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Gunned down
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 Young UDA victim Daniel McColgan is pictured with his partner, Lyndsay Milliken
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It has been a dreadful week. Serious trouble in North Belfast
sparked by loyalists last Wednesday culminated in the shooting
dead of a Catholic postal worker on Saturday by the UDA and with
death threats hanging over Catholic teachers and postal workers.
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The death of a postal worker
Reid must take responsibility
The roots of last week's serious rioting in north Belfast lie
firmly in the ongoing scandal of sectarian persecution at Holy
Cross school.
Belfast coroner John
Leckey haas granted anonymity to all the RUC and British Army
witnesses involved in the operation that lead to the death of IRA
Volunteer Pearse Jordan.
A meeting between British Secretary of State
John Reid and Justice Henry Barron
is crucial to the families of those killed in
the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
A loyalist attempt to kill a former republican prisoner in
Ballycastle was foiled after a neighbour of the man stumbled on
masked men.
A man says he was deliberately struck by the driver of an
RUC/PSNI Land Rover on the Crumlin Road in North Belfast last
Wednesday.
A deal in which Britain considered buying back Stg£65 million
worth of helicopters to prop up its operation in the Six Counties
is back in the news.
South Down Sinn Féin Assembly member Mick Murphy has received
complaints from residents about low flying helicopters.
Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty has said that securing the use of
parliamentary office facilities in London is a victory for the
rights of Sinn Féin voters.
For many republicans, the year 2001 will be remembered with
mixed emotions, writes JIM GIBNEY.
ELLA O'DWYER on the legacy of discrimination shared by Australian
Aborigines and Irish Travellers
The prospective Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South-West has challenged
business donors to help reverse falling turn-outs
at election time.
Election fever is hitting the political establishment this week,
writes ROBBIE MacGABHANN
A loyalist who acted as an agent for the RUC Special Branch has
claimed that he shot Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Sinn Féin has welcomed the announcement that Minister Bairbre de
Brún intends to introduce free nursing care for elderly residents
of nursing homes.
Professor Connett, Chemistry Professor at St. Lawrence University
in New York, spoke at a meeting in Dublin last Friday.
Kilkenny is experiencing a republican rénaissance having spent
many years in the wilderness with no party organisation in place.
Sinn Féin in County Wexford has launched a development plan for
New Ross that represents a major challenge to the government
parties.
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has said that he will be
visiting the Sellafield nuclear plant at the end of the month to
demand its closure.
Councillor Seán MacManus, has called on the Minister for the
Environment, Noel Dempsey, to scrap the government's proposed
regulations on organic waste.
DOMHNALL Ó COBHTHAIGH argues that social partnership has allowed
for an increase in the exploitation of the labour force.
Sinn Féin has developed
a members' education programme, which is aimed at standardising
education courses throughout the country.
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