The funeral has taken place of UDA ‘brigadier’ Ihab Shoukri, who died
this week after taking a fit brought on by a night of heavy drug use
in Newtonabbey, outside Belfast.
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OVERDOSE FOR UDA’S ‘BLINGADIER’
The funeral has taken place of UDA ‘brigadier’ Ihab Shoukri, who died
this week after taking a fit brought on by a night of heavy drug use
in Newtonabbey, outside Belfast.
Published November 28, 2008
The Stormont Executive met on Thursday for the first time in over five
months.
Published November 21, 2008
The UDA has warned of being ready to “do battle” in a statement read to
several thousand loyalist supporters at a number of venues in the north
of Ireland.
Published November 13, 2008
Hopes are high that the election of a transformative President in the
US could herald an era of progressive change in Ireland.
Published November 7, 2008
A coat-trailing and incendiary march by British troops is set to take
place in the centre of Ireland’s second city on Sunday despite
widespread fears over the potential for serious violence.
Published October 31, 2008
The Dublin government is under further pressure over the October
Budget, days after thirty thousand pensioners and students besieged
parliament over cutbacks.
Published October 24, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of Irish taxpayers were the subject of a
sweeping and savage range of cuts and taxes this week in order to pay
for the gross mismanagement of the 26-County economy by the Dublin
government.
Published October 17, 2008
There have been calls for a completely new system of policing and
justice in the north of Ireland following the dramatic collapse of the
trial of bank official Chris Ward, the only individual accused of
the 2004 Northern Bank robbery.
Published October 10, 2008
The North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meeting scheduled for today
[Friday] was cancelled in the escalating dispute within the North’s
power-sharing administration.
Published October 3, 2008
Irish-American voters have become the focus of intense campaigning in
the US Presidential election as the race for the White House hots up.
Published September 26, 2008
The North’s strained stalemate exploded in rancour on Thursday when
the Stormont’s cabinet-style administration visibly broke into rival
factions.
Published September 19, 2008
SDLP leader Mark Durkan has stunned the political parties in the north
by calling for power-sharing between nationalists and unionists, a key
safeguard of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, to be scrapped.
Published September 12, 2008
NO ARMY COUNCIL
STATEMENT - ADAMS
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has stated “categorically and
definitively” that the Provisional IRA has left the stage as the DUP
continued to demand a statement by the organisation’s Army Council on
its status.
Published September 5, 2008
Serious rioting broke out this week in Belfast and in County Armagh,
where clashes between republican youths and the PSNI police saw a blast
bomb thrown and shots fired.
Published August 29, 2008
The use of a rocket-propelled grenade by the Continuity IRA against a
PSNI patrol marks a further escalation in their ongoing armed campaign.
Published August 22, 2008
Two men were treated in hospital for serious head injuries after a
loyalist mob, including armed paramilitaries, attacked a republican
commemoration in Coleraine last weekend - with the assistance of the
police.
Published August 15, 2008
DEVOLUTION LINKED TO IRA COUNCIL
The British government is ready to declare that the Provisional IRA’s
Army Council has disbanded to speed the transfer of policing and
justice powers from London to the Stormont Executive in Belfast.
Published August 8, 2008
The British government has confirmed that its Direct Rule Minister
Paul Goggins and PSNI Chief Hugh Orde held talks with leaders of the
UDA murder gangs on Monday night.
The UDA rejected an appeal to begin weapons decommissioning.
Published August 1, 2008
The first formal border checks between Ireland and Britain for more
than 80 years are set to begin following an announcement by the Dublin
and London governments on Thursday.
Published July 25, 2008
A declaration by French and current European Union President Nicolas
Sarkozy that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty has generated a furious reaction in Ireland ahead of his
planned visit to Dublin on Monday.
Published July 18, 2008
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