A decade after the murder of crime journalist Martin O’Hagan by loyalist
paramilitaries, his colleagues at the newspaper he worked for are still
receiving loyalist death threats.
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Paper still targeted, ten years after O’Hagan death
A decade after the murder of crime journalist Martin O’Hagan by loyalist
paramilitaries, his colleagues at the newspaper he worked for are still
receiving loyalist death threats.
Published September 30, 2011
A number of loyalist paramilitary figures are to visit US political and
business leaders in a visit being organised by the Dublin government, it
has emerged.
Published September 30, 2011
Rhianna encounter stranger than fiction
International pop sensation Rhianna was this week confronted in a County
Down cornfield by a DUP councillor who told her to “cover up” while she
was on his farm.
Published September 30, 2011
Final nominations for Irish Presidential election
The line-up for the Irish Presidential election next month has been
decided tonight after controversial Senator David Norris and former
pop/gospel singer ‘Dana’ Rosemary Scallon both secured the necessary
support of local councillors for their nomination as candidates.
Published September 27, 2011
The nomination of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness for next month’s
election to the President of Ireland has provoked a chaotic and bitter
response from the 26-County ‘elite’.
Published September 24, 2011
Presidential candidate McGuinness tackles IRA past
Sinn Fein nominee Martin McGuinness was repeatedly questioned about his
past involvement with the IRA this week, with the issue dominating the
early days of the presidential campaign.
Published September 24, 2011
Justice comes first for Bloody Sunday relatives
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the British government
intends to make a cash payment to the families and wounded of the Bloody
Sunday massacre.
Published September 24, 2011
Ongoing harassment of republicans and families
Runai ginearalta eirigi [the general secretary of eirigi] Breandan Mac
Cionnaith has condemned the continuing harassment of Lurgan republicans
after three homes were raided on Wednesday morning by the PSNI.
Published September 24, 2011
Ombudsman forces mother to relive her grief
The mother of a Catholic murdered by the unionist paramilitary UDA has
added to calls for Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson to resign after she
was again fobbed off over a report on her son’s murder.
Published September 24, 2011
Coalition selling state assets to pay private debts
There were rowdy scenes in the Dublin parliament this week between the
26-County government and Sinn Fein over the planned sell-off of part of
the ESB (Electricity Supply Board), the semi-state body which until
recently held a monopoly on Ireland’s energy market.
Published September 24, 2011
On the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, it could be Sinn Fein’s
Martin McGuinness taking the salute outside the GPO in Dublin, following
a dramatic and imaginative proposal by the party this weekend for his
nomination in next month’s Presidential election.
Published September 18, 2011
Breakaway IRA groups carried out four separate attacks against the PSNI
this past week, including an attack in County Antrim in which members of
the police force are reported to have received minor injuries.
Published September 18, 2011
British apology after 40 years
The head of the British Army has written a letter of apology to the
family of a Derryman who was shot dead in 1971.
Published September 18, 2011
Orangemen reprimanded over Kerr funeral
The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Tom Elliott, and UUP Assembly
member Danny Kennedy are to face disciplinary proceedings from the
Orange Order for attending the funeral mass of PSNI member Ronan Kerr in
April.
Published September 18, 2011
Germany’s European Union [EU] commissioner Guenther Oettinger caused an
outrage this week after he called for the Irish tricolour to be flown at
half-mast in Brussels to embarrass the country over its economic
problems.
Published September 18, 2011
Boundary changes pose electoral questions
Proposals to radically change the Westminster constituencies in the
North are expected to see the main unionist DUP party, as well as
the nationalist SDLP, both lose a valuable seat in the
Westminster parliament in London.
Published September 18, 2011
Martin McGuinness set to contest Presidency of Ireland
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has confirmed reports that the party’s
Ard Chomhairle [high council] is to meet on Sunday morning to discuss a
proposal from the party’s leadership to nominate Martin McGuinness to
stand in the 26-County presidential election.
Published September 16, 2011
The Sinn Fein annual conference has heard calls for a national
conversation on the future of Ireland, between now and the centenary of
the Easter Rising in 2016.
Published September 11, 2011
Warning as supergrass trial goes ahead
British Special Branch double-agent Mark Haddock ordered the murder of a
paramilitary rival and smirked as he told the gunmen, “try not to shoot
the kids”, a high-profile trial in Belfast was told this week.
Published September 11, 2011
As cuts deepen, NAMA keeps developers in style
Bankrupted Irish property speculators are being paid ‘salaries’ of up to
200,000 euro (US$280,000) a year by the Dublin government, it was
revealed this week.
Published September 11, 2011
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