The trial has begun before a juryless Diplock court in Belfast of a
bank official for the robbery in 2004 of the Northern Bank.
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Published September 12, 2008
Members of a notorious unionist paramilitary death sqaud have been
accused of carrying out a savage assault in which a young mother was
held down by four men and bitten on the face.
Published September 12, 2008
Strong turnout urged in Fermanagh by-election
Next Thursday sees an important local council by-election in
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
Published September 12, 2008
Dublin govt admits economic crisis
The 26-County government, facing an unprecedented budget deficit, has
brought forward its annual economic policy statement by two months amid
heavy criticism of its failure to act over a looming meltdown in the
Irish economy.
Published September 5, 2008
Irish Navy deploys for Shell destruction
Eight more environmental activists were arrested in County Mayo today
[Friday] after an extraordinary confrontation between the Irish Naval
Service and campaigners attempting to halt the construction of a
potentially dangerous high-pressure gas pipeline.
Published September 5, 2008
Controversy mounts over British military parades
Belfast City Council this week voted that a civic reception for British
troops should go ahead in November, despite nationalist opposition
Published September 5, 2008
Prison warders urged to reveal CR gas concern
The British government is coming under renewed pressure to admit a
cancer-causing gas was used on republican prisoners during a 1974 Long
Kesh riot.
Published September 5, 2008
Obama seeks to recover from Irish policy blunder
US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has asked former senator George Mitchell and six leading
Irish-American politicians to advise him on Ireland amid a backlash
over his campaign’s handling of Irish issues.
Published September 5, 2008
IRA leadership ‘has ceased to function’ - IMC
The Provisional IRA’s ruling Army Council that once directed its armed
struggle is no longer operational, a report for the British and
26-County governments has declared.
Published September 3, 2008
Sinn Féin has called for urgent talks with the Democratic Unionists to
resolve the crisis that is said to be confronting the new political
institutions in the north of Ireland.
Published August 29, 2008
IRA prisoners seek to clear record
IRA prisoners falsely imprisoned are to attempt to have their
convictions overturned and their records cleared.
Published August 29, 2008
Barack Obama could abolish the post of US special envoy to the north of
Ireland if he becomes president as he responds to the Taoiseach’s call
for a review of the relationship between Ireland and the US.
Published August 29, 2008
Sharp reaction to Lisbon re-run proposal
Opposition parties in the 26 Counties joined forces this week to
strongly criticise the Dublin government’s Europe minister Dick Roche
after he said that a second referendum on the European Union’s Lisbon
Treaty was on the cards.
Published August 29, 2008
Sinn Féin’s youth wing has been causing controversy over attempts to
literally ‘green’ the north - one postbox at a time.
Published August 29, 2008
British soldiers observed murder of teenager
A Police Ombudsman investigation into the murder of Belfast teenager
Damien Walsh will confirm British soldiers watched the killing by the
unionist paramilitary UDA and did not intervene, it has been reported.
Published August 22, 2008
Wreathes not enough for Omagh victims
A cross-border public inquiry is the only proper tribute to relatives
bereaved by the Omagh bomb blast, a memorial service heard on Sunday.
Published August 22, 2008
Controversy at hunger strike commemoration
Unionist condemnation of the use of a replica machine gun during a
republican commemoration ceremony has pointed up the hypocrisy of the
current debate on weapons decommissioning.
Published August 22, 2008
PSNI involved in killing, inquest told
A PSNI Special Branch agent was involved in the brutal assassination of a
Belfast man outside a school in the North of Ireland, an inquest heard
today.
Published August 22, 2008
The priest hero who famously went to the defence of besieged Catholic
schoolgirls in Belfast’s Ardoyne in the face of loyalist attacks is
moving against his wishes to Paris, as a chaplain to English-speaking
residents there.
Published August 22, 2008
Paisley calls for return of shoot-to-kill
Policing Board member Ian Paisley Jnr today urged the PSNI to shoot
republican militants on sight following an abortive rocket attack in
County Fermanagh at the weekend.
Published August 19, 2008
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