Belfast enjoyed its first ever official St. Patrick’s Day parade
with good cheer at the weekend despite disagreement over the
waving of the Irish flag.
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St Patrick’s breakthrough for Belfast
Published March 20, 2006
The Irishmen who died for Mexico
The Saint Patrick’s Battalion in the US-Mexican War has placed
the Irish as a revered race in Mexico; even to this day, an Irish
person in Mexico will be told a countless number of times about
the famous ‘Irish Martyrs’ who defected from the US Army and gave
their lives trying to save Mexico from US aggression from
1846-1848.
Published March 20, 2006
A “shadow assembly” could operate in Belfast for a “few months”
while efforts are made to restore power-sharing, Bertie Ahern has
said.
Published March 20, 2006
Adams defies ‘carrot and stick’ pressure
Efforts by Gerry Adams to brief Irish-American supporters of the
peace process this week were hampered by a fund-raising ban and
travel issues.
Published March 20, 2006
Govts seek to quell concern over CIA renditions
Aircraft used by the CIA to transport prisoners to countries
where they are reportedly being tortured have landed in the
North, it has been revealed.
Published March 20, 2006
Birmingham Six man seeks apology
One of the Birmingham Six has promised to launch legal action
against the British government unless he gets a public apology.
Published March 20, 2006
Renewed US support sought for peace process
The US government and Irish Americans have been urged to support
Sinn Féin’s call for the implementation of the Good Friday
Agreement.
Published March 20, 2006
Struggle for freedom is story worth reading
Last Thursday, March 9 was Bobby Sands’s birthday. He would have
been 52.
Published March 16, 2006
Adams, Ahern back emigrants’ rights
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in New York yesterday morning
pledged his party’s “full support for the Irish Lobby for
Immigration Reform.
Published March 16, 2006
Institutional inequality must end
The North’s Equality Commission is being urged to begin
investigations of public institutions with records of
discrimination.
Published March 16, 2006
The Diary of Bobby Sands (part 2)
For the first seventeen days of his hunger-strike 25 years ago
this week, Bobby Sands kept a secret diary in which he wrote his
thoughts and views.
The following is his writings for the last eight days. It is extracted from ‘Skylark Sing your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands.
Published March 16, 2006
US envoy Ambassador Mitchell Reiss has suggested that Sinn Féin’s
insistence on further police reform can be equated with the DUP’s
refusal to hold talks with republicans.
Published March 16, 2006
Adams appeals for peace progress
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP has said he is increasingly
concerned at the handling of the current talks by the Dublin and
London governments and the recent partisan behaviour of the US
government.
Published March 16, 2006
Exclusion not an option - Hain
Britain’s Direct Ruler in Ireland, Peter Hain, has made it clear
that he will not bar Sinn Féin from a restored Belfast Assembly
or power-sharing administration.
Published March 16, 2006
Court setback for Save Tara campaign
An environmentalist has had legal costs of up to 600,000 Euros
(Stg413,000) awarded against him after he lost his court
challenge against the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of
Tara.
Published March 16, 2006
The shots that changed the world forever
By Tom McGurk (for the Sunday Business Post)
The public commentary ever since Bertie Ahern announced the revival of the 1916 memorial parade has been fascinating.
Published March 13, 2006
Disgust at 1916 ‘Sale of the century’
There has been an outcry over a planned auction of historical
documents and artifacts associated with the 1916 Rising.
Published March 13, 2006
Did a British agent at
the heart of a dissident republican group engineer the Omagh bomb?
Published March 13, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accepted a St Patrick’s Day
invitation to the White House despite a US administration ban on
his fundraising plans and strong Irish opposition to George
Bush’s foreign policy.
Published March 13, 2006
UVF ‘hit list’ destroyed by PSNI
An apparent hit list found in the home of a unionist paramilitary
murder suspect was later destroyed by the PSNI, it has emerged.
Published March 13, 2006
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