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Hello and welcome to Tomorrow's People. in Brussels. They are asking if our social agenda Tomorrow's People is arriving at a time It's a Workers' Party publication, so it's We know well that things like newspapers should really be set by the leadership of a when more and more citizens are recognis­ about freedom - freedom from want, free­ alone don't win progress. Clear thinking, Church, or by any group that doesn't have ing that "the environment" is not a dom from cant and the freedom to express hard slogging, involvement with the people to face the people at the polls. minority concern. The environment is ideas. and the socialist spirit win progress. But a In particular, women want to know when where you live and work. It dictates the Our heart is with the Workers' Party, but good people's paper very definitely helps. all the promises about equality will spark quality of your life. It's what you hand on there'll be no hackery here: that never did We h0pe to look twice at events and ome real change. They want equality in to your children. It dictates the quality of anyone any v.:>od. trends tra\. other media turn away from. work inside and outside the home. They their lives too. If greed gets a free run over And unlike other media, we hope to say want to be treated as human beings, not as the environment, it'll poison you and your We hope Tomorrow's People will boo to a few geese. servants or objects. They won't carry the children without a econd thought: become an open door for everyone who Tomorrow's People has been born at a heaviest burdens in silence any longer. business, after all, is business. wants real change in Ireland, and that good time. People are asking questions. Tomorrow's People will be published mean peaceful change. They are asking why cliques and elites are twice a month. We hope to be a fighting We hope to grow with the Worker' calling the shots in Irish society. And Ireland wants to know just how paper with a fresh approach. Boredom is Party as it take its place at the heart of the They are asking why the servicing of the much longer the Provos can keep up the bad news for people with new ideas to put struggle for freedom and openne s in rich by this and previous governments has killing when they know it's pointless. Their about. Ireland. set the economic agenda and left the rest of murdering has become merely a morbid So keep an eye out for Tomorrow's That struggle takes place from the treet us overtaxed, unemployed or trapped in habit. It remains the primary cause of the People. And in the cause of a better or townland where you live right up to the poverty or debt. North's treadmill of bigotry and death. tomorrow, it'll keep an eye out for you. Core of corruption? • rezoning scandals Fianna Fail Dublin County Councillors, with occasional Fine TOMORROW'S PEOPLE REPORTER Gael help, voted to rezone land in breach of agreed development plans 131 times in the life of the He added: "I'm convinced that outgoing council handing on many occasions the interests of profits of at least £150 million to the people are being ignored in developer. seedy back room deals. Many of A new study hows that 88 of the e rezoning deci ions lower the the motions passed allowed quality of people's lives. Tho e banned but potentially lucrative interested in serving the people hou ing developments to go can't turn away from this any ahead. longer." Forty-nine motions rezoned Gilmore said there was nothing scarce"green belt" areas, mostly wrong with councillors occasion­ for commercial or housing use. ally amending the County On 91 occasions, the council' Development Plan in respon e to professional planners said "don't a proposal for u eful develop­ In your opinion, is there more than question. "There are greater do it", but virtual bloc voting by one child in the picture above? In finaneial demands on the parent~ of ment. "But on too many fact, don't they look like twins? Fianna Fail pushed them aside. Don't multiple births," Byrne noted. occasion , what we're eeing i a VVe thought so too. Funn) "Clearly, anything over one is A garda inquiry into alleged grotty abu e of power at the enough, so does their mother. The multiple." corruption in the Dublin planning behest of the rich. The people children are called Fiona and icola. VVood teered well clear of the proce has been under way for don't get a look-in." And if they are twins, isn't that a count on matter and warned. two years. Fianna Fail won a working multiple birth, if the word multiple Mairead Hilliard and Detective have hit a wall of majority on the council in the la t means more than one? have both approached the Depart­ silence. local elections in 1985. Since then VVell Health Minister Michael Michael ment of ocial VVellare on the The Worker' Party Environ­ VVoods and the Department of matter. Mr John Brennan, executive • 41 Section 4 motions were ocial VVelfare says multiple does ment spoke man, Deputy Eamon passed, overriding Clny objections orricer, in reply, merely restated the not mean more than one. Gilmore, who is also a Dublin to individual projects by the Woods existing situation and ruled out any Michael VVoods and his Depart­ "concession" on the issue of twin County Council member and who council' professional planners; ment begin counting at three. births. drew up the study of rezoning • of the 131 "material Contra­ The twins' mother, Malread it," says Malread Hllliard. "They Twins are born to one couple in voting, says: "Vast amounts of ventions" of the council's Own HiIIlard, of Lucan, Dublin, only always need things like shoes and 80, says Mairead Hilliard. She has money have been made fr;>m these plan that were pushed through, recently began to look Iwice at the clothes at the same time. Mine are contacted all the Dublin maternity rezonings by developers and 108 were proposed by Fianna Fail Child Benefit Act when the horren­ eight now. They're at school, so they hospitals asking to be put In touch :>thers. And 80010 of the motions councillors, and 87 of these were dous finaneial cost of rearing twins need two sets of book at the same with the parents of other twins. She have been proposed or seconded seconded by Fianna Failers; began to weigh on her. time. Things like Communion and would like to get a campaigning It turned her into an activist. "It Confirmation are a nightmare. And by one party - Fianna Fail. • almost 3,600 houses were built group on the case to press or Ju got up my nose when I thought it'll get tougher every year to meet change. "It's unju t and It's mean­ "The sheer number of these in areas which the development about It,'' he say. he has now costs. If there's a breathing space tin'! motions and Fianna Fail's milld,..1 It shouid be fought," plan said were unsuitable; laDdled a campaign to have twin between kids, It's different." she say • nthusiasm for them raises a very • 72 of the motions rezoned birt accepted multiple births, ErIc Byrne TD, VVorken' Party Mairead Hllliard .\-ould like to rave issue. It has been suggested agricultural land for housing, and tllerefore due spedal payments Social VVelfare spokesman, tackled hear from the parent of .,Iher twl.... hat politicians, political parties, commercial or industrial use. piu tile onee-off pedal grant of Mlchael VVoods about the in Her address Is 31 VVtllMhlew, 1.1 -an, r both, 'could have benefited A low estimate for the cost of a !300 paid to the parents of triplets. lhe Dill with a written parli8aen­ Co. Dublin. Her pholl' "1110. • i~ hrough funding from developers. house site is £30,000. The motions "I wish people wouid think about tary question, backed up by a rbal 6282618. It i outrageous that, under the rezoned sites for 3 600 hou e . aw, they don't have to declare This alone giv.: a fi~ure of £108 this." To page 2 PAGE 2 TOMORROW'S PEOPLE Fighting fit women put O'Hanlon on the spot

• Members of the Bray WP women's group (right), fighting fit despite appearances, put the skids under Rory O'Hanlon for a new health centre with a Dail protest.

