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Irish News sponsors British recruiting drive
THIS WEEK the Irish News aided Britain's post-ceasefire normalisation policy in the Six Counties when it sponsored a careers convention in Newry which included recruitment stalls for the British armed forces and the RUC.
British army and RUC recruiting in Newry
SENTENCING British Marine Derek Adgey to four years on a total of 22 charges of passing on information to loyalists, Diplock Judge Campbell practically exonerated the British soldier saying he understood the "frustration" members of the "security forces" felt in "dealing with terrorists".
IRISH REPUBLICAN PRISONER Paddy Kelly has won the right to seek a judicial review of the repressive conditions in which he is being held at Whitemoor Special Secure Unit in England. His legal challenge to the Home Office comes hot on the heels of the announcement by sacked Director General of the British Prison Service, Derek Lewis, that he is to sue Home Secretary Michael Howard for wrongful dismissal.
UNIONIST COUNCILLORS are determined to stop Sinn Féin holding a rally at Belfast's Ulster Hall next month. The rally which is scheduled for 8 November has been organised to update party activists on the peace process and will be addressed by Martin McGuinness.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT should lift its ban on funding to the Irish language secondary school, Meánscoil Feirste and afford the Irish language the same treatment it affords Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. That was the message a delegation of Sinn Féin councillors brought to NIO Minister Michael Ancram in what was the first meeting between Sinn Féin and the Education Minister on constituency issues.
EIGHTY FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE disappeared this week. There are no search parties for these missing people, they don't exist according to Dublin government statistics. However if you want to find them they can be seen at employment exchanges around the 26 Counties on weekdays signing on.
The Irish Credit Union Movement is set to break the mould and move tentatively into the arena usually reserved for the dominant banks. Automated Teller Machines (ATM), cash dispensers to the lay person, are to be installed in a pilot programme in Kilkenny, Navan, Mitchelstown and Tullamore.
"It's time that Sinn Féin took the needs and interests of young people seriously. We are the most pogressive, radical political force in this country and have a lot to offer Irish youth. By the same token, through embracing the vitality and imagination of our younger activists the movement as a whole could grow and develop and in turn become a formidable force facing the conservatisim and inertia of contemporary 'constitutional' Irish politics." These were the words of one delegate at the West Tyrone Sinn Féin Youth conference held in Carrickmore on Saturday, 21 October. Seventy activists representing over eleven counties from both sides of the border attended the event, which hoped to be the first of many such gatherings.
THERE IS NO DOUBT that something has changed in unionism since the election of David Trimble as UUP leader. Trimble has adopted a much higher profile, in stark contrast to the media-shy James Molyneaux. The unionist viewpoint is being well aired. But in spite of hopeful, expectant comments by political observers - in what is known as the honeymoon period - little has changed. BY HILDA MAC THOMAS
AN Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) member, the delegate body of David Trimble's Official Unionist Party, came to Dublin last week to tell the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation of his desire to see unionists engage in all-party talks.
THE STRANGE MEDIEVAL PROCESSION winded its way up the Black Mountain on the outskirts of Belfast, looking for all the world like a scene from a film about the plague. Figures dressed in white, wearing featureless white masks, banged drums and shook rattles as they marched up the dusty road towards the quarry. Other spectral figures pushed a cart laden with black rocks, while behind them came a huge monster, its bulging eyes painted with pound signs above a greedy mouth full of white polystyrene teeth. BY LIZ CURTIS
TÁ ÉIFEACHT CHOLSCARTHA ar pháistí ina cheist lárnach sa reifreann seo dar le Feachtas don Cheart Athphósta. Ag caint ag preas-ócáid i mBaile Atha Cliath dúirt Catherine Forde, Eagarthóir an Family Lawyers Journal go raibh an Feachtas in Aghaidh Cholscartha ag iarraidh mí-úsaid a bhaint as tuairiscí cosúil leis an Exeter Study agus an American Study le Wallerstein agus Kelly.
Sinn Féin's Director of Publicity Rita O'Hare referred to the South African experience when she delivered her address to the huge gathering of Derry republicans who came together in Letterkenny on Friday, 20 October, to honour their own internal exiles, men and women from the city and county who had to leave their families and go on the run, excluded from the Six Counties and living South of the border.
SMILING THROUGH STANDING APPLUASE, John and Finola Bruton swept down the side aisle in the O'Reilly Hall, University College Dublin. It was Saturday last, 21 October. The Taoiseach was addressing the one-day Fine Gael conference on Drugs and Crime. He didn't have a lot to say on the subject.
THE MONTHS of October and November 1920 were among the most tragic and bloody of the Black and Tan War in Ireland. The policy of ruthless repression of the Irish national claim to independence by Lloyd George's British government was at its height and in those months events in Ireland were to make headlines around the globe.
NEXT MONDAY 30 October Quebec goes to the polls once again in the latest installment in a long number of efforts to secure independence for the largely Francophone state.
THE FAST which began in Long Kesh in October 1980, was to lead to a year which was to be dominated by hunger strikes.
NEXT WEEK: British Labour - where does it stand?
Mo Mowlam, British Labour front bench spokesperson on the Six Counties, writes in AP/RN on where her party stands now in the peace process.
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