AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS

[An Phoblacht]

IRA:

``The primary responsibility for the developing political crisis rests squarely with the British government. They have once again demonstrated a lack of political will to confront the Unionist veto.''

Executive collapses

A chronology of the events of last week, which saw Sinn Féin and the SDLP share power in a northern Executive for just minutes.

alysis: Unionists cannot write script for Blair

Living in The Shadows

The refusal by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a 13-storey development on Dublin's Barrow Street has been the second such victory in as many weeks for inner-city residents.

Police change urged

A leading human rights organisation, the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has published a report urging Chris Patten to ``hammer home the need for police change''.

British spies on the lines

The British government intercepted Irish international communications in a decade-long top secret operation.

Bloody Sunday hearings delayed

Relatives of those murdered on Bloody Sunday have been dealt what has been described as a ``soul destroying'' blow.

Bogside residents welcome dialogue

Indications that the Apprentice Boys might enter into direct dialogue with the BRG on their 12 August parade in Derry have been welcomed.

Supremacists rewarded for efforts

President Clinton has thanked the Ku Klux Klan for having refrained from the lynching of black people over the past number of weeks, writes Fern Lane.

UDA attempt to kill Catholic

The two loyalist gunmen who tried to kill a Catholic taxi driver in Belfast in the early hours of Wednesday morning, 14 July, were only foiled because their gun jammed.

Basque leaders freed

Twenty-three members of the National Executive of the Basque Pro-independence party Herri Batasuna (HB) were released after serving 20 months of seven-year sentences.

Donnelly letter accuses RUC

Fresh demands have been made for a fully independent investigation into the killing of Rosemary Nelson have followed claims that the RUC refused to properly investigate death threats by their own members.

Informer wants Stevens officer as witness

A loyalist Special Branch informer accused of murdering Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989 is to call on a member of the Stevens Inquiry to give evidence at his remand hearing.

Derry tribute to Volunteer Jim Moyne

Tar Abhaile, the Derry former prisoners' group, is to offer an Irish language bursary scheme in tribute to Volunteer Jim Moyne and in recognition of the growth of Irish in the Derry city area.

The second prong of attacks

In the second part of a report on the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland and the EU, Róisín De Rosa examines the pending Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Bill, 1999.