It pays to protest, members of the Bray. Workers' Party Women's Group have found. A lively and eye-catching demonstration outside the Didl and a question from Eamon joined by Workers' Party promised new health centre Ferris continued: "On their a new Bray health centre and Gilmore TD inside the Dail Councillor Liz McManus, told and we don't intend to wait behalf, we're looking for .the promising to keep the group drew a response from Health arriving Ministers and TDs any longer. The existing capital allocation promised informed. "We're encouraged, Minister Rory O'Hanlon. that the buildings were buildings can only be described under the Programme for even quitely optimistic, but The Co. Wicklow women dilapidated, unsanitary and as 'sick'. Women and children Economic and Social Progress we're aware that there's an were highlighting the "sick" too small. are mainly affected. We're and we're looking for it now." election next month. We condition of the three buildings The chairperson of the Bray speaking on behalf of Just this week Ferris received intend to keep the pressure on which house the town's health group, Anne Ferris, told hundreds of families and on a letter from Health Minister until we end the present facilities. Tomorrow's People: "We've behalf of the people who have Rory O'Hanlon saying that he situation, because it's a The women, who were been waiting years for our to work in a slum." was making inquiries regarding disgrace," said Ferris.

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to for 1,200 From page I Free education as promised in the talking about the population of Over that distance, the Minister either free transport or the school Constitution has become a sour the three last Corporation estates would have had to provide free they should have had in the first joke to the parents of Cherry built before the Minister for the transport as she must for children place. million. If the increase in property Orchard. Environment stopped local in the country. The Minister's reaction? When values from other rezonings and There isn't any realistic way to authority house-building in In theory, kids are supposed to Tomas Mac Giolla of the the potential profit from the send their children to school Dublin in 1987. There are a total be well able for a trek of up to Workers' Party raised it in the "developments" themselves are except by private bus. For those of 1,200 school-going children three miles to school. In practice, Dail, Mrs. O'Rourke said cheer­ taken into account, the estimate whose kids are lucky enough to be from Croftwood, Gallanstown this means navigating the hazards fully that it wasn't her of £150 million is a cautious one. enrolled in the nearest school - and Elmdale estates - more than of heavy traffic over main roads. responsibility at all. "Hold your A motion by Councillor Pat about a mile away - the charge is in many rural towns - who have Few parents are willing to risk whist, boy," she told Mr Mac Rabbitte TD of the Workers' £1.75 a week; it goes up after that no school of their own to go to. that, and the only alternative to Giolla. It was the previous Minis­ Party, which called on the council acco~ding to distance. The original plans for Cherry private transport is to walk them ter's responsibility, she said. "I to support a judicial inquiry into Orchard called for five estates - no easy proposition if they are wasn't the Minister involved." planning corruption claims, fell For those with kids in school in 'with a churc", shops and a school. heading for different schools, and She did not deny the fact that when 35 Fianna Fail and Fine Inchicore, about two-and-a-half When the building stopped, three- many children from the same sh~ has been Minister since 1987, Gael councillors, in a strange miles away, it's £3.50 a week. fifths of the homes and the church families are. Also there may be when Mac Giolla pointed that out. show of unity, abstained. Multiply that by two or three were finished. The Minister for smaller ones to mind at home. Nor did she deny some of his is adamant that school-going children per family Education, in her wisdom, other points - that the Govern­ a sworn public inquiry into the - and in some cases more - and decided there were enough schools Last month the coach owners ment has saved £5 to £6 million by planning process is needed. "My you have a sum that amounts to a in the area to cater for the child­ announced an increase of 25p a deciding not build a school, and feeling is that the corruption is not steady drain on scarce resources. ren. They were dispersed, to the week on one run. This is an un­ that the Cherry Orchard parents rampant. We are not alleging This would be a serious prob­ six nearest schools. bearable burden on families who have spent about £250,000 over widespread crookery. But I feel lem if it concerned only a few It was a cute decision from her in many cases already have to the past five years getting their that the people are certainly being families whose homes for one point of view, since the schools stretch finances to put food on the children to and from the only sold out on an organised basis and reason or another weren't located she had in mind were all less than table, and the people of the area schools they have a right to attend if we don't want the whole system near a school. But, in fact, we're three miles from Cherry Orchard. have come together to demand at no cost. demeaned, we'll have to do some­ thing about it is a hurry." A long-time and non-political observer of Dublin County Council told Tomorrow's People: Councillors talk sewage in Meath "What's been going on seriously calls into question whose interest Here's a rezoning story with a alley and 60 houses. candidate for the Dunshaughlin some councillors are working in, twist. The people want the Unusually, the developer area of Meath County Council in and why. I don't know why some rezoning. Local business doesn't. consulted the residents' groups the coming local elections, says: of them aren't in Mountjoy. So guess who the local councillors about his plans, which he publicly "Shopping facilities are There is no other explanation for heeded? displayed and explained. This bit ridiculously inadequate. There's what's been going on than The Garden City Residents and of democracy is rare in such about 7,000 people living in the corruption." Crestwood Residents' Association rezoning matters. Ashbourne area now. We have in the fast-growing area of one very small shopping centre in Ashbourne, Co Meath, were Locals were particularly one estate, another small strongly behind the plans of a looking forward to a shopping shopping centre being develo~, developer, Luke Moriarty, for a centre. and a few shops scattered around. scheme involving a shopping John King, local Workers' People were looking forward to centre, two cinemas, a bowling Party representative and the whole development." -JOHN KING TOMORROW'S PEOPLE PAGE 3 The unbeatable power of _honesty

