A south Belfast community worker has voiced residents’ fears that last
week’s Hillsborough Agreement could lead to a return of the violent
anti-Catholic parades that marred the area in the 1990s.
Published February 18, 2010
An Israeli assassination squad used forged Irish passports to enter
Dubai and kill a leading member of ruling Palestinian Hamas
organisation, it has emerged.
Published February 18, 2010
DUP leader Peter Robinson signed a post-dated letter of resignation as
First Minister to secure his party’s support for local policing and
justice in the north of Ireland, it has emerged.
Published February 15, 2010
The resignation from the Green Party of Senator Deirdre de Burca has
revealed an insider’s view of croneyism within the Dublin coalition
government and the harsh cost of sharing power with Fianna Fail.
Published February 15, 2010
The DUP Minister for Culture in the Six County Assembly, Nelson
McCausland is to bring forward a “draft strategy on minority languages”
by the end of March.
Published February 15, 2010
Hardline republicans in Derry are asking shops and businesses in the
city urging not to serve members of the PSNI.
Published February 15, 2010
A British Army controlled explosion has damaged the 17th-century Church
of Ireland deanery in Derry.
Published February 15, 2010
Two Derry men refused permission to appeal their case before the Supreme
Court in London are to petition the court directly in their fight for
compensation for the time they spent in prison.
Published February 15, 2010
Both the DUP and Sinn Fein have drawn a line in the sand on the issue of
sectarian marches as a working group set up under last week’s agreement
at Hillsborough held its first discussions on the issue.
Published February 11, 2010
Leaders from all five main assembly parties in Belfast are currently
involved in efforts to decide who will be the North’s first justice
minister.
Published February 11, 2010
The group charged with locating the remains of those victims who went
missing during the conflict is set to add a name to its list of
“disappeared”, it has emerged.
Published February 11, 2010
A dissident republican has accused police Special Branch of targeting
vulnerable members of his family to inform against him.
Published February 11, 2010
Shell to Sea campaigner and local fisherman Pat O’Donnell has been
sentenced to 7 months in jail after being found guilty of a “breach of
the peace” and “obstructing a Garda”.
Published February 11, 2010
Rank and file gardai police in the 26 Counties have voted overwhelmingly
in favour of taking industrial action over the imposition of levies and
the public sector pay cut.
Published February 11, 2010
The announcement by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) that it
has decommissioned its weapons has been strongly welcomed by the main
political parties in Ireland but greeted with condemnation by hardline
republican groups and mixed reactions from its own supporters.
Published February 8, 2010
After months of arguing and years of stalemate, the first step in
transferring policing and justice powers from the Westminster parliament
in London to the Six-County Assembly at Stormont should begin tomorrow
[Tuesday] when a new justice minister is expected to be nominated.
Published February 8, 2010
Margaret Ritchie won the leadership of the SDLP at the weekend, beating
her sole rival, South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell by 222 votes to 187.
Published February 8, 2010
The 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen invoked the centenary of the 1916 Easter
Rising in five years’ time as he made a “rallying cry” urging people to
make short-term sacrifices to allow a return to prosperity by 2016.
Published February 8, 2010
DUP leader Peter Robinson’s return to his role as first minister was
triumphantly proclaimed by his party as ‘Robinson is back’ - but he
still faces a series of questions over his actions.
Published February 8, 2010
A young south Down couple are being harassed by British military
intelligence (MI5) after refusing to spy on a dissident republican from
Newry.
Published February 8, 2010
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