A Belfast man jailed following claims by British intelligence agencies
that he is a Real IRA leader is to take his legal challenge to
Britain’s highest court.
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McCafferty appeals to London Supreme Court
A Belfast man jailed following claims by British intelligence agencies
that he is a Real IRA leader is to take his legal challenge to
Britain’s highest court.
Published January 21, 2010
Final salute for Derry republican
A volley of shots was fired over the coffin of a republican in Derry on Tuesday evening.
Published January 21, 2010
Returned emigrants refused welfare payments
A record number of Irish citizens were refused social welfare payments
by the 26-County administration last year because they failed to satisfy
increasingly bureaucratic residency requirements.
Published January 21, 2010
Govt to ‘whitewash’ banking collapse
The Dublin government’s decision on holding a semi-secret commission of
inquiry into the banking crisis has been condemned by the 26-County
opposition as a “whitewash”.
Published January 21, 2010
The DUP leader Peter Robinson has revealed that he has shaken hands
with Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness and suggested that he could be
reinstated as First Minister within two weeks.
Published January 18, 2010
Councillor suspended as abuse controversy continues
Councillor Briege Meehan has been suspended from Sinn Fein after being
questioned by the PSNI over allegations of abusing her stepdaughter, it
has emerged.
Published January 18, 2010
Loyalists are being blamed for a bomb attack at a community centre where
a Gaelic sports team was training.
Published January 18, 2010
Republican wins right to challenge trial without jury
County Tyrone republican Brian Arthurs has won High Court permission to
challenge a decision to hold his forthcoming criminal trial without a
jury.
Published January 18, 2010
Secret banking inquiry plan slammed
A row has erupted in the Dublin coalition government after Fianna Fail
argued that an inquiry into the crisis in Irish banks should be held
partially in private to avoid controversial or embarrassing details
emerging into the public domain.
Published January 18, 2010
Irish President Mary McAleese has told Haiti’s head of state that
Ireland is praying for his country as the Dublin government prepared to
send a team of specialists to the earthquake hit region.
Published January 18, 2010
Pressure mounts on negotiations
The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein have resumed talks at Stormont Castle today after progress was reported yesterday in the attempt to break the deadlock on the transfer of policing and justice powers in the north of Ireland from London to Belfast.
Published January 16, 2010
26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen and British prime minister Gordon Brown
declared “early completion” of the devolution of policing and justice
powers to the North is achievable despite the turmoil within unionism
over the Iris Robinson affair.
Published January 14, 2010
Ireland responds to Haiti devastation
Irish relief agencies have joined international appeals for donations to
help victims of the Haiti earthquake as the country grapples with
shocking scenes and a potential six figure death toll.
Published January 14, 2010
Castlereagh Borough Council has confirmed its plans to initiate its own
investigation into the Iris Robinson affair.
Published January 14, 2010
Arbitrary detentions illegal, says human rights court
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday [Wednesday] ruled that
British police powers to stop and search people without grounds for
suspicion are illegal.
Published January 14, 2010
The retrial of county Louth man Colm Murphy over the 1998 Omagh bomb has
begun at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Published January 14, 2010
Raytheon, the controversial international arms manufacturer, is to leave
Derry and close its operations plant there, it was announced on
Wednesday.
Published January 14, 2010
The Belfast Assembly at Stormont was in disarray today as the DUP
leader Peter Robinson stepped down temporarily as First Minister
following revelations of an affair between his wife Iris, and a
19-year-old youth.
Published January 11, 2010
An armed republican group has claimed responsibility for an attack in
which a member of the PSNI police was seriously injured.
Published January 11, 2010
Sinn Fein’s problems in Dublin mount
A third Sinn Fein councillor in Dublin has quit the party.
Published January 11, 2010
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