The former 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen has admitted his government
had no plan to deal with the economic collapse in 2008. He claimed that
‘nobody is more sorry’ than him about what happened to the country, but
refused to apologise for the debacle.
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Cowen refuses to apologise for crisis failures
The former 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen has admitted his government
had no plan to deal with the economic collapse in 2008. He claimed that
‘nobody is more sorry’ than him about what happened to the country, but
refused to apologise for the debacle.
Published August 30, 2013
Rasharkin residents escape bomb attack
Residents of the village of Rasharkin, County Antrim, were targeted by a
loyalist pipe bomb during a sectarian parade last weekend.
Published August 30, 2013
Labour figure sees SF coalition possibility
The chief whip of the Irish Labour party has said Sinn Féin could have a
role in a future 26-County coalition administration.
Published August 30, 2013
Heaney remembered as greatest Irish poet since Yeats
Tributes to the Nobel prize winner Derry poet Seamus Heaney has
dominated the Irish media following the announcement of his death this
morning, Friday 30th August.
Published August 30, 2013
A conviction against former internee Marian Price has been rescinded by
a court the day after it was imposed in the latest twist to the saga of
harassment and oppression of the former republican prisoner.
Published August 23, 2013
Concerns for peace process after DUP move on H-Blocks
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has warned that “the extremes of political
unionism” have been boosted after DUP leader Peter Robinson rejected
plans for a peace centre on the site of the former Long Kesh prison.
Published August 23, 2013
Legal challenge to ‘strangulation’ of McCracken event
Organisers of a republican commemoration in north Belfast are to seek a
High Court challenge over a Parades Commission decision to force it to
pass through a maze of back streets and into a dead end.
Published August 23, 2013
The breakaway republican armed group Oglaigh Na hEireann (ONH) has
threatened to punish more than 50 people it says are drug-dealers in
west Belfast.
Published August 23, 2013
Inequality in housing ’hidden”
Six County government officials have been accused of masking the true
levels of Catholic inequality in north Belfast, according to a new
report.
Published August 23, 2013
Call for civil disobedience against unjust water tax
As the Dublin government begins to install water meters across the
Twenty-Six County state, eirigi Dublin City Councillor Louise Minihan
has called on local communities to “get organised” to resist the
installation programme.
Published August 23, 2013
The Stormont administration has suffered another blow to its
credibility after the DUP ended its support for a plan to develop a
peace centre at the site of the former Long Kesh H-Blocks.
Published August 17, 2013
The coalition against civil rights
An alliance between the anti-Catholic Orange Order and loyalist
paramilitaries has been blamed for the scenes of mayhem in Belfast city
centre events last Friday, August 9th, when a nationalist civil rights
parade was blocked and then attacked by loyalist mobs.
Published August 17, 2013
Injunction on inquest files a test for devolution
A legal and political power struggle has broken out involving Six County
civil servants, Crown officials, a Sinn Fein Minister and British Direct
Ruler Theresa Villiers.
Published August 17, 2013
Family members targeted by PSNI recruitment attempts
The daughter of a County Tyrone republican has been urged by the PSNI to
turn informer on her own father, months after her cousin was subjected
to the same pressure.
Published August 17, 2013
McCracken parade decision shows republicans ‘second class’
A republican march through north Belfast on the same day as a loyalist
parade has been rerouted by the Parades Commission.
Published August 17, 2013
Booze and bling among Shell’s pipeline ‘bribes’
There have been calls for an independent inquiry into allegations that
alcohol was distributed to Gardai and gifts handed out to residents on
behalf of Shell’s contentious pipeline and refinery project in northwest
County Mayo.
Published August 17, 2013
No violence at Castlederg march
A republican commemoration in County Tyrone, which had appeared to be
threatened by loyalists, has passed off peacefully.
Published August 11, 2013
Up to ten thousand republicans, socialists and concerned citizens took
part in a civil rights march against internment through Belfast this
evening despite heavy rioting by loyalists and a political campaign to
demonise those taking part.
Published August 9, 2013
Belfast Mayor kicked by loyalists during Woodvale walkabout
A loyalist protest turned violent this week when Sinn Fein’s Mayor of
Belfast, Mairtin Muilleoir, attended the re-opening of a park.
Published August 9, 2013
IRA statement on death of prison chief
A former IRA leader has confirmed the organisation killed Brian Stack,
the only 26-County prison officer to die in the conflict, in March 1983.
Published August 9, 2013
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