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Thursday 13 March, 1997
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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 A new report has found that the British criminal justice system discriminates against Irish people. 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. 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. 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 attackThe IRA's Belfast Brigade has said that its Volunteers carried out last week's landmine attack in West Belfast.The deadly chemistry setStudies 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 There is a better way to see Belfast than through the telescopic sight of a British rifle, argues Laurence McKeown.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 FordeThe 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. SF economic plan for West BelfastA jobs task force, a fully funded development agency, new industrial estates and an arts, cultural, heritage and tourism development initiative are all part of Sinn Féin's `economic blueprint' for West Belfast, published this week.McBride killers may go freeSpeculation that two British soldiers convicted of murdering North Belfast teenager Peter McBride in the New Lodge Road in September 1992 may soon be released has been described by McBride's mother Jean as ``a further extension of a nightmare''.A member of a British Army foot patrol attacked a seven year old boy as he played with his friends on a football pitch at Lenadoon Avenue in West Belfast on Sunday evening. Martina Mcilkenny, chairperson of Sinn Féin in Belfast, has accused the leadership of the British Labour Party of running away from its responsibility over Ireland. These are days of intense activity and high stakes in the struggle for Basque independence. Monaghan county and urban councillor Caoimhghin 0'Caoláin has congratulated the parents' committee of the Clones Irish language school, Gaelscoil Eois, on their success in securing Government funding for the school after two years.
DAILY REPUBLICAN NEWS SERVICE
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