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No to McDowell's referendum. Yes to an Ireland of Equals (Free article)
3 June 2004
In the end it comes down to two small children, newborns, sleeping in the maternity ward of an Irish hospital, who will be treated differently because of an accident of birth. One will be entitled to Irish citizenship and all the rights and responsibilities that go with it. The other, barely old enough to be self-aware, will be denied citizenship…
Ending isolation in the West (Free article)
3 June 2004
"People, especially women, want change - it's not just a slogan," says Rose Conway Walsh, who is standing in Belmullet for Mayo County Council. "There is a huge issue of poverty today for the people who have been left behind, particularly in rural areas. I know this. I work in a community development project, and I see it all around me. People in…
Timpeallacht na Cruinne (Free article)
3 June 2004
World Environment Day takes place on Saturday 5 June. Are the leaders of the world really serious about doing something positive for the environment, or is it just a big publicity stunt, asks AN DRAOI RUA?
Special Branch still trying to recruit (Free article)
3 June 2004
Two Belfast men told a press conference on Tuesday 1 June how members of the PSNI Special Branch had approached them and asked them to become informers.
Remembering the Past - Michael Gaughan (Free article)
3 June 2004
BY MÍCHEÁL MacDONNCHA - In June 1974, Ireland was in turmoil, as the Troubles were in their fifth year. In the Six Counties, internment without trial was in force and the British Army was on the rampage throughout nationalist areas. British forces were colluding with loyalists openly and in secret and had bombed Dublin and Monaghan in May,…
International team to probe collusion (Free article)
3 June 2004
A delegation of international human rights activists arrived in the Six Counties on Sunday 30 May to probe allegations that members of the British crown forces colluded with a loyalist gang in a campaign of sectarian killings during the 1970s.
Unionist violence: 'crisis' and 'perceptions' (Free article)
3 June 2004
No one should dismiss the fear and hurt unionist paramilitary infighting causes within unionist communities. No one should dismiss the efforts of those within the unionist community, the religious and political representatives, who have worked towards bring such violence to an end. But in nationalist communities across the North, the question…
Vintage stuff (Free article)
3 June 2004
BY EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC - Joe McDonnell, who died on Hunger Strike, used to have a tale about going to a house in Andersonstown in West Belfast after the '72 Truce broke down and asking the householder if it would be possible to dump some weapons there. 'Well it would,' he was told, 'but nobody has ever come back for the last stuff ye left here.'
This week's sectarian attacks (Free article)
3 June 2004
An explosive device left outside the West Belfast offices of the Community Restorative Justice programme (CRJ) had the capability of igniting and causing serious injuries. Loyalists attacked the home of Dunmurry pensioner Trevor George on Monday night 24 May, breaking three windows in his greenhouse. A group of drunken loyalist youths smashed…
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