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He also urged an end to the broadcasting ban that restricts his appearances.

But after two months broadcasting ban was uplifted.

Unionist politicians, who might have criticized the end of the broadcasting ban, instead found themselves praising the referendum.

Broadcasting ban on terrorists upheld:.

The 1988 broadcasting bans are the only examples of direct political censorship of a section of the media by government ministers.

This was the decade of the Broadcasting Ban, Real Lives and continuing bloodshed on the streets.

It refused to consider arguments on behalf of journalists that this broadcasting ban breached Article 10 of the Convention.

The only clear case where this strategy succeeded was when Thatcher introduced the Sinn Féin broadcasting ban.

Ironically the removal of Section 31 Broadcasting Ban and similar sanctions in the north which forbade republican from appearing on television or radio had an adverse effect on the paper.

The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.

Lee Levine, a lawyer for Court TV, had argued that the broadcasting ban was unconstitutional and said that all members of the public had a right to observe the proceedings.

Mr Adams scotched speculation that he might take up his Belfast West parliamentary seat, and use parliamentary privilege to overcome the broadcasting ban against Sinn Fein.

We will introduce a 110-day limit on the length of time for which a prisoner may be held before trial, repeal the broadcasting ban, and provide for the videotaping of police interviews with terrorist suspects.

The Section 31 broadcasting ban was lifted in 1993 by Minister for Arts, Culture & the Gaeltacht Michael D. Higgins as part of the Northern Ireland peace process.

Easing Fears on Ulster Britain promised a referendum to ease Protestant fears in Northern Ireland and lifted a broadcasting ban to reward the Irish Republican Army for its cease-fire.

After her release in 1980, she married Irish actor Stephen Rea, who was hired to speak the words of Gerry Adams when Sinn Féin was under a broadcasting ban.

The failure of "Eight Miles High" to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban, but some commentators have suggested that the song's complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors.

The broadcasting ban was put in place in 1988 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to deny "terrorists the oxygen of publicity" and to spare the victims of I.R.A. bombs and attacks.

Ending the broadcasting ban, which was largely symbolic and which many people felt had backfired by generating bad publicity, was a concession to the I.R.A. for declaring an unconditional cease-fire on Sept. 1 and sticking to it.

On 19 October, Douglas Hurd, then Home Secretary, introduced broadcasting restrictions (the 'broadcasting ban') on organisations proscribed in Northern Ireland and Britain, including direct statements by members of Sinn Féin.

As another sign of good faith, the British Government could drop the broadcasting ban on Mr. Adams, so that his words could be heard directly over the airwaves in Britain, or reduce the visible patrols of its troops in Belfast and the Ulster countryside.

Since his release he has been active with ex-prisoners' groups Tar Abhaile and Coiste na n-Íarchimí, and was the first member of Sinn Féin to have their own voice heard on television after the lifting of the broadcasting ban in 1994.

Publication of the report coincides with the second anniversary of the broadcasting ban, under which the Government barred British radio and television from broadcasting live or recorded interviews with members or supporters of the outlawed Irish Republican Army and its legal political organization in Northern Ireland.

The relatively modest chart success of "Eight Miles High" (number 14 in the U.S. and number 24 in the UK) has been largely attributed to the broadcasting ban, although the challenging and slightly uncommercial nature of the track is another possible reason for its failure to reach the Top 10.