Plans to abandon or scale down a number of investigations into past
British atrocities in the north of Ireland are being blamed by
Stormont ministers on a cut in the British exchequer’s annual block
grant for the Six Counties.
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‘No funds’ for war crimes investigations
Published October 4, 2014
Files destroyed as RUC team vet shoot-to-kill reports
Top secret files relating to the killing of nine men in County Armagh
more than 30 years ago were destroyed just weeks before an inquest into
the deaths was due to begin, it has emerged. Other files are still being
edited for ‘sensitive’ information by former members of the murderous
RUC Special Branch.
Published September 27, 2014
Loyalists have engaged in a violent ‘show of strength’ in the centre of
Glasgow as Britain faces unprecedented constitutional change following
a narrow defeat for Scottish independence in Thursday’s referendum.
Published September 20, 2014
Robinson demands new peace deal
Sinn Fein has accepted that the North’s political process is in serious
trouble following a call by the DUP for the St Andrew’s Agreement to
be renegotiated.
Published September 13, 2014
Envy and anticipation ahead of Scottish vote
On September 18, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, full sovereign power
will lie in the hands of the Scottish people, who must decide whether to
keep it or give it away.
Published September 6, 2014
UDA groups target Catholics, seize arms
A 22-year-old Catholic man is recovering in hospital after being beaten
by a gang armed with iron bars and a hatchet in front of his partner and
new baby.
Published August 30, 2014
Gary Hart in new US peace effort
Former US Democrat presidential candidate Gary Hart is set to begin
discussions next week with the Dublin and London governments in what is
being seen as an attempt to again kick start peace talks in the Six
Counties.
Published August 23, 2014
Fitting tribute for republican veteran
A furore has arisen over the funeral of well-known republican and former
IRA PoW Tony Catney, who died on Saturday after a long battle of cancer.
The funeral featured a military-style honour guard.
Published August 16, 2014
A massive security operation is being put in place ahead of an
anti-internment parade through Belfast city centre on Sunday, amid
warnings that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is facing its “greatest
challenge”.
Published August 9, 2014
A petition for the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland to be expelled has
received almost 30,000 signatures.
Published August 2, 2014
A decision by the Dublin government on Wednesday to abstain in a key
vote on an emergency debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council
on the conflict in Gaza has provoked a crisis over Ireland’s managing of
its foreign affairs.
Published July 26, 2014
The Dublin government has failed to condemn the latest massacre in Gaza
despite Israel intensifying operations against the sealed-off
Palestinian enclave, and has declined to even call in the Israeli
ambassador.
Published July 19, 2014
A figure of Gerry Adams was hung from a makeshift gallows on a loyalist
bonfire in County Antrim before being set alight last night, Friday,
11th July.
Published July 12, 2014
Pan-unionism raises the stakes
The main unionist parties may be planning for serious disturbances in
north Belfast next weekend after the Parades Commission rerouted a
hugely contentious anti-Catholic march away from nationalist estates in
north Belfast.
Published July 5, 2014
The Drumcree marching dispute in Portadown could be reignited after the
Parades Commission this week stunned nationalist residents by initially
permitting an Orange march on the lower end of the Garvaghy Road, the
scene of some of the North’s most intense parades violence, before
changing its mind.
Published June 28, 2014
Efforts by British and unionist politicians to to overturn a side-deal
concession given to Sinn Fein during peace negotiations could backfire after it was revealed that controversial ‘letters of
comfort’ given to Sinn Fein supporters may also have been given to
members of the British Crown forces.
Published June 21, 2014
A local election candidate has suffered a heart attack after a PSNI raid
in which his 11-year-old daughter was subjected to psychological terror.
Published June 14, 2014
Demands for inquiry into mass graves
The international media descended this week on a town in the west of
Ireland following shocking claims that an order of nuns may have buried
hundreds of infant children in an unmarked mass grave between the 1920s
and the 1960s.
Published June 7, 2014
Public outrage at racist remarks
The DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson sparked widespread
public outrage this week when he made derogatory comments about Muslims.
He was speaking in defence of a north Belfast Pastor, who described
Islam as “heathen” and “satanic”.
Published May 31, 2014
‘Change is coming’ - Sinn Féin
Local and European elections are taking place today and tomorrow
[Thursday and Friday] in the Six and 26 Counties respectively. The
elections are likely to confirm that Sinn Fein is the dominant political
force on the island of Ireland and for the first time, is now equally
strong in both the 26 Counties and the Six Counties.
Published May 22, 2014
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