Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness will join DUP leader Peter
Robinson and 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny among a smaller coterie of
Irish politicians than usual to visit Washington DC for the annual St
Patrick’s day bash at the White House this wee
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Leading republicans have expressed their sadness at the death of
well-known IRA veteran, author and journalist Sean Cronin.
A new government has started work following a day in which a
significant change in the political order in the 26 Counties finally
became tangible at Leinster House.
A number of British Army Landrovers rolling through the streets of
Derry have been linked to a new wave of repressive Crown force raids
across the North.
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has warned against protests turning
violent when Elizabeth Windsor, the professed ‘Queen of England’, is
brought to the 26 Counties later this year.
A pre-election row has erupted over the ‘Six-County budget’ in the
Stormont Executive, with the Ulster Unionist Party and the SDLP both
vehemently opposing financial plans agreed by Sinn Fein and the DUP.
There were clashes in east Belfast on Wednesday night after a Catholic
church was defaced by loyalists for a second time in a week.
The following is the full text of the address by Sinn Fein President
Gerry Adams on the first meeting of the new parliament at Leinster
House.
Fine Gael and Labour have reached an agreement on entering a new
coalition government in the 26 Counties.
Riot police used CS gas to attack dissident republicans following the
funeral of veteran IRA man and former H-Block escaper Peter ‘Skeet’
Hamilton.
The Real IRA in Derry has said it was behind a gun attack on a PSNI
patrol in the Glen Road area of the city and warned that more attacks
will follow
There is pressure on the PSNI police chief Matt Baggott to resign
following his abject failure to apologise for the force’s lies about
those killed in the McGurk’s Bar massacre.
A loyalist was jailed for life last week after being convicted of the
sectarian murder in Belfast of cafe owner Alfredo Fusco in 1973.
Graffiti threatening the life of Glasgow Celtic soccer boss Neil Lennon
has been daubed on a chapel in east Belfast.
Predictions of a political transformation in Ireland came to fruition on
Friday, when in the space of fifteen hours of polling, angry voters
eviscerated the Fianna Fail and Green parties.
Sinn Fein is set to be a major player in 26 County politics after it
more than tripled its seats in the Dublin parliament.
A new exhibition was launched in Belfast on Tuesday, 30 years to the day
from the beginning of the second hunger strike for political status by
republican PoW Bobby Sands.
A High Court judge has reversed a previous decision to throw out a
damages claim brought by the husband of one of the Omagh bomb victims.