AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS

[An Phoblacht]

Thursday 13 March, 1997

Set her free!

There is no excuse for the continued detention of Roisín McAliskey, it is clear this week, as the British and German governments come under increasing Irish and international pressure over her case. more

British justice targets Irish

A new report has found that the British criminal justice system discriminates against Irish people.

other year of madness looms

Loyalists intent on another summer of unrest and street violence are upping the ante by threatening to march through a predominantly Catholic housing estate in Ballmoney, County Antrim.

O'Neill campaign launched

The Justice for Diarmuid O'Neill Campaign are seeking an independent public inquiry to investigate the behaviour of the police before, during and after his shooting at his London flat.

Graphic account of prisoners' torture

Since the collapse of the Whitemoor escape trial in January, only two of the five Irish prisoners involved have been decategorised.

More attacks on Derry's nationalists

Over 200 loyalists backed by the RUC attacked nationalists as they left the Ritz bar in Derry's Waterside on Saturday night.

Branch try to recruit Kilrea man

Malachy O'Kane, Sinn Féin's East Derry candidate, has blasted RUC Special Branch recruitment attempts, and urged anyone so approached to make the matter public, after a Kilrea man was targeted.

Derry Harassment

Sinn Fein local government candidate for Northland, Pius McNaught, has hit out at the harassment of the nationalist community in Derry by the British army, following an incident involving a Derry man on Wednesday of lsast week.

Landmine attack

The IRA's Belfast Brigade has said that its Volunteers carried out last week's landmine attack in West Belfast.

The deadly chemistry set

Studies show that chemicals in the environment are causing disease and death. It is too high a price to pay for inward investment, argues Robert Allen

John Major's armed strangers

There is a better way to see Belfast than through the telescopic sight of a British rifle, argues Laurence McKeown.

New evidence in Walsh case

New evidence which could result in West Belfast man, Christy Walsh, being freed from a 14 year sentence has been sent to Patrick Mayhew.

Electoral intervention slammed

Bertie Ahern laid the blame for political failure with its victims not its perpetrators in his bizarre electoral intervention last week, writes Neil Forde

Pressure increases on Denton

The sectarian controversy surrounding British Minister Baroness Jane Denton, who is in charge of fair employment policy in the Six Counties, shows that despite 23 years of Fair Employment legislation the British government lacks the will to tackle sectarianism in the workplace.