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Ormeau betrayed
The Parades Commission's decision to allow the Apprentice
Boys' parade to go ahead along the nationalist Ormeau Road shows that it is
bending over backwards to accommodate the Loyal Orders.
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Widespread disappointment has been expressed at the
recommendation that an inquiry into
the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974 and the murder of Seamus Ludlow should
be held in private.
Thousands walked from the Bobby Sands Memorial in Twinbrook
to the City Hall in Belfast City Centre on Sunday, 8 August to mark the
29th anniversary of the introduction of internment.
The Fianna Fáil Minister for the Environment and Local
Government, Noel Dempsey, has called for the scrapping of the current
Dáil electoral system in the 26 Counties.
An IRA statement released on Friday, 6 August, confirmed that the IRA
cessation, in place since July 1997, is still intact.
Mireille Court, travelled to Turkish-occupied Kurdistan in the last week
of July to assess the reaction to the abduction, trial and death sentence
meted out to the leader of the Kurdistan resistance.
Clarification is being sought of the decision not to prosecute any members of the RUC over
a vicious assault on the 40-year-old cousin of Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams.
There is a major conflict brewing between developers and local communities
as the developers tear down whole districts for redevelopment
and select sites for dumps, pylons or mobile phone masts.
Loyalist warnings that the UDA's ceasefire is on ``tenterhooks'' are
being ``underscored by an increase in loyalist activity in Belfast'', Sinn
Féin councillor Tom Hartley has told An Phoblacht.
A new report into the use of plastic bullets in the North says that
two in every five plastic bullet injuries inflicted during the 1996
Drumcree standoff were potentially life-threatening.
Cuts in holiday pay and exclusion from partnership negotiations are just
two of the issues that could lead to industrial unrest among construction
workers this week.
The announcement on Tuesday of an additional £15 million
for drugs task forces in Dublin, Wicklow and Cork has been welcomed by the
Dublin Sinn Féin representatives.
As in previous years, Prisoner Day at the West Belfast Festival
proved to be one of the most popular events of the Festival.
Dublin Sinn Féin Councillor Seán Crowe has welcomed the
news that Ireland is to be admitted to the international Conference on
Disarmament.
Figures from the Housing Needs Assessment have
showed increases of up to 200 per cent in some areas.
There is an illness in modern Ireland that dare not speak its name, writes Robert Allen
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