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.