Raids disrupt political process at key moments

  • 8 February 2006
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The Criminal Assets Bureau has recently made much-publicised raids of properties in Dublin, Meath, Wicklow and Louth as part an investigation into IRA money-laundering. It is just one of a number of dubious operations – north and south of the Border – that have occurred at important times in the North's political process. Colm Heatley reports

Rossport 'ready for attack by State'

  • 8 February 2006
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2006 looks set to be the make-or-break year in the struggle between Rossport, Shell and the Government, with locals expecting riot police in their community this summer. Micheál Ó Seighin, one of the Rossport Five, spoke to William Hederman

 

A new Ireland

  • 8 February 2006
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Druid Synge runs some marathon theatre on the Aran Islands, chefs battle it out for the Masterchef crown and the Irish public's first foray into stocks and shares goes a bit wrong

Searching for the faith

  • 8 February 2006
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Faith Healer is dominated by a riveting performance by a Hollywood star – but it isn't Ralph Fiennes.
Colin Murphy reports

Danish cartoons of Muhammad

  • 8 February 2006
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The ugliness of the controversy about the Danish cartoons of Muhammad is not the most disturbing thing about it. The most disturbing thing, writes John Waters,  is the willingness of Western society to capitulate in the face of threats, and in doing so to sell out one of its own most sacred values: the right of citizens to express freely their opinions.

 

Debating torture

  • 1 February 2006
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Lance Morrow explores two books' attempts to find a definitive answer to the question over the use of torture

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