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News for 18 February, 2004
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Senior American politician to visit North
A senior Irish-American political figure New York Congressman Jim Walsh is today heading to Belfast for talks with Sinn Fein, the SDLP and other parties taking part in the review of the Good Friday Agreement at Stormont. Mr Walsh is an avid follower of political developments in Six Counties and has visited on several occasions in relation to the Irish Peace Process. Next month he is hosting Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams' visit to his hometown of Syracuse where the West Belfast MP will take part in the St. Patrick's Day parade. View more |
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Sinn Féin MLAs meet Congressman Walsh
Bairbre de Brun Sinn Féin MLAs Bairbre de Brún and Alex Maskey this afternoon met with US Congressman Jim Walsh at the US Consulate in Belfast. Speaking after the meeting Ms de Brún said that the meeting provided 'a valuable opportunity to update Congressman Walsh on the current state of the Peace Process and present him with a briefing document on the shredding of the electoral Register here in the North'. View more |
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Unionist councillor loses case against Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams An independent unionist councillor has lost a High Court action over Gerry Adams' refusal to take his seat at Westminster. Shankill councillor Frank McCoubrey applied for a declaration that his human rights had been breached by Mr Adam's decision to stay away from parliament. The constituency of the Sinn Fein president takes in part of the staunchly loyalist Shankill Road. View more |
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Abandoned by Irish state - Dublin bomb victim addresses Oireachtas inquiry
Leinster House A man whose father was killed in the Parnell St bombing (Dublin/Monaghan bombings) in May 1974 has told the Oireachtas Justice Committee that Ireland needs to establish and expose to the world the truth about the bombings. Ed O'Neill, who along with his brother Billy was severely injured in the bomb that killed their father, told the committee he did not want sympathy, but wanted justice and accountability. View more |
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Spellar needs to clarify Asylum Seeker position
Caitríona Ruane Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Human Rights and Equality, South Down MLA Caitríona Ruane has challenged NIO Minister John Spellar to clarify his position on Asylum Seekers after it emerged that he shunned Asylum Seekers by withdrawing his constituency services from Asylum Seekers at his West Midlands constituency of Warley last year. View more |
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More needed to stop Belfast racist attacks
Alex Maskey Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey has said a lot more work must be done to prevent racism in South Belfast, after three men were injured in a racist attack on Monday night. The group were in the Botanic area of south Belfast when they were set upon by four attackers. They were taken to hospital for treatment but were not seriously injured. Four people were seen running away from the scene and were subsequently arrested. View more |
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Blair should publish Cory before St. Patrick's Day accolade
Tony Blair Prime Minister Tony Blair has just four weeks to publish a major report into collusion or face the wrath of Irish America, he was warned on Monday. Mr Blair is due to be honoured for his role in the peace process at a plush St Patrick's Day event in Washington. However, human rights campaigners claimed that his government could be hugely embarrassed if it still refuses to reveal the findings of retired Canadian Judge Peter Cory's probe into four controversial murders. View more |
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Unionists oppose Long Kesh museum - By Paul Confrey
Paul Butler Long Kesh was once a terrifying prison divided into eight H blocks. Now it's a shell, having closed in 2000. It was a place that witnessed the internment, of IRA suspects without trial, degradation, brutality and the brave but shocking spectacle of dirty protests and hunger strikes that led to the deaths of ten incredible protesters including Bobby Sands. View more |
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Coiste launches Kesh proposals - BY LAURA FRIEL
Have you ever attended something thinking you know what to expect but on arrival found yourself surprised and amazed? Well that's what happened to me on Wednesday when I attended the launch of Coiste na n-Iarchimí proposals for the establishment of a museum at the former site of Long Kesh, otherwise known as the Maze Prison. For Republicans, Long Kesh first as an internment camp, then as a theatre of struggle around the issue of Political Status in the nortorious H blocks and as the stage of the Great Escape (one of many) has an obvious historical role to play. View more |
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Sinn Féin's Force for Change: First National Conference of Elected Representatives - BY ROISIN DE ROSA
Francie Molloy As Sinn Féin launches into another year of elections, the party's elected representatives from across Ireland gathered in Navan last weekend for a well-attended first national conference of the National Elected Representative Forum. The purpose, as Francie Molloy outlined in his report on the workings of this forum, was to co-ordinate the various strands of our elected representation of 170 councillors, TDs, MLAs and MPs, so strengthen "the very powerful force it is, across the island - a force for change". View more |
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