News in Review
Chronology
A News Chronology from Ireland
The following news items were compiled by The Irish American Information
Service and Irish American Post staff and other news organizations.
Cowen announces
Euro 675,270
for Reconciliation Groups
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland, Brian Cowen T.D., has
announced the allocation of grants totaling Euro 675,270 from the Department
of Foreign Affairs' Reconciliation Fund. The grants are being made to 28
organizations involved in a range of cross-community and cross-border outreach
and reconciliation programs.[More]
Speeches given
by SDLP Leader Mark Durkan
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Durkan Briefs US Business Leaders
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Durkan Wants Agreement on Direction.
[More]
Northern
Ireland 'Calm on the Streets' on Talk Line
(Transcript courtesy of the Northern Ireland Information
Service)
It has been a very quiet summer. How did we get here? I have Frankie
Gallagher on the line who speaks for the Ulster Political Research Group
and Eoin O'Broin is with me in the studio, Sinn Féin councillor
for North Belfast.
[More]
Fake Goods
Found at Fair
(Transcript courtesy of the Northern Ireland Information
Service)
Well, the Auld Lammas Fair will bring thousands of people into Ballycastle
today and again there'll be plain clothes police officers moving among
them. They have already seized thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit
goods. [More]
Ex-Prisoner
Record Dumping on Firing Line
(Transcript courtesy of the Northern Ireland Information
Service)
The emptying of this jail as part of the Good Friday Agreement has
not closed the prisoners issue. Hundreds of republicans and loyalists were
freed from the Maze, then a mechanism was agreed to deal with paramilitary
suspects still on the run. But now another issue has come back to haunt
the political process. [More]
SF Slammed
Over Call for IRA 'Clean Slate'
(This commentary was provided by the Ulster Unionist
Party)
Sinn Fein was branded the ''Oliver Twist of Northern Ireland politics''
today on UTV after it emerged the party has pressed for the criminal
records of thousands of IRA members to be cleared. [More]
UUP Crisis
Continues
(Transcript courtesy of the Northern Ireland Information
Service)
A former Ulster Unionist Minister has dismissed speculation that David
Trimble is losing support within his party and is about to be ousted as
leader. Michael McGimpsey also rejected the notion the party is about to
split. [More]
Statement
by the Taoiseach,
Mr. Bertie Ahern T.D.,
to the General Debate at the
58th General Assembly, United Nations
New York, Sept 25, 2003.
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