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Still making history - Sinn Féin MEPs in Strasbourg (Free article)
29 July 2004
Monday 20 July 2004 marked another important milestone in the advancement of the republican struggle when Bairbre de Brún, representing the Six Counties, and Mary Lou McDonald, representing Dublin, walked into the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.
British Government must put Agreement first (Free article)
29 July 2004
Now that the governments have announced a schedule for intensive talks in September, the British Government has a clear-cut choice. It can stand with the Good Friday Agreement and build a bridge towards democracy and equality, or it can side with the forces of reaction and the agenda of securocrats within the NIO, as successive British…
Sackville Place bomb victims remembered (Free article)
29 July 2004
A permanent memorial to the three CIÉ workers killed in the Dublin bombings was unveiled last Thursday 22 July. George Bradshaw and Tommy Duffy were killed in December 1972 and Thomas Douglas in January 1973.
Collusion cover-up could rival Nelson affair (Free article)
29 July 2004
Weekend revelations that the UDA are claiming to be in possession of the missing Castlereagh dossier will reinforce the belief amongst nationalists and republicans that the British Government is actively trying to cover-up a collusion scandal.
Eight days off in new union deal (Free article)
29 July 2004
An extra eight days holiday, time off for training, a new Women at Work Commission to produce proposals on gender wage gaps, ending the casualisation of public sector workforces which was creating a two-tier system, free training for unskilled workers, progressive moves on pension rights and changes to private finance initiative spending decisions.
Sectarian nightmare in Carrickfergus (Free article)
29 July 2004
After years of sectarian intimidation by loyalists in Carrickfergus, three Catholic families were driven from their homes last weekend by a UVF-led mob that went on the rampage. The 50-strong gang smashed their way into a house in the predominantly unionist Thomas Street of the County Antrim town at around 7pm on Saturday 24 July. The gang then…
Clothes and the Man (Free article)
29 July 2004
One of the highlights of any trip I manage to Dublin in recent times has been the quick stop off at one of the many new Afro or Asian or Chinese foodstores which have become a hallmark of modern Dublin. Tastes and smells and spices of the world have replaced the tastes and smells and very limited spices of Ireland of a generation ago.
More sectarian attacks (Free article)
29 July 2004
Sinn Féin North Belfast councillor Carál Ni Chulín has called on the Housing Executive to demolish houses in Mountcollier Street in the loyalist Tigers Bay after a Catholic pensioner's kitchen window was broken by slates thrown across the interface on Wednesday morning, 21 July. A number of cars were destroyed at a car showroom in Maghera, County…
Féilte Lugh (Free article)
29 July 2004
August has always been a great month for celebrations for the Celts, which all seem to originate as festivals in honour of Lugh, the king of the Celtic gods, writes AN DRAOI RUA.
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