I met Kathleen Lynch, councillor, in her house in The Lough, Noel McFarlane City, on a rare sunny day last met Councillor week. It was a day made for idleness, Kathleen Lynch of but that's something Councillor Cork this week. He Lynch can't afford any more. The house was full of life as feels she may be well as light. joining the WP It was a busy lunchtime for a home-maker. The four children Dilil team next (aged 12 to 18) of Bernard and time around. Kathleen Lynch came from school to eat and talk. They were fed and heard, with care. Her activism began in a NATO The Lynch house is also more branch in Ballyphehane in 1983. or less temporary Workers' Party She had no interest in politics up headquarters in Cork City. People until then. She wondered off­ come and go. And she remarked handedly if Dublin-bas~u party f. that I was lucky her phone was I members were fully aware of the / broken; otherwise she'd be hard power of service charges as a put to talk to me without radicalising issue for communities persistent breaks to take calls. (Dublin does not have service She has been a Corporation charges at this time). "I saw councillor for the party since elderly women marching up and 1985. Why, I asked routinely, had down in anger with placards. My she run. eyes were opened." "Because they guaranteed me I She was educated at Blackpool wouldn't get a seat." National School, worked for a Now, as someone used to short while in the Sunbeam textile knocking around in politics and factory and continued her among politicians I began to form education "travelling and drifting the impression that I was dealing around Ireland." with meone and something a bit In the opinion of this writer, different in Councillor Lynch. Kathleen Lynch's education will Yes, 1 said, it certainly looked never stop till she does. like her political work ate into her She was born in a Corporation male-dominated party." She cites an experience on Cork "The party I in a slate of per onal time. house on the Northside of Cork. Was that image justified? Corporation. "Quite properly, transition. We have \\ork to du. Councillor Lynch: "What She is the youngest of 11. Her late "Yes, it is." there was a move to dish some We were so goocl at indoctrinating per onal time?" father was a tailor. Her mother is What had women to offer in footpaths as a gesture to the dis­ ourselves that we sometimes find She got 412 votes in 1985 and still among us. And what wa her politics that men couldn't? abled. It was, of course a civilised it difficuft to think. The leader­ took a seat on I he 15th count. mother doing these days? "What "All women are practical. thing, and belated as well. But it ship has been through these These figures were supplied by an he always did - housework." Some are more practical than took myself and the other handful phases before. I think they see assistant - "I'm no good really what's going on now a~ a on the system and transfers and all challenge. But people on the that, and on numbers generally," ground are worried that all they she ay casually. "There's an old analogy between politicians and bananas. They believed in will be somehow swept Four years later, in the Dflil start offgreen, soon turn yellow and before long get bent. People away." election for Cork South Central, What were the party's assets? Lynch drew a very powerful block know Fm not like that and the Workers' Party is not like that. " "The dedication of the mem­ of four-and-a-half thousand bers and their willingness for votes. change. I'm talking about people How did she react to that? who've been slogging away for 30 "1 got a fright," she says. Councillor Lynch does a lot of others. Women are more practical of women there to point out how years. You can't overlook Why did so many people vote that herself. She doesn't have than men." women with buggies and prams as an asset. for her? much choice about it - her Why? had been fighting with undished And, of course, the bravery of "Because I talk straight. If I husband and comrade, Bernard, "Because, you'll find, women paths since they invented the Mac Giolla's willingness io let Ue don't have an answer to a works long hours. don't have a lot of time. They wheel." Rossa go ahead is undeniable. question, I'll say so. I'm also She has come to realise, "only have to make things work, and Arthur Scargill is her favourite perceived as being honest. There's in the last few years", that her quickly. I'm tired of hearing person, and surprisingly, a Fianna "People also see us as honest. It an old analogy between politicians father was possibly the greatest people talking about women Failer who shall be nameless is was the Workers' Party that made and bananas. They start off green, influence on her life. "He always always complaining. They're among those she admires most in the point that working-class soon turn yellow and before long treated me as a distinct person. He expressing the aggravation from politics. "Well, he's a plodder. people deserve the very best get bent. People know I'm not treated me equally, as he would a the frustration of not really He's not a good speaker so he representation. The like that and the Workers' Party is son. He taught me, for instance, getting a look in. makes up for it by being funny ·has been presenting an impressive not like that." how to wire a lamp... he taught "But I have other things that and a bit outrageous. Our TDs, image lately, but people know in I discovered in myself a growing me a bit of carpentry." would be good to bring into the you se~, shine at what they do. the back of their minds that when sense of gratitude that Kathleen If she did take a Dflil eat for Dflil. I know about unemploy­ They feel comfortable with the it came down to it, Labour always Lynch was on my side. the Workers' Party, what would it ment. I know about being stuck media. They certainly deserve flunked it, every time." She gives no sense of sweaty mean for the party? for money." their reputation for hard work Where did she hope to see the ambition. I saw no obvious "Hold on now. They all tell me and their dedication to their party in a year's time? hunger for power. And there was I'll win - but don't forget they What had she learned - so far subject. "Well, firstlY, with more no perception of the insecurity were wrong before, the conmen, - froJTI her political involvement? "But if you're going to catch councillors. that hangs around a lot of when they told me I hadn't a "I've learned that overnight the attention of the very many "And I hope we'll be in the politicians. chance. change does not exist. I've learned people who aren't interested in process of coming to grips not so What I saw in a prospective new "But if I do take the seat, it'll that the smallest inroads represent politics, you must make the effort much WIlII lew philosophy, but Workers' Party TD on that sunny mean several things. All of them movement, and that's progress. and be a bit entertaining. In this with a new attitude' to a new morning was the unbeatable are important for the party. With I' I~ 'th~ changing area, that's where philosophy. And I hope members power of honesty. the great respect that at it des IS much tla'tder 'than will be missed. with doubts will h;I,.: eon" '0 I saw as well that her deep sense is due, it would strike at the image changing legislation, and I've also "There's a public perception of terms with what nt;~ " -p of belief in her politics was born of the party as Dublin-centred ­ learned that there is a growing us being somehow rigid. I think done." out of a personal experience of the in terms ofTDs. It would also be a awareness of the existence of what's happened is that we started And off with her, about her wrongs she was trying to right. blow to the party's image as a women. That's a start." to believe the public perception. business. PAGE 4 TOMORROW'S PEOPLE New plan aims to wipe out bias against women

