A republican prisoner has won the right to challenge prison strip search
policies in a case which could have wider implications.
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Euro challenge to strip searches
A republican prisoner has won the right to challenge prison strip search
policies in a case which could have wider implications.
Published January 13, 2011
Omagh civil judgement appealed
An appeal is underway againt the civil court decision to find Michael
McKevitt and three other dissident republicans liable for the 1998 Omagh
bomb.
Published January 13, 2011
Published January 13, 2011
A senior Derry republican has challenged a call from local politicians
for armed groups to end their campaign, urging politicians instead to
“address the causes of conflict rather than vilifying those who are
engaged in it”.
Published January 9, 2011
Loan payment is ‘final nail’ in sovereignty
Sinn Fein Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty has hit out after it was
revealed that the first tranche of the EU/IMF bailout loan will be paid
out to Ireland on Wednesday.
Published January 9, 2011
Adams sets sights on government
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said the party is open to forming a
coalition with Labour if it secures enough votes in the forthcoming
election.
Published January 9, 2011
The trial has begun of a south Armagh man accused of killing an
undercover British Army officer over three decades ago.
Published January 9, 2011
Loyalist killer Michael Stone has failed in his attempt to overturn
convictions for trying to assassinate Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.
Published January 9, 2011
During a recent interview, Pat Sheehan said the North had not suffered
from the mass sectarian attacks of other conflicts, and described the
conflict in the North as “probably quite civilised”.
Published January 9, 2011
H-Block smashed the phony diplomacy
The emergence of the hunger strike protest in 1980 and the degree to
which all sides were unprepared to deal with it are the dominant
features of the historical papers which were released over the New Year.
Published January 4, 2011
Former Taoiseach and Fianna Fail leader Bertie Ahern has announced he
will not run for the Dublin parliament at the next general election.
Published January 4, 2011
Lithuanian detention violates Euro law
A republican prisoner in Lithuania is being held in inhuman and
degrading conditions that are in clear breach of the European Convention
on Human Rights, his lawyer has said.
Published January 4, 2011
Bloody Sunday commemoration’s future in doubt
A difference of opinion has emerged among Derry’s Bloody Sunday families
over the future of the annual commemorative march.
Published January 4, 2011
New Year statements by republican groups
A New Year statement attributed to the Real IRA has vowed to expand its
‘theatre of operations’ and claimed that the British state forces are
failing to deal with the threat that it poses.
Published January 4, 2011
Tens of thousands of people across Ireland were left without water over
the New Year because of burst water mains and dry and depleted
reservoirs.
Published January 4, 2011
The 26-County Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has drawn a veil of
secrecy around the state’s banking system and the Dublin government’s
efforts to reinvent the sector.
Published December 29, 2010
Prisoners’ Christmas visits cancelled
Republican prisoners’ families were turned away from Maghaberry jail on
Christmas Eve in an apparent reprisal by warders for a new agreement on
oral searches.
Published December 29, 2010
Grenade incident prompts questions, criticism
A grenade found outside the County Fermanagh home of a PSNI policeman
has been strongly condemned by the North’s political parties.
Published December 29, 2010
Independence ‘almost lost’ under de Valera
One of the most respected civil servants to work for the Dublin
government, TK Whitaker, has said that an almost bankrupt Ireland was in
danger of losing its independence in the late 1950s.
Published December 29, 2010
New Year message from Gerry Adams
A statement was issued by Sinn Fein President Gerry
Adams on Christmas Eve.
Published December 29, 2010
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