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
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
The Irish Green Party has abandoned a number of core political beliefs
in order to enter into a coalition government in Dublin, securing the
return of Fianna Fail’s Bertie Ahern as 26-County Taoiseach.
Published June 18, 2007
The North’s new First Minister Ian Paisley has delivered his first
question-and-answer session in the Belfast Assembly in his inimitable
manner but without generating fresh controversy.
Published June 11, 2007
Files on infamous unionist paramilitary leader Billy ‘King Rat’ Wright
have been deliberately destroyed or ‘lost’, an inquiry into his murder
has been told.
Published June 4, 2007
Talks between Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and potential coalition government
partners have been hit by fresh controversy over suspect payments
received by him when he was Minister for Finance.
Published May 29, 2007
Bertie Ahern could be returned as 26-County Taoiseach for a further
five years, according to the latest polls, but only if he finds a new
coalition partner.
Published May 21, 2007
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