Scuffles involving Sinn Fein representatives broke out after materials
assembled for a republican bonfire in Ballymena were removed on
Wednesday night at the request of a resident opposed to the event.
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Power struggle over Ballymena bonfire
Published August 1, 2008
Restorative justice group approved
The British government has said that funding for a controversial
republican neighbourhood justice scheme has been approved.
Published August 1, 2008
Eight years pressure to inform
A County Fermanagh man has been forced to flee the Six Counties after
refusing to work as a Special Branch informer.
Published August 1, 2008
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has accused the DUP of pushing the
North's power-sharing government toward crisis.
Published July 25, 2008
Mixed reaction to Sarkozy visit
Thousands gathered outside the Dublin parliament this week to
demonstrate their opposition to a second Lisbon Treaty during the visit
of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French premier and current president of the
European Unio
Published July 25, 2008
Struggle will re-ignite in Derry - 32CSM
A republican group in Derry has predicted that the conflict will
begin again in the city as the conditions return for armed struggle.
Published July 25, 2008
Political realignment seen in North
The Ulster Unionist Party is in negotiations with the British
Conservative Party over moves towards a possible merger between the
parties.
Published July 25, 2008
Protestors arrested, removed in Shell land grab
Thirteen members of the Shell 2 Sea Group were arrested on July 22nd
for challenging the legality of construction work on a contentious
pipeline in an area designated for "Special Conservation
Published July 25, 2008
North recovers from ‘Orangefest’
Attempts by the Dublin and London government to rebrand sectarian
marches and ghoulish bonfires as “cultural events” failed before they
began last weekend when loyalists embarked on violent rampages on the
eve of the ‘Twelfth’, the height of the marching season.
Published July 18, 2008
The British government has accepted that its deliberately lied when it
claimed that the IRA was responsible for a bomb which killed 15 people in
December 1971.
Published July 18, 2008
Call for end to Stormont stalemate
The North’s power-sharing executive has failed to meet for over a month
amid fears of a stalemate between Sinn Féin and the DUP.
Published July 18, 2008
RSF denounce Fermanagh arrest operation
Republican Sinn Féin has accused the PSNI police of “abducting” three
republicans in County Fermanagh.
Published July 18, 2008
Gag order on ‘Stakeknife’ reports
Newspaper reports on the ‘Stakeknife’ spy, who was reputedly the
British Army’s highest-ranking double agent within the IRA, are being
censored by the British government.
Published July 18, 2008
Sarkozy to defy Irish referendum
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, intends to pressurise Irish
voters to back the Lisbon Treaty in a second referendum after ruling
out any possibility of renegotiating the draft constitution for the
European Union.
Published July 11, 2008
Britain denounced for massive spying operation
The British government has been strongly criticised by the European
Court of Human Rights for illegally and secretly monitoring all
electronic communications between Ireland and Britain for years.
Published July 11, 2008
Sectarian attacks in north Belfast
A North Belfast father-of-three was stabbed in the head and neck with a
spear in a near-fatal sectarian attack.
Published July 11, 2008
Call on Britain to release files
The Dublin parliament has urged the British government to release
security files on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
Published July 11, 2008
Welcome for McShane inquest verdict
A jury has unanimously found that the British Army was responsible for
the death of a former republican prisoner in Derry almost 12 years ago.
Published July 11, 2008
Media frenzy as McCartney trial ends
The case of a fatal stabbing outside a republican bar, and a subsequent
media campaign which reached the White House, ended this week in a
Belfast courtroom.
Published July 4, 2008
Parades held amid tensions over ‘secret’ Drumcree talks
An Orange Order march in west Belfast passed off quietly last weekend
despite a controversial incursion onto the republican Springfield Road.
Published July 4, 2008
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