A week of intense talks involving Sinn Féin, Ian Paisley’s DUP and the
Dublin and London governments to find a way through the impasse over
policing before the Christmas break continues unabated.
Published December 23, 2006
Key meetings of Assembly committees are taking place in Belfast this
week which will seek to bridge significant differences on the issue of
the transfer of justice and policing powers from London to Belfast.
Published December 18, 2006
An assassination plot against Gerry Adams by republican hardliners was
defeated by security arrangements taken by the Sinn Féin president and
his security advisers, Mr Adams has said.
Published December 13, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley responded to and made comments directed at Sinn
Féin President Gerry Adams across the Belfast Assembly chamber this
week in what is being seen as a possible shift in his party’s refusal
to talk directly to Sinn Féin.
Published December 7, 2006
Crazed killer Michael Stone outlined his plan to mount a
Colombine-style assault against the Sinn Féin leadership in a letter to
a local newspaper.
Published December 1, 2006
The peace process has survived one of its most dramatic days in recent
years despite a major political crisis and an almost simultaneous gun
and bomb attack at the Belfast Assembly.
Published November 25, 2006
The first meeting of the programme for government committee takes place
in Belfast tomorrow despite a continuing boycott by DUP leader Ian
Paisley.
Published November 19, 2006
The lives of Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly
are under threat from hardline republicans, the party has confirmed.
Published November 14, 2006
A major international report has called for an independent inquiry
into what senior British government figures knew about Crown force
collusion with unionist death-squads in 74 murders.
Published November 9, 2006
Ian Paisley’s DUP is likely to give only “a conditional response” to
the St Andrews document next week in tactically stating they will only
go along with a political deal on power-sharing government if certain
demands are met.
Published November 4, 2006
The British and Irish governments could put progress in the North at
risk if they divert from what was agreed at the St Andrews talks and
make fresh concessions to the DUP, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams
has said.
Published October 30, 2006
There are growing concerns that the hardline unionist DUP will remain
as negative within the peace process as the party was outside amid
ongoing tension over the details of a potential new deal.
Published October 25, 2006
Disagreement over the wording and timing of a pledge of office
has emerged as a key stumbling block as negotiations continue over a
potentially historic deal between Sinn Féin and Ian Paisley’s DUP.
Published October 20, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams could hold
face-to-face talks as early as tomorrow as the St Andrews proposals are
worked through by the two party leaderships.
Published October 16, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said his party is determined to do
everything it can to get the political institutions of the Good Friday
Agreement up and running in Belfast before the November 24th deadline.
Published October 10, 2006
The British government has formally acknowledged that the Provisional
IRA’s military campaign is over.
Published October 5, 2006
The Dublin government is divided by the deep facing 26-County Prime
Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, over cash payments he accepted when
Minister for Finance in the 1990s.
Published September 30, 2006
The Dublin government is enveloped in a new and potentially critical
corruption scandal over revelations of payments made to the 26-County
Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in 1993.
Published September 25, 2006
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on policing, Gerry Kelly, has said the parties
could be “very, very close” to an agreement on policing if Ian
Paisley’s DUP were to be engage with Sinn Féin in a positive manner.
Published September 19, 2006
Up to 1,000 murder files held by the Crown police in the North of Ireland
have simply “gone missing”, the PSNI have admitted.
Published September 15, 2006
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