Martin Morgan, a leading member of the nationalist SDLP and a
former mayor of Belfast, is to leave politics.
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Published September 17, 2004
Protest against plastic bullets
A widow whose husband was killed by a plastic bullet yesterday
confronted a senior member of the North’s Policing Board,
demanding a ban on the use of the baton round.
Published September 17, 2004
Don’t dodge the issue of collusion
This week the British and Irish governments and all the main
parties in the north of Ireland will be in Leeds Castle in Kent.
Sinn Féin will be trying to unblock the political impasse here.
It will not be easy.
Published September 14, 2004
A sophisticated bugging device was discovered at Sinn Féin’s
offices in west Belfast today.
Published September 14, 2004
Discrimination allegations aired
A partner at a leading estate agency in Belfast joked about the
breeding habits of Catholics and the size of their families, a
Fair Employment tribunal has heard.
Published September 14, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
www.dannymorrison.com
A blanket man in the H-Blocks risking a beating and solitary confinement in order to smuggle GAA results to news-starved comrades is just one story told in that fine book by Tom Humphries, ‘Green Fields: Gaelic Sport in Ireland’ (1996).
Published September 14, 2004
The family of Pat Finucane has renewed demands for a public
inquiry into the murder following the conviction of unionist
paramilitary Ken Barrett yesterday.
Published September 14, 2004
Irish President may get unopposed second term
Ireland’s right-wing parties have backed the re-election
campaign of Irish President Mary McAleese, while her potential
rivals are struggling to gain the necessary nomination.
Published September 14, 2004
The PSNI police have been criticised for failing to protect
nationalists in Derry’s Waterside after loyalists entered a
Catholic home and attacked two men.
Published September 14, 2004
Dublin urged to oppose Direct Rule
Sinn Féin has said the Dublin Government must oppose any attempt
to formally reintroduce direct rule in the North in crisis talks
in southern England later this week.
Published September 14, 2004
Any threat to the majority is not welcome
Given that background and the belief constantly repeated by
unionist politicians that change can only be bad for unionists,
it looks as if racist assaults by unionists will continue to
increase in frequency.
Published September 10, 2004
A masked republican carried out a gun attack on Derry’s PSNI
headquarters yesterday morning, firing up to 30 shots from an
AK-47 automatic rifle.
Published September 10, 2004
The BBC and the myth of ‘Norn Iron’
(for the Andersonstown News)
The BBC refused to broadcast Amhran na bhFiann from Croke Park before the All-Ireland football semi-final match between Derry and Kerry.
Published September 10, 2004
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams has said he is pessimistic about the
prospects of prospect of a breakthrough at next week’s peace
talks at Leeds Castle in southern England.
Published September 10, 2004
Link to Basques, Galicia found in genes
The Irish and Scots may be as closely related to the people of
Spain and Portugal as the Celts of central Europe, it has been
reported.
Published September 10, 2004
The Dublin government has controversially decided to abandon its plan to
introduce a new tax on polluting fuels.
Published September 10, 2004
Ethnic minorities in the North have been warned they could be
attacked by racist and far-right groups.
Published September 10, 2004
Reserve cuts short of Patten, big on payouts
Just over 800 full-time police reservists, who are
overwhelmingly Protestant, have been offered severance packages
worth up to a hundred thousand pounds sterling as a lump sum,
with a pension to follow.
Published September 10, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
www.dannymorrison.com
Last Monday on NBC News President George Bush was asked, ``Can we win'' the war on terror. He replied, ``I don't think you can win it.'' He thus directly contradicted a previous speech he made claiming that the war could be won.
Published September 7, 2004
Bafflement at DUP contradictions
Amid conflicting messages from unionists in recent days, Sinn
Féin president Mr Gerry Adams said yesterday that London and
Dublin must now decide whether the Good Friday Agreement or the
Democratic Unionist Party is to prevail in the North of Ireland.
Published September 7, 2004
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