By Mark Brennock (for the Irish Times)
You could be forgiven for thinking the State itself was under
threat. A matter has arisen that is so grave that the Cabinet has
now discussed it at least three times in recent weeks.
Legislation has been rushed through the Oireachtas. The Taoiseach
and Minister for Justice speak with growing solemnity about the
situation.
Published June 11, 2004
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a bleak future
following huge losses in the local elections in England and
Wales.
Published June 11, 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
Turnout in the Six County European election is down by more than
5% on the 1999 poll, with large regional variations in the number
of those who cast their vote.
Published June 11, 2004
Clashes erupted last night between local youths and the PSNI
police as they entered republican areas at the close of polling
in Thursday’s election.
Published June 11, 2004
The so-called ‘ceasefire’ by the unionist paramilitary UVF has
again been discredited after the group was linked to recent
attacks on republicans in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Published June 11, 2004
by Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
A few weeks ago, just on the eve of the European election
campaign, but not, as far as known, in competition with it,
satellite channel UKTV announced that it was to stream a new
reality show called ‘Watching Paint Dry’ on the internet. Viewers
can watch a different kind of paint dry on an empty wall each day
and will be able to vote for their favourite paint.
Published June 9, 2004
Soldiers “probably” were responsible for all of the deaths on
Bloody Sunday, their legal representative admitted today.
Published June 9, 2004
One of the Dublin government’s main prospects for retaining a
European Parliament seat has confirmed that he fáiled to pass on
information about the Dublin attacks to the recent inquiry into
the bombings.
Published June 9, 2004
By Bairbre de Brun
Sinn Féin candidate for Six County EU election
Is tráthúil an ócáid í seo do Shinn Féin. Tá deis ann anois
Feisirí Eorpacha Shinn Féin ar fud an oileáin a thoghadh do
Pharlaimint na hEorpa.
Published June 9, 2004
Voting is already underway in the European elections in Ireland,
with the governing Fianna Fáil party in the South and the SDLP in
the North both facing losses.
Published June 9, 2004
A senior Sinn Féin member, Michael Agnew, has been targeted in a
pipe-bomb attack at his home in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Published June 9, 2004
The Mayoral chain of Derry has been placed on a second Sinn Féin
Mayor.
Published June 9, 2004
It has been announced that the formal review of the Good Friday
Agreement is to resume next Tuesday in Belfast. The North’s
political parties are being invited this week to the talks, which
will be attended by British and Irish ministers.
Published June 9, 2004
By John Waters
Sometime in the 1990s, when Ireland was at the peak of its
football mania, a friend described to me the changed nature of
social behaviour some distance away from the pitch.
Published June 4, 2004
An appeal for calm at interface areas this summer by unionist
leaders has been widely welcomed.
Published June 4, 2004
The following address was given by a leading member of the Irish
Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) Eddie McGarrigle, in Derry
last week at the annual commemoration of 1981 hunger strike
patriot Pasy O’Hara
Published June 4, 2004
A man gunned downed at the gates of a South Belfast primary
school on Thursday was responsible for the 1996 murder of former
commander of the INLA republican armed group, Gino Gallagher.
Published June 4, 2004
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