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
Peter Robinson is the clear favourite to succeed Ian Paisley following
the historic announcement that he will quit as First Minister and
leader of the DUP.
Published March 7, 2008
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused the Dublin government under
Charles Haughey of providing the information that led to the SAS ambush
of three IRA Volunteers in Gibraltar 20 years ago.
Published February 29, 2008
Ian Paisley Jnr dramatically quit from the northern power-sharing
executive on Tuesday, and questions are now being raised over how long
his father can remain as First Minister.
Published February 21, 2008
A former Sinn Féin bodyguard and driver for Gerry Adams has been
exposed as a British agent and informer.
Published February 15, 2008
The PSNI police have again set up a number of road checkpoints across
the North amid a general increase in tension between the British Crown
forces and republican hardliners.
Published February 8, 2008
The Dublin parliament is to debate an all-party motion condemning
collusion by British forces in atrocities in the North of Ireland.
Published January 31, 2008
A ‘Real IRA’ bomb trial was terminated abruptly on Monday following
unchallenged accusations that an informer lies at the heart of the
case.
Published January 24, 2008
Victims’ groups have called for an international independent truth
commission to deal with the legacy of the last 30 years of war in the
North of Ireland.
Published January 17, 2008
A panel unilaterally set up by the British government to deal with the
desire for truth and reconciliation following the peace process has begun
public consultations, provoking anger and controversy over its role.
Published January 9, 2008
The PSNI police chief Hugh Orde has said it is “highly unlikely” that
anyone will be jailed for the 1998 Omagh bomb, following the freeing of
Armagh man Sean Hoey and the trial judge’s stinging indictment of the
PSNI.
Published January 3, 2008
Armagh man Sean Hoey has been cleared of any involvement in the 1998
Omagh bomb attack after a judge today [Thursday] rubbished the case
presented by the PSNI/RUC police.
Published December 20, 2007
There is no republican involvement in a campaign of threats and hoaxes
against Sinn Féin figures, including the widow of a recently deceased
IRA veteran, it has been claimed.
Published December 12, 2007
A British soldier has caused a scandal by revealing that the British
Crown forces are continuing to deploy high-technology spying equipment
to monitor the homes and activities of republicans north and south of
the border.
Published December 5, 2007
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that
evidence of British Crown force collusion in the murder of eight men in
South Armagh in the 1970s had not properly been investigated.
Published November 28, 2007
Sinn Fein assembly member Francie Molloy has rejected as “rubbish” a
claim that he has been working as a Special Branch informer for almost
30 years.
Published November 22, 2007
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