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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published July 4, 2008
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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published June 6, 2008
Thinly disguised threats are emanating from both the European bureaucracy and the Dublin government ahead of the Lisbon Treaty referendum on June 12.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published May 8, 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.
Published May 2, 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.
Published April 25, 2008
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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published April 4, 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published March 14, 2008
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