Sinn Féin and the SDLP have clashed over whether a statement by the
British prime minister Tony Blair on the role of British military
intelligence in the North of Ireland is positive or negative for future
policing plans.
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Nationalists clash over MI5 change
Published January 12, 2007
Plastic bullet victims not guilty - Orde
Sinn Féin has welcomed comments by PSNI chief Hugh Orde expressing a
measure of regret for deaths caused by the use of plastic bullets in
the North of Ireland.
Published January 12, 2007
Omagh police witnesses under investigation
Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan is investigating the conduct of two key
PSNI police witnesses in the non-jury Diplock trial of Armagh man Sean
Hoey.
Published January 12, 2007
Few answers in meeting over killings
A meeting with a British government minster has been a let-down for the
families of the victims of a unionist paramilitary gun attack in a
County Down pub in 1994.
Published January 12, 2007
Polish recruits to boost Catholic numbers for PSNI
The PSNI police may be able to meet the Patten