The 30th Dail has elected Bertie Ahern to a third term as Taoiseach in
a three-party coalition between Fianna Fail, the Green Party and the
Progressive Democrats.
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Ahern elected Taoiseach as Greens back FF/PD agenda
Published June 14, 2007
Green Party set for coalition with FF, PDs
Green Party negotiators this evening agreed to join a Fianna Fail-led
26-County government and will put proposals to members tomorrow.
Published June 12, 2007
The Basque group ETA has called off its 15-month-old ceasefire, marking
the end of a troubled peace process with Spain.
Published June 11, 2007
‘Tour of the North’ to go ahead
The Parades Commission has ruled that a controversial Orange Order
march can pass a north Belfast interface next week.
Published June 11, 2007
A Ballymena man has told a court in chilling detail how he played dead
to escape being murdered and of having to watch and listen as his
would-be sectarian killers plotted to saw up his body.
Published June 11, 2007
Councils struggle with power-sharing
A bitter war of words erupted between Sinn Féin and the SDLP at the
weekend after the SDLP agreed a last-minute deal with Ulster Unionists
to take the two top positions in Belfast City Hall.
Published June 11, 2007
A former republican socialist activist and volunteer is the latest in a
long list of deaths which have occured in the ‘special supervision
unit’ of Maghaberry Prison.
Published June 11, 2007
Talks between Bertie Ahern’s Fianna Fail and the Green Party to agree a
programme for a coalition government have broken down without a deal,
raising new question marks over which parties will be in a position to
form a government when the Dublin parliament sits next Thursday.
Published June 8, 2007
Sinn Féin has said it will not be willing to support a minority
government from the opposition benches amid continuing negotiations
over possible coalition partnerships in Dublin.
Published June 4, 2007
Assembly debates policing powers
The policing Oversight Commissioner in the North, publishing his final
report on the conversion of the RUC police to the PSNI, has warned that
real change could be over a decade away.
Published June 4, 2007
Participants in a unionist band parade engaged in threatening and
provocative behaviour in the small Suffolk estate in west Belfast on
Saturday.
Published June 4, 2007
New ‘peace line’ divides school
A 25ft-high security fence is to be built inside the grounds of an
integrated primary school to protect nearby homes from sectarian
attacks.
Published June 4, 2007
Paisley Jr defends anti-gay views
Northern Executive junior minister Ian Paisley jnr has stood by
controversial recent remarks denigrating homosexuality and has
complained that criticism of the remarks amounted to an abuse of his
freedom of expression.
Published June 4, 2007
SF takes up seats on Policing Board
Sinn Fein has taken up its position on the North’s Policing Board for
the first time this morning.
Published May 31, 2007
Sinn Féin’s hopes for a major breakthrough in the 26 Counties with this
election were not borne out, despite some impressive performances and
an increase of some 20,000 votes over their 1997 total.
Published May 29, 2007
A Sinn Féin motion calling for new equality legislation was defeated
due to unionist opposition in the assembly last week.
Published May 29, 2007
NIO plot to renege on stop and search powers
British officials have proposed deploying special ‘anti-terrorist’
legislation across England, Scotland and Wales in an attempt to retain
the repressive measures in Ireland.
Published May 29, 2007
PSNI police have raided the home of a Strabane republican in an
escalation of tensions between local republicans and the force.
Published May 29, 2007
Protestors defy Tara destruction
There have been clashes at the construction site in the Tara valley
where the Dublin government is attempting to construct a motorway
through an important archaeological site.
Published May 29, 2007
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is considering a number of coalition options as
the 26-COunty general election counts are completing.
Published May 26, 2007
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