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NEWS IN BRIEF (Free article)
8 July 2004
Seven-year delay for Irish TV funds - East Derry MLA Francie Brolly said last Thursday that the delay in getting the resources from the £12 million fund for Irish language television and radio programming was a result of willful incompetence. The commitment to fund Irish programmes was made in 1998, however it will be 2005 before the allocated…
Altered Images (Free article)
8 July 2004
BY EOGHAN MAC CORMAIC - The art of tampering with the facts has a long and ignoble history. Altering words is relatively easy but paintings and photographs have in their day proved no great obstacle either. Think of the Pope who ordered nappies to be painted on otherwise uninhibited angels in the Cistine Chapel, think of Stalin airbrushing…
Parliamentary Question over band's UVF links (Free article)
8 July 2004
A loyalist band based in the Monkstown area on the outskirts of North Belfast is at the centre of controversy over its links with the UVF. The band, which was photographed last Thursday 1 July carrying loyalist paramilitary flags at a Somme commemoration march in East Belfast, is to be the subject of a Parliamentary Question at Westminster.
Tráth na dTraonach (Free article)
8 July 2004
The corncrake is the only Irish breeding bird that is threatened with global extinction. It certainly deserves some space, tolerance, time and a bit of TLC, writes AN DRAOI RUA Creidtear go raibh na mílte traonach le fáil ar fud na hÉireann go dtí lár na haoise seo chaite.
Anger as Parades Commission allows Ardoyne 12th parade (Free article)
8 July 2004
The Parades Commission has come under fire for allowing an Orange Parade to pass along the Crumlin Road and past the Ardoyne Shops in North Belfast next Monday 12 July.
Attack Roundup (Free article)
8 July 2004
A roundup of sectarian attacks in the past week. • A 25-year-old Catholic employee of Belfast's Mater Hospital has been told by the PSNI that he is under threat of death from loyalists. • A group of students, returning home from a night out in Derry city centre, were set upon by a loyalist gang armed with sticks. • North Antrim Sinn Féin…
Monsanto's Trojan Horse (Free article)
8 July 2004
BY MICK DERRIG - As moviegoers are treated to Hollywood's take on Homer's classic about the destruction of Troy, nothing in the field of human conflict is new, except the weapons and the means of transportation.
Taoiseach confirms Government did not ask for full status (Free article)
8 July 2004
Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has described as "disgraceful" the Taoiseach's confirmation during Questions in the Dáil today that the government had not sought full official and working status for the Irish language during its EU presidency.
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