered the city for a few days, and in August 1996 the Chechens retook Grozny in an offensive…
Malignant referendum decision (Free article)
8 April 2004
The Fianna Fáil/PD Government's decision to hold the referendum on citizenship on the same day as the Local and European elections has virtually guaranteed that the issue of race will pollute the election debate. The parties are scapegoating immigrants and refugees to distract attention from their wretched record of incompetence and neglect in…
Loyalist attacks (Free article)
8 April 2004
• North Belfast Sinn Féin Councillor Margaret McClenaghan has lashed out at the Ulster Political Research Group over its insistence that the UDA is not behind ongoing sectarian attacks on nationalist homes in Ardoyne. The latest attacks in and around Ardoyne occurred on Saturday night 3 April when up to 20 loyalists, coming from the direction of…
Portadown loyalists target Filipino nurses (Free article)
8 April 2004
Two Filipino nurses and their families became the latest targets of loyalist racists when their Portadown home was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday morning 31 March. The attack was the second on the Filipino families' home in the space of a week.
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