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News for 21 April, 2004
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Adams responds to IMC report
Last night, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams responded to the publication of the IMC report, and the proposed sanctions that are to be placed on Sinn Féin, at meeting of Dublin activists in Buswell's hotel. Below is the full copy of the speech made by Mr Adams, and a link to the internet site, where our subscribers can see the IMC report. View more |
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Betrayed by Dublin - IMC report angers republicans
The British Government's attitude to the Six Counties is predictable, but republicans expect more from the Dublin Government. This was the angry message from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams yesterday as he addressed a packed room of activists in the capital city. Adams was speaking in the aftermath of the publication of the Independent Monitoring Commission's report and its proposal that financial sanctions be levied against Sinn Féin. View more |
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IMC's threats polluting the peace process
Mitchel McLaughlin The Independent Monitoring Commission's threat to expose Sinn Fein members as IRA members has ''polluted'' the peace process, a senior figure in the party claimed today. In an angry attack on the four-member commission, whose first report yesterday called for financial penalties against Sinn Féin and the DUP, Mitchel McLaughlin warned it had the potential to ``put another nail in the coffin`` of the process. View more |
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Murphy slams SDLP's Mallon for IMC support
Conor Murphy Sinn Féin Assembly member for Newry & Armagh Conor Murphy has accused the SDLP MP Seamus Mallon of 'supporting the British government in discriminating against the majority of nationalists in the six counties who now vote for Sinn Féin'. Mr Murphy's comments come after Mr. Mallon voiced support for the IMC and their Report. View more |
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Ruane welcomes equality website
Caitríona Ruane Sinn Féin Equality and Human Rights spokesperson, South Down MLA Caitríona Ruane has welcomed the launch of a new NISRA Equality research and information website and said that it must lead to more effective scrutiny of the levels of discrimination within our society. View more |
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Sinn Féin rejects racist referendum
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said in Leinster House on Wednesday that "this dangerous, divisive and reactionary referendum" should not go ahead. He was speaking during a special Dáil sitting to debate the Coalition Government's proposed constitutional referendum to restrict the right to Irish citizenship. View more |
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British political control is the problem with policing
Gerry Kelly Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly was in New York on Wednesday to address the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) on the issue of policing in the north of Ireland. His address comes on the heels of the public debate on policing in the US sparked by the Sinn Féin advertisement placed in the New York Times during the St Patrick's Day celebrations, and soon after an address to the same Committee by PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde. View more |
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One year ago - BY MARK GUILFOYLE
It was a wonderfully sunny spring day in Covington, Kentucky on 15 March 2003, when Gerry Kelly spoke at the Northern Kentucky Police Memorial. A black marble slab, it is inscribed with the names of dozens of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty protecting the citizens of Northern Kentucky over the years. There are thousands of similar police memorials in communities all across the United States. In America, police officers are universally regarded as heroes and public servants. View more |
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Sinn Féin MLA's home attacked
Fra McCann The home of West Belfast Sinn Féin Assembly member Fra McCann was attacked last night for the second time in recent weeks with ball bearings. This attack follows on from a similar attack on the home of Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Butler last weekend. Mr McCann said: " Last night at around 10.30pm ball bearings were fired at the living room window of my home. View more |
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