The case against a former chef sought in connection with a break-in at
a top British Crown force base in the North of Ireland collapsed today
after seven years when prosecutors said he could not receive a fair
trial.
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The case against a former chef sought in connection with a break-in at
a top British Crown force base in the North of Ireland collapsed today
after seven years when prosecutors said he could not receive a fair
trial.
July 03, 2009
The PSNI police believes that the unionist paramilitary UDA was involved
in the murder of Catholic community worker Kevin McDaid in Coleraine
last month, it has been revealed.
June 26, 2009
More than 100 immigrants were forced to take shelter in a church near
Queen’s University this week after four days of racist attacks by
loyalist thugs from the Village area of south Belfast.
June 19, 2009
Sinn Féin headed the poll for the first time in the European elections
in Six Counties while the DUP, poll-topper at every other European
election, had to be content with taking the third seat.
June 12, 2009
SF AT HEART OF
ELECTION DEBATE
A relatively lacklustre election campaign in the 26 Counties erupted
into farce in its final days with claims and counter claims among the
establishment parties about ‘what to do with Sinn Féin’.
June 04, 2009
The family of Kevin McDaid have accused the PSNI of being culpable in
his murder by a loyalist mob.
May 29, 2009
There has been a wave of outrage after an official report for the Dublin
government admitted that thousands of children suffered physical and
sexual abuse over several decades in residential institutions run by
religious congregations.
May 22, 2009
COALITION FACING ELECTION MELTDOWN
With local and European elections less than three weeks away, the latest
poll shows satisfaction with the Dublin government has slumped to an
extraordinary record low of just ten per cent.
May 15, 2009
The PSNI police have brought an Irish journalist to court under special
anti-terrorist legislation in a move seen as further evidence of a
return to traditional repressive state policies against republicanism.
May 08, 2009
The 26-County state is set to experience a depression surpassing that
of any other industrialised nation for over 70 years, according to
official predictions.
May 01, 2009
The Sinn Féin leadership has begun a fight-back against rival
republican groups who are seeking to maintain an armed struggle against
British rule.
April 24, 2009
There are concerns that tensions between Sinn Féin and
republican dissidents could escalate further.
April 17, 2009
The Dublin government stands accused of targeting children and other vulnerable groups in the Budget, rather than the banks and property developers responsible for causing the current crisis.
April 10, 2009
Days of disturbances in the North this week amounted to a show of
strength by so-called “dissidents” following a recent PSNI crackdown.
April 03, 2009
Following intense controversy over his continued detention without
charge, Colin Duffy was brought to court this [Friday] morning and
formally charged in connection with the ‘Real IRA’ attack on
Massereene British Army base earlier this month.
March 27, 2009
The British government has rejected any idea of engagement with
militant republican groups.
March 19, 2009
Different IRA factions may have come together to co-ordinate their
actions in two deadly attacks this week.
March 13, 2009
British Army special forces soldiers are back in the north of Ireland,
according to PSNI Chief Hugh Orde.
March 06, 2009
Four loyalists were convicted on Wednesday of the savage sectarian
killing of 15-year-old Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen in
Ballymena, County Antrim in May 2006.
February 27, 2009
The 26-County coalition government of Brian Cowen is in crisis over a
‘golden circle’ of wealthy Irish developers who received almost half a
billion Euro to purchase shares in a potentially fraudulent transaction
at the scandal-plagued Anglo-Irish Bank.
February 20, 2009
A DUP bid to abolish the main cross-border political institution of
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement -- part of an admitted larger plan to
collapse the Agreement itself -- failed in the Belfast Assembly this
week.
February 13, 2009
JOBS SHOCK AS ECONOMY UNRAVELS
February 06, 2009
The relatives of those killed by British forces in the north of Ireland have
criticised the emphasis placed on so-called “recognition payments” to
be paid by the British government to their families as a way of
dealing with the past conflict.
January 30, 2009
IRELAND HAILS OBAMA PRESIDENCY
On a visit to Washington DC to attend the US Presidential inauguration
ceremenonies, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said he believes that
President Obama can assist the Irish peace process.
January 23, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused republican hardliners of
demanding protection money from drug dealers and other criminals in the
North.
