Thursday 27 February, 1997
P r e s s u r e f o r d i a l o g u e g r o w s No to Drumcree 3
Public pressure is growing on the Orange Order and the Ulster Unionist Party to engage in real dialogue to avoid another Drumcree disaster this summer. But the push for a resolution has been hampered by John Major's House of Commons deal with David Trimble.
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Taxi firm at centre of drug network
A cab company is being used as part of a drug distribution
network in Dublin's southside, An Phoblacht can reveal.
Progress over Bloody Sunday
For the first time an Irish
administration has publicly backed the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign's call for a new
inquiry.
Pressure grows for McAliskey
The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament has
agreed to send a delegation to visit Roisín McAliskey
after hearing pleas from Fianna Fail MEP Niall Andrews and Green
Party MEP Patricia McKenna.
US attorney to stage Loughgall trial
Relatives representing the eight IRA Volunteers and civilian
Anthony Hughes shot dead by the crown forces at Loughgall in May
1987 are to travel to the United States to give evidence at a
trial organised by US attorney Denis Lynch.
Denton transferred sectarian victim
Six County Economy Minister Baroness Denton personally ordered
the transfer of a high ranking Catholic civil servant who
suffered sectarian harassment in her Department of Agriculture
job in 1995, it was revealed.
British Army documents discovered
Classified British army documents with instructions for using
weapons such as grenade launchers and `Shrike' exploders have
been found outside Gortin in County Tyrone.
Lurgan taxi driver threatened
The
RIR stopped a Lurgan taxidriver near Craigavon and made threats
on his life last Saturday in the latest in a series of incidents.
Coleraine attack was sectarian
A pregnant woman who was burnt out of her Coleraine
home earlier this week has contradicted an RUC statement that the attack was not
sectarian.
Peace must take precedence
The issue of peace must take precedence over the forthcoming election
according to Sinn Fein Vice-President Pat Doherty.
Bridges and ballot boxes
Mícheál MacDonncha sees efforts to restore the peace process
continuing despite electoral confrontations
Power politics - Leinster House `97
Neil Forde casts an eye over the election prospects of the
Leinster House parties
Screws disrupt visits
How one visitor to a POW in England faced the vindictive
disruption of visits.
Hitting where it hurts
Laurence McKeown praises those who wage a daily battle
against social, cultural and political injustices and
discrimination in their community development work.
Blowing a grand gesture
Strabane Unionist councillors, in a bizarre exchange, have
proposed making a ``pound for pound'' donation to the local British
Army Benevolent Fund matching it to the 1000lb IRA bomb left in
the town on 10 February.
Underground monsters
The side effects of genetically-engineered food are unknown yet
it may soon be grown in Ireland. Robert Allen reports.
Fianna Fáil's Square Wheel
The launch of Fianna Fáil's new position paper on North-South
Economic Co-operation was an exercise in denial.
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