A new plan for women's equality support to all women not in paid aims to abolish discrimination employment; against women in every area of Irish * A minimum income system for • Mike Jennings: Temple Street is figh ting for its life. He'sfighling life. every individual, irrespective of sex, . for Temple Stre~t. The Workers' Party report to the marital status or occupation, along Temple Street Hospital in Dublin is Commission on the Status of Women with minimum wage laws, which one of the busiest children's hospitals has been described as the best policy would ensure full economic and in Europe, but the Government wants Shutting statement on women's issues pro­ social equality for all women, it shut. Northsiders hold it almost in awe. duced by any Irish political party. wherever they work; Down the years, thousands of local hospitals The 66-page document, "Equal to A Ministry for Women's Affairs children were treated there. Many owe * their lives to it. the Best", sets out to change the with real power; For the past four years, Workers' attitudes and the laws that hold * A system of community-based Party representative Mike Jennings suffer has been spearheading a campaign to women back. childcare and workplace creches; keep Temple Street open - and he The report advocates: * No state contracts for firms that wants its facilities expanded. little Big demos, organised by Jennings in * A constitutional guarantee on discriminate; 1988 and 1989, gave local Fianna Fail equality, a ban on all forms of * "Positive action", such as set TDs a fright. They demanded that discrimination and proper funding quotas for women, in all areas, to Health Minister Rory O'Hanlon put children off the planned closure. in the North Inner City. We know at for those taking legal action in redress the effects of past discrimin­ Mary Gordon lives in De Valera this stage that we have to fight to the equality claims; ation; House, near Temple Street. In recent last for everything we're due. Well, years, she has had to rush her we'll keep up the fight for Temple * Reform of job equality laws; * A law requmng companies daughter, Anne-Marie, to Temple Street. " * Reform of social welfare laws to employing 10 or more to include Street nine times. Anne-Marie suffers About' 150 yards from the front from cerebral palsy. When she gets ill, door of Temple Street is the Mater end all provisions which discriminate "equality information" (a report on she needs instant treatment. Private Clinic. There, the rich can get against women and adequate income whether fairness is being practised). Mary Gordon is sure that if she had the best medical care going - for £150 to get her child to Beaumont or a day. Crumlin, the daughter she loves would Mike Jennings, Workers' Party can­ Tomorrow's People spoke to be dead. Other parents say the same. didate in next month's local election, 6.3070. Melina Mercouri (a Greek One local man says: "Temple Street the chairperson of the Workers' says: "It says a lot about how our socialist) said at a conference in is definitely a vital part of our society is being run. The Mater is Party Women's Committee, Athens a while back that measures community. This is a desperate en­ thriving and Temple Street, after Deirdre O'Connell, about "Equal such as quotas are not "a pater­ vironment for accidents involving fighting so well for the lives of so to the Best". nalistic solution which degrades kids. We're not getting all sentimental many local children, is fighting for its Tomorrow's People: Everyone women, but a solution which over it - we need a children's ho pi tal own life now." is issuing policy documents on indicates the extent of the degree women after the Robinson win. of sincerity in all those very What makes yours different? important declarations about O'Connell: Our document is equality, and changes in legis­ different because it challenges lation." I think that puts it very fundamental assumptions about well. how society is organised. At the TP: Do you think the Workers' How to get Dublin same time, it demands change in Party is a sufficiently feminist the Constitution, in legislation, in party? the social welfare system, in O'Connell: I think that the WP on the move again education - as do many other is in the process of becoming a A new transport plan to get submissions to the Commission. feminist party as part of its •A diesel train service on traffic-choked Dublin on the existing lines for west Dublin; The difference is that we see the present development, but will not move has been launched by the achievement of equality for be sufficiently feminist until the • An integrated, or linked Workers' Party. public transport system, allow­ women as part of our commit­ significance of gender is addressed The plan, "Get Dublin ing transfers between buses, ment to building a democratic, in party policy and organisation. Going", aims to make the city a DART, Light Rapid Rail and socialist society and this is why we The draft programme before this city for its people - not for the the diesel service; say we want women to be "equal year's ard-fheis is based on motorway lobby and "develop­ to the best", not the worst, and •A fresh approach to public principles of freedom, democracy ers". why we want women to be equally and equality. The debate so far transport based on quality The 7o-page scheme, nd actively involved in defining has shown a heightened awareness service, efficiency and "putting launched by the party's spokes­ what is the best. among party members of the rele­ the customer first", and a new person on Transport, TP: Which is more important, vance of feminism to involvement by transport work­ Councillor Eric Bynre TD, is hanging altitudes or changing and I expect this to develop. ers in the running of their aws? • Deirdre O'Connell: heightefled TP: On women in the party, whOl practical, radical and detailed. companies; O'Connell: I think both awareness of women's rights. • Strict limits on all-day would you like to be able to repon Average traffir speeds in hanges are needed. And there is a parking in the city centre; to the 1992 ard-fheis? Dublin are slower than they onnection. It is undoubtedly O'Connell: Yes, personally I O'Connell: I would like to be •A crackdown on traffic were at the time of horse-drawn offenders, including parking ecessary to change laws. Laws do. I have been convinced by the able to report that the numbers of transport, the study found. make a statement that society offences. evidence from countries where women members had increased, The plan says cheap, efficient onsiders something to be wrong, Eric Byrne says: "Our plan is quotas are standard among social­ that women were increasingly . public transport is the best and hether it's job discrimination or active at all levels of the party, detailed and costed. It sets out ist and many "centrist" parties. c1eanest way to get around the rape. Changing laws is in itself a The Scandinavian countries are that the numbers of women elec­ to put an end to clogged roads, .city. Its centrepiece is a Light noise, fumes, dirt, frustration tart towards changing attitudes. way ahead of everyone else. In ted representatives had increased Rapid Rail system, But it's also necessary to work at as a result of the local elections and carnage on the roads. We Norway the number of women in This system, which is a big chan.ging attitudes, especially the lower houses of parliament next month. Above all, I would want to improve the quality of success in European cities, life for Dubliners, To achieve hrough educatiol., and also increased by 29.8% between 1945 like to be able to report that the would run on existing rail lines this, we have to challenge a lot hrough eliminating sexism in the and 1988, and in Sweden and WP had become the party seen by and also along streets. It would of vested interests. We don't media, at work, in politics and Denmark by 23070. The rate of women as tbat most likely to link all rail stations and parts of have a problem about that, indeed in personal life. increase jumped from 1975 on, advance their aims, to deal with the city, We'll be fighting for this plan at TP: Do you favour "positive when quotas were introduced. By their concerns, and to include Other highlights include: all levels," action" in the Workers' Party the way, the percentage increase in them democratically in its policy itself? Ireland over the same period is debates and in its structures. TOMORROW'S PEOPLE PAGE 5

