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Family forced out of Magherafelt home

A Catholic mother-of-five says she has been forced out of her County Derry home after a five-year campaign of sectarian abuse.

Published July 6, 2012

O’Hagan family ‘left in limbo’

SDLP deputy leader Dolores Kelly has called on the Six-County justice minister to probe the investigation into the murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan, describing the lack of action as “unacceptable”.

Published July 6, 2012

Ulster Bank chief ‘must accept blame’

There have been calls for the head of Ulster Bank to resign after the bank was unable to process routine financial transactions or release funds for a third week.

Published July 6, 2012

PSNI seek cash to investigate Bloody Sunday

Forty years after the infamous atrocity in which British paratroopers shot dead 14 innocent civil rights demonstrators and injured another 22, a police investigation into the Bloody Sunday massacre is possible, it has been announced.

Published July 5, 2012

An ending or a beginning?

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness put clear blue water between himself and mainstream Irish republicanism when he shook the hand of English queen Elizabeth Windsor on Wednesday in a historic but hugely divisive act of political theatre.

Published June 29, 2012

Breakthrough for family of Manus Deery

The family of Manus Deery has won a fresh hearing into the fifteen-year-old’s murder in the nationalist Bogside area of Derry in May 1972.

Published June 29, 2012

Anti-royal protestor survives murder bid

A west Belfast man badly beaten by a gang of loyalists on Black Mountain earlier this week says he is lucky to be alive.

Published June 29, 2012

Marian Price move linked to UN visit

Jailed political dissident Marian Price was moved to an outside hospital last weekend without her consent, her family have said.

Published June 29, 2012

New evidence in rubber bullet death

An inquest has been ordered to be reopened after new evidence was uncovered about the death of the first child killed by a rubber bullet in the north of Ireland.

Published June 29, 2012

Interview with Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

Hugh Hamilton of WBAI Pacifica Radio interviews Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey about the imprisonment of Marian Price

Published June 29, 2012

Historic handshake takes place amid ongoing tension

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness met and shook hands with British monarch Elizabeth Windsor today, both in private and in the presence of an official photographer. The unprecented event has provoked protest and division among Irish nationalists and republicans.

Published June 27, 2012

Trouble breaks out ahead of historic handshake

Rioting erupted in west Belfast last night ahead of an unprecedented meeting later today [Wednesday] between Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness and British monarch Elizabeth Windsor.

Published June 27, 2012

Adams defends decision to greet British monarch

Amid an outcry among Irish nationalists and republicans, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has today issued a statement in support of his party’s decision to give the go-ahead to a meeting and handshake between Sinn Féin’s Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and English queen Elizabeth Windsor.

Published June 22, 2012

Martin McGuinness to meet Queen Elizabeth

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness is to meet the British monarch Elizabeth Windsor during her visit to the north of Ireland next week, it has been confirmed. McGuinness, a former IRA commander, is to meet Windsor, the commander-in-chief of the British Armed Forces, at a reception to celebrate the arts in Ireland.

Published June 22, 2012