Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Cut-backs are targeting the vulnerable and deprived Young unmarried mothers and people on low incomes in deprived areas of Limerick are being forced back in the hands of moneylenders because the 26-County Administration has cut jobs in community enterprise and FÁS schemes, the local Brugha/Sabhat Cumann of Republican Sinn Féin stated on August 28. [Saoirse: Cut-backs are targeting the vulnerable and deprived] Comments: 5:47:08 PM

UDA target the innocent: Bomb greets first day Holy Cross kids Laura Friel A loyalist pipe bomb attached to the gates of Holy Cross Girls' Primary School disrupted the first day of term and renewed fears of a resumption of a sectarian campaign of violence against the North Belfast Catholic School. The attack took place against the backdrop of a sectarian campaign of intimidation by Glenbryn loyalists targeting Catholic homes in nearby Deerpark Road. [AP/RN: UDA target the innocent: Bomb greets first day Holy Cross kids] Comments: 5:46:58 PM

In the Shadow of Fear Anthony McIntyre Brendan Shannon, or Shando, as he is more widely known throughout the republican community is a veteran republican. Hailing from a West Belfast republican family whose own involvement predated the peculiar phenomenon of Provisional republicanism, 47 year old Shando has a particular attachment to the values of traditional republicanism. Listening to him speak it is impossible to ignore his passion, a fervent belief that republicanism is almost genetically inherited, situated in and transmitted through the blood of his parents, both of whom were staunch republicans 'of the old school.' James Connolly stayed in his father's house on the Falls Road, beside the Mill. He was there to talk to the workers. His paternal grandmother kept the chair Connolly had stood upon from which to address his working class audience. An aunt, unfortunately, later broke it up and burnt it replacing it with a more fashionable one. Shando's father was attacked when he walked Leeson Street to court his furture wife who lived in that area. That was the "Devlin" era, when British Imperialism ruled the roost and seemed to have no shortage of supporters in the Falls. Shando's father took to carrying his hurl from then on and often needed it. Republicanism seemed thin on the ground in those days and according to Shando it seems like the past is once again visiting itself upon West Belfast and making republicans unwelcome in their own streets. [The Blanket: In the Shadow of Fear] Comments: 5:46:41 PM

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