• THE TWO SIDES OF THE STREET: Private housing (left) and public housing in the heart of Ringsend. The yuppification of Ringsend

Tommy Crilly is generally a mild­ housing units, a £100 million mannered sort of a fellow, but his luxury leisure hotel, and offices. commitment to his community is • Luxury private housing threatens to tear the heart out of At the same time, about 1,000 fierce. Ringsend, Dublin. It's a case study in how not to "renew" a applicants are looking for local He's seen Ringsend in Dublin working-class community. authority housing in the area. hurt by poverty. Now he's afraid "It's got to the stage now that it'll be hurt by wealth. people are reading the deaths in If powerful people have their working-class communities in well as everything else, there's It highlights not only the the papers and making inquiries way, he fears the mad rush Dublin, says Crilly, who, along hardly any low-cost private flats housing crisis, but a further steady about such and such a flat or towards the Yuppification of with Angie Murphy, is the anymore - they've all been eaten widening of an already divided house. It's turning into a bit of a Ringsend will tear the heart out of Workers' Party candidate in up by office blocks." society. 'Lord of the Flies' situation. is community and create two Pembroke in next month's local Angie Murphy adds: "But I The building of affordable local People are de!>perate," Ringsends - one for the wealthy elections, is a "social housing personally know of tw.o cases authority housing seems to have "Bord Gais is making vague nd one for the rest. mix" in the new developments. where people from Ringsend, with been dropped, while the luxury noises about setting aside a per­ While cuts have virtually "Some of these housing units decent jobs, earning the industrial apartment sector proliferates ­ centage of the scheme for 'afford­ topped the building of affordable have to be made affordable to wage, were refused mortgages to thanks to tax-breaks and other able' housing. But what do they ocal authority housing ("they local people," he says. "Other­ buy apartments in Fisherman's goodies for builders and cor­ mean by affordable? A hundred­ 'ust packed up, said nothing, and wise, rising property prices, and Wharf. I don't want to see the porations. and-fifty of the apartments will alked away from their respon­ rising prices for everything else, community I've lived in all my life cost £150,000 each. What will be ibilities", says Crilly) well over will force working-class people split like that." affordable beside them?" says ,000 luxury housing units, oul of the area - Ringsenders will WHY IT'S Crilly. ncluding 150 penthou es costing simply be forced out of Ringsend. A Workers' Party survey has HAPPENING NOW Angie Murphy says: "And 150,000 each, are planned for If this community is to stay alive, found that the average price of To misquote the old song: they're talking about virtually a ingsend and its locality. there'lI have to be a mix of one and two-bedroomed apart­ "There's a reason new town on the Basin site. What ."To be blunt about it," Crilly private, public and co-operative ments in the south city area is now that this is the season will the traffic from this do to the says angrily, "they're going ahead housing." between £75,000 and £85,000. for makin' yuppies... " surrounding community?" and making a balls of a great "I'm very careful about using opportunity. the word 'apartheid'," says "This could be a chance to • Left: SHUT OUT ­ Crilly. "Strictly speaking, it's bring life back to the whole Tommy Crilly and Angie about vicious oppression in South community of Ringsend. It could Murphy at the electronic­ Africa. But when I see one part of be a showcase on how to revitalise ally-operated gates of a a community locking itself away an inner city area. Unless we fight Ringsend private 'develop­ from another part of the it, it looks like it'll be a showcase ment. community with elaborate on how to divide an inner city security, I wonder if we've caught area. a mild form of it here in "I'm a socialist, not a be­ • Right: WP JOint Ringsend." rudger - it's good to see people The sales pitch to lure yuppies ith a high standard of living and candidate Angie Murphy ­ "[ don't want my to Ringsend can be hilarious. nice lifestyle. And in the long- A brochure for the "Camden erm, that's what my party, the community split. " Lock" scheme ("Galleon dup­ orkers' Party, wants for every­ lexes" can be had here for a mere ne. £99,(00) beSIde the Grand Canal "But in the short-term, it would Angie Murphy agrees. She is a This could involve a mortgage A plan by Bord Gais for a vast Basin begins: "The lapsing, e dreadful to see thousands of native Ringsender and lives in repayment of up to £250 - a luxury development on its land unsoilable, whispering sea." O'Rahilly House in the heart of' ery well-off people coming into week. around Grand Canal Basin came It must be a great comfort that, the area. ur community and locking them- A question to the Dublin City about primarily because of the for t .." 'lemployed, unhoused elves into luxury castles while the "I've made a lot of friends Manager by Workers' Party Government's Section 23 tax and disadvantaged of Ringsend. est of us have to do with over­ among the people over in the Councillor Andy Smyth revealed benefit law, which, among other "The lapsing what?" asks rowded and neglected housing, in Fisherman's Wharf complex" (a that 75070 of Dublin Corporation things, encourages companies to Tommy Crilly. "W;-II. I Sl"'POse commonity with so many large private flat development tenants were receiving social bulk-buy apartments and re-let if the worst come!> Ih. "rst, arely getting by on welfare." almost directly across the street welfare payments and 77% of them for big profits - it is, in you can always throw yoursci. One of the keys to stopping the from 0'Rahilly House). "Some of people applying for Corporation other words, a speculators' into the lapsing, unsoilable ell-off arriving and simply the people living in the smaller housing depended on social charter. whispering sea. But I'd prefer if ulling up the drawbridge on one apartments in that complex are welfare. The Grand Canal Basin plan you stood and fought for fair play of the oldest and most tightly-knit paying big mortgages because, as The gap is glaring. involves a staggering 1,400 with the Workers' Party." ~ ,,.

