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.
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Published April 5, 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”.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published March 13, 2007
Voting to the election for the new Belfast Assembly got underway across
the Six Counties this Wednesday morning.
Published March 7, 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.
Published March 1, 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published 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.
Published 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”.
Published February 5, 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.
Published February 1, 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.
Published 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’.
Published 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.
Published January 17, 2007
Ian Paisley’s DUP have gone back on a deal to agree the devolution of
policing, Sinn Féin has said.
Published 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.
Published January 8, 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.
Published January 4, 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.
Published December 29, 2006
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