Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Smash Slave Wages Figures released by the British Inland Revenue show that the Six Counties have the worst paid jobs in what they term the "UK". Around ten percent of arrears recovered from employers who failed to pay the UK's minimum wage in 2001, representing over one million pounds, was collected in the North, which represents only three percent of UK's population. [The Starry Plough: Smash Slave Wages] Comments: Google It! 7:15:06 AM

Unveiling of plaque at Belfast office On the third anniversary of the opening of the Sinn Féin Poblachtach office on the Falls Road in Belfast, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh unveiled a plaque naming the office as Teach McKelvey/Steel. Joe McKelvey and Jimmy Steel were two well known Belfast Republicans who never wavered from the true and just path to Irish unity. [Saoirse: Unveiling of plaque at Belfast office] Comments: Google It! 7:09:16 AM

Death of an IRA Volunteer Anthony McIntyre There was a time when the death of an IRA volunteer had some meaning broader than the end of an individual life. No matter how startling the loss nor intense the grief, it could always be rationalised in terms of some wider purpose. When Seany Bateson died in jail in June 1990, his passing proved particularly difficult to come to terms with. When Sean Lynch informed me of the news at the grill separating the two republican wings, I blanched and gripped the bars for support. Seany had breathed his last simply walking up the wing - the result of what appears to have been a congenital heart defect. Others had died in prison but their deaths were easier to comprehend. When Tom McElwee expired through hunger strike his death hurt us badly but it had a very definite purpose. The lives of IRA volunteers were considered so precious to their comrades that the ending of one was incomprehensible if it could not be fitted in with some higher end. Our minds could not fathom how one could die merely walking up a wing. Going out that way gave life a pedestrian status - walking into a cul de sac from which little meaningful could emerge. [The Blanket: Death of an IRA Volunteer] Comments: Google It! 7:04:49 AM

Sinn FÈin brief Diplomatic Corps on ongoing peace talks Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on International Affairs, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, and the head of the party's International Department, Joan O'Connor, on Monday briefed 29 members of the Diplomatic Corps on the ongoing negotiations between Sinn Féin and the British and Irish governments and the pro-Agreement parties. They also discussed the pending war in Iraq. [AP/RN: Sinn Féin brief Diplomatic Corps on ongoing peace talks] Comments: Google It! 7:01:04 AM

Negotiations a work in progress - Gerry Adams Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP addressing party activists and elected representatives in Dublin City last Saturday, following a special meeting of the party's Ard Chomhairle to discuss the current negotiations, said that "while substantial progress has been made on a range of issues, substantive gaps do remain. [AP/RN: Negotiations a work in progress - Gerry Adams] Comments: Google It! 6:56:42 AM

Tough talks ahead This week, Sinn Féin leaders are travelling to 20 cities in North America to inform Irish American supporters of the progress made to date and to seek support for the tough talking that remains if a deal is to be secured. [AP/RN: Tough talks ahead] Comments: Google It! 6:54:36 AM

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