IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWS

DEVOLUTION DEAL ‘BROKEN’

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:05:27 +0000

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has accused the DUP of reneging on a deal for the devolution of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast this month.

McGuinness says IRA finished, attacks hardliners

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:04:39 +0000

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has warned that any attempt to bring the Provisional IRA back into the political equation “is a big mistake”.

Paisley, Ahern declare history at Boyne site

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:03:47 +0000

First Minister Ian Paisley at the Battle of the Boyne site said on Wednesday that people should together share “this island home” of Ireland and be an example to the world.

Tear down the walls, urges Bloomberg

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:02:30 +0000

A high profile US-Northern Ireland investment conference has been taking place in Belfast this afternoon, with newly elected 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the North’s First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

US still holds H-Block escaper

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:01:40 +0000

H-Block escapee Pol Brennan will remain in a Texas jail for several more weeks, and possibly months, after an immigration judge denied him bail.

Real IRA convictions quashed

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:00:46 +0000

The Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin has quashed the convictions by the non-jury Special Criminal Court of five Munster men on charges of membership of the Real IRA.

US action alert - Free Pol Brennan

Thu, 08 May 2008 22:59:10 +0000

From the Pol Brennan Support Group (information [at] polbrennan.com)

A split’s not always first thing on agenda

Thu, 08 May 2008 22:56:54 +0000

By Father Des (for the Andersonstown News)

During the recent armed conflict in Ireland it was said that the anger between unionists and nationalist/republican people would be healed much sooner than the anger within nationalist and republican people themselves.

Cowen elected Taoiseach, names Cabinet

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:02:00 +0000

The newly elected Taoiseach Brian Cowen has appointed Mary Coughlan as his Tanaiste [Deputy Prime Minister] in his new Cabinet announced this evening in Dublin.

PARADE TENSIONS SPILL OVER

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:38:36 +0000

Missiles were thrown when rival nationalist and unionist groups clashed on Sunday morning following a sectarian parade by the Protestant Orange Order in east Belfast.

New victim support group

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:37:19 +0000

A new victims support group has been set up this week by the father of a Protestant collusion victim and a Catholic priest.

IRA not involved in Quinn murder - IMC

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:36:19 +0000

A government-appointed commission which monitors the conflict in the north of Ireland has concluded that the Provisional IRA was not involved in the death of south Armagh man Paul Quinn.

PSNI goes easy on UDA feud

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:35:08 +0000

Charges have been dropped against all 18 unionist paramilitaries arrested in relation to UDA violence in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, despite renewed feuding in the town.

Shell rejects residents’ proposal on gas terminal

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:34:06 +0000

Shell Oil has rejected a proposal by County Mayo residents that it should move its gas refinery to a coastal, rather than offshore, location.

Spy equipment ‘removed in raid’

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:33:13 +0000

The PSNI have been accused of using the search of the home of leading republican hardliner Gary Donnelly as a cover to remove sophisticated electronic equipment.