The British government was aware before the 1981 hunger strike that some
senior Provisional IRA figures were privately opposed to the use of
physical force, according to secret documents found in the papers of
Margaret Thatcher.
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IRA leaders divided on armed struggle, say Thatcher memos
The British government was aware before the 1981 hunger strike that some
senior Provisional IRA figures were privately opposed to the use of
physical force, according to secret documents found in the papers of
Margaret Thatcher.
Published May 10, 2013
Fears for prisoner ‘under terrible pressure to inform’
The mother of a remand prisoner has said she fears for his mental
health after attempts were made to recruit him as an informer while
under 24-hour lock-up behind bars.
Published May 10, 2013
Prosecutors condemned after retrial acquittal
Brian Shivers has been fully vindicated after the terminally ill
Magherafelt man walked out of Belfast Crown Court last Friday, his
lawyer said this week.
Published May 10, 2013
Interned republican Martin Corey has been refused permission to appeal
to Britain’s Supreme Court the refusal to provide his lawyers with the
‘closed intelligence’ used as an excuse to keep him behind bars for the
past three years.
Published May 10, 2013
The harassment of republicans through ‘Section 21’ stop and search
operations has been found to be illegal by the Court of Appeal in
Belfast.
Published May 10, 2013
Craigavon Two appeal ‘sabotaged’
An appeal by two men convicted of a Continuity IRA attack in 2009 was
dramatically derailed this week after the PSNI arrested and
interrogated a key witness in an apparent attempt to pressure him into
withdrawing his evidence.
Published May 3, 2013
Fresh loyalist provocation as parades crisis mounts
The Stormont administration in Belfast has been accused of engaging in a
‘charade’ after a sectarian Orange parade once again ignored a ruling of
the Parades Commission against playing music outside a Catholic church
in Belfast.
Published May 3, 2013
Flags not our problem - Baggott
PSNI police chief Matt Baggott has washed his hands of the controversy
over UVF paramilitary flags and other loyalist symbols across Belfast,
insisting that the North’s politicians introduce new laws on the issue.
Published May 3, 2013
‘X case’ legislation finally drafted
There has been a broad political welcome for a new bill which will
finally legislate for the 1983 ‘X case’ referendum, providing for a
possibility of abortion in the limited case of a threat to the life of
the mother.
Published May 3, 2013
Irish President joins voices against austerity
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has joined the growing campaign
in Ireland against the austerity agenda, with comments directly critical
of the decisions being handed down by European leaders and the European
Central Bank.
Published May 3, 2013
Unionist delaying endangers border bridge plan
Unionists have been accused of delaying and seeking to scupper a plan
for a bridge across the neck of Carlingford Lough which would link
county Louth in the South and Down in the North.
Published May 3, 2013
Brian Shivers cleared of all charges
Brian Shivers has been cleared in a retrial of all charges relating to a
Real IRA attack in 2009 at Massereene British army base in which two
British soldiers died.
Published May 3, 2013
Loyalists have returned to intimidate the Holy Cross Catholic girls’
school in north Belfast, almost 12 years after a previous campaign of
violence and terror made international headlines.
Published April 26, 2013
Sinn Fein urged to engage in debate
Suggestions by Sinn Fein for talks with ‘dissidents’ has been met with a
proposal for a series of public debates.
Published April 26, 2013
A new, openly sectarian political party called ‘Protestant Coalition’
has been formed in the North by those involved in the recent loyalist
flag protests and disturbances.
Published April 26, 2013
The site of the Long Kesh prison will be used to create “a shrine to
peace”, Sinn Fein’s deputy First Minister has said, following a decision
to go ahead with the project.
Published April 26, 2013
Judge to decide on Finucane files disclosure
British government documents are being examined by a High Court judge
who will decide if they should be disclosed to the family of Pat
Finucane.
Published April 26, 2013
Parades Commission infuriates north Belfast residents
Nationalists in north Belfast have walked out of a meeting with the
Parades Commission after being told to stay clear of their own parish
church this Sunday as yet another incendiary loyalist parade marches by.
Published April 26, 2013
Masked loyalist paramilitaries erected more than 600 UVF flags in east
Belfast last weekend along key arterial routes, without consultation or
notification in an operation that involved cherry pickers operating in
broad daylight.
Published April 19, 2013
Thatcher considered ethnic cleansing of Catholics
Margaret Thatcher once encouraged her advisers to consider a ‘clearance’
of Catholics from the Six Counties as a solution to the conflict, it has
been revealed.
Published April 19, 2013
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