Securocrats have been strongly criticised for a ham-fisted attempt to
evacuate over a hundred homes in west Belfast last week -- before
declaring that a claimed rocket attack on a PSNI police landrover,
which prompted the evacuations, had been a hoax.
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Sinister agenda seen behind Belfast evacuation order
Securocrats have been strongly criticised for a ham-fisted attempt to
evacuate over a hundred homes in west Belfast last week -- before
declaring that a claimed rocket attack on a PSNI police landrover,
which prompted the evacuations, had been a hoax.
Published August 10, 2012
Nationalist cities forced to host sectarian festivals
Concerns have been expressed over major Protestant marching season
events planned for the overwhelmingly nationalist cities of Derry and
Newry this month.
Published August 10, 2012
UUP inflames nationalists with road signs, comments
“Welcome to Northern Ireland” road signs have been provocatively raised
in border areas of the North by the Ulster Unionist minister for
regional development, Danny Kennedy.
Published August 10, 2012
Murder of West Belfast boy to be investigated
The brother of a Ballymurphy boy who was shot in the back by a British
Army sniper 35 years ago has appealed for witnesses to come forward as
the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) looks into his death.
Published August 10, 2012
British soldier’s message of hate
The SDLP has said a serving British soldier has desecrated the memory of
those who died on Bloody Sunday by posting an offensive slogan on the
internet.
Published August 10, 2012
Katie Taylor wins gold for Ireland at London Olympics
Wicklow woman Katie Taylor has won a hugely celebrated gold medal for
Ireland in the 2012 Olympics this afternoon when she beat Russian Sofya
Ochigava.
Published August 9, 2012
Interned political dissident Marian Price has contracted pneumonia, it has
emerged.
Published August 3, 2012
Following the announcement of a regrouping of the IRA last week, the
Belfast-based Oglaigh na hEireann has said it carried out a gun and
mortar rocket attack in west Belfast last weekend.
Published August 3, 2012
Arrests break out as Shell machine sinks into Mayo bog
Prominent environmental activist Willie Corduff was arrested close to
where a truck carrying a 160-tonne section of a giant tunnel boring
machine sank in boggy ground in north County Mayo this week.
Published August 3, 2012
Wanted ad sparks Special Branch recruitment bid
A County Tyrone taxi driver has told how PSNI Special Branch tried to
recruit him as an informer after he placed a small classified ad on a website.
Published August 3, 2012
Clonoe families launch shoot-to-kill report
Relatives of four IRA Volunteers killed by undercover British soldiers
20 years ago have launched a report to highlight their campaign to
establish how they died.
Published August 3, 2012
Sinn Féin at odds over Sean Quinn scandal
Sinn Féin representatives have expressed sharply conflicting positions
over wealthy Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn, whose family faces a
number of court-imposed legal and financial obligations.
Published August 3, 2012
A regrouping of previously distinct breakaway IRA groups is being
described as the most significant development within physical-force
republicanism since the Provisional IRA split in 1997.
Published July 27, 2012
Derry youths riot over ‘stolen’ bonfire
A PSNI operation to remove materials gathered to build a bonfire marking
the anniversary of internment sparked four nights of riots and disorder
in the nationalist Galliagh area of Derry this week.
Published July 27, 2012
Smithwick lawyers ‘bewildered and alarmed’ by PSNI secrecy
Five intelligence documents were deliberately withheld from the
Smithwick Tribunal by the PSNI police, the force has said, deepening the
mystery over a profoundly murky incident from 1989.
Published July 27, 2012
Television networks respond to Irish viewer anger
US television network ABC was this week forced to apologise live on air
for branding the victims of Bloody Sunday as ‘IRA protesters’ in a
recent news report.
Published July 27, 2012
Martin Corey case set for European courts
The European Court is to be asked to challenge a decision to overturn a
ruling that internee Martin Corey should be released from prison.
Published July 27, 2012
First arrests in Anglo fraud case
The former chairman and chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, Sean
Fitzpatrick, and two other former high-ranking executives at the bank
have finally been charged with offences relating to white-collar crimes
at the collapsed bank.
Published July 27, 2012
Unity statement by ‘IRA Army Council’
The Real IRA and a number of breakaway IRA organisations, including
Republican Action Against Drugs and Oglaigh na hEireann, have come
together to issue the following public statement this evening in the
name of the IRA Army Council.
Published July 26, 2012
A member of Sinn Fein has described how he was set upon as he videoed a
loyalist ‘kick the Pope’ band deliberately circling and playing
sectarian tunes outside a Catholic church during the Orange Order’s
main Belfast ‘Twelfth’ parade.
Published July 20, 2012
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