Families of the Omagh bomb victims are being forced to go to the courts
to require the Dublin and London governments to hold a public inquiry
into the 1998 attack.
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Strong support for Omagh families on 15th anniversary
Families of the Omagh bomb victims are being forced to go to the courts
to require the Dublin and London governments to hold a public inquiry
into the 1998 attack.
Published August 9, 2013
British Direct Ruler condemns Tyrone commemoration
Controversy over a republican commemoration in County Tyrone this Sunday
has continued after the British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers, in an
usually partisan intervention, demanded the parade be called off.
Published August 9, 2013
End of ‘civil war politics’ predicted
Former Fianna Fail deputy leader Mary O’Rourke says it is time for her
party and Fine Gael to seriously consider going into Coalition with each
other.
Published August 9, 2013
Castlederg massacre ‘would be a great service’
A unionist councillor was charged by the PSNI this evening over her
public support for the idea of a loyalist massacre at next week’s
republican commemoration in Castlederg.
Published August 2, 2013
The controversy over internet comments by DUP Councillor Ruth Patterson
will have dramatically escalated tensions over the planned republican
commemoration in Castlederg, which unionists want banned entirely.
Published August 2, 2013
Kenny leaves RTE ahead of new broadcasting charge
One of Ireland’s best paid public employees, television and radio
personality Pat Kenny, has left Irish state broadcaster RTE (Radio
Teilifis Eireann).
Published August 2, 2013
Thatcher’s fears over Sinn Fein publicity
Secret British documents from 1983 show the high level of concern in
London at the rise of Sinn Fein, and advanced plans to limit media
opportunities for the party.
Published August 2, 2013
Houses and cars attacked in Belfast
There has been a worrying increase in the number of reprisal attacks in
Protestant areas as the warm summer continues to fuel sectarian clashes
at Belfast’s interfaces.
Published August 2, 2013
McGurk’s families challenge HET secrecy
Relatives of those killed in the McGurk’s Bar bombing have called on the
PSNI police to release the findings of an investigation by their
Historical Enquiries Team into the UVF atrocity.
Published August 2, 2013
After warning that the July 12 conflict was “only a wee taster” of
future protests, the anti-Catholic Orange Order and its loyalist
supporters have said they will make weekly bids to march through the
nationalist Ardoyne community in north Belfast.
Published July 26, 2013
Harryville church forced to close
A Catholic church in Ballymena which was the focus of a long-running and
violent loyalist hate campaign has been forced to close.
Published July 26, 2013
Pressure is growing on the religious orders that ran the Magdalene
laundries to reverse a decision not to compensate those girls and women
who lived and worked for them under slave labour conditions.
Published July 26, 2013
Progress on inquests into Crown Force killings
In three separate cases, the families of victims of state killings have
received a boost to their legal challenges for proper inquest.
Published July 26, 2013
An IRA memorial in County Fermanagh was spray-painted in the latest in a
series of sectarian attacks in the north of Ireland.
Published July 26, 2013
Sinn Fein backs Seanad abolition referendum
Sinn Fein will call for a Yes vote in the referendum to abolish the
upper house of the Dublin parliament on October 4th, saying the Seanad
[Senate] is “elite” and “out of touch”.
Published July 26, 2013
After a week of the most intense loyalist violence, a decision by the
Parades Commission to reroute another planned march by the anti-Catholic
Orange Order has been welcomed as good news.
Published July 19, 2013
Former US peace envoy Richard Haass has returned to the north of Ireland
to constitute a new discussion group on parades and flags from the main
parties at the Stormont Assembly.
Published July 19, 2013
US tourist freed after nine days in captivity
An American student held after he visited a penpal in Hydebank women’s
prison was released on Monday after a total of nine days in the hands of
the PSNI police.
Published July 19, 2013
Garda ‘message of oppression’ at republican’s funeral
The Republican Network for Unity (RNU) have strongly condemned the
actions of the 26 County Garda police during the funeral of former
republican prisoner, Seamus McKenna, this week.
Published July 19, 2013
Conservation of ‘Ireland’s Alamo’ seen as first step
The announcement of a conservation order around the buildings where the
last stand of the 1916 Easter Rising took place has been followed by
appeals for the entire battlefield site to be preserved.
Published July 19, 2013
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