A key American behind-the-scenes player in the Irish peace process
visited Belfast in recent days in a bid to encourage what once were
warring communities to come together.
Published November 1, 2007
Senior members of the unionist paramilitary UDA have made a
thinly-veiled threat to return to full-scale violence following a
decision by the Belfast Executive to halt funding for a UDA-linked
'peace' group'.
Published October 24, 2007
A leading unionist politician is among seven members of the unionist
paramilitary UVF who have been arrested by the PSNI investigating the
brutal sectarian murder of a Catholic child two years ago.
Published October 24, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has denied his movement had any
involvement in the murder of a 21-year-old County Armagh man.
Published October 24, 2007
Former MP Bernadette McAliskey told a court yesterday that she could
never see her daughter Roisin allowing herself to be extradited to
Germany to stand trial for an alleged IRA attack on a British Army base
in 1996.
Published October 24, 2007
Dublin officials are on standby to prepare for a historic visit by the
English Queen sometime next year, it has been confirmed.
Published October 24, 2007
The British government is under pressure to intervene after a minister
in the Six-County executive ruled out plans to introduce an Irish
language bill in the Belfast Assembly.
Published October 17, 2007
Republican hardliners in County Armagh have vowed to continue their
armed campaign in the area despite a massive PSNI/MI5 operation in the
Craigavon area on Thursday.
Published October 17, 2007
The Police Ombudsman’s office is to investigate a murderous mob attack
on three young Catholic men in Portadown town centre last week which
mirrored the controversial murder of Robert Hamill in the town ten
years ago.
Published October 17, 2007
Organisers of last year’s attempted ‘Love Ulster’ rally have withdrawn
their request to hold another rally in Dublin after a meeting with the
26-County government.
Published October 17, 2007
The European Commission has begun legal action against the 26-County
government over the continuing construction of the M3 motorway through
the Tara Valley.
Published October 17, 2007
MI5 -- British military intelligence -- has taken charge of all British
security interests in the North of Ireland for the first time, it was
revealed today.
Published October 12, 2007
The North’s Social Development minister Margaret Ritchie has received a
death threat days before she was due to withdraw government funding for
a group linked to the unionist paramilitary UDA.
Published October 10, 2007
An extraordinary unionist attempt to ban the use of the Irish language
at the Belfast Assembly has been defeated.
Published October 10, 2007
A man who worked as an informer within the Irish National Liberation
Army (INLA) has been uncovered within the ranks of the republican
socialist movement in Derry.
Published October 10, 2007
Community representatives have condemned the PSNI for failing to
intervene during a sectarian attack on two Catholic men in Portadown,
County Armagh.
Published October 10, 2007
A top member of banned Basque political party Batasuna has said the
arrest and detention of most of the party’s leadership is a declaration
of war by the Madrid government.
Published October 10, 2007
Residents at a north Belfast interface say they are being forced to run
a gauntlet of sectarian violence every time they leave their homes.
Published October 3, 2007
A decision by 26-County Environment Minister John Gormley to place a
preservation order on an ancient fort has been hailed as a potential
breakthrough in the campaign to save the historic Tara Valley from a
motorway development.
Published October 3, 2007
Bullets have been sent to news studios in Belfast with the names and
details of six people, including Sinn Fein party president Gerry Adams
and the party’s senior press officer Richard McAuley.
Published October 3, 2007
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