PAGE 6 TOMORROW'S PEOPLE HARD TACKLE How· the games surVIve• the GAA! Well, the only county in confraternity meeting, he de­ never to have won a senior Tne (~arnef·JeOn n3.t~nn3.~ nounced "football playing on championship has produced a Sundays as an invention of the President of the GAA - the • ON THE BALL: devil for the purpose of mighty Peter Quinn. But, good the Cameroons destroying souls ... Sunday old Peter proves one thing as soccer squad scores kicking was doing much Derrylin comes to Croke Park: for family planning. harm", he said, and much else you can take the man out of "family piarming makes Would we ever see in similar vein. Fermanagh, but it'll take quare everyone a wt.nner ­ the same of the A view. mind you, probably surgery to get Fermanagh out fathers, mothers and Limerick hurlers? shared by Shamrock Rovers ot the man. supporters who may blame Quinn's determination to chi!dnm. " diabolical kicking for having to m~intain the image of the rely on two midweek replays to GAA as a Catholic nationalist dispose of their last two FAI May Day•••- Workers of the cup opponents. organisation confirms the Mighty Quinn will be hoping to world unite, international eighth wonder of the world ­ add to his Wembley scalps. Father Rooney was speak­ that Gaelic games have sur­ solidarity and all that jazz. Just ing, however, in 1889! Hard Tackle predicts a win vived the GAA for so long. picture the scene in the Gdansk for the Republic, a papal What a tribute it is to those shipyard where once Lech On the• subject• of•devilish take the piss out of himself. If knighthood for Lech Walesa games that while adminis­ Walesa bestrode the girders sport, one recalls Archbishop you can't beat them... and more gratuitous insults for trators play ghetto politics, like the colossus he has turned McQuaid's attempt to stop the Mind you, for a man who Mick McCarthy from the children still want to play out to be. But, where now, faithful attending a football openly admits he was always chicken nugget. Gaelic football ... for the time afraid of the hard tackle him­ May Day will mean only one match against the Red Devils being. self, it's interesting to see he's thing - the match against the • • • from Hungary - that wasn't advertising... yes... chicken!. "Irskos" - the Republic of I'm grateful, as Cyril Fletcher in 1889. Dermot• Morgan••is a good Wait for the slagging when Ireland to you and me. would say, to Mr. O'Grady of I suppose we can assume mimic ... not a great mimic. Eamon gives us the benefit of With John Motsen and Churchtown, Dublin, archivist that playing Polish ex­ But Hard Tackle takes its hat his expert commentary on Jimmy Magee struggling with of old football programmes, Communists on a Wednesday off to the advertising agency Ireland's next game against tongue-straining combinations for the following spiritual will leave the spirits of the Revs that persuaded Eamon Turkey. What a nugget, eh of mzrbegas and other typo­ advice from a Father Rooney McQuaid and Rooney to rest in Dunphy to go on radio and Gilesy! graphical frenzies, that other of Newry. At a not-so-recent peace. Trees in bloom There's something "brilliant" happening on the north side of Dublin all right. It's a five-piece band from , formed in August '89, and called "Brilliant Trees". Since their formation, they have been attracting more and more attention as one of the most promising bands on the Dublin cene. PUBLIC RECORDS By PAUL KERWICK

They're a band with a political conscience. They don't turn away from such issues as AIDS" inter­ national politics and euthanasia. One of their songs is about Governmentsettle" the attemptsSheriff to Street"re- .- • TREES BY THE WATER: The Brilliant Trees band of Fing/as... songs with a social message. _ community so as to make way for the Custom House Docks' Development. They were asked to write the song "Home" by some To be housed, fed and heard of their mates from the area. To date they've recorded three What rights do children have? the children who live in a rich not notice that. demo tapes, one of which was Children have a right to be society should not be the only Children's rights For instance, one day a girl I paid for by U2's record company warm and to be fed well. The people entitled to health care. know said to the shopkeeper "Mother". Government should give money It is also important that all "These two packets of crisps The band consists of singer ­ and pay more attention towards children have a right to education please," and she handed over the Alan Hoey; guitarist - Tony children who live in poverty. If ,lll because without education you money. The shopkeeper snapped Barrett; bassist - Syd Barrett; children are lucky enough to be cannot get a very good job, most and she said "Wait!" and she acoustic guitarist - Paul Mitchell housed, which they should b.:, times you cannot get a job. If went to serve an adult, when my and drummer Dave Farrell. they should have the right to go to children start school they should friend was first in the queue. Then Their many influences include school. not be expected to leave too soon the shopkeeper eventually served such bands as Germany's Children should be cared for in order to find work. They my friend. The shopkeeper said "Kraftwerk". and as I mentioned before, they should be encouraged to stay on in with fury "Next time have Asked why the north side of should be fed well. Children are school, not to be encouraged to patience." Dublin and Finglas in particular dying from starvation all over the leave school as soon as possible. Children have rights and they seemed such a hive of musical world and this should not be If a child is first in a queue should be respected. activity, Tony Barrett said: happening. The Governments. he/she should be served first. A Children also have a {'ight to be uThere's a lot of musical talent in from all the countries involved in lot of the time the adult gets heard. Adults or their elders seem working-class suburbs, where the Gulf war can spend so much served first because they lopk as if .. , to dismiss children. They do not there's nothing to do but go on money on arms,. yet they still they are in a hurry. Maybe they always give children a chance. I do the dole and go to the pub or join cannot spend half as much to feed are, I am not saying that they are not think it is fair if a child asks an a band and learn an instrument." starving children. not, but the point is that if a child adult what something means and Their next gig will be in Children should be entitled to is first in a queue, they should be By Beibhinn Oillan the adult reply is "You would not Charties, Aungier Street, Dublin, health care when they need it. It is served first. The chi~d could be in (aged 11) understand it". on 25th. It may well be another important that every child has a hurry as easily as the adult could Do you think that is giving a brilliant occasion. equal access to health care because be, but the shopkeeper just does child a chance? TOMORROW'S PEOPLE PAGE 7

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bridges The Workers" Pariy Agriculture spokesperson, Joe Sherlock, has described the privatisation of the profitable Irish Sugar Company as Roche's a black day for public enterprise. "The whole process of privatis­ ation is being conducted with gap indecent haste," he said, and workers at Irish Sugar were Fianna Fail and Dublin viewing the move with apprehen­ County Councillors jeopardised sion. Joe Sherlock is a former Irish the lives of Tallaght children by Sugar worker. looking after the commercial in­ *** terests of their friends, according A recent European Community to Workers' Party Councillor Don study says: "Poor postal services can contribute to the marginalising Tipping. of certain regions. Large com­ Tipping had to propose a panies would be less likely to Section 4 motion instructing the establish themselves in a particular County Manager to put up pedes­ area if postal services are poor." trian bridges over a section of the The Communications Workers Western Parkway speedway, Union, thousands of whose mem­ which many children have to cross bers protested in Dublin recently to get to school. against cuts in the service, and Tipping said he warned the which is putting up a magnificent fight against the "cut and run" council last December that the mentality, couldn't agree more. owner of the West Link Bridge, Tom Roche, would not provide *** the pedestrian bridges that were The jailing of Cork service charges needed by the end of January, as protesters contrasted with the kid glove treatment given to tax the millionaire builder had agreed. Kurds begging for bread distributed by Turkish soldiers at a refugee camp defaulters and farmers who still The single temporary pedestrian owed £20 million in rates, Deputy bridge currently in use had to be Eamon Gilmore of the Workers' donated by the army. Party has noted. Workers' Party "I believe that this section of activist Ted Tynan was also jailed. the Western Parkway was opened One jailed man, Paddy before Christmas through Mulcahy, was freed after fines pressure from commercial in­ De Rossa query were paid by a prospective Cork terests, including Tom Roche," Flanna Hail local authority candidate. He paid the mUM). he said Tipping. "The safety of the said, for "humanitarian" rellSon~. children of Tymon and Kilna­ The next lime yOIl have to duck managh estates who attend a punch, remember. yuu're doing schools in Greenhills and have to it for humanitarian reasuns. cross this death-trap came on Kurd plight *** second." Only half the chemist shops in Tipping called on the residents A mathematical and a moral it will cost the Irish Govern­ want to know how it is that problem for our times: Bray stock condoms, a survey by of Kilnamanagh and Tymon to ment about £80 million this year \irtually limitless planes, heli­ the Bray Workers' Party \\'o_n'~ protest to the County Manager There were more than a million to store it. copters, personnel and money Group has revealed. and Tom Roche. "They say they . Kurds fleeing from Iraq into Ireland's contribution to the were available to launch the Gulf "Our primary concern is to do might get around to it at Turkey and Iran. They are still Kurdish relief operation was £1 War. while only a fraction of with the spread of AIDS," Anne Christmas. Which Christmas? We dying from starvation and million - that's the government's I he~l' are availble to deal with this Ferns told a recent press con­ exposure by an estimated contribution; the voluntary appalling human disaster? How is ference. "It's a medical issue. not want a second pede trian bridge a moral one." If the rate at which now before kids start getting thousand or more a week. agencies and generous individuals it that it was possible to feed and There are 326,000 tonnes of have dug into their pockets once provide shelter for half-a-million the disease is now '1preading killed. continues, up tu 50,000 Irish "it's hard not to suspect that Irish beef and dairy products again to give more. troops in the Saudi Arabian desert stored in EC intervention, people could be HIV positive In 10 people are delaying on this in the it took a month - and repeated without undue difficulty, yet it is years, she said. including 92,000 tonnes of skim hopes of getting the army to prodding by Proinsias De Rossa beyond the capacity of the same It was discovered that at one provide another bridge. That milk powder and 155,000 tonnes - before they started to think countries to mount anything more chemist shop which is a late night ; of beef. would be great news for Fianna about sending the intervention than a token effort for those dying chemist the Old Conna Fail's businessman friends," Most of this food will remain food. of hunger on the side of a Turkish Pharmacy - condoms were not Tipping said. where it is until it is thrown out. De Rossa said: "People will mountain?" sold after six o'clock.

