by Danny Morrison (for the Andersonstown News)
It was Seamus Mallon who famously once described the Belfast
Agreement as ‘Sunningdale for Slow Learners’, a soundbite which
was immediately seized upon by opponents and critics of the
Republican Movement. They were claiming, in varying degrees,
that what was negotiated in 1998 was available in the
power-sharing Sunningdale arrangements of 1974 and therefore
republicans, by continuing the armed struggle, had to bear major
responsibility for the continuation of the conflict and the loss
of all subsequent life.
Published June 21, 2004
A number of organisations have announced plans for protests in
the south Clare area for the visit of US President George Bush
to Ireland next weekend.
Published June 21, 2004
Following the successful negotiation of a new constitution for
the European Union, the Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie
Ahern, could be set to quit the Dublin government for the
lucrative position of President of the European Commission.
Published June 21, 2004
Sinn Féin has suspended one of its newly elected Dublin
councillors while it purses an investigation into unspecified
allegations.
Published June 21, 2004
Relatives and survivors of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings
are going to the European Court of Human Rights in their battle
for a full public inquiry.
Published June 21, 2004
An edited version of the annual speech by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams at the grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown, County
Kildare.
Published June 21, 2004
A north Belfast hospital was stormed by a mob of unionist
paramilitary supporters after Friday night’s contentious ‘Tour
of the North’ march.
Published June 21, 2004
The British government has suggested that serious efforts to
restore the North’s power-sharing institutions may be put off
until after the summer, drawing criticism from Sinn Féin for
backing what it said was a timetable set by unionist hardliners.
Published June 21, 2004
By Danny Morrison
(for the Irish Examiner)
If the election results augur well for the future of one party
above all others throughout Ireland, that party is Sinn Féin.
Both North and South its vote has continued to increase and later
today the party’s confirmation as the leadership of northern
nationalists will be reinforced with the election of Bairbre de
Brun to Europe in a close-fought contest with Jim Allister of Ian
Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Published June 14, 2004
The Bloody Sunday inquiry was urged today to determine the extent
of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath’s responsibility for
the deaths of the 13 people shot dead by troops at the civil
rights march in Derry over 30 years ago.
Published June 14, 2004
The results of the European and local elections.
Published June 14, 2004
Sinn Féin has made historic gains in local and European elections
at the expense of Fianna Fáil in the South and the SDLP in the
North.
Published June 14, 2004
A former British Army officer who falsely suggested that murdered
Belfast teenager Peter McBride may have been carrying a bomb when
he was murdered by two soldiers under his command has been
awarded a major private security contract in Iraq by the US
Department of Defence, according to the Pat Finucne centre, a
Derry-based human rights group.
Published June 14, 2004
An MI5 officer has stated publicly that the IRA “fought a just
cause” and won a “successful campaign” during the 30-year
conflict in the North.
Published June 14, 2004
Latest results from the European and local elections.
Published June 14, 2004
The citizenship referendum in the 26 Counties has caused
political damage to the Good Friday Agreement, nationalists have
warned.
Published June 14, 2004
A number of Catholics in a County Antrim town have been warned
they are under threat from unionist paramilitaries.
Published June 14, 2004
Judge Peter Cory, who investigated the controversial murder of
Pat Finucane, has revealed that documents relating to the
conspiracy to kill the Belfast defense lawyer were seen by the
British government cabinet.
Published June 11, 2004
By Gerry Adams MP (for the Guardian)
News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great
surprise in republican Ireland. We have seen and heard it all
before. Some of us have even survived that type of treatment.
Suggestions that the brutality in Iraq was meted out by a few
miscreants aren’t even seriously entertained here. We have seen
and heard all that before as well. But our experience is that,
while individuals may bring a particular impact to their work,
they do so within interrogative practices authorised by their
superiors.
Published June 11, 2004
British Crown forces in the North engaged in widespread
harassment and intimidation of voters on Thursday, patrolling
around polling stations and photographing voters as they arrived.
Published June 11, 2004
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