January 16, 2009
The Israeli bombing of two UN-run schools filled with children taking
shelter from the continuing bloodshed in Gaza has provoked protests
and increasingly desperate appeals for a halt to the killing.
January 09, 2009
1978: DIRTY WAR, DIRTY PROTEST
Previously confidential files released this week in Dublin, Belfast and
London under the 30 year ruled provide evidence of the increasing role
of the ‘Dirty War’ -- the use of covert intelligence and the SAS
shoot-to-kill strategy by the British government.
January 02, 2009
Concern in mounting in Ireland this Christmas that a set of rapidly
deteriorating market conditions and government mis-steps are
threatening to pitch the entire island into an unprecedented economic
crisis.
December 19, 2008
LISBON II: ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’
A second referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty will be held in the 26
Counties before October 31st of next year, according to the conclusions
of a European Union summit this week.
December 12, 2008
The British government has extended a deadline for unionist
paramilitary groups to decommission their weapons by another twelve
months.
December 05, 2008
OVERDOSE FOR UDA’S ‘BLINGADIER’
The funeral has taken place of UDA ‘brigadier’ Ihab Shoukri, who died
this week after taking a fit brought on by a night of heavy drug use
in Newtonabbey, outside Belfast.
November 28, 2008
The Stormont Executive met on Thursday for the first time in over five
months.
November 21, 2008
The UDA has warned of being ready to “do battle” in a statement read to
several thousand loyalist supporters at a number of venues in the north
of Ireland.
November 13, 2008
Hopes are high that the election of a transformative President in the
US could herald an era of progressive change in Ireland.
November 07, 2008
A coat-trailing and incendiary march by British troops is set to take
place in the centre of Ireland’s second city on Sunday despite
widespread fears over the potential for serious violence.
October 31, 2008
The Dublin government is under further pressure over the October
Budget, days after thirty thousand pensioners and students besieged
parliament over cutbacks.
October 24, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of Irish taxpayers were the subject of a
sweeping and savage range of cuts and taxes this week in order to pay
for the gross mismanagement of the 26-County economy by the Dublin
government.
October 17, 2008
There have been calls for a completely new system of policing and
justice in the north of Ireland following the dramatic collapse of the
trial of bank official Chris Ward, the only individual accused of
the 2004 Northern Bank robbery.
October 10, 2008
The North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meeting scheduled for today
[Friday] was cancelled in the escalating dispute within the North’s
power-sharing administration.
October 03, 2008
Irish-American voters have become the focus of intense campaigning in
the US Presidential election as the race for the White House hots up.
September 26, 2008
The North’s strained stalemate exploded in rancour on Thursday when
the Stormont’s cabinet-style administration visibly broke into rival
factions.
September 19, 2008
SDLP leader Mark Durkan has stunned the political parties in the north
by calling for power-sharing between nationalists and unionists, a key
safeguard of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, to be scrapped.
September 12, 2008
NO ARMY COUNCIL
STATEMENT - ADAMS
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has stated “categorically and
definitively” that the Provisional IRA has left the stage as the DUP
continued to demand a statement by the organisation’s Army Council on
its status.
September 05, 2008
Serious rioting broke out this week in Belfast and in County Armagh,
where clashes between republican youths and the PSNI police saw a blast
bomb thrown and shots fired.
August 29, 2008
The use of a rocket-propelled grenade by the Continuity IRA against a
PSNI patrol marks a further escalation in their ongoing armed campaign.
August 22, 2008
Two men were treated in hospital for serious head injuries after a
loyalist mob, including armed paramilitaries, attacked a republican
commemoration in Coleraine last weekend - with the assistance of the
police.
August 15, 2008
DEVOLUTION LINKED TO IRA COUNCIL
The British government is ready to declare that the Provisional IRA’s
Army Council has disbanded to speed the transfer of policing and
justice powers from London to the Stormont Executive in Belfast.
August 08, 2008
The British government has confirmed that its Direct Rule Minister
Paul Goggins and PSNI Chief Hugh Orde held talks with leaders of the
UDA murder gangs on Monday night.
The UDA rejected an appeal to begin weapons decommissioning.
