Saturday, October 12, 2002

Send her glorious...back home Patricia Campbell The recent visit by the Queen of England to County Tyrone amongst other occupied counties to mark her Golden Jubilee was in stark contrast to her visit of 1977, which marked her silver jubilee 25 years ago. For those of us who can remember, she was not made so welcome. Republicans came out in large numbers, black flags in hand which were known as the 'black flag protests'. Republicans were clear that they opposed and were not interested in symbolic gestures of continuing British rule and domination. This was the head of the British State who had presented the Paratroop regiment with medals for their service for her beloved country, part of which, service was the murder of 14 civil rights marchers in Derry in 1972 [Fourthwrite] Comments: Google It! 8:11:48 AM

IRSP Ard Fheis '02 John Martin, Political Secretary IRSP The 4th Ard Feis since the reformation of the Irish Republican Socialist Party in 1995 was held recently in Derry City. [The Starry Plough] Comments: Google It! 8:08:15 AM

House raids by Provisional police In the last number of weeks a number of homes of supporters of Republican Sinn Féin in north and west Belfast have been entered and searched. In all cases the houses in question were unoccupied at the time of the raids. Comments: Google It! 8:00:47 AM

Just Desserts? Anthony McIntyre What an ironic note was struck through merely observing a Belfast Telegraph photo of a po faced Sinn Fein MLA appearing to conduct a damage assessment exercise in the party's Stormont office after it had been raided by British police last week. After all, was it not just action of this very type, or maybe even more robust, that Mick Murphy implied was needed when he recently criticised the PSNI for not confronting the Real IRA in his South Down constituency? Would such confrontation have taken the form of polite knocks followed by a lengthy period of waiting outside the doors of RIRA suspects? [The Blanket] Comments: Google It! 7:58:34 AM

Trimble's wreckers' charter Laura Friel The British government must stop pandering to Unionist rejectionism and work towards minimising damage to the Good Friday Agreement by implementing outstanding change as a matter of urgency, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams told a Belfast conference on Tuesday. [AP/RN] Comments: Google It! 7:57:09 AM

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