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People power neededGerry Adams told a packed audience in the Europa Hotel ballroom in Belfast on Sunday night ``not to allow under any circumstances this struggle to be reduced to a room at Stormont.'' more We carry extracts from the 16th Annual Fearghal O'Hanlon Memorial Lecture held in Monaghan on Sunday, the first of a series of Sinn Féin events to mark the 200th anniversary of the United Irish Revolution of 1798. RUC attack protesters Two Sinn Féin Youth activists were arrested and several others physically attacked and threatened during a Disband the RUC protest at Cushendall RUC barracks last Sunday. SF blaze trail across US Since Martin McGuinness arrived in the US 14 days ago the Sinn Fein presence in America has not let up with the party's two main information officers, Rita O'Hare and Richard McAuley, in the US. More than British PR needed All the other participants to the process have withstood criticism and challenges from within their own ranks to do what they are doing. It's time Tony Blair's government did the same,argues Sean Mac Bradaigh. More Larne sectarianism >A group of around 50 Loyalist teenagers led by a known UVF man attacked first year pupils coming from St Comgall's High School in Larne on Monday. A voice for the environment Robert Allen reports on the formation of a new environmental group in Ireland Dismantle spy post Three bands led a rain-bedraggled crowd of determined marchers in north Belfast last Sunday afternoon demanding the removal of the British spy post from the top of Teach Meabha flats. Don't call Harry Special Branch man Harry has been busy in Lurgan, attempting to recruit three men as informers over the past two weeks. Loyalist negotiator David Ervine had an uncomfortable time when he met the victim of a sectarian knife attack at a public meeting in London on Thursday 20 November. Hamill family meet Mowlam On Monday the family of murdered Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill handed over a 20,000 signature petition demanding an independent inquiry to British Direct Ruler Marjorie Mowlam. Time to eliminate inequality We summarise Sinn Féin's submission for the 1998 Dublin Government budget this week, launched by Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin and Dublin South West representative Jack Crowe this week. Have a shop-free Saturday >This Saturday is ``Buy Nothing Day'' organised internationally by a coalition of groups to highlight the injustice and unsustainability of today's global consumer culture. Travelling rights The case of the 13 year old child from a Traveller family, made pregnant allegedly as a result of a brutal rape, has confronted the Irish government and people, once again, with a problem they clearly failed to resolve in the past, writes Mary Nelis Phone for Saoirse Saoirse National Organiser Eoghan Mac Cormaic has urged all areas to follow the example of Cavan and Monaghan Saoirse groups who are conducting a concerted phone-in to kick off Prisoners' Month on 1 December. Beware RUC intelligence gathering The RUC is using traffic legislation illegally to gather intelligence, according to Derry Sinn Fein councillor Peter Anderson. Forming a national consensus Extracts from the address by Sinn Féin Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin to a packed public meeting in the ATGWU Hall last Thursday night. Following a meeting with Lower Crumlin Combined Community Group and management of a Dolphins Barn based hackney company has agreed to instruct its drivers not to carry known drug dealers. Volunteer Jack Lawlor commemoration A large crowd attended the unveiling in Ballyheigue, North Kerry, of a monument to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Free State execution of Captain Jack Lawlor of the Ballyheigue Irish Republican Army.
DAILY REPUBLICAN NEWS SERVICE
REPUBLICAN BULLETIN BOARD
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On the Yellowbrick Road
Alex Murphy
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