A sop to unionists
The document presented for discussion by the
governments on Monday, `The Propositions on Heads of
Agreement', represents an intervention to impose an
agenda on the talks.
Abduction bids on two nationalists
An Phoblacht has learned that loyalists tried to abduct
Catholics in two separate incidents in the past week in
Belfast.
Victim's brother protests
``There is no justice for nationalists,'' protested the
brother of an LVF murder victim during Para
Clegg's murder appeal this week.
Protests against loyalist murders
Loyalist politicians and the British government were blamed at
a mass demonstration in North Belfast on Tuesday.
Bik out on bail
Ardoyne republican Brendan Bik McFarlane was released
on bail on Tuesday after being charged last week in
relation to the 1983 kidnapping of Don Tidey.
New questions raised over air disaster
The Celtic League has highlighted evidence which it
claims suggests British involvement in an Aer Lingus disaster
which left 61 people dead.
Attacks continue in North Antrim
North Antrim nationalists are enraged that a
loyalist charged with the attempted murder of a local family has been given bail.
RUC harassment of lawyers
Derry's Pat Finucane Centre has welcomed the
implementation by the Law Society
of a new for solicitors to
register complaints against RUC harassment.
Mary Maguire spent
a day in Derry with families of the murdered and
members of the Bloody Sunday Initiative.
Cork family forced to squat
A travelling family in Cork has been forced to squat in
the Mahon area of the city in a desperate attempt to
secure a roof over their heads.
New Deal is a sham
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caolái has welcomed increased resources
but questioned whether the 'New Deal for Local Government'
lives up to its billing.
Health and safety scandal exposed
Sinn Féin's representative in Dublin
South Central has exposed scandalous working conditions
for cleaning staff at St Joseph's Hospital.
Dream On
The January sales have taken on a whole new meaning
this year in South
East Asia, where
whole economies are up for grabs. Meadbh Gallagher writes.
St Patrick's Church and St Patricks
Social Club in Portadown have become a new focus for
attacks on Catholic massgoers.
The December massacre of 46 unarmed people in a Church
by death squads armed and trained by the Mexican Army
has been followed by further actions.
Patterson cover-up continues
Evidence which suggested INLA man Alex Patterson was summarily
executed after being captured by the SAS split an
inquest jury, it was revealed this week.
Nationalists under threat
A leading UDA man
from Tiger's Bay is understood to be the main instigator of a series of loyalist
attacks in the Whitewell area of North Belfast.
Respectable fingers on the trigger
Nationalists were not
surprised by the announcement by a loyalist spokesman
that ``respectable'' members of the community are directing
loyalist murder gangs, writes Mary Nelis.
LVF active in Antrim
Catholic residents of two housing estates in Antrim
town are terrified that the LVF is planning attacks in
the area.
By-election springboard for West Tyrone
Hopes are high in West Tyrone that Sinn Féin candidate
Terence Brogan will win a council seat in a by-election
in Omagh.
Threat to Fermanagh nationalists
Nationalists in Newtownbutler
are now receiving chickens' heads from loyalists through
the post.
Louis Leonard commemorated
A
monument to Volunteer Louis Leonard of Donagh, Co
Fermanagh was unveiled on 28 December.
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The tattooed hand of Sam McCrory, leader
of the loyalist UDA in Long Kesh, bearing the emblem of white supremacists. See 