August 01, 2008
The first formal border checks between Ireland and Britain for more
than 80 years are set to begin following an announcement by the Dublin
and London governments on Thursday.
July 25, 2008
A declaration by French and current European Union President Nicolas
Sarkozy that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty has generated a furious reaction in Ireland ahead of his
planned visit to Dublin on Monday.
July 18, 2008
As the height of the Protestant marching season approaches,
nationalists are facing a weekend of sectarian intimidation,
paramilitary displays, provocative marches and drunken, uncontrolled
violence at ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires.
July 11, 2008
Sinn Féin’s former publicity director Danny Morrison is set to have
his conviction for false imprisonment overturned amid secretive legal
moves to conceal the truth in the case.
July 04, 2008
‘BIK’ CLEARED
AS TRIAL COLLAPSES
The trial of former IRA chief Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane was brought to a
sudden climax on Thursday afternoon, when the non-jury Special
Criminal Court in Dublin dismissed all charges against him.
June 27, 2008
The European Union is generating its own crisis as the Eurocrat ‘elite’
refuses to accept Ireland’s NO vote in last week’s referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty.
June 19, 2008
Irish voters are being urged to go to the polls today to say ‘No’ to
runaway plans by the European bureaucracy to create a superstate at the
expense of Irish sovereignty and neutrality.
June 12, 2008
The new First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister,
Martin McGuinness, today start talks with British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown to try to resolve key issues troubling the peace process.
June 06, 2008
Thinly disguised threats are emanating from both the European bureaucracy and the Dublin government ahead of the Lisbon Treaty referendum on June 12.
May 30, 2008
South Armagh bade farewell to former IRA commander Brian Keenan
yesterday [Thursday] before he began his final journey back to his
native Belfast.
May 23, 2008
A breakaway republican armed group known as Oglaigh na hEireann has
been linked to a surprise car bomb attack which injured a member of the
PSNI police on Monday night.
May 16, 2008
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.
May 08, 2008
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.
May 02, 2008
The public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat
Finucane has been secretly blocked for nearly two years, it has
emerged.
April 25, 2008
BRITISH CONSPIRING TO PUSH TREATY
A leaked memo by a senior British diplomat has revealed secret
cross-channel plans to convince Irish voters to support the upcoming
referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
April 18, 2008
Five republican prisoners have been moved to solitary confinement in
Maghaberry jail after protesting a court ruling on a ban on the wearing of
Easter lily.
April 11, 2008
Fianna Fail is expected to elect Minister for Finance Brian Cowen as
leader next week following this week’s announcement by Bertie Ahern
that he intends to step down as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fail on
May 6th.
April 04, 2008
Sinn Féin has welcomed the Dublin government’s commemoration of the
1916 Easter Rising but has accused the coalition government of merely
paying “lip service” to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
March 28, 2008
The English queen Elizabeth Windsor conducted a three-day visit to the
north of Ireland this week amid a storm of controversy but without
violent incident.
March 21, 2008
There was a dramatic escalation of tension this week at the Tara
heritage site in County Meath where hundreds of construction workers
and Garda police attacked a growing protest determined to save a
national monument from destruction.
March 14, 2008
Peter Robinson is the clear favourite to succeed Ian Paisley following
the historic announcement that he will quit as First Minister and
leader of the DUP.
March 07, 2008
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused the Dublin government under
Charles Haughey of providing the information that led to the SAS ambush
of three IRA Volunteers in Gibraltar 20 years ago.
February 29, 2008
Ian Paisley Jnr dramatically quit from the northern power-sharing
executive on Tuesday, and questions are now being raised over how long
his father can remain as First Minister.
February 21, 2008
A former Sinn Féin bodyguard and driver for Gerry Adams has been
exposed as a British agent and informer.
February 15, 2008
The PSNI police have again set up a number of road checkpoints across
the North amid a general increase in tension between the British Crown
forces and republican hardliners.
February 08, 2008
DUBLIN ANGER AT COLLUSION COVER-UP
The Dublin parliament is to debate an all-party motion condemning
collusion by British forces in atrocities in the North of Ireland.
