A newly-released British military file has finally admitted that a
British Army helicopter, said to have crashed in a 1978 air accident,
came down trying to avoid IRA gunfire.
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A newly-released British military file has finally admitted that a
British Army helicopter, said to have crashed in a 1978 air accident,
came down trying to avoid IRA gunfire.
Published January 24, 2015
Robinson, McGuinness shut out of TV debate
Both the DUP and Sinn Fein have been refused permission to take part in
a televised debate of British party leaders ahead of the Westminster
general election.
Published January 24, 2015
Inquest frustrated by mystery witnesses
The failure of the British Ministry of Defence to track down three
soldiers holding vital information about the killing of Crossmaglen man
Harry Thornton is another example of its determination to deny families
of state violence truth and justice, Sinn Fein has said.
Published January 24, 2015
More sectarian attacks as tensions resurface
A County Tyrone man who was stabbed while walking past a loyalist part
of south Belfast believes he may have been deliberately targeted for
wearing a Gaelic sports top.
Published January 24, 2015
Adams sees left-wing coalition, backs debt conference
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has said he can’t see his party sharing
power with either of the two main right-wing parties, Fine Gael or
Fianna Fail, after the next 26-County general election -- but that Sinn
Fein wants to be in government.
Published January 24, 2015
Former PoWs battle discrimination, resentment
A ground-breaking study has painted a bleak picture of the situation
former political prisoners find themselves in.
Published January 24, 2015
The coalition government has indicated it has abandoned efforts to
recover 30 billion euro pumped into Ireland’s banking system following
its collapse in 2008.
Published January 17, 2015
Cover-up investigation will not hear from RUC boss
An investigation into the destruction of evidence in a Crown force
murder ambush has been announced just weeks after the reported death of
the deputy head of the police Special Branch who was central to its
destruction.
Published January 17, 2015
A teenage Catholic girl was knocked unconscious following an apparent
sectarian assault on New Year’s Eve in Claudy, County Derry.
Published January 17, 2015
An inquest into the murder of prominent Gaelic sports official, Sean
Brown, may have to be abandoned because of the failure of the PSNI
police to hand over documents relevant to the case.
Published January 17, 2015
Death of ‘legendary republican’
IRA veteran Paddy Joe Rice has died aged 64. The high-profile republican
passed away at his home in west Belfast on Thursday following a long
illness.
Published January 17, 2015
Derry man and IRA volunteer, Jim Moyne, was 29 years-old when he died
whilst being interned in the early hours of January 13, 1975.
Jim’s family will mark his 40th anniversary with a commemoration next week.
Published January 17, 2015
The Dublin government issued a number of statements to claim the
successes of its economic policy this week, even as thousands of recent
emigrants bade tearful farewell to their loved ones following a
Christmas break in Ireland.
Published January 10, 2015
Brutal killing blamed on UDA faction
Elements of the unionist paramilitary UDA have been blamed for the
murder of a father-of-five in Ballymoney in County Antrim.
Published January 10, 2015
McLaughlin to take Stormont chair
Sinn Fein’s Mitchel McLaughlin is expected to become Speaker of the
Six-County Assembly as an outcome of the recent talks that resulted in
the Stormont House Agreement
Published January 10, 2015
Hopes raised for Bloody Sunday prosecutions
A murder investigation into the Bloody Sunday massacre will restart
ahead of the 43rd anniversary of the killings in Derry, it has been
announced.
Published January 10, 2015
Delight for Donnelly as appeal is successful
An independent republican councillor in Derry this week won his appeal
against a term of imprisonment that would have cost him his seat on the
new super council of Derry/Strabane.
Published January 10, 2015
Row over treatment of ‘Continuity Sinn Fein’ group
The detention of a group of men linked to a small factional organisation
has caused a controversy over their political status.
Published January 10, 2015
FitzGerald fuelled Thatcher’s intransigence
Declassified papers have revealed Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “out,
out, out” speech on nationalist aspirations in Ireland may have been
motivated by a summit in which the Dublin government admitted it was
working towards a “lowering of expectations” rather than Irish
reunification.
Published January 3, 2015
Minister’s four-letter insult for Sinn Fein
The 26-County Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has been urged
to apologise for internet comments in which he referred to Sinn Fein as
‘c*nt politics’.
Published January 3, 2015
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