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Fighting discrimination (Free article)
22 July 2004
The decision of the British House of Lords on Wednesday to give Sinn Féin leave to challenge the denial of party policy development grants in line with its electoral strength is welcome. Britain's highest court of appeal accepted the arguments put forward by Sinn Féin's legal team and granted leave to have a full hearing on this very serious issue.
Policing Board approved use of CS Spray (Free article)
22 July 2004
The Police Ombudsman is to investigate the use of CS gas spray by the PSNI in Derry two weekends ago. Nuala O'Loan's office will investigate whether the use of the controversial CS Incapacitant Spray was justified after receiving two complaints in connection with an incident in the early hours of Sunday 11 July.
Memories of a union official (Free article)
22 July 2004
Brendan Archbold was the IDATU union official in charge of the Dunnes Store Strike in 1984 (the strike actually started when IDATU was called the IUDWC). Still an official with the same union, now called MANDATE, Brendan spoke to us about his memories of the strike.
UDA show of strength exposes PSNI (Free article)
22 July 2004
The PSNI have been severely criticised for allowing a UDA gun gang to fire a volley of shots from a makeshift stage erected on Westland Road in North Belfast on 11 July. Masked and armed members of the UDA staged the show of strength on a platform bedecked with unionist paramilitary paraphernalia. A masked UDA man read out a statement stating…
PSNI fire live rounds in Kilrea (Free article)
22 July 2004
In Kilrea, County Derry, up to 60 loyalists, armed with cudgels, baseball bats, golf clubs and blackthorn sticks, took over the Diamond area in the middle of the Derry village on Saturday evening 10 July, and replaced four Union flags which had previously been taken down by a group of youngsters.
Dunnes Strike legacy shows potential of unions (Free article)
22 July 2004
By Caoilfhionn Ní Dhonnabháin - This summer marks 20 years since the start of the Dunnes Stores anti-Apartheid Strike in Dublin. That struggle stands with the 1913 Lockout as a key moment in the history of trade unionism in Ireland.
What is a fair Truth Recovery process? (Free article)
22 July 2004
Earlier this summer, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Truth Recovery, Philip McGuigan, accused the British Secretary of State of "breathtaking hypocrisy" as Paul Murphy toured South Africa studying their model of truth and reconciliation.
Litany of sectarian attacks (Free article)
22 July 2004
A psychiatric nurse has said he is considering leaving his home in the mainly loyalist Fountain Street estate after it was attacked a number of times over the 12th weekend.
Níl Pápa Anseo! (Free article)
22 July 2004
There's been a lot of talk recently on whether or not the Pope might return to Ireland. The thing is, asks AN DRAOI RUA, would there be many who would go to see him a second time round?
Teenage girl harassed at Maghaberry (Free article)
22 July 2004
Families of segregated prisoners at Maghaberry jail expressed anger after a 17-year-old female visitor was humiliated by prison officers last week as she went to visit her father, a remand prisoner.
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