January 31, 2008
A ‘Real IRA’ bomb trial was terminated abruptly on Monday following
unchallenged accusations that an informer lies at the heart of the
case.
January 24, 2008
Victims’ groups have called for an international independent truth
commission to deal with the legacy of the last 30 years of war in the
North of Ireland.
January 17, 2008
A panel unilaterally set up by the British government to deal with the
desire for truth and reconciliation following the peace process has begun
public consultations, provoking anger and controversy over its role.
January 09, 2008
The PSNI police chief Hugh Orde has said it is “highly unlikely” that
anyone will be jailed for the 1998 Omagh bomb, following the freeing of
Armagh man Sean Hoey and the trial judge’s stinging indictment of the
PSNI.
January 03, 2008
Armagh man Sean Hoey has been cleared of any involvement in the 1998
Omagh bomb attack after a judge today [Thursday] rubbished the case
presented by the PSNI/RUC police.
December 20, 2007
There is no republican involvement in a campaign of threats and hoaxes
against Sinn Féin figures, including the widow of a recently deceased
IRA veteran, it has been claimed.
December 12, 2007
A British soldier has caused a scandal by revealing that the British
Crown forces are continuing to deploy high-technology spying equipment
to monitor the homes and activities of republicans north and south of
the border.
December 05, 2007
EUROPE BACKS COLLUSION FAMILIES
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that
evidence of British Crown force collusion in the murder of eight men in
South Armagh in the 1970s had not properly been investigated.
November 28, 2007
Sinn Fein assembly member Francie Molloy has rejected as “rubbish” a
claim that he has been working as a Special Branch informer for almost
30 years.
November 22, 2007
‘REAL IRA’ MOUNT GUN, BOMB ATTACKS
The breakaway republican group known as the ‘Real IRA’ has said it
shot two members of the PSNI in Derry and Dungannon, County Tyrone
last week, and also detonated a coffee-jar bomb in Newry, County
Armagh.
November 15, 2007
The UDA decommissioning saga has descended into farce after a breakaway
faction of the group denied that it had destroyed a small quantity of
guns.
November 08, 2007
A breakaway faction of the UDA has said the British and 26-County
governments now recognise it as an independent organisation after it
began disarming.
November 01, 2007
British military checkpoints are to return to the border area between
the North and South of Ireland following a British decision to abandon
the 'Common Travel Area' which has covered both islands since before
partition.
October 24, 2007
To DUP outrage, a decision to withdraw £1.2 million (Euro 1.7 million)
funding for a group connected to the unionist paramilitary UDA has been
confirmed after the UDA’s killer gangs refused to disarm.
October 17, 2007
CORONER CHALLENGES ORDE ON SHOOT-TO-KILL
The North’s most senior coroner has warned he will consider taking
legal action against PSNI Chief Hugh Orde if he refuses to hand over
police files relating to the killing of six unarmed people.
October 10, 2007
PSNI police clubbed scores of nationalist pub-goers in Derry city
centre on Saturday night in some of the worst street conflict seen in
the city in years.
October 03, 2007
There are fears other areas are being drawn into a unionist
paramilitary feud between rival gangs of the UDA in County Antrim.
Hundreds of campaigners created a giant human harp in County Meath to mark Tara Heritage Day on Sunday. The protest is the latest in a string of high profile moves to pressurise the government into rerouting the M3 motorway away from the historic site.
The sites under threat are inextricably linked with the harping and bardic traditions for more than 2,500 years. Protests were also held in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dublin.
September 27, 2007
The PSNI have been using CS gas nearly every day on average since a
hand-held spray form was introduced three years ago, it has been
revealed.
September 20, 2007
An attempt to secure tax-varying powers for the Belfast Assembly was
defeated on Monday. Unionists blocked the Sinn Féin motion after DUP
Finance Minister Peter Robinson expressed reservations.
September 12, 2007
A retraction of the 35-year-old British Army claim that a teenager shot
dead by a soldier in Derry was a “terrorist” has been welcomed by
nationalists.
September 05, 2007
Tensions are high inside Maghaberry prison after clashes between
feuding prisoners within the unionist paramilitary UDA.
