The all-party talks at Stormont took a vital step forward
late on Wednesday night when the parties agreed to negotiate on
the substantive issues.
Gerry Adams described it as ``an
historic day'' and said: ``There is a heavy onus on all of the
parties to now get down to the real and urgent business of making
peace. We look forward to putting to the other participants our
republican analysis and our vision for a New Ireland, united and
democratic, and at peace. Our shared responsibility is to now
make peace a reality.''
Danny Morrison finds food for thought in the flawed but
fascinating Provos, the new book and television series by
journalist Peter Taylor
O'Neill inquiry call
Fern Lane of Fuascailt argues that Britain must hold a public inquiry into the death of Diarmuid O'Neill
Independent nationalist councillors' Breandan Mac Cionnaith and
Joe Duffy have described ongoing attacks on Catholic
schoolchildren by loyalists in Portadown as a sectarian campaign of verbal and physical abuse.
Ardoyne residents discount CAC story
Residents of Ardoyne in North Belfast have been in touch with An Phoblacht
to say that a story in the Irish News on Tuesday was "inaccurate".
RUC Chief Ronnie Flanagan's claim that his officers used
"all possible restraint" when removing residents from the Garvaghy Road last July
has been described as a sick joke.
Eight weeks into a ceasefire, the RUC in Derry admitted that it
is still deeply involved in a strategy of infiltrating and
compromising the nationalist community by using informers.
RUC and DOE opposition to the introduction of traffic calming
measures in Belfast's Poleglass and Twinbrook estates has claimed
another four victims.
Sham Fight at the OK Corral
Laurence McKeown has been experiencing flashbacks to the Wild West
during news coverage of the Stormont talks.
A recent Orange Order march through the Southsea district of Portsmouth
was accompanied by British fascists.
Kildare Street will be a weekly insider's guide to Leinster
House, with Micheal MacDonncha reporting on the work of Sinn Fein TD
Caoimhghin O Caolain as well as the wider political goings-on in
the corridors of power.
West Belfast MP Gerry Adams is backing the development of a
community justice system based on existing neighbourhood watch
schemes.
Sinn Féin Youth in RUC protests
Several hundred Sinn Féin Youth activists last weekend called for
the immediate disbandment of the RUC as they staged a series of
demonstrations outside RUC barracks in north and west Belfast.
Native Americans sacred run comes to Ireland
The more athletic members of the republican family joined in with
Native Americans in a spiritual run around Ireland which ended
last week.
Bloody Sunday on Derry walls
Six life-size
photographic enlargements of images taken by French
photojournalist Gilles Peress on Bloody Sunday have been erected on walls in
Derry's Bogside.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness meets with the
chairperson of the Northern Health Board to discuss cuts at the Mid-Ulster hospital.
The Irish Famine Commemoration Project in Kingston, Ontario has successfully petitioned
Kingston City Council to set aside a piece of parkland as a Geat Hunger memorial.
Hundreds of Republicans from Derry and Antrim gathered at Lavey,
County Derry in bright autumn sunshine on Sunday to
remember the republican dead of the counties.
![[An Phoblacht]](http://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/aprn.gif)
