Irish culture underwent a culture shock today as a complete ban
on smoking in pubs, restaurants and other workplaces came into
force.
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Published March 29, 2004
Trimble strengthens hold on UUP leadership
Ulster Unionist party leader David Trimble won 60 per cent of the vote in the latest leadership contest for the still-divided party on Saturday.
Published March 29, 2004
Unionists refuse to lower flag at City Hall
Sinn Féin has threatened court action after unionists dismissed a
legal warning about the permanent flying of the Union Jack flag
at Belfast City Hall.
Published March 29, 2004
Awaiting `No' to planned breach of Agreement
By Eamonn McCann
Could it be racism which has discouraged northern outrage at the plans of the Dublin Government to change the Belfast Agreement without consultation with parties in Northern Ireland?
Published March 26, 2004
Loyalists may have planned festival carnage
A car bomb abandoned by unionist paramilitaries near Belfast city centre last week was destined for the city's St Patrick's Day carnival, it is believed.
Published March 26, 2004
Irish, in the wrong place, at the wrong time
By Breandán Morley (for the Blanket)
Amidst the current focus on the continued activities of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, I recently had a very personal experience of the extent to which the British police remain unaffected by the peace process when dealing with Irish people travelling to the UK.
Published March 26, 2004
Five tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium and thousands of gallons of contaminated sludge have been discovered at the bottom of a pond at Sellafield, Britain's nuclear waste treatment facility.
Published March 26, 2004
IRA disbandment possible despite loyalist violence - SF
The IRA will cease to exist if there is an ``irreversible'' political process in the North, a Sinn Féin source has said.
Published March 26, 2004
The trial of four men charged with membership of the breakaway
`Real IRA' has collapsed after documents were mislaid by a senior
garda police detective.
Published March 26, 2004
Irish-America blasts `undiplomatic' Reiss
Irish-American groups in the US have attacked US envoy to Ireland
Mitchell Reiss over his accusation that Sinn Féin told ``massive
untruths'' in a New York Times advertisement about policing.
Published March 26, 2004
UUP defections predicted if Trimble stays
The Ulster Unionist Party could face `meltdown' if, as expected,
party leader David Trimble comfortably defeats a challenge to his
leadership tomorrow.
Published March 26, 2004
Government `vocabulary' must change
By now you'll have read the studiously bland communique from Hillsborough that Irish and British officials agreed before Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair met yesterday.
Published March 24, 2004
British spy seeks asylum in U.S.
A British Army agent threatened with jail for his allegations of
Crown force collusion is seeking political asylum in the United
States.
Published March 24, 2004
`Casement Three' man faces deportation from U.S
One of the men known as the `Casement Three', jailed for alleged involvement in the 1998 killing of two British soldiers, faces deportation to Belfast despite being freed under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Published March 24, 2004
Colombia VP `has no understanding of human rights'
The international observers who travelled to Colombia to observe
the trial of the three Irishmen currently detained in Colombia
met with Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos in Dublin on
Tuesday.
Published March 24, 2004
British spin on Cory dismissed
Speculation that four reports on collusion by the British forces in murders in the North of Ireland will be published on April 1st has been described as a premature April Fool's Day joke.
Published March 24, 2004
Ireland and post-colonial theory
Edited by Clare Carroll and Patricia King
Cork University Press, 2003
Cork University Press, 2003
Postcolonial theory has recently emerged as one of the most influential modes of socio-cultural analysis currently shaping Irish studies. It is a school of thought inspired largely by the work of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, and Indian Subaltern Studies. The ``post'' means ``since colonialism began'' rather than ``after colonialism ended''.
Published March 24, 2004
ORDE STATEMENT UNDERMINES TALKS
The PSNI police chief, Hugh Orde, has infuriated nationalists by insisting that the mainstream IRA must permanently disband before any moves are made to reduce the British military garrison in Ireland.
Published March 24, 2004
Justice seen possible in Glengormley
Two men have been convicted for the brutal sectarian murder in 2001 of Glengormley man Trevor Lowry, who was killed because he was mistaken for a Catholic.
Published March 24, 2004
IT wasn't supposed to be like this, thought one of Ian Paisley's
lieutenants as he looked out across the front lawn of the City
Hall. Above him the Union Jack flew, but before his eyes were
thousands of St Patrick's Day revellers; dancing and singing;
children on their fathers' shoulders applauding Girls Aloud. A
sea of green - but worst still were flags coloured green, white
and orange: the hated Tricolour. What had gone wrong?
Published March 22, 2004
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