Saturday, November 9, 2002

IRA Army Council Changes. IRA shakes up army council says the Belfast Telegraph. This story is weeks old, however, so why they... [The Shamrockshire Eagle] Comments: 8:15:51 AM

Census figures will show closing of gap Commenting on the census figures expected to be released in December, Sinn Féin national chair Mitchel McLaughlin predicts that they will confirm a further closing of the gap between republican/nationalists and the combined pro-Union population in the North. [AP/RN] Comments: Google It! 7:32:11 AM

To The Beat Of A Different Drum Anthony McIntyre The announcement by the Provisional IRA, shortly after British security minister Jane Kennedy called upon it to make a substantive peace gesture, that it was to withdraw its interlocutor from discussions with John de Chastelain[base ']s IICD was not without significance. But it lay less in what the IRA had to say than in the palpably nonchalant response that it prompted. The Independent dismissed it as something that 'changes nothing.' The Dublin Government was scarcely more concerned when it described the move as 'unhelpful but hardly fatal.' According to the Irish Times both Dublin and London take the view that 'they'll be back ... it's a ritual gesture, a comfort blanket for Provo hard men, an exercise in cold war huffing.' The Boston Herald depicted an indifferent reflex from throughout this country - 'the IRA's statement generally evoked a large yawn from both parts of Ireland'. [The Blanket] Comments: Google It! 7:21:09 AM

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