At one minute past midnight on Monday, policing and justice powers
became the responsibility of a Six County Assembly for the first time in
almost forty years. Just twenty minutes later, a huge blast echoed
across Belfast and into neighbouring counties from across Belfast Lough.
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At one minute past midnight on Monday, policing and justice powers
became the responsibility of a Six County Assembly for the first time in
almost forty years. Just twenty minutes later, a huge blast echoed
across Belfast and into neighbouring counties from across Belfast Lough.
Published April 12, 2010
Tensions continue to escalate inside Maghaberry Prison today after
republicans were ‘disciplined’ last night for taking part in a 48-hour
protest at prison conditions.
Published April 8, 2010
Republicans are being urged to turn out in large numbers at Easter
commemorations across the country this weekend to reassert “the right
of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland” following
shocking revelations of corruption and fraud in the Dublin parliament
this week.
Published April 2, 2010
A new book published this week reveals details of controversial
interviews given by legendary IRA figure Brendan ‘The Dark’ Hughes to
Boston College in 2001 and 2002.
Published March 29, 2010
26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen is facing a potential rebellion among
his own backbenchers after a reshuffle of his cabinet of Ministers was
widely criticised as inadequate in the face of Ireland’s economic
crisis.
Published March 25, 2010
MI5 blocks Bloody Sunday report
The long-awaited report into the British Army Bloody Sunday massacre
will not be released by the current British government, it has emerge
Published March 22, 2010
The head of the Catholic church in Ireland, Sean Brady, is resisting
intense calls for his resignation following revelations about his
involvement in an 1975 church inquiry into child sex abuser Fr Brendan
Smyth, in which two children were forced to take a vow of secrecy.
Published March 15, 2010
Unionism divides as key vote passes
A historic vote in the Belfast Assembly has bolstered last month’s
agreement at Hillsborough on policing and parades but led to renewed
divisions between the two main unionist parties in the North.
Published March 11, 2010
UUP rejects ‘dysfunctional’ Stormont
Senior Ulster Unionists have said that they will not be supporting the
deal to devolve policing powers from London to Belfast at a crucial vote
in the Six-County Assembly at Stormont tomorrow.
Published March 8, 2010
Massacre inquiry ‘pointless’ - Ford
Victims of Bloody Sunday have expressed outrage at comments by the
proposed future Six County Justice Minister David Ford in which he said
the Saville inquiry into the killings was “pointless”.
Published March 4, 2010
The family of Ciaran Doherty said he had been under “continuous
harassment” from the British secret service (MI5) in the months before
he was shot last week.
Published March 1, 2010
The dissident ‘Real IRA’ has been linked to the massive car bomb that
exploded outside the courthouse in Newry, County Armagh on Monday
night.
Published February 26, 2010
A marathon Crown force operation has followed the abandonment of a
mortar rocket inside a van near the PSNI barracks in Keady in south
Armagh on Friday.
Published February 22, 2010
The 26-County Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea has resigned in a
scandal arising from his attempts to smear a Sinn Fein election rival.
Published February 18, 2010
DUP leader Peter Robinson signed a post-dated letter of resignation as
First Minister to secure his party’s support for local policing and
justice in the north of Ireland, it has emerged.
Published February 15, 2010
Both the DUP and Sinn Fein have drawn a line in the sand on the issue of
sectarian marches as a working group set up under last week’s agreement
at Hillsborough held its first discussions on the issue.
Published February 11, 2010
The announcement by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) that it
has decommissioned its weapons has been strongly welcomed by the main
political parties in Ireland but greeted with condemnation by hardline
republican groups and mixed reactions from its own supporters.
Published February 8, 2010
Negotiations have ended between Sinn Fein and the DUP but unionists are
understood to be continuing to hold private talks with the British
government in a bid to ensure sectarian Orange Order parades are forced
through nationalist communities.
Published February 4, 2010
Both Sinn Fein and the DUP have said progress has been made in their
labyrinthine negotiations over the implementation of the 2006 St
Andrews Agreement, and confirmed that the talks will conclude shortly.
Published February 1, 2010
Transferring policing and justice powers from the London government to
the Belfast administration cannot be held hostage to unionist demands on
contentious sectarian parades, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams warned
today.
Published January 28, 2010
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