Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has sacked Richard Bruton as the party’s
finance spokesman and deputy leader as speculation mounts of a looming
leadership challenge.
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Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has sacked Richard Bruton as the party’s
finance spokesman and deputy leader as speculation mounts of a looming
leadership challenge.
Published June 14, 2010
The political representatives of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) have
dismissed pressure for the group to fully decommission its weapons as
they appointed a new leader last week.
Published June 14, 2010
Tour of the North rerouted from Ardoyne
Sinn Fein has welcomed a decision by the Parades Commission to ban
marchers heading to the highly controversial ‘Tour of the North’ march
from the Ardoyne interface in north Belfast.
Published June 14, 2010
Legal challenges to Maghaberry regime
A prisoner at Maghaberry jail has received High Court permission to
challenge prison authorities over stripsearching policies.
Published June 14, 2010
Trimble to take part in flotilla raid inquiry
The Israeli announcement that former Ulster Unionist leader David
Trimble will take part in an internal investigation into its murderous
assault on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships has been greeted with
disbelief in Ireland.
Published June 14, 2010
The 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen is facing a motion of no confidence in
the Dublin parliament after his government was harshly criticised by two
preliminary reports into the banking crisis and linked to an attempt to
falsify the financial position of Anglo Irish Bank.
Published June 11, 2010
Israel targeted an Irish aid ship heading for Gaza last week despite
continuing outrage over the bloody assault on the main humanitarian
relief flotilla, which left nine aid workers dead and stunned
international public opinion.
Published June 11, 2010
RSF leadership denies Continuity IRA ‘coup’
The leadership of Republican Sinn Fein (RSF) admitted this week that a
recent convention of local leaders of the Continuity IRA has sought to
form a breakaway republican armed group. It described the meeting as
“unauthorised”.
Published June 11, 2010
Govt condemned as ‘desecration’ motorway opens
The opening on Saturday of the M3 motorway past Tara, the ancient
capital of Ireland, was a day that heritage campaigners had hoped would
never come.
Published June 11, 2010
Stormont AG blocked soldier’s prosecution
A 41-year-old Derry man shot dead by the British army in 1971 was an
innocent victim and was not carrying a rifle, as claimed by the soldier
who killed him, the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) has found.
Published June 11, 2010
SF and former councillor in slanging match
A major row has erupted between Sinn Fein and former party councillor
Dessie Ward following his resignation from the party.
Published June 11, 2010
PUP leader Dawn Purvis has resigned after a campaign of intimidation by
the unionist paramilitary UVF has seen it issue death threats against
its critics and a message of terror against the people of the Shankill
Road.
Published June 4, 2010
Rachel Corrie to attempt aid delivery
The Irish aid cargo ship, the Rachel Corrie, is poised to make a fresh
attempt to reach Israeli-blockaded Gaza despite Monday’s deadly attack
by commandoes against the humanitarian mission, in which at least nine
activists died
Published June 4, 2010
MI5, Special Branch orchestrating arrests - Murphy
Colm Murphy, whose conviction in regard to the 1998 Omagh bomb was
overturned and who was subsequently cleared of criminal charges, has
accused an alleged British agent of attempting to frame both himself and
his son.
Published June 4, 2010
Injustice on the Irish language
Senior judges in the North have rejected a legal bid to over turn a
penal law ban on the use of Irish language in court proceedings.
Published June 4, 2010
Expenses scandal hits Fianna Fail
Senator Ivor Callely is set to be expelled from the Fianna Fail
parliamentary party after a formal investigation was opened into his
expense claims.
Published June 4, 2010
The High Court in Belfast has no power to revoke bail granted to a
Basque man whose extradition is being sought by the Spanish authorities,
judges ruled yesterday.
Published June 4, 2010
Up to twenty human rights activists are believed to have been killed
and scores injured after Israeli commandos attacked a humanitarian aid
flotilla of ships this morning in international waters.
Published May 31, 2010
A cold-blooded murder by the UVF in broad daylight on the Shankill Road
on Friday has challenged British propoganda about the loyalist
paramilitary ceasefires.
Published May 31, 2010
Rocket strikes Derry PSNI base
The PSNI have vowed to further increase their fortifications in the
North after republican armed group Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) launched a
mortar rocket attack on a PSNI barracks in Derry in Friday.
Published May 31, 2010
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