[An Phoblacht]

Thursday 1 May, 1997

 

Soldier laughed at
plastic-bullet victim

Thirteen year old year old Lurgan boy Gavin McKenna was shot in the head and seriously injured when a British soldier fired a plastic bullet at him on Saturday night. more

Dear John...

A letter to John Major as a difficult relationship comes to an end.

Jail tension as loyalists riot

The UDA has issued a death threat against prison warders as the tension in the H Blocks mounts following news of a new ``punitive'' regime.

The hunger strikers' constant champion

On the sixteenth anniversary of the Hunger Strikes of 1981 when ten Republican prisoners died seeking the restoration of their political status as prisoners of war, Sinn Féin councillor Marie Moore spoke to An Phoblacht about the prisoners campaigns.

`Change the face of politics'

At Sinn Fein's final press conference before Thursday's Westminster election Gerry Adams, Pat Doherty and Martin McGuinness called on the nationalist people of the Six Counties ``to change the face of politics''.

Council campaign begins

Almost 1,000 candidates have been nominated for the 21 May council elections to the 582 seats in the Six Counties with a record 116 candidates seeking election for the 51 seats in Belfast.

Bloody Sunday libel case ``biggest ever''

In what could be the biggest libel case to be heard in Ireland, relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead have instructed solicitors to initiate court proceedings against Dublin newspapers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent.

Orange marches tension rising

The new British Government got a foretaste of the looming trouble from Orange marches at the weekend.

Focus of McAliskey campaign shifts to Germany

Roisin McAliskey will soon enter her seventh month in captivity and it is clear that she will give birth while in custody.

£100 million losses from IRA actions

Britain's transport industry has claimed a minimum of £30 million losses as a result of bomb alerts which seriously disrupted traffic in southern England on Tuesday.

War through occupation

Bosnia has become the British Army's new training ground. We have a special report from Mary Maguire in Bosnia.

Sinn Féin office targeted

The fifth loyalist bomb in as many weeks outside a Sinn Féin centre ``will not deflect or intimidate the party from the task of seeking Irish national self-determination'', Gerry Adams said.

Collusion claim in Derry

>Sinn Fein Derry councillor Gearoid O'hEara has challenged the RUC to explain their presence in Shantallow, Derry, shortly before a bomb explosion outside the local Sinn Fein centre on Monday.

Nationalists in fear in Portadown

A Portadown man is fighting for his life in the Royal Victoria Hospital following a savage beating at the hands of a group of 30 loyalists last Saturday night.

Bawnmore men on death list

The RUC has told five men from the Bawnmore area of North Belfast that they are on a loyalist death list.

RIR assault Short Strand nationalists

MEMBERS OF THE RIR AND RUC were involved in a series of assaults on Short Strand nationalists in the early hours of Saturday 26 April which left one man with a broken arm.

Irvine's family attacked

Irish Formula One racing ace recent celebrations were shadowed by a fluttering union jack and the fact that his family had been attacked by loyalists at their home in Conlig, County Down.

POWs' information missing

Personal information belonging To Republican POWs in the H-Blocks has gone missing after prisoners' belongings were taken away to be searched.

More church burnings

Three men have been charged following a firebomb attack on St Nicholas's Catholic church in Carrickfergus, East Antrim in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Kesh escaper arrested for extradition

Dermot McNally who escaped from the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in the mass breakout of 1983 was arrested in Sligo after living openly there for 12 years.

US appeals Pearson asylum ruling

On Monday of this week the US government's Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS), appealed against a political asylum ruling which allowed former Irish POW Brian Pearson from Tyrone to stay in the US.

US protest against Thatcher

Irish activists will converge on York, Pennsylvania on Wednesday 7 May to protest against an appearance by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Ahern slams Bruton's role in peace process

An attack by Fine Gael Justice Minister Nora Owen on Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern has shown that her party can still play Civil War politics when they believe it is in their interest.

De Rossa ditches neutrality

The handful of delegates to the Democratic Left conference in Dún Laoghaire last weekend heard their leader Proinsias de Rossa ditch yet another of their once cherished principles.

Big Ben - symbol of gombeen politics

Westminster politicians have Big Ben, the House of Commons clock, as their symbol. Leinster House politicians now have their own Big Ben - Ben Dunne, writes MICHEAL MacDONNCHA.


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