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Thursday 9 April, 1998
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SF to study talks dealSinn Féin President Gerry Adams said on Friday afternoon that the party's negotiating team will take the talks document back to their Ard Chomhairle. ``We will assess the document in the context of our peace strategy: Does it remove the causes of conflict? Can it be developed and is it transitional? As in the past we will approach this development in a positive manner,'' he said.
Launch of Bloody Sunday Inquiry A close scrutiny of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has been promised by the relatives and wounded.RUC harassment of solicitors ``ongoing'' The author of the UN report into RUC harassment of solicitors has said that the practises described in the report are ongoing. The INLA shot dead Trevor Deeney, who had links with the UVF and served a prison sentence for UVF activity in the 1980s on Wednesday morning.Walls go up despite nationalist objections The decision to build massive `peace line' wall in North Belfast has been bitterly criticised by nationalist residents.Extradition destabilising peace process The continuing efforts by both the British and Irish governments to extradite republicans has become an increasingly destabilising force to the current peace process.The state of northern nationalists The slave mentality is still prevalent in the south of Ireland 76 years after independence, argues Mary Nelis. On Wednesday in the Royal Dublin Hotel the Irish National Congress kick-started a campaign to defend Articles 2 and 3. In the first use of its statutory powers the Parades Commission has ordered that the Apprentice Boys parade due to march down the Lower Ormeau Road on Easter Monday be re-routed away from the area. Catholic couple Martin and Mary Stevenson and their three children, including a four month old infant in a pram, were attacked by a sectarian gang as they did their shopping in the County Down village of Annalong last Saturday, 4 April. Around 100 supporters of the two Scots Guardsmen marched through Arbroath, Scotland last Saturday calling for the pair to be released early from Maghaberry jail.Set a place for Mr Nelson please Brian Nelson's role in the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane is just one of the reasons why he finds himself in the news again, writes Meadhbh Gallagher. Six soldiers from the notorious Black Watch regiment have been sent home from a tour of the United States.Castlewellan recruitmentFrank McDowell, Sinn Fein Councillor for South Down, has accused the RUC of trying to recruit informers in the Castlewellan area and advised nationalists not to attend RUC barracks alone.Tax money not going to tackle poverty As tax revenue jumps, Combat Poverty's acting Director Helen Johnston called for a stronger commitment to anti-poverty action. Eoin O Broin reports from the SF Youth delegation in the Basque CountrySuperb, significant exhibition Officially launched in Belfast's Ulster Museum last week, Peader Whelan praises the Up in Arms! exhibition dealing with the 1798 Rebellion
DAILY REPUBLICAN NEWS SERVICE
REPUBLICAN BULLETIN BOARD
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