Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Nice  Treaty  on  the  way  to  a  second  defeat SEÁN McGoldrick, Ard Chomhairle, Republican Sinn Féin and spokesperson on matters relating to the Nice Treaty and membership of the EU said on January 30 that the latest opinion poll on attitudes to the Nice Treaty showed that the media and politicians need to reconsider their attitudes toward the Irish people. Comments: 6:55:02 AM

No War But the Class War From The Starry Plough Feb. 2002 The bourgeois media have refused to report on civilian casualties in the bombing of Afghanistan and have acknowledged that conscious editorial decisions were made to avoid reporting such figures. Meanwhile, the count of civilian deaths in the World Trade Centre bombing have been repeatedly revised downward, so it now appears that the deaths on September 11th-at the Pentagon, the downed aircraft in Pennsylvania, and New York's twin towers- probably don't exceed 3,000. 3,000 remains an unacceptably high number of innocent people killed, even considering that those killed at the Pentagon cannot be counted as civilians. Comments: 6:52:00 AM

What Future Unionism? David Rose At the dawn of the 21st century British Unionism appears to be in terminal decline. The Conservative Party no longer commands mass support outside the English Home Counties, having long ago been eclipsed by Nationalist parties in Wales and Scotland. And in Northern Ireland, though still commanding majority support, Unionism seems ill equipped to meet the challenge posed by the rising tide of Nationalism. Like Public Schools, the House of Lords and Monarchy itself, Unionism appears dated and irrelevant in the modern world. Most disturbing of all, Unionists throughout the UK have failed to articulate a fresh approach. Be it the Tories carping about Europe or Ulster Unionists clinging to their imagined golden age, Unionism's only vision comes from the past. Comments: 6:43:03 AM

Black week remembered The first week in February ten years ago was an awful one, with ten civilians and an IRA Volunteer shot dead and more wounded. In two separate gun attacks in Belfast, one by the UDA, the other by an RUC man, eight people lost their lives. Five Catholics died and many others were injured when a loyalist gang attacked a crowded Sean Graham bookies on the Ormeau Road and three people, two of them Sinn Féin members, died when an RUC man attacked Sinn Féin's offices in Sevastopol Street. North Belfast black taxi driver Pádraig Ó Cléirigh was shot dead in his home on 2 February and the family of Lisburn Catholic Paul Moran, shot dead on 30 January, laid the 32-year-old victim of loyalists to rest. On 6 February, IRA Volunteer Joe MacManus was shot dead on active service in Fermanagh. Comments: 6:41:05 AM

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