I am a returned Yank - very condoms because the knee was recently returned. bent again to the Catholic Church After almost three years beyond Johnnies go causing - send the bill for the coffin to in New York, on the plane home, this man Hanafin. I made a grim discovery at 32,000 feet. My, how ***deeply things have A man in the seat in front was rows again, hurroo changed in Dublin and Ireland in reading that day's Irish news­ the three years I was away. paper. I saw the headline over his Back - straight back - into At the height of the Con­ gentleman from Thurles, Co. I was thrown slightly by the shoulder and froze. "BISHOPS", what may become known as The derendum, while up in the Dail Tipperary, Senator Des Hanafin "artistic" brass footprints on the it said, "WARN IN CONDOM Conderendum! A nice welcome seeing some of our elected (elected on the 7th count, Labour pedestrian island on O'Connell ROW." that: Johnnies go causing rows Panel). Bridge. It looked like someone They refused point blank to again, hurroo, hurroo. He was the head contra, it had just walked in dog dirt and turn the plane around. Don't get me wrong. AIDS seems, against Charlie Haughey's traipsed it all over the place. They wouldn't even open a kills. Condoms save lives. I saw RISE-A-ROW Rubber Revolution. Motorways spreading like in­ door to let me jump. more than enough young people His briefcase, I noted, looked fections. A woeful housing crisis And no, they said, there was no dying of AIDS - and dying hard nine months' pregnant. I won­ hand-in-hand with widespread chance that they'd drop me off - in New York and elsewhere, dered just whose brief, or briefs, London-style Yuppification. You there and then around Newfound­ thanks, to be flip about it. he was carrying. Was it the brief take your financial life in your land, where I'd rather take my But what makes many Irish of the Men's Sodality - sorry, hands if you drink more than four chances with the polar bears than socialists and other civilised Family Solidarity - our new pints - you could give your few listen to, say, His Eminence people almost despair is the neighbours (there goes the neigh­ bob away unknowingly thanks to Jeremiah Newman of Limerick immediate attention and national bourhood) in Gardiner Place? that dreadful £1 coin. talking about young people and debate that ensues when the issue And it's depressing to still be their propensity to "sin". has anything remotely to do with Of course Charlie changed his able to report that, if we are what As a result, although generally sex. By Noel mind on change after his great we eat, Gerry Adams would be an opposed to privatisation, I am No, I don't think the Irish ard-fheis spoof. innocent Protestant. open to special pleas on the people,are obsessed with sex. McFarlane His "beliefs" and the "beliefs" Of course, in the South, we've immediate privatisation of Aer I think the powerful old codgers, ofhis party have always been very had an "t'('onomic miracle" and a Lingus. In fact, I think they in clerical collars or in the plain­ Workers' Party members, I saw flexible - but never has the term great au\., . :e to social equality. should give it free to Larry clothes branch, who want to what I first thought was a just­ "Rubber Soul" been more apt The economic miracle is that a Goodman. continue to run everybody's lives, burst balloon - it was some than now. quarter-of-a-million peuple can What c1(lSS of an organisation have been and are obsessed mainly object, anyway, ricocheting off Here's a suggestion for the still survive on the rlvlc. tasked with servinS the travelling with keeping contraception away the walls and emitting an angry parents or friends of 16-year-olds The great advan\', 1" ';al public would force a man back to from women. hiss. who will be sexually active and equality is (Shamrock) Rover' the same old hooha that I had A woman in control of her fer­ It slowed down on one occasion who wiU have unprotected sex and playing at the Royal Dublin somehow thought we'd out­ tility has a chance of being in just long enough for it ~o be who will die of AIDS because of Society. grown? control of her life. identified as this Fianna Fail curbs on the availability of Sin, sin, a chairde Ghgeil. PAGE 8 TOMORROW'S PEOPLE

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A merger between the Official Unionists and the DUP is likely if informal talks between innuential All-Ireland poll figures in both parties succeed. It is believed that the retirement of both of the present leaders ­ lan Paisley (DUP) and Jim Molyneaux (OUP) - may be necessary before any possible merger. Sources say Molyneaux is headed for the House of Lords and if deal reached that younger DUP politicians linked to the party's "non­ TOMORROW'S PEOPLE clerical" section see a single REPORTER Unionist party as a good career development. Referendums on both sides of the overall package, they would go Rights in Northern Ireland', had "a grand committee on Northern Senior and middle-ranking Border are likely following any along with a joint poll. Both the DUP deputy leader Peter Ireland at Westminster". If this figures in both parties are con­ agreement in the wake of the OUP and the Alliance are also Robinson and a former DUP fails, then the Official Unionists vinced that their grassroots are Brooke talks, Tomorrow's People thought to agree with the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Nigel will support the idea of "a volun­ behind the idea of a merger, which has learned. proposal. Dodds, along with SDLP chair­ tary coalition". would mean a major change in It is understood that if agree­ As the talks get under way, person, Mark Durcan, on its The scrapping of the South's orthern politics. ment is reached then a referendum devolution, security, a Bill of platform. All agreed that such territorial claim over Northern *** will be held North and South to Rights, and Articles 2 and 3 will legislation on a Bill of Rights Ireland in Articles 2 and 3 will The sum of £121,925 was made get a seal ofapproval from all the be high on the agenda. While all should be entrenched and un­ probably get the go-ahead. Both available by the Department of Unionist parties and Alliance Health for "family planning" last people of Ireland for any agreed the parties concerned have changeable. year. Of this £93,325 (770/0) was solution. different public positions, in However, the main question agree with such a move, while the given to a combination of the private, agreement can be found remains what type of govern­ SDLP is prepared to see the Catholic Marriage Advisory Coun­ Two of the main parties in the on most subjects. All agree, with mental institutions can be agreed. Republic's "claim" become "an cil, Family Life Centre (Cork) and political dialogue, the SDLP and the exception of the OUP, who Here, the Official Unionist Party aspiration" . the