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Praise for Clinton but Blair must deliverThe visit of US President Bill Clinton to Ireland bestrode the news agenda this week like a Colossus. moreLoyalist gun attacksNorthern nationalists remain convinced that loyalists are behind the latest series of gun attacks, which have left two men dead and two more seriously injured.Gardaí act with maliceSinn Féin has accused the Garda Representative Association (GRA) of fabrication following comments in connection with compassionate parole.Further insult for McBride familyThe British Ministry of Defence has released a report in an attempt to justify the continued employment of two convicted murderers.South Armagh people occupy British military baseGlassdrummond Military base was taken over on Sunday morning in a peaceful demonstration against demilitarisation.Bloody Sunday Inquiry in jeopardyA cloud hangs over the future of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry as legal wrangling took place over secret British government and army evidence.`RUC Lite' not the healthy optionPeace Watch Ireland, a US-based human rights group, has denounced the British Government's Police Act as `RUC Lite'.RUC survey angers nationalistsSinn Féin councillor Marie Moore has told the RUC to ``wise up'' after Turf Lodge residents received an `RUC Customer Satisfaction Survey' in the post.Clinton move on deportees welcomedThe United States administration will not proceed with deportation proceedings against nine republican former prisoners currently residing in the USA.Incinerator by the back doorThe BSE crisis in the beef market is sorely troubling EU ministers, but the Dublin government has not been slow to use the opportunity.Dublin Corporation in Estimates crisisThe vote on the Dublin Corporation Book of Estimates has still not been passed.Sectarian intimidation in DunmurryThere is an orchestrated campaign of ethnic cleansing being waged against Catholics living in Dunmurry.Moving tribute to the `Four Martyrs'Friday night saw a moving tribute in Belfast to the Four Martyrs, Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows, Dick Barret and Joe McKelvey, executed by Free State forces on 8 December 1922.Garda Complaints Board must be replacedAppointments to the new Human Rights Commmission by the Dublin government have been strongly criticised.All Irish branded as suspectsIn a echo of the 1970s, British police have been told to regard all Irish people living in their areas as potential `terrorist' suspects.Great crowd at Mellows commemorationHundreds of republicans attended the annual Liam Mellows commemoration in Castletown, County Wexford.British Army needs to be challengedSinn Féin Newry and South Armagh Assembly member Conor Murphy has called on the 26-County government to ensure the British government keeps its commitments on demilitarisation.Nice EU referendum must be fairA new EU treaty will require the approval of the 26-County voters in a referendum sometime next year.Patrick Lynch CommemorationBhí slua mór i mBaile an Sceilig, Co. Chiarraí, ar an 10ú lá Mhí na Nollag chun aitheantas a thabhairt d'Óglach Pádraoig Ó Loinsigh.Dublin pylon protestSinn Féin Dublin South Central representative Aengus Ó Snodaigh led a protest last Friday to move overhead electricity pylons underground.Call for accessable hospital servicesSinn Féin representatives publicly launched the party's submission to the Hayes Acute Hospital Review Group on Monday.West's exclusion confirmedSinn Féin's Vincent Wood has pointed to a recent EU report to emphasise the need for a strong regional voice for the West.Travellers - Citizens RightsSix Travelling families who moved onto Wicklow County Council land for the winter have been ordered out.Three Irish language schools openedThree Irish language schools in Belfast were officially opened by Education Minister Martin McGuinness and the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in the past week.WMI has not gone awayTwo years ago, a huge meeting of over 1,000 people gathered in Nenagh, Tipperary, voiced a community's opposition to a proposed `superdump' at Silvermines.
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