
Republican Sinn Fein President Ruairi O’Bradaigh has derided Martin
McGuinness’s condemnation of the breakaway IRA groups as “traitors”.

The Relatives For Justice group is to mount a legal challenge to PSNI
Chief Hugh Orde’s decision to deploy special British armed forces in
the North.

The Irish political establishment was broadly enthusiastic
following the annual St Patrick’s Day ‘bowl of shamrock’ ceremony and
celebrations in Washington DC with the new US President, Barack Obama.

The British government has been asked to investigate the leniency of
sentences handed down to two loyalists who used a PSNI database to
gather information in preparation for attacks on nationalists.
Prominent Lurgan republican Colin Duffy has been arrested by the PSNI police
following a series of early morning raids across the North of Ireland.

A meeting between Sinn Fein’s Mayor of Belfast and representatives of
the unionist paramilitary UDA took place on Wednesday in a bid to ease
nationalist fears following the recent violence.

A collective “loss of memory” has descended among witnesses at the
public inquiry into the murder Robert Hamill.

A listening bug may have been placed inside the Vauxhall car that
carried the Omagh bomb, according to a High Court document.

A Belfast judge has approved the extradition of Jose Ignacio de Juana
Chaos to Spain on the charge of “glorifying terrorism”, even though no
homologous offence exists under British law

The campaign group TaraWatch says that it plans to “mobilise 50,000
supporters worldwide” to demonstrate against individual 26-County Ministers as
they attend St Patrick’s Day functions around the world.
The Continuity IRA has claimed responsibility for shooting dead a
member of the PSNI in Craigavon, County Armagh, last nigh
A member of the PSNI police has been killed tonight in a gun attack in
Craigavon, County Armagh.
Claims of responsibility have been made in the name of both the Real
IRA and Oglaigh na hEireann for a gun attack on a British Army base on
Saturday night which left two British soldiers dead.
British soldiers in County Antrim have come under fire in a gun attack
on a military base.

The passage of legislation to give effect to a deal on the transfer of
policing and justice powers has seen sharp exchanges between the
nationalist parties on the issue.

The Dublin government is planning a new budget of cuts and taxes after
the unemployment rate in the 26 Counties reached 10 per cent and is set
to go higher.

The future of the controversial Eames/Bradley proposals for dealing
with the ‘legacy’ of conflict appears bleak after one of its authors
lashed out at victims’ groups and Sinn Fein for seeking an independent
truth recovery process.

The British Conservative Party has said “Northern Ireland would be a
better place” if politicians agreed to end power-sharing structures
negotiated in the Good Friday Agreement.

Republican Sinn Fein said approaches have been made by Special Branch
and MI5 in an effort to get party members to turn informer.

Veteran republican Eddie Keenan died at his home in Twinbrook outside
west Belfast last week, aged 88.
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