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Break Unionist vetoIn a New Year message the IRA has said that the Unionist leadership appears ``wedded to the politics of domination and inequality and are opposed to a democratic peace settlement''. moreBurntollet: a milestone on road to freedom30 years ago the People's Democracy marchers from Belfast to Derry were taking another step in a struggle against the unionist state.A challenge to the British EmpireThe Annual Fearghal O'Hanlon Memorial Lecture this year marked the 80th anniversary this month of the First Dáil Éireann.Why the euro is bad for IrelandCitizens for Keeping the Irish Punt argues that the replacement of the púnt by the euro is a form of national treason.City Council victory for Sinn FeinGenuine equality may at last be forced onto the Unionist bastion of Belfast City Council after a vote on the principle of proportionality was passed.Belfast and Garvaghy Road groups link-upCommunity groups from nationalist areas of Belfast and the Garvaghy Road have started to work on projects directed at breaking the isolation of the Portadown nationalist residents.Emergency laws threat to human rightsThe British Government's plan to make emergency legislation permanent in the Six Counties and Britain has been criticised by the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ).Assembly departments agreedThree important advances were lost despite the agreement before Christmas on ten departments in the new executive.Former POW beaten to deathA former blanketman was killed when he was attacked by a gang outside a Chinese restaurant on Derry's Racecourse Road on New Year's Eve.other look under history's carpetEoghan Mac Cormaic believes the Festive Season isn't truly over until the Thirty Year papers have been released.Roma group in appeal to TaoiseachA delegation from the County Monaghan Roma Support Group met Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin two days before Christmas.Spinning out of controlThe rapid demise of British Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson shows that you can't spin all of the people all of the time, writes Seán MarlowOrange Volunteers continue attacksA Catholic workman narrowly missed death when a loyalist bomb exploded on a building site in Magherafelt in South Derry on Wednesday.Wicklow celebrates end of `98, start of `99On New Year's Eve, in a fitting tribute to 1798, pikemen and women from Wicklow and Wexford braved pouring rain to unveil three plaques in the Wicklow hills.UVF attacks in East BelfastSouth Belfast Sinn Fein councillor Sean Hayes has said that UVF members from Donegall Pass were involved in a series of sectarian attacks over the Christmas period.More of the same from UnionismLaura Friel sees Unionism still mired in the past as the old year gives way to the new.Training body lashed over Christmas shockThe Training and Employment Agency (T&EA) in the Six Counties has been roundly criticised for precipitating a crisis in the community sector.Arts Council decision challengedThe decision of the Arts Council to withdraw its funding for a Children's Arts festival has been described as ``outrageous and disgraceful'' by Gerry Adams.
DAILY REPUBLICAN NEWS SERVICE
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