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Thursday 29 May, 1997 |
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On the MarchLast week's ground-breaking election in the Six Counties saw Unionists lose control of four councils and confirmed the confidence among nationalists that change is in the air. more
A dynamic for change This week Sinn Féin launched its election manifesto. Neil Forde summarises the main points which shows that the party is committed to real social economic and political change.
Roisín McAliskey gives birth Roisín McAliskey has given birth to a 5lbs 13oz baby girl. The birth took place in Whittington hospital North London, at 3.04pm on Monday 27 May. Bloody Sunday relatives meet Robinson The first meeting between Mary Robinson and relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead took place in Aras an Uachtaran on Wednesday. SF train is getting up steam Tony Blair's New Labour is a mirror of the old Tories in that it is committed to the Union and colonialism, argues Mary Nelis McCrea threat angers nationalists Nationalists in Mid Ulster are furious after William McCrea's latest comments after Sinn Fein's success in local elections in Magherafelt Council, County Derry. The lives of local people were endangered when a low flying British army helicopter severed a high voltage electric cable near Ivy Terrace in Derry last Thursday. Storm over `one-sided' conference Employees in the Ford plant in West Belfast are outraged by plans for a conference on justice issues which is being organised at the factory but to which no nationalist representatives have been invited. Garvaghy residents have mandate Breandan MacCionnaith and Joe Duffy of the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition (GRRC) have called for the recognition of their democratic mandate and enter into dialogue to try and resolve the marching issue in Portadown this year. Major human rights group slams RUC Human Rights Watch/Helsinki has recommended that the RUC be reformed with a view to making it ``publicly accountable''. Violence as chapel protest hits ninth month RUC and loyalists clashed as massgoers left Our Lady's Catholic church in Harryville, Ballymena on Saturday evening, the 36th week of loyalist pickets at the Catholic church. Sinn Fein local government candidate for Limavady, Malachy O'Kane received a posted death threat from the UVF in the week that the ``Loyalist Volunteer Force'' abducted and murdered Bellaghy GAA official, and father of six, Sean Brown. LVF/MI5? In the telephone claim to a Belfast newsroom last Sunday morning a loyalist saying he was speaking on behalf of the conveniently formed Loyalist Volunteer Force said a bomb placed off Clanbrassil Street in Dundalk was theirs. Mother forced to flee A young mother forced to flee her Derry home last Sunday has joined a long list of those targeted by sectarian gangs. Raymond McCreesh remembered The sixteenth anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer and H-Block martyr Raymond McCreesh was remembered in Camloch on Friday. Marching on the webThis year's Orange marches will be monitored on the internet by a group called The Irish Republican Web Committee.
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