While the world's media have focused on the confrontation at Drumcree, Unionist bigots have unleashed a wave of firebombings across Northern Ireland. July is the main loyalist marching season. Thousands of Orangemen commemorate the
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The issue of loyalist parades has dominated the final days of election campaigning for the Northern Ireland assembly. One of the most contentious parades of the Northern Ireland marching season passed without major incident. The
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On May 22, the Belfast agreement, which sets up a new power-sharing assembly in the Six Counties, won overwhelming endorsement from the people of Ireland. In the north, 71.1% backed the agreement, while in the south, constitutional
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With the May 22 referenda behind them, the people of Ireland are sure to be asking themselves: what happens now? The Good Friday agreement, which formed the basis of the poll, could claim to fulfil its charter only if all the
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The New York-based Irish Echo spoke for many critics of the peace deal Sinn Féin has decided to endorse when it pointed out that the party had agreed to something it had told its supporters it would never accept — partition.
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We should thank Eric Singh (GLW #313) for reminding us that this year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. No doubt, as the drama industry cranks up, we are sure to be treated to a fact feast
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The recently concluded Irish peace deal has not been received enthusiastically — despite media claims to the contrary. The Loyal Orange Lodge has rejected it out of hand, and the main loyalist party, the Ulster Unionists, is
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The Northern Ireland peace process is in great jeopardy following the expulsion from political negotiations of Sinn Féin, which represents more than 40% of nationalist opinion in the Six Counties. Even prior to Sinn
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While all attention is focused on Sinn Féin's battle to remain in the northern Ireland peace talks, one vital factor is being overlooked. No progress is being made. Only one item has been on the agenda: Sinn Féin's
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After 40 years of almost unbroken government in Queensland, the ALP entered the political wilderness in 1957 after a crippling split. In 1989 it regained office under the leadership of Wayne Goss. Now, despite his determination last
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With six Catholics shot dead after six weeks of a loyalist killing spree, the prospects for a peace settlement in Northern Ireland seem bleaker now than at any time since the current talks began in October. The latest victims were
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The continuing brouhaha about paedophilia should give us all cause for thought. Suddenly — if NSW MP Franca Arena and various submissions to commissions of inquiry in both NSW and Queensland are to be believed — the