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• I i i i • I I I I • • • i i I I I I i i i i l I l I i i • i i I I I I i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i • I I I I i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i p2 p3 p4 Two cheers for the Dublin News management, police-style: Troubled images of the conflict: government's overdue start to the The PTA gets renewed on the day a novelist, a journalist and a process of gay legal reform a massive bomb haul is revealed film-maker look at the North • ••>1111111111111111111111111 • 11111111111111111111111111111 • 111111111111111111111111111111 toishMay 1993 • Price 40p OemocPAConnolly Association: campaigning for a united and independenCt Irelan d Most significantly, By The Editor they ruled out the estab- lishment of a devolved assembly as a viable way forward. "We accept that an internal settlement is EVOLUTION not a solution because it obviously does not deal Dof the ad- with all the relationships ministration at the heart of the prob- of the Six lem," Hume and Adams Counties to a agreed. Northern Ireland "We accept that the government at Stormont Irish people as a whole Castle will bring peace havel a right to national with justice no nearer. self-determination. This On that much at least, is the view shared by a Sinn Fein leader Gerry majority of the people on Adams, SDLP leader this island, though not by John Hume and Irish all its people," they un- Taoiseach Albert derlined. Reynolds seem agreed Their explicit rejection before the resumption of of devolved government political talks widely ex- is especially interesting pected after the local in the light of Northern elections in the North Ireland Secretary Patrick later this month. Mayhew's suggestion The common opposi- earlier last month that tion to an internal 1 An internal settlement will settle precious little the British government settlement emerged in a might be tabling devolu- joint statement between tion proposals for the Hume and Adams after next round of talks. the second of their meet- ings last month, and in It doesn't look like Dail exchanges between they would go down Mr Reynolds and Fine very well with Dublin, Gael leader John Bruton, either. Mr Reynolds told Devolved one of the ideological the Dail last month that if leaders of the lobby to the British government dispense with Articles pushed ahead with a Two and Three of the plan for an exclusively Irish constitution. internal settlement, "we "As leaders of our would not be supporting respective parties, we ac- their efforts in that cept that the most regard." assembly pressing issue facing the Mr Reynolds also ap- people of Ireland and peared to signal a Britain today is the ques- stiffening of the partner- tion of lasting peace and ship government's how it can be achieved," backbone on the issue of the Hume-Adams state- the constitutional claim ment said. to an integral national "Everyone has a territory at Fianna Fail's won't bring solemn duty to change annual Easter celebra- the political climate tion. away from conflict and "Articles Two and towards a process of na- Three were not an issue tional reconciliation at Sunningdalc. They which sees the peaceful were not an issue in the accommodation of the Anglo-Irish Agreement peace differences between the and they are not an issue people of Britain and now," he said. Ireland, and the Irish people themselves," they said. HEADLINES HEADLINES EDITORIAL Island WORLD COMMENT communities BY P O L I T I C U S Definite under threat Mixed welcome for Terror Act renewed on the CORK The struggle articles Jim Savage gay legal reform day bomb haul is revealed HILE many parts of for Russia West Cork have suffered with legislation which only But she fails to frame the CIVIL LIBERTIES This revealed that of the 160 making much of Labour's Rimmington's daughter, a decline in population made gay sex with minors a issue in terms of achieving the LEGISLATION RISH TAOISEACH Albert Reynolds men- W people arrested in Britain long-standing opposition to Sophie, who often used to visit over the last 25 years, the Martin Moriarty criminal offence. full equality for lesbians and tioned the territorial claim to a united Ireland Conor Foley under the PTA in Britain eight the PTA in an attempt to the flat and this fact had been county's seven offshore is- Whichever alternative the gay men which is promised in when he recently defended Articles Two and were charged with offences recover some of the ground leaked to the "spook-friendly" lands have been worst IVE YEARS after the government chooses, the new the Fianna Fail-Labour HE MAIN DANGER facing Russia now is the Three of the Irish constitution in the Dail — HE Prevention of Ter- under its provisions, eight lost over the law and order Mail and Times. affected. Republic of Ireland was age of consent will be central to Programme for a Partnership same as that which destroyed the Soviet Union the articles Messrs Major and Mayhew have rorism Act was renewed were charged with murder, debate. None of the five were even Most have seen their ruled in breach of the the impact of the overdue Government. — incompetent economic measures by Mos- stigmatized as "unhelpful." F again in the House of conspiracy or posession of ex- I For conspiracy theorist con- questioned during their deten- populations cut by over 50 per European Convention on T cow leading to the different nationalities feel- reform: 17 — the heterosexual Instead, Ms Geoghegan- Commons in March by 329 plosives, three were deported noisseurs, however, these tions and remain mystified "The present Irish constitutional position cent and entire communities Human Rights for its 19th cen- equivalent — 18 — the present Quinn addresses it as a prob- ing that they would be better off on their own votes to 202. or excluded, four were stories were overshadowed by about the cause of their ordeal. means a great deal to the Nationalist community have been wiped out on the tury laws criminalising gay age of majority — or 21 — the lem of playing one lobby off Trather than being economically ruined by the rule of Labour called for all-party charged with theft, two were the news that armed police had The police told them their ad- in Northern Ireland," Reynolds said. "They see it smaller islands. relationships, the first signs age of consent in the UK. against another. the federal authorities. as affirmation that they belong to the Irish nation. talks to consider a replacement charged with defrauding the narrowly missed arresting the dress had been found in But the islands have attrac- emerged that the Dublin Given that the UK is way "On the one side, there will For Russia itself, like the old USSR, is a federation. They also see it as giving the Irish government a to the Act on the proviso that Department of Social Security, eldest daughter of Stella Rim- another flat which had been tive unspoilt environments government was finally taking out on a limb on the issue — be those who are opposed to It has 13 constituent republics, many autonomous status to negotiate with the British government exclusion orders be scrapped four were charged with frauds mington, the head of MI5, raided but they can think of and could develop their own the issue seriousl / when a the age of gay male consent is any change in the law, even regions and numerous different nationalities and lan- on their behalf. It reflects their deeply held con- and seven day detentions be involving car insurance, two during a PTA raid in London. nothing which would connect agriculture and tourism in- draft memorandum on gay 16 in Belgium, the Nether- though some change is re- guages. Russians predominate, but one-third of the victions about partition. In effect, the first three subject to judicial supervision were with other fraud offences She is now on the files of the them to this. Dark stories of dustries of great significance legal reform appeared last lands, Norway, Switzerland quired by our obligations population is of different nationality, covering much Articles are seen as the Irish constitutional rather than the approval of the and eight were charged with organisation which recently rivalry between MI5 and the for the entire area. month. and Portugal, and 15 in under the ECHR," she more than a third of the land area. Several of these guarantee to Northern nationalists." Home Secretary. Kenneth other offences so minor as not took over responsibility for Special Branch continue to cir- Sherkin Island marine sta- Justice Minister Maire Sweden, Denmark, Poland, predicts. nationalities have already launched independence He also recalled the words of the all-party Clarke, the Home Secretary, to be specified. combatting the IRA's bombing culate and this story will cer- tion, theOilean Turbot project Geoghegan-Quinn is consult- Greece, France, Italy and Spain "On the other side, there movements. A break-up could mean ethnic wars in a New Ireland Forum report which stated that "a accused Labour of "giving In what appears to have campaign in Britain. tainly add some grist to the and the Bere Island Abalone ing ministers about whether to — 21 is an unlikely outcome. will be those who will be satis- country littered with nuclear weapons.