Monday, November 25, 2002

Students On The Warpath Maureen Gallagher In the last few weeks after a decade of inactivity, we have seen students go on the warpath. The government cuts, a symptom of the end of the Celtic Tiger, was the trigger for student anger - a massive sixty per cent hike in registration fees and a threat to re-introduce college fees. [Fourtwrite: Students On The Warpath] Comments: Google It! 6:49:18 AM

Republican POW victimized for refusal to do prison work in Maghaberry prison Republican Sinn Féin POW Department Republican Sinn Féin POW Department condemn the ill-treatment of Republican POW Stiofan Ó Dálaigh in Maghaberry prison. As a Republican POW Stiofan refused to do prison work. He also refused to be forced by the prison regime to be placed with sex offenders. [Saoirse: Republican POW victimized for refusal to do prison work in Maghaberry prison] Comments: Google It! 6:46:52 AM

Capo de tuti Capo?: The Three Families Part 1: Bridie McCloskeyís Story Anthony McIntyre When Micky Donnelly[base ']s article about Provisional republican 'policing' methods in Derry featured in The Blanket, it was obvious that something was seriously wrong in the North West. Donnelly, a former republican internee and outspoken critic of current Sinn Fein strategy, had some years earlier been attacked by the Provisional IRA in his Derry home and sustained a broken leg and other injuries in a blatant attempt to suppress his critique. His wife and young children were also traumatised by the attack. Had that incident been the only one of its type it would have, like so many others, faded in the public consciousness, the latter being subject to a constant culling process which aims to obliterate seditious thoughts that 'are not helpful to the peace process.' But since the case of Joseph McCloskey, so ably articulated and highlighted by his mother Bridie, had failed to be suffocated by the peace process, it was clear that more questions needed to be asked about the nature of the relationship between some elements in the general Provisional Republican Movement and those communities in which it is situated. [The Blanket: Capo de tuti Capo?: The Three Families Part 1: Bridie McCloskey[base ']s Story] Comments: Google It! 6:45:06 AM

Different accent, same direct rule Fern Lane Two weeks into his new job and true to his word Paul Murphy, Labour MP for Torfaen since 1987, member of the British government team during the tortuous Good Friday Agreement negotiations, and new Six-County Secretary of State, has been doing more listening than talking. That is fine, so far as it goes, but what matters is the action he now takes on the basis of what he has heard from those who have done the talking. [AP/RN: Different accent, same direct rule] Comments: Google It! 6:39:47 AM

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