The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the 26-County Taoiseach,
Brian Cowen, met again in London today [Monday] for talks on the
deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers to Belfast.
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The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the 26-County Taoiseach,
Brian Cowen, met again in London today [Monday] for talks on the
deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers to Belfast.
Published November 30, 2009
Cowen defers to church over abuse report
Victims of clerical chid abuse have criticised the response of the
Dublin government to revelations that three decades of abuse by
paedophiles in the Dublin Archdiocese were covered up by the church
hierarchy.
Published November 30, 2009
Loyalist mob lays claim to Portadown centre
A loyalist mob staged a ‘show of strength’ on Saturday to intimidate
Catholics from entering the town centre despite the PSNI having advance
knowledge of the planned incident.
Published November 30, 2009
Parades decision a ‘sick joke’
The Parades Commission has said it will allow a loyalist band
commemorating a unionist paramilitary killer to parade past the scene
where one of his victims was killed.
Published November 30, 2009
Solidarity protests over Basque arrests
Protests took place in Belfast and Dublin on Saturday in solidarity with
the Basque struggle and the latest victims of Spanish state repression.
Published November 30, 2009
Scottish independence plans published
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond published details today of a
planned referendum on Scottish independence, setting out the case for
breaking the 300-year-old union with England.
Published November 30, 2009
Govt apologises over abuse, blames church
The Dublin government this afternoon apologised for “failures” by the
State in dealing with clerical child abuse and said the “deference”
shown to the church in this regard had been “misplaced”.
Published November 26, 2009
The British Army’s elite Special Reconnaisance Regiment were involved in
the ambush in county Fermanagh last week in which a number of shots were
fired, it has emerged.
Published November 26, 2009
Civil servants set to strike again
Around a quarter of a million workers took to picket lines across the
Twenty-Six Counties today [Tuesday] as public sector staff struggle to
protect their pay and conditions.
Published November 26, 2009
Leading loyalist Andre Shoukri had to be re-released from prison after a
threat that his arrest could end hopes of a start to the UDA’s
decommissioning of its weapons in north Belfast.
Published November 26, 2009
New transition for political chameleon
A former member of the hated RUC police and a member of the Orange Order
has become Sinn Fein’s newest Assembly member.
Published November 26, 2009
Unease grows over cross-border shopping
Advertisements aimed at attracting southern shoppers and holidaymakers
to Belfast over Christmas have been banned in Dublin.
Published November 26, 2009
There have been warnings that armed struggle could once again begin to fill
the political vacuum following two incidents in Fermanagh and Belfast
involving the breakaway IRA groups.
Published November 23, 2009
Unionism is winning - Robinson
The DUP was right to agree to power sharing in 2007 because “for the
first time in a generation unionism is winning”, party leader Peter
Robinson has claimed.
Published November 23, 2009
PSNI man ‘surprised’ by Donnelly injury
A member of the PSNI yesterday told Derry Magistrates Court on Friday
that he could not explain how leading dissident Gary Donnelly had
sustained a ‘three-way spiral fracture’ to his left arm after being
arrested.
Published November 23, 2009
Unions amend strike plans after ‘unprecedented’ floods
Trade unions have scaled back plans for thousands of their members to go
on strike tomorrow in five local authority areas around the country
which have been severely hit by flood and storm damage.
Published November 23, 2009
Tohill accused faces extradition north
A Belfast man is to face extradition to the North in regard to the
‘Tohill incident’ in which mainstream republicans allegedly kidnapped
and assaulted a dissident.
Published November 23, 2009
In his final address as President of Republican Sinn Fein, Ruairi O
Bradaigh has outlined the challenges which he believes lie ahead for
Ireland and his party.
Published November 23, 2009
The PSNI has ramped up a campaign of political arrests with the
detention of Marian Price, the National Secretary of the 32 County
Sovereignty Movement.
Published November 19, 2009
Paisley lauds Sinn Fein compliance
Ian Paisley this week praised Sinn Fein for keeping its word on
power-sharing despite the rise in support for dissidents.
Published November 19, 2009
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