Unionist hardliner Arlene Foster has retained the DUP’s seat in the
closely watched Enniskillen local council by-election.
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Published September 18, 2008
Progressive Democrats to be disbanded
Ireland’s small Progressive Democrats party is set to be wound up
after its members in the Dublin parliament agreed that the
organisation was “no longer politically viable”.
Published September 17, 2008
Omagh bomb calls were monitored
Pressure is growing today for a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing
after it was revealed British intelligence chiefs were listening in to
the Real IRA’s mobile phone calls on the day of the attack.
Published September 14, 2008
IRA Volunteers ‘used as spies’
Republican Sinn Féin has accused the Provisional IRA of gathering
intelligence on other republican groups and passing the information on
to the police north and south of the border.
Published September 12, 2008
British PM for key Belfast talks
As the DUP and Sinn Féin continue talks to reach a deal on difficult
issues, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to visit
Belfast next Tuesday.
Published September 12, 2008
The trial has begun before a juryless Diplock court in Belfast of a
bank official for the robbery in 2004 of the Northern Bank.
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
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