Thursday 24 April, 1997
Here we go
We have entered the final week in what has been described as the most vital election in the Six Counties since Partition. more
Gerry Adams told Sunday's Ard Fheis to imagine a future of equality and freedom through negotiations Business as usual despite loyalist attacks Sinn Fein chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin has vowed that loyalists will not deter the party in its work or deflect it from its aims. A series of IRA bombs and bomb scares carried out across England since Friday brought major transport links to a standstill. Phantom Loyalist ceasefire Official Unionist Party security spokesperson, Ken Maginnis told journalists last week that a strong Sinn Féin turnout in the forthcoming election ``could place that ceasefire in jeopardy''. Life tariff overturned Republican POWs Paul Kavanagh and Thomas Quigley are said to be delighted at a ruling that overturned a decision by the British Home Secretary that the life sentences being served by both men would mean natural life. Three young West Belfast Catholics were ordered off a building site in the loyalist Sandy Row area of Belfast on Monday. Arrested men's families issue appeal The families of men arrested and assaulted in South Armagh earlier this month have issued a statement outlining the nature of the assaults and calling for help to prevent a miscarriage of justice. Scots guards release more likely Two Scots guards who murdered North Belfast teenager Peter McBride in 1992 have been told that their life sentences will be reviewed in October. The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided that four RUC men who took part in Orange Order protests at the time of Drumcree last year should not face criminal charges. Unionists threaten Féile funding Gerry Adams has denounced a Belfast City Council decision to block funding for the West Belfast Festival as a ``disgraceful witch-hunt''. A plaque was unveiled on the 25th anniversary of the death of Official IRA volunteer Joe McCannon on the street where he was shot dead by British paratroops.
DAILY REPUBLICAN NEWS SERVICE
REPUBLICAN BULLETIN BOARD
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