The UDA decommissioning saga has descended into farce after a breakaway
faction of the group denied that it had destroyed a small quantity of
guns.
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Published November 8, 2007
A breakaway faction of the UDA has said the British and 26-County
governments now recognise it as an independent organisation after it
began disarming.
Published November 1, 2007
British military checkpoints are to return to the border area between
the North and South of Ireland following a British decision to abandon
the 'Common Travel Area' which has covered both islands since before
partition.
Published October 24, 2007
To DUP outrage, a decision to withdraw £1.2 million (Euro 1.7 million)
funding for a group connected to the unionist paramilitary UDA has been
confirmed after the UDA’s killer gangs refused to disarm.
Published October 17, 2007
CORONER CHALLENGES ORDE ON SHOOT-TO-KILL
The North’s most senior coroner has warned he will consider taking
legal action against PSNI Chief Hugh Orde if he refuses to hand over
police files relating to the killing of six unarmed people.
Published October 10, 2007
PSNI police clubbed scores of nationalist pub-goers in Derry city
centre on Saturday night in some of the worst street conflict seen in
the city in years.
Published October 3, 2007
There are fears other areas are being drawn into a unionist
paramilitary feud between rival gangs of the UDA in County Antrim.
Hundreds of campaigners created a giant human harp in County Meath to mark Tara Heritage Day on Sunday. The protest is the latest in a string of high profile moves to pressurise the government into rerouting the M3 motorway away from the historic site.
The sites under threat are inextricably linked with the harping and bardic traditions for more than 2,500 years. Protests were also held in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dublin.
Published September 27, 2007
The PSNI have been using CS gas nearly every day on average since a
hand-held spray form was introduced three years ago, it has been
revealed.
Published September 20, 2007
An attempt to secure tax-varying powers for the Belfast Assembly was
defeated on Monday. Unionists blocked the Sinn Féin motion after DUP
Finance Minister Peter Robinson expressed reservations.
Published September 12, 2007
A retraction of the 35-year-old British Army claim that a teenager shot
dead by a soldier in Derry was a “terrorist” has been welcomed by
nationalists.
Published September 5, 2007
Tensions are high inside Maghaberry prison after clashes between
feuding prisoners within the unionist paramilitary UDA.
Published August 30, 2007
DUP MAN ‘TO NAME DOUBLE-AGENT’
A DUP MP is planning to name a senior Sinn Féin figure in parliament
who he alleges has secretly been working for the British Crown forces.
Published August 22, 2007
The North’s Executive has been accused of seeking to avoid a decision
over highly controversial government funding of the unionist
paramilitary UDA.
Published August 16, 2007
The controversial excavation and demolition of a newly-uncovered
national monument at Lismullin in the Tara Valley began yesterday after
conservationists were threatened with a potentially violent Garda
police arrest operation.
Published August 8, 2007
The British Army will cease to provide military support to Crown force
policing operations in the Six Counties from midnight.
Published July 31, 2007
A feud between rival factions of the unionist paramilitary UDA erupted
in intense clashes at the weekend during which a PSNI policeman was
shot in the back.
Published July 25, 2007
DUP leader and Six-County First Minister Ian Paisley has declared that
the conflict in Ireland is at an end.
Published July 18, 2007
A bizarre British Army document has come to light which purports to
summarise the lessons taken by the force from its engagement in
conflict in the North of Ireland.
Published July 11, 2007
A multi-pronged British strategy to protect their own while downplaying
collusion and the rights of nationalist victims could provoke a crisis
in the peace process later this year.
Published July 4, 2007
A decision taken by the Crown Public Prosecution Service that no
members of the British Crown forces are to be charged over collusion
investigations has been condemned in the strongest terms by human
rights groups and families of the victims.
Published June 27, 2007
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