ational Association of the the Democratic Unionist Party, have not pledged themselves one seem to be the stumbling block. The North's political pundits Ovulation Method in Ireland. Only have already made it clear that way or the other, that a Bill of While the other three parties agree are treating the Brooke talks with 28% was given to family planning any settlement should be put to Rights should underpin any on some form of devolution, ~he "cautious optimism", but many groups. For the same period, the the people. Both parties have agreed settlement. OUP line is strongly anti­ say privately that this is probably Irish Family Planning Association indicated that they favour a the best chance for im agreed has received no money at all to This was discussed recently at a devolution - at leadership level at provide services for its clients. referendum after the talks. significant conference run by the least. settlement. While the DUP favour such a author Padriag O'Malley in the Northern Ireland Office 10­ A bug in your***ear. move in Northern Ireland only, it United States, which was attended Its negotlatmg team at the siders have indicated that all Sean Doherty, noble Senate is believed that if the scrapping of by b0th the SDLP and the DUP. Brooke talks will be trying to steer participants involved in the (chair), has wrilten Articles 2 and 3 of the Republic's The seminar, under the heading them in the direction of the dialogue are "eager" to make it to the Dilil Commiltee on Pro­ constitution became part of an "The Protection of Minority "Order-in-Council system" and work. cedure and Privilege proposing a memorial in House to Charles Stewart Parnell. But he adds, as an afterthought, his Senate commiltee "also proposes that the acquisition of portraits/ Belfast's pictures of the more recent holders of the offices of Cathaoirleach and Ceann Comhairle for display in decent Leinster House could also be considered••• " Looks like 'eanlc's out to hang skins himself again. The image of skinheads as the shock troops of neo-Nazi groups *** like the National Front is taking a beating in Belfast. A group of young skins have set up a group against racism. Still sporting their DMs, denims and shaven heads, the Belfast boys aim to challenge the racist stereotype attached to skins and bring it back to its roots in racial harmony when black and white stomped across the dance floor together in the Sixties. Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARf) have recently • NO BOVVER: Cormac O'Hanlon, Roberl Russel and Paul Honey - skinheads againsr racism and formed a branch in Belfast and a secrarianism founding member, Cormac O'Hanlon, outlined its aims. We have something of a problem "Everyone thinks that skin­ North's parties with the Cull of the Gun in heads are racist but the real skins religious divide. "We're opposed Ireland. They are used to kill who love the original music, to sectarianism as much as people a lot. But should that sway which is black in origin, are not racism," said Cormac. "After all, unite - on condoms! you if you wish to illustrate a grey racists. The aim of SHARP is to >le are evenly divided in our mem­ Former Jack Lynch once said: "I would not like to leave and tedious article about milk in a challenge this image and fight oership in terms of religion." contraception on the long finger." The North's major political parties grey and tedious rightwing maga­ seem to agree. They support the promised liberalisation of laws zine? In our opinion it should. We against racism. , SHARP in Belfast hope to start think this exploitation of the Cull "The vast majority of so-called its own magazine, or "Skinzine" concerning the sale of condoms in the South. While no one had a policy on the malter, with the exception of the of the Gun and references to skinheads, six or seven years ago, as it's called, financed from discos "shootouts" on the magazine were racist or might have followed and concerts they plan to hold in Workers' Party, all agreed that condoms should be freely available to all who wished to buy them. cover above is prelty much the dregs. the National Front, but now I the city. That all the parties agreed on something is a major breakthrough. But think the majority are anti-racist, However as Cormac O'Hanlon it was condoms which achieved what the Northern Ireland Secretary of *** going back to the roots of the points out, the new Belfast breed' State, Peter Brooke, has yet to secure. The WP rep on the Dilil Broadcast- cult." of skin is a different proposition. The SDLP admitted that the subject had never been discussed, but their ing group, Eamon Gilmore, has The manipulation of skinheads "We're not hard. All we are in­ press officer said they were supportive of availability. warned of Government attempts to "We don't get involved in the internal affairs of another country," was intimidate RTE over the content of in the early 1980s by the NF and terested in is the clothes and the the "DiIil Report" TV pro­ the right wing British Movement music. I agree it's a hard image, the initial response from the Official Unionist Party. But the party's Health spokesperson, the Rev. Martin Smyth. former Grand Master of gramme. He says Fianna Fail led to the labelling of skinheads as but there's as much fighting maintains that the WP and Labour mindless thugs. Another SHARP among so-called ordinary people the Orange Order, added: "Having said that, we would be supportive of their sale." get too much coverage. "But this Is member, Robert Russell, how­ as there is with skinheads." David Ford of the Alliance Party said they had not formulated any an accurate renection of the high ever, says that the majority of The old Trojan record label, policy on the matter but they were taking a "liberal" stance. The level of Dill activity" by members of both parties, he says. what can be termed skinhead famed for its output of black Workers' Party was fully behind those progressive groups In the Republic bands now follow the anti-racist Caribbean music, has been which were attempting to bring legislation there into the 20th century, *** movement. adopted by SHARP as its symbol. said Dungannon Councillor Gerry Cullen. The Workers' Party offers its sympathy and support to a popular Unfortunately, the best efforts of Tomorrow's People failed to get a Not content with stomping out This is a very symbolic gesture ­ party activist in Howth, Eugene response from the Rev. lan Paisley's DUP. Neither the "clerical" nor the racist hatred, the skins are also the following of this type of music O'Leary and his wife, Clare. They "lay" wings of the was available. out to smash sectarianism in produced the original skinhead nup recently lost their 22-year-old Northern Ireland and to cross the cult. daughter, Sharon, to cancer. Printed and published by Repsol Lld.• 30 Gardiner Place. Dublin I. Tel: 786052. Fax: 787921