August 30, 2007
DUP MAN ‘TO NAME DOUBLE-AGENT’
A DUP MP is planning to name a senior Sinn Féin figure in parliament
who he alleges has secretly been working for the British Crown forces.
August 22, 2007
The North’s Executive has been accused of seeking to avoid a decision
over highly controversial government funding of the unionist
paramilitary UDA.
August 16, 2007
The controversial excavation and demolition of a newly-uncovered
national monument at Lismullin in the Tara Valley began yesterday after
conservationists were threatened with a potentially violent Garda
police arrest operation.
August 08, 2007
The British Army will cease to provide military support to Crown force
policing operations in the Six Counties from midnight.
July 31, 2007
A feud between rival factions of the unionist paramilitary UDA erupted
in intense clashes at the weekend during which a PSNI policeman was
shot in the back.
July 25, 2007
DUP leader and Six-County First Minister Ian Paisley has declared that
the conflict in Ireland is at an end.
July 18, 2007
A bizarre British Army document has come to light which purports to
summarise the lessons taken by the force from its engagement in
conflict in the North of Ireland.
July 11, 2007
A multi-pronged British strategy to protect their own while downplaying
collusion and the rights of nationalist victims could provoke a crisis
in the peace process later this year.
July 04, 2007
A decision taken by the Crown Public Prosecution Service that no
members of the British Crown forces are to be charged over collusion
investigations has been condemned in the strongest terms by human
rights groups and families of the victims.
June 27, 2007
The Irish Green Party has abandoned a number of core political beliefs
in order to enter into a coalition government in Dublin, securing the
return of Fianna Fail’s Bertie Ahern as 26-County Taoiseach.
June 18, 2007
The North’s new First Minister Ian Paisley has delivered his first
question-and-answer session in the Belfast Assembly in his inimitable
manner but without generating fresh controversy.
June 11, 2007
Files on infamous unionist paramilitary leader Billy ‘King Rat’ Wright
have been deliberately destroyed or ‘lost’, an inquiry into his murder
has been told.
June 04, 2007
Talks between Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and potential coalition government
partners have been hit by fresh controversy over suspect payments
received by him when he was Minister for Finance.
May 29, 2007
SF READY TO NEGOTIATE NEW GOVT
Bertie Ahern could be returned as 26-County Taoiseach for a further
five years, according to the latest polls, but only if he finds a new
coalition partner.
May 21, 2007
The election campaign in the 26 Counties is heating up with just over a
week left to polling day.
May 15, 2007
The Six Counties have a new power-sharing Executive in another historic day at Stormont.
May 08, 2007
CONTROVERSY MARKS CAMPAIGN START
Intense election campaigning has begun in the 26 Counties after the
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s early morning visit to the Presidential
residence, Aras an Uachtarain, to finally dissolve the Dublin
parliament on Sunday.
May 02, 2007
Sinn Féin’s 26-County TDs today said that they are preparing for the
election of a significant number of colleagues in the forthcoming
General Election - with the aim of the party being in government north
and south of the border.
April 27, 2007
Two members of the British Crown forces are involved in the latest
intelligence gathering operation to obtain the personal data of over
150 nationalists from the PSNI police computer system and deliver it to
a unionist paramilitary death-squad.
April 21, 2007
REPUBLICANS ON NEW UVF HIT LIST
Sinn Féin has challenged unionist paramilitaries in the North to come
clean following the discovery of a new hit list of republican murder
targets.
April 15, 2007
The countdown to a united Ireland is underway, according to Sinn
Féin’s Martin McGuinness.
April 10, 2007
Extraordinary scenes continued in the peace process this week with a public handshake at Farmleigh House in Dublin between DUP leader Ian Paisley and the 26-County Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.
April 05, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said a breakthrough deal on power-sharing following the first-ever direct talks with DUP leader Ian Paisley means that “a new and unprecedented opportunity for progress now exists”.
March 30, 2007
Victims of UDA death-squads expressed outrage at the British
government’s plans to give the paramilitary group 1.2 million pounds
sterling.
March 24, 2007
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said a political deal to secure
power-sharing by March 26 is close and that the British government can
“smell” a breakthrough.
