UN slams RUC
A United Nations report is urging the British
government to implement two immediate independent public
inquiries into the experiences of defence lawyers in the North.
British Army ran UDA death squads
A secret unit of the British Army directed loyalist
death squad attacks against Irish Republicans and
nationalists in what the British media have dubbed
`assassination by proxy'.
Family forced to flee
Following a petrol bomb attack in the early hours of
last Sunday morning a Catholic family from Greymount in
North Belfast have been forced to flee their home.
Bertie Ahern has been meeting Fianna Fáil TDs
all week in an urgent attempt to reassure them about Articles 2
and 3.
The bashful Brothers
Eoghan MacCormaic remembers a traumatic experience at
the Christian Brothers' school in Derry.
The killing of Robert Hamill
Many in the nationalist community community were outraged at the brutal
killing of Robert Hamill by a gang of pro-British
loyalists in Portadown last year, writes Fr Joe McVeigh
Feeding time in the Stormont zoo
Laurence McKeown is concerned about the quality of the catering at the Stormont talks
after an incident on the Dublin to Belfast train.
SF's listening process begins
A series of Sinn
Féin-organised public forums entitled Our Future - A
United Ireland has begun
Cearta speaks in Dublin
Speakers at a Cearta meeting in Dublin last week stated unreservedly that
the human rights of nationalists are `not up for
negotiation.'
Praise for drug awareness project
Gerry Adams spoke at last Thursday's launch of a new Community
Drugs Training Course at the Falls Community Council.
Ormeau survey ``barely credible''
The head of the Department of
Politics at Queen's University Belfast has dismissed
a
survey claiming that Catholics would be happy
to allow Orange marches down the Lower Ormeau Road.
O Caoláin slams `unreconstructed Tory'
A former Tory Minister tried to prevent Sinn Féin TD
Caoimhghín O Caoláin from addressing the British-Irish
Inter-Parliamentary Body in Irish.
UUP silent in Oxford
A Sinn Féin delegation attended a multi party
conference in England on the weekend of 22-24 March
during which the Ulster Unionist Party refused to
engage in any dialogue.
Seventeen young republicans from across Ireland have
travelled to the Basque country for a two week
solidarity trip.