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
The breakaway republican group known as the ‘Real IRA’ has said it
shot two members of the PSNI in Derry and Dungannon, County Tyrone
last week, and also detonated a coffee-jar bomb in Newry, County
Armagh.
Published November 15, 2007
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.
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
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
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
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