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.
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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
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
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