The trial of a loyalist gang involved in the death of Catholic community
worker Kevin McDaid has ended with all of the charges against them being
dropped or reduced to minor ones.
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The trial of a loyalist gang involved in the death of Catholic community
worker Kevin McDaid has ended with all of the charges against them being
dropped or reduced to minor ones.
Published May 17, 2014
Jubilation and recrimination as Adams is freed
A high stakes game in the North’s unfinished peace process played out
before the world’s media last week. But almost twenty years after the
Provisional IRA’s ceasefire, the shock detention of Gerry Adams on
allegations of past IRA activity ended in a dramatic triumph for the
Sinn Fein leader.
Published May 10, 2014
Political chaos as Adams is arrested, interrogated
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams is facing a fourth night in jail at a
notorious British Crown force interrogation centre in Antrim as a crisis
over the failure to deal with the past conflict in the north of Ireland
begins to threaten delicate policing agreements.
Published May 3, 2014
In its Easter statement, the ‘new IRA’ has declared that it has built a
“sustainable military campaign”, but that responsibility for further
conflict “rests with the British government”.
Published April 26, 2014
The disgraced chairman of Anglo Irish Bank has been cleared this week
of hatching a highly illegal loans-for-shares plot months before the
bank’s collapse. Two of his colleagues were found guilty.
Published April 19, 2014
Banquet gesture draws Tory hate
Efforts to boost reconciliation between the 26 County state and Britain
during the formal visit to London by 26-County President Michael D
Higgins were undermined by a leading Tory’s call this week for the
murder of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness.
Published April 11, 2014
No charges over UDA mob terror
Between 100 and 200 armed loyalist paramilitaries ransacked houses and
assaulted residents in Larne in a mob attack carried out with apparent
impunity by the south Antrim UDA.
Published April 5, 2014
Humiliated Minister clings to post
After ricocheting from one scandal to the next since his appointment,
disgraced 26-County Minister Alan Shatter is to finally face a
parliamentary motion of no confidence.
Published March 29, 2014
‘Vindictive’ policing as 77-year-old is charged
Veteran republican Ivor Bell has been charged this Friday night with
IRA membership and “aiding and abetting” the execution of informer Jean
McConville in 1972.
Published March 22, 2014
In a sudden turnaround, an ad-hoc campaign by Irish Americans has
succeeded in preventing the inclusion of a delegation of PSNI police
(formerly RUC) in this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in New York.
Published March 15, 2014
Devices intercepted amid prison tensions
Two letter bombs addressed to Maghaberry Prison were intercepted this
week following a violent confrontation inside the jail.
Published March 8, 2014
Stormont off the rails over OTRs
The past has once again come back to haunt the north of Ireland when it
emerged in an Old Bailey trial this week that some republicans ‘on the
run’ (OTR) from conflict-related prosecutions have privately received
assurances that no prosecutions are due.
Published March 1, 2014
The 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny is resisting intense pressure to
sack his Minister for Justice Alan Shatter amid a tsunamic scandal over
his handling of police corruption and misconduct.
Published February 21, 2014
The Dublin government has been rocked by shocking revelations of a
‘black ops’ spy operation at the headquarters of the police ombudsman’s
office, the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission (GSOC).
Published February 15, 2014
‘Nothing normal’ about Stormont - McGuinness
Speaking on the eve of the Sinn Fein annual conference, the Six-County
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has urged the DUP to turn away
from loyalist extremism and bring an end to the “embarrassing” political
stalemate at Stormont.
Published February 7, 2014
Stephen Murney has been released on bail at the culmination of a
farcical trial in which the prosecution openly sought to criminalise him
on the basis of his republican political beliefs and his activism as an
éirígí press officer.
Published January 31, 2014
PSNI Chief Matt Baggott has announced he is to resign as head of the
British police in Ireland after almost five years in the post, and will
not seek a renewal of his contract when it ends in September.
Published January 25, 2014
After almost four years in jail without charge, Irish prisoner of
conscience Martin Corey was released from custody on Wednesday -- but
only on condition that he stay away from the media and his home town
or face being returned to jail.
Published January 17, 2014
Unionists have sought to play down comments by US talks chair Richard
Haass in which he blamed them for the failure to reach an agreement on
his draft proposals dealing with the issues of flags and emblems,
parades, and the past.
Published January 11, 2014
Talks on a range of contentious issues involving the North’s main
political parties collapsed for a second time within a week on New
Year’s Eve, with mediators Richard Haass and his colleague, Meghan
O’Sullivan, again returning swiftly to the US.
Published January 4, 2014
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