The Continuity IRA are considered most likely to be responsible for a
spate of fire-bomb attacks and bomb alerts in the town of Newry, close
to the border, that damaged or destroyed at least four large British
retail chain stores.
Published August 10, 2006
The UDA has forcibly ousted its former north
Belfast leadership from the city with the tacit support of the PSNI
police.
Published August 5, 2006
The Dublin government has been forced to end the transport of munitions
for the Israeli Army through Shannon Airport following outrage over the
massacre of scores of women and children in Lebanon.
Published July 31, 2006
Sectarian attacks are now averaging at least five attacks every day
despite efforts of nationalist groups to placate unionists with
concessions over contentious anti-Catholic parades through interface
areas.
Published July 25, 2006
The arrest of an Irish language school teacher in Belfast for speaking
Irish “brings us back to the days of the penal laws”, said Sinn
Féin’s Bairbre de Brun.
Published July 20, 2006
A Derry man is fighting for his life following a spate of sectarian
attacks surrounding the annual July 12th parades by the Protestant
Orange Order.
Published July 17, 2006
Hundreds of ‘11th night’ bonfires were set alight by loyalists across
the North last night as tensions mounted ahead of ‘the Twelfth’, a day
when over 600 marches are staged by the Protestant Orange Order to mark
a 17th century battle victory over Catholics.
Published July 12, 2006
26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern this week faced calls for an early
election amid a public outcry over mounting evidence of serious
incompetence within his cabinet and senior civil service.
Published July 7, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley has said that there will be no power-sharing
with nationalists unless the Provisional IRA “repents of its evil
deeds”
Published July 2, 2006
Republican prisoners at Maghaberry Prison are now refusing meals in an
increasing protest for the recognition of political status.
Published June 27, 2006
The Parades Commission stands accused of rewarding loyalist violence
after it ruled that a sectarian, coat-trailing march can pass along the
nationalist Springfield Road in west Belfast this weekend.
Published June 22, 2006
Relatively little violence at the ‘Tour of the North’ parade in north
Belfast on Friday night is being cited as evidence that this year’s
marching season could be the quietest for several years.
Published June 17, 2006
Frustration is growing in the North of Ireland over the ongoing
attempts by hardline unionists to obstruct and undermine the peace
process.
Published June 11, 2006
Martin McGuinness has accused his enemies of trying to have him killed
by claiming he was a British spy.
Published June 6, 2006
A man named in the Dublin parliament earlier this year as a PSNI
Special Branch agent linked to a series of murders was shot near North
Belfast today.
Published May 30, 2006
British Direct Ruler Peter Hain is to press ahead with the formation
of an all-party committee at the new shadow assembly to discuss the
return of powers from London to Belfast.
Published May 27, 2006
There were no surprises as the DUP leader Ian Paisley flatly rejected a
bid to form a power sharing executive at the shadow Belfast Assembly on
Monday.
Published May 23, 2006
The mood at the first days of a new 'transitional' northern assembly
were low key and overshadowed by the sectarian murder of Catholic
schoolboy Michael McIlveen in Ballymena.
Published May 17, 2006
Preparations are currently underway for the funeral of fifteen-year-old
Michael McIlveen who died on Monday after he was fatally wounded in a
sectarian gang attack in Ballymena, County Antrim last weekend.
Published May 13, 2006
A schoolboy savagely beaten in a sectarian attack in Ballymena on
Saturday died in hospital on Monday night.
Published May 8, 2006
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