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Ball in British court
Again this week, as we go to print, there is media speculation
about the prospect of a signficant IRA move in the coming weeks.
Sinn Féin sources tell us, however, that such speculation
has no basis in fact but has come about as a result of government
briefings in an attempt to shift the onus away from the two
administrations and onto republicans.
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If unionist communities are to purge themselves of the brutal
outworkings of unionist paramilitary violence, power sharing is an
urgent imperative, writes LAURA FRIEL.
Some 10,000 people turned out to march on Sunday to show their
support for the Bloody Sunday families.
The delegation of observers
travelling to keep a close eye on proceedings in Bogota
was one member
short.
Sinn Féin's Mitchel McLaughlin says news that an
additional 18,000 voters have been put on the electoral register
means that the Electoral Office still has almost 170,000 voters
to get registered.
Sinn Féin's Martin Meehan has been told by the PSNI
that his life is under threat from the Red Hand Defenders(RHD).
This past weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the
killings of the New Lodge Six - six north Belfast men who were
shot dead by the British Army in 1973.
The Bloody Sunday rally in Derry on 2 February saw the
launch of a campaign calling on the British government to make
public what they know about state and loyalist killings in the
Derry and Donegal areas.
Relatives and friends of the five men shot dead by
a UDA death squad on the Ormeau Road in
1992 took part in a wreathlaying ceremony last week.
Relatives of the three men shot dead in Sinn Féin's
Belfast headquarters in 1992 by RUC man Allen Moore held a
protest outside Grosvenor Road PSNI barracks on Tuesday 4
February, the 11th anniversary of the slayings.
A Catholic woman who is deaf and dumb has been forced to
leave her home in Larne, County Antrim, after unionist
paramilitaries ransacked her flat on Tuesday night 28
January.
The Castlerea Five Campaign Support Group was set up in
Strabane in November to demand that the Dublin government lives
up to its responsibilities under the terms of the Good Friday
Agreement.
Tuam Sinn Fein is planning an event in April to commemorate six
prisoners who were executed in the town by the order of the newly
formed Free State Government of 1923.
Sinn
Féin spokesperson on International Affairs, Aengus
Ó Snodaigh TD, slammed the use of the 26-County Army for
duty at Shannon Airport.
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Children
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has said "there is
anger and a sense of betrayal among parents, pupils, teachers and
boards of management throughout this State".
Everyone wants to protect the environment don't they? Not
if you're in the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat
coalition, writes ROBBIE SMYTH.
Two of our daring Bogtrotters exchanged walking boots for
wellies recently and joined the sail training barque Jeanie
Johnston on her trip from Belfast to Waterford.
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin
attended the launch of the End Child Poverty Coalition on
Tuesday.
Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor Christy Burke has
called for the naming of the Dublin Spire to be put to a public
poll or to a children's school competition.
JIM GIBNEY branches out from the major political issues
to consider Dublin's new monument.
The Fianna
Fáil/Progressive Democrats government has taken a leaf out
of the British book, writes CAOIMHGHIN Ó
CAOLÁIN TD
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Telecommunications,
Seán Crowe has asked for an investigation of mobile phone charges.
ACRA, the 26-County Body for Residents' Associations has
entered the 30th year in its struggle against Ground Rents.
A report in the Evening Herald that he has stepped down as
Dublin hurling selector is misleading and inaccurate, said Sinn
Féin Councillor Nicky Kehoe on Tuesday evening.
This week saw the one-year anniversary of Indymedia
Ireland.
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