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Friday, September 20, 2002 |
KFC Boycott Terry McMenaminI'd heard that KFC shortened its name from Kentucky Fried Chicken due to the fact that much of the meat they served was not actually chicken. Now it turns out that KFC is not actually serving Catholics, either. [Full Article]
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North Kerry Cargo Hub PlanThe massive State owned land bank in North Kerry should be used for the development of a European trans-shipment marine hub, the local cumann of Republican Sinn Fein said today. [Full Article]
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Belfast's "Poor White Trash" and the Dead Dogmas of the Past Brian KellyBilly Mitchell has drawn the parallel recently in the Blanket between the so-called 'poor white trash' of the American South and the Protestant working class here in the north. And in many ways it is an analogy that fits: callously abandoned in social and economic terms by the rulers of a society to which they have so enthusiastically proclaimed their loyalty over many, many years; sneered at, manipulated by, and regarded with a mixture of pity and contempt by "respectable" elements in their "own community"; and diverted from pursuing joint struggle alongside their fellow workers from the Falls or the Short Strand by their entanglement in a deep-rooted, reactionary historical tradition, like the Southern white working class during the civil rights era they are too easily held up as "the culprits" in the recent upsurge of sectarian barbarism. [Full Article]
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Orde's inauspicious start Fern LaneThe new chief constable of the RUC, Hugh Orde, took up his post on Monday, vowing to stay out of politics. His very first act as chief constable, however, was entirely political. [Full Article]
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