SDLP leader Mark Durkan has said he intends to stand aside as party leader after the next Westminster general election, which is expected around May next year.
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SDLP leader Durkan to step down
Published September 20, 2009
The 26 County Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has confirmed a bailout
measuring in tens of billions of Euro for Irish developers, property
speculators and their bankers.
Published September 17, 2009
Humanitarian appeal for Brian Shivers
A man currently being held on remand at Maghaberry jail on the basis of
controversial ‘low copy’ or ‘low threshold’ DNA evidence could be dead
by the time he is cleared of charges, his lawyer has said.
Published September 17, 2009
Coroner gives shoot-to-kill ultimatum
The PSNI has been given seven weeks to hand over top-secret reports into
the deaths of six men shot dead in Crown force shoot-to-kill operations.
Published September 17, 2009
Pro-Lisbon side ‘using economic fears’
The main political parties are using the current economic crisis to
scare people into supporting the Lisbon Treaty, Sinn Féin’s Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has said.
Published September 17, 2009
Protest against British Army recuitment
A British Army recruitment event in Belfast city centre was disrupted on
Saturday, September 12 after éirígí activists staged a demonstration.
Published September 17, 2009
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has insisted that the North’s political
parties have reached “the end game” in negotiating a financial package
with the British government on the transfer of policing and justice
powers from London to Belfast.
Published September 17, 2009
Scale of NAMA bailout revealed
The 26-County Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has revealed the
extent of the highly controversial bailout to be provided to the main
Irish banks following heavy losses by Irish developers in the property
markets.
Published September 16, 2009
Collusion behind Loughinisland
A report into the RUC police’s handling of one of the major loyalist
massacres of the conflict is expected to reveal that four British
Crown force agents were aware that unionist paramilitaries were
planning the atrocity.
Published September 14, 2009
There have been calls for a criminal investigation into the actions of
the board of directors of FAS, the 26 County state training agency, who
are to resign en masse over their questionable spending practices.
Published September 14, 2009
Policing tensions spill over in Derry
Two devices were planted by the ‘Real IRA’ outside the homes of
relatives of a Catholic PSNI member in Derry on Friday.
Published September 14, 2009
Flanagan ‘blamed Hamill family for death’
The Robert Hamill inquiry has heard that former RUC/PSNI police chief
Ronnie Flanagan claimed that the Portadown man may have been
accidentally killed by his own family.
Published September 14, 2009
People to pay for my mistakes, Cowen admits
The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has accepted that he had “not got everything
right” on managing the country’s finances, adding that the Irish people
will endure further “short-term pain” to help balance the budget.
Published September 14, 2009
Call for truth over loyalist weapons
Two Belfast families whose lives changed forever after their loved ones
were gunned down by weapons obtained by a British agent in South Africa
have called on the government to tell the truth about their role in the
murders.
Published September 14, 2009
Civilians in Forkhill, south Armagh have expressed their anger after an
abandoned bomb was left in a culvert on the border for over a week.
Published September 10, 2009
No respect for Nama ‘lipstick’
Amendments have been made to the proposed legislation establishing the
National Asset Management Agency (Nama) to help the Green Party
leadership get support for the plan at their special conference of
members this weekend.
Published September 10, 2009
Arms body done with UVF, holds talks with UDA
The IICD arms body under General John de Chastelain has said in a
statement that it believes that the arms decommissioned in June by the
unionist paramilitary UVF is all that remained under the control of that
organisation’s leadership, and that UVF decommissioning has ended.
Published September 10, 2009
DUP ‘seeking new renegotiation’
Nationalists have warned that unionists are seeking a new political
agreement for the North of Ireland in return for the transfer of
policing and justice powers from London to Belfast.
Published September 10, 2009
Angle grinders and saws were used to cut down so-called “peace gates” in
Derry’s Bogside on Tuesday.
Published September 10, 2009
Prosecutors back decision on McGuinness charges
Crown prosecutors have said that Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness
was not charged with membership of the IRA in 1994 because there was not
enough evidence.
Published September 10, 2009
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