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United Irishmen founded (Free article)
14 October 2004
BY SHANE MacTHOMÁIS On 18 October 1791, 213 years ago, the first Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast. Its inspiration was a young Dublin lawyer, Theobald Wolfe Tone, who was invited to Ulster by some Presbyterian radicals after publishing a pamphlet entitled An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland.
MP calls for cross-border bridges to be re-opened (Free article)
14 October 2004
In talks with Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern last week as part of a top level Sinn Féin negotiating team, Fermanagh/ South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew called for Knockaginney and Annaghoe Bridges, linking Tyrone and Monaghan, to be returned to working order and for spy posts to be taken down from Castle Hill and Quarry…
Sinn Féin calls for Rogan's release (Free article)
14 October 2004
Sinn Féin has demanded the release of the North Belfast man who was arrested on Tuesday in the Spanish Canary Islands on foot of British extradition papers. The British allege Michael Rogan was involved in the 1996 IRA attack on Thiepval Barracks, the British Army's Six-County headquarters.
Dunsink Barrier to be removed (Free article)
14 October 2004
The huge concrete barrier erected to block in Travellers in Dunsink Lane in Finglas, North Dublin, as part of a Council campaign to end illegal dumping, is to be dismantled.
Belfast IRA commemoration (Free article)
14 October 2004
Hundreds of republicans from West Belfast attended the annual D Company commemoration along the Falls Road last Sunday 10 October.
Sinn Féin demands Electoral Law change (Free article)
14 October 2004
Sinn Féin Mid-Ulster MP Martin McGuinness, joined by party colleagues David Kennedy (North Belfast) and Angela Nelson (Lagan Valley), launched the party's electoral registration campaign on Wednesday.
SF says Commission candidate should step down (Free article)
14 October 2004
Comments from the incoming European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Rocco Buttiglione, that homosexuality is a sin and marriage is so women can have children, caused uproar on Monday when the EU Parliament rejected him as a candidate for the job.
Donegal Social Economy Seminar (Free article)
14 October 2004
• A seminar on Social Economy Projects was held in Letterkenny, County Donegal ,on Monday 11 October, organised by the republican ex-prisoners' group, Abhaile Arís. Donal Ó Cobhthaigh, a social economy expert for Coiste na nIarchimí, the umbrella organisation for republican ex-prisoner groups, gave an passionate talk on the place of the social…
New look for Irish Democrat website (Free article)
14 October 2004
THE WEBSITE of the Irish Democrat (www.irishdemocrat.co.uk), the oldest campaigning newspaper of the Irish in Britain, has undergone a major revamp.
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