A controversial plan by the Orange Order to hold a parade in Portadown
in County Armagh without the usual notification was apparently averted
when the organisation was informed of pending arrests of the Republican
Sinn Fein leadership, it has emerged.
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RSF arrests linked to Drumcree protest
A controversial plan by the Orange Order to hold a parade in Portadown
in County Armagh without the usual notification was apparently averted
when the organisation was informed of pending arrests of the Republican
Sinn Fein leadership, it has emerged.
Published July 8, 2011
Anger at police intimidation in the North is mounting after children
returning from a bus trip to Dublin last week were terrorised by heavily
armed PSNI members for up two hours
Published July 8, 2011
Robinson rejects strip-search compromise
A report which could end the protest by republican prisoners at
Maghaberry jail has been shelved, it has emerged.
Published July 8, 2011
Weapons and security bodies are decommissioned
No inventory of the arms decommissioned by the Provisional IRA and
loyalist paramilitaries is to be made public, the arms body which
oversaw the process has announced in its final report.
Published July 8, 2011
Irish questions over Tory tabloid hacks
A journalist who worked for the ‘News of the World’ has admitted the
phone hacking practices used in the newspaper’s British operations were
also used in researching some of the stories for its Irish edition.
Published July 8, 2011
Republican Sinn Fein leaders seized by PSNI
The President and Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein were arrested
in Lurgan, County Armagh last night on the way to a protest rally in
support of republican prisoners.
Published July 7, 2011
The homes of nationalists in the Short Strand were again attacked by
loyalists on Friday night as both unionist paramilitaries and the
Protestant Orange Order combined to create a living hell for the
beleaguered community.
Published July 3, 2011
Israel accused of ‘lethal’ attack on Irish aid ship
The Irish ship, the MV Saoirse, has been covertly attacked in a Turkish
port as it prepared to sail to Gaza as part of an international aid
mission.
Published July 3, 2011
Prisoners protest at Maghaberry amid talks reports
A new protest is underway at Maghaberry jail to bring pressure for a
resolution to a long-running standoff over conditions at the notorious
County Antrim prison.
Published July 3, 2011
New revelation points to Loughinisland cover-up
The gun used in the Loughinisland atrocity was used in the mass murder
attempt of eight workmen just months earlier, it has been revealed.
Published July 3, 2011
Acrimony around Smithwick Tribunal deadline
The 26-County Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has been strongly
criticised by all those involved in the Smithwick Tribunal after he
imposed a deadline on the tribunal’s efforts to investigate allegations
about a deadly IRA attack in March 1989.
Published July 3, 2011
A West Belfast man has said that after years of harassment by the PSNI
police, he is now being harassed by British military intelligence.
Published July 3, 2011
Nationalists have united behind calls for the Police Ombudsman to quit
amid outrage over a report in which he denied that the PSNI (then RUC)
police had not colluded in the Loughinisland massacre.
Published June 27, 2011
Talks due on sectarian marches
The body that rules on contentious marches in the Six Counties is to
meet the North’s First Minister and Deputy First Minister at Stormont
tomorrow [Tuesday] in advance of the climax of the Protestant sectarian
marching season.
Published June 27, 2011
Ireland’s rich grow richer on bailout money
Cash from the EU/IMF bailout loans are being used to fund the
extravagant lifestyles of the 26-County state’s wealthy elite,
according to reports from a number of quarters.
Published June 27, 2011
Pressure mounts for release of Brendan Lillis
A meeting next month of the Parole Commission (formerly the Life
Sentence Review Commission) has raised hopes for the family and
supporters of former political prisoner Brendan Lillis, who is gravely
ill at Maghaberry Prison.
Published June 27, 2011
The Dublin government has been urged to ask the Israeli authorities to
allow an Irish ship joining an international flotilla to be allowed
access to the port of Gaza.
Published June 27, 2011
Derry bridge ‘is peace symbol’
A new bridge in Derry is being described as a symbol of the city’s
journey out of conflict to a brighter future.
Published June 27, 2011
Families angered by new Loughinisland cover-up
The families of the men murdered by the unionist paramilitary UVF in a
1994 massacre in Loughinisland, County Down have vehemently rejected an
investigation by the PSNI Police Ombudsman into the killings.
Published June 24, 2011
Short Strand quiet amid talks with UVF ‘Beast of the East’
Despite crowds of over a thousand gathering in east Belfast, the Short
Strand experienced a tense but relatively trouble-free night last night.
Published June 23, 2011
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