March 18, 2007
There is mounting optimism that the peace process can make a historic
breakthrough this month after the Dublin and London governments
appeared willing to hold to their stated March 26th deadline for the
return of local power-sharing in the North of Ireland.
March 13, 2007
Voting to the election for the new Belfast Assembly got underway across
the Six Counties this Wednesday morning.
March 07, 2007
Unionists in Belfast would benefit from an all-Ireland economy, Sinn
Féin President Gerry Adams said as he launched his party’s platform for
the election to the Belfast Assembly.
March 01, 2007
Republican Sinn Féin president Ruairi O Bradaigh delivered a letter of
protest to the headquarters of the GAA as part of an extremely
high-profile demonstration at Saturday’s rugby international at Croke
Park in Dublin.
February 25, 2007
The Democratic Unionist Party is to push for an alternative ‘Plan C’ --
which would see Sinn Féin excluded from political institutions in
Belfast -- should the party fail to satisfy its demands in a future
power sharing government.
February 20, 2007
The British government may be forced to make a gesture to mark the
killing of 14 civilians by British Crown forces at Croke Park in 1920
when British Direct Ruler Peter Hain attends the Ireland v England
rugby match there next week.
February 15, 2007
REPUBLICANS FACE ELECTION CHOICE
Republican Sinn Féin has confirmed that it will stand at least eleven
abstentionist candidates in the Belfast assembly elections, while
independent republicans have already declared in five constituencies.
February 10, 2007
COLLUSION ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ - BLAIR
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams it
is “unacceptable” that members of the PSNI police colluded in sectarian
and other paramilitary murders and that it “must never happen again”.
February 05, 2007
HISTORY IS MADE AS SF BACKS PSNI
Sunday’s extraordinary Sinn Fein Ard Fheis saw overwhelming party
support for a seismic shift on policing and a clear endorsement for
the Adams/McGuinness leadership.
February 01, 2007
MURDER CAMPAIGN ‘WENT TO THE TOP’
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said collusion in the PSNI/RUC
police went “to the very top” following this week’s report which
implicated the Special Branch in a decade-long campaign of sectarian
murder in north Belfast.
January 27, 2007
A report by the Police Ombudsman concludes that RUC/PSNI Special
Branch police officers colluded in at least 18 murders in the North of
Ireland between 1990 and 2003 has been described as ‘the tip of the
iceberg’.
January 22, 2007
A debate on the acceptability of the PSNI police and British Crown
courts in the North of Ireland is currently underway within
republicanism.
January 17, 2007
Ian Paisley’s DUP have gone back on a deal to agree the devolution of
policing, Sinn Féin has said.
January 12, 2007
A crisis is mounting as a result of the
continuing failure of the DUP to respond positively
to the decision by the Sinn Féin leadership to
recognise the courts and support the police force in the North of Ireland.
January 08, 2007
Sinn Féin has said it is still awaiting a positive response from Ian
Paisley’s DUP following its decision to hold a special party conference
on supporting the police and recognising the courts in the North of
Ireland.
January 04, 2007
SINN FÉIN DEBATES POLICING CHANGE
DUP leader Ian Paisley has welcomed moves by Sinn Féin President Gerry
Adams which could lead the party to a once unthinkable position --
supporting a police force in Ireland while it remains under the
authority of the British Crown.
December 29, 2006
A week of intense talks involving Sinn Féin, Ian Paisley’s DUP and the
Dublin and London governments to find a way through the impasse over
policing before the Christmas break continues unabated.
December 23, 2006
Key meetings of Assembly committees are taking place in Belfast this
week which will seek to bridge significant differences on the issue of
the transfer of justice and policing powers from London to Belfast.
December 18, 2006
An assassination plot against Gerry Adams by republican hardliners was
defeated by security arrangements taken by the Sinn Féin president and
his security advisers, Mr Adams has said.
December 13, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley responded to and made comments directed at Sinn
Féin President Gerry Adams across the Belfast Assembly chamber this
week in what is being seen as a possible shift in his party’s refusal
to talk directly to Sinn Féin.
December 07, 2006
PROCESS RESUMES AFTER STORMONT MAYHEM
Crazed killer Michael Stone outlined his plan to mount a
Colombine-style assault against the Sinn Féin leadership in a letter to
a local newspaper.
December 01, 2006
CONFUSION AND TERROR AT STORMONT
The peace process has survived one of its most dramatic days in recent
years despite a major political crisis and an almost simultaneous gun
and bomb attack at the Belfast Assembly.
November 25, 2006
The first meeting of the programme for government committee takes place
in Belfast tomorrow despite a continuing boycott by DUP leader Ian
Paisley.
November 19, 2006
The lives of Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly
are under threat from hardline republicans, the party has confirmed.
November 14, 2006
THE GLENNANE GANG - BRITAIN’S DEATH BRIGADE
A major international report has called for an independent inquiry
into what senior British government figures knew about Crown force
collusion with unionist death-squads in 74 murders.
November 09, 2006
Ian Paisley’s DUP is likely to give only “a conditional response” to
the St Andrews document next week in tactically stating they will only
go along with a political deal on power-sharing government if certain
demands are met.
November 04, 2006
ADAMS WARNING OVER DUP DEMANDS
The British and Irish governments could put progress in the North at
risk if they divert from what was agreed at the St Andrews talks and
make fresh concessions to the DUP, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams
has said.
October 30, 2006
There are growing concerns that the hardline unionist DUP will remain
as negative within the peace process as the party was outside amid
ongoing tension over the details of a potential new deal.
October 25, 2006
CHALLENGES SURMOUNTABLE - ADAMS
Disagreement over the wording and timing of a pledge of office
has emerged as a key stumbling block as negotiations continue over a
potentially historic deal between Sinn Féin and Ian Paisley’s DUP.
October 20, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams could hold
face-to-face talks as early as tomorrow as the St Andrews proposals are
worked through by the two party leaderships.
October 16, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said his party is determined to do
everything it can to get the political institutions of the Good Friday
Agreement up and running in Belfast before the November 24th deadline.
October 10, 2006
The British government has formally acknowledged that the Provisional
IRA’s military campaign is over.
October 05, 2006
The Dublin government is divided by the deep facing 26-County Prime
Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, over cash payments he accepted when
Minister for Finance in the 1990s.
September 30, 2006
The Dublin government is enveloped in a new and potentially critical
corruption scandal over revelations of payments made to the 26-County
Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in 1993.
September 25, 2006
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on policing, Gerry Kelly, has said the parties
could be “very, very close” to an agreement on policing if Ian
Paisley’s DUP were to be engage with Sinn Féin in a positive manner.
September 19, 2006
Up to 1,000 murder files held by the Crown police in the North of Ireland
have simply “gone missing”, the PSNI have admitted.
September 15, 2006
Tony Blair's promise to step down as British Prime Minister within 12
months threatens to derail the Irish peace process.
September 10, 2006
A fresh attempt to end the political deadlock in the North of Ireland
is to be made next month with intensive talks in Scotland.
September 05, 2006
The PSNI police has been covering up a series of unionist paramilitary
arms discoveries -- according to the UDA themselves.
August 31, 2006
Sinn Fein has revealed that Ian Paisley’s DUP are refusing to even look
directly at the party’s representatives across the table at meetings
intended to prepare the way for the two parties to share power in the
Six Counties.
August 27, 2006
LOYALIST INTIMIDATION, PSNI VIOLENCE
The Police Ombudsman has been asked to investigate the assault of a
Sinn Féin politician by the PSNI police at a weekend loyalist parade.
August 22, 2006
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has called for greater compromise and
confidence in dealing with unionists during a significant mass rally in
west Belfast.
August 18, 2006
CRIMINALISATION ‘WILL BE RESISTED’
Republican prisoners held in Maghaberry jail have concluded a 48-hour
fast as part of an escalating protest for the restoration of political
status and the implementation of five demands.
August 13, 2006
The Continuity IRA are considered most likely to be responsible for a
spate of fire-bomb attacks and bomb alerts in the town of Newry, close
to the border, that damaged or destroyed at least four large British
retail chain stores.
August 10, 2006
The UDA has forcibly ousted its former north
Belfast leadership from the city with the tacit support of the PSNI
police.
August 05, 2006
The Dublin government has been forced to end the transport of munitions
for the Israeli Army through Shannon Airport following outrage over the
massacre of scores of women and children in Lebanon.
July 31, 2006
Sectarian attacks are now averaging at least five attacks every day
despite efforts of nationalist groups to placate unionists with
concessions over contentious anti-Catholic parades through interface
areas.
July 25, 2006
The arrest of an Irish language school teacher in Belfast for speaking
Irish “brings us back to the days of the penal laws”, said Sinn
Féin’s Bairbre de Brun.
July 20, 2006
A Derry man is fighting for his life following a spate of sectarian
attacks surrounding the annual July 12th parades by the Protestant
Orange Order.
July 17, 2006
Hundreds of ‘11th night’ bonfires were set alight by loyalists across
the North last night as tensions mounted ahead of ‘the Twelfth’, a day
when over 600 marches are staged by the Protestant Orange Order to mark
a 17th century battle victory over Catholics.
July 12, 2006
26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern this week faced calls for an early
election amid a public outcry over mounting evidence of serious
incompetence within his cabinet and senior civil service.
July 07, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley has said that there will be no power-sharing
with nationalists unless the Provisional IRA “repents of its evil
deeds”
July 02, 2006
Republican prisoners at Maghaberry Prison are now refusing meals in an
increasing protest for the recognition of political status.
June 27, 2006
The Parades Commission stands accused of rewarding loyalist violence
after it ruled that a sectarian, coat-trailing march can pass along the
nationalist Springfield Road in west Belfast this weekend.
June 22, 2006
Relatively little violence at the ‘Tour of the North’ parade in north
Belfast on Friday night is being cited as evidence that this year’s
marching season could be the quietest for several years.
June 17, 2006
Frustration is growing in the North of Ireland over the ongoing
attempts by hardline unionists to obstruct and undermine the peace
process.
June 11, 2006
Martin McGuinness has accused his enemies of trying to have him killed
by claiming he was a British spy.
June 06, 2006
A man named in the Dublin parliament earlier this year as a PSNI
Special Branch agent linked to a series of murders was shot near North
Belfast today.
May 30, 2006
British Direct Ruler Peter Hain is to press ahead with the formation
of an all-party committee at the new shadow assembly to discuss the
return of powers from London to Belfast.
May 27, 2006
There were no surprises as the DUP leader Ian Paisley flatly rejected a
bid to form a power sharing executive at the shadow Belfast Assembly on
Monday.
May 23, 2006
The mood at the first days of a new 'transitional' northern assembly
were low key and overshadowed by the sectarian murder of Catholic
schoolboy Michael McIlveen in Ballymena.
May 17, 2006
Preparations are currently underway for the funeral of fifteen-year-old
Michael McIlveen who died on Monday after he was fatally wounded in a
sectarian gang attack in Ballymena, County Antrim last weekend.
May 13, 2006
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May 08, 2006
Successive British governments failed to act despite having full
knowledge of the extensive and murderous collaboration between the
UDR and unionist
paramilitaries.
May 03, 2006
Dessie O'Hare, former leader of the Irish National Liberation Army
(INLA), has finally been freed from prison, but not under the terms of
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
April 28, 2006
Members of the PSNI police who shot and killed a motorist in County
Down last weekend are still armed and on duty, it has emerged.
April 24, 2006
Rioting has continued in Lurgan, County Armagh for two days after PSNI
police staged a raid on Wednesday on what they claimed was a dissident
republican bomb factory.
April 21, 2006
A man shot dead by the PSNI at a checkpoint in County Down was unarmed
at the time, it has been revealed.
April 18, 2006
This weekend Ireland will witness one of the biggest official
commemorations of any historic event since partition.
April 14, 2006
Sinn Féin has said it will attend the reconvened Belfast Assembly on
May 15th with the purpose of forming a power sharing government.
April 09, 2006
The murder of top republican informer Denis Donaldson has caused
political shockwaves amid intense speculation about his killing.
April 05, 2006
Evidence has emerged that suggests the Dublin government ordered Garda
police not to pursue British military and unionist paramilitary
killers of Irish citizens in the 1970s.
April 03, 2006