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Unionists reject Agreement

Sinn Féin went to Stormont this week to rescue the Good Friday Agreement after a year of unionist obstruction. more

Murder attack on mother and son

Just hours after loyalists claimed that they had a ``God-given right to defend our people'', a mother and her six-year-old son were targeted in a loyalist bomb attack.

Informer admits RUC role in Finucane murder

A fully independent public inquiry is now the only course available to ensure the full circumstances surrounding the killing of Pat Finucane can be revealed

Garvaghy - A community under siege

In 1998, many residents of the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown kept a daily record of their experience of the impact on their own lives and that of their community of the Orange Order's protest at Drumcree.

Kielty murder raises collusion questions

Top Irish comedian Patrick Kielty may sue Belfast morning newspaper the Newsletter for defamation of character after it claimed that his murdered father was an IRA suspect.

Lisburn nationalists excluded

``Discriminatory, undemocratic and unjust,'' is how Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Butler describes unionist control of Lisburn Borough Council.

School denying sectarian attack

A Catholic teacher at the Protestant Boy's Model school in Belfast's Ballysillan Road was the target of a sectarian gun attack, An Phoblacht has learned.

`Long farce' organisers claim persecution

Organisers of the so called ``long march'' have claimed that the Parades Commission ruling on Monday is ``persecution of Protestant and unionist people''.

O Caoláin welcomes visas scheme

The Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program Act of 1998 (the Walsh Visas scheme) is to go ahead with the first visas coming on stream in October.

Childcare 2000 looks to local government

Primary schools closed their doors for their two months holiday last week, for many of their parents it's no holiday.

SF vice-chair in Monaghan but excluded in Cavan

Sinn Féin Councillor Brian McKenna has been elected as Vice-Chairperson of Monaghan County Council.

The real challenge facing the ICTU

Some 720,000 people throughout Ireland are members of trade unions in 1999. It is a record level of union membership in the country.

West Belfast Festival programme launched

This year's Féile an Phobail, starting 31 July, promises something for everyone.

New World Order challenged in Cologne

Eight men in suits. Seventeen thousand riot police. Fifty thousand activists from all over the world. It was G8 summit time again.

Sligo road nightmare persists

Newly-elected councillors to Sligo Corporation have called a special meeting to hear from residents about the outrageous neglect of roads in the Cartron Bay Estate.

Quinlivan trial `fruitless'

In an affidavit submitted on Tuesday, 29 July, to the High Court in Dublin, efforts to extradite Brixton escaper and republican ex-prisoner Nessan Quinlivan were described as ``fruitless''.

Immigration bill to be rushed through

Despite protests from various organisations the Dublin government still plans to proceed to push through the Immigration Bill before Leinster House breaks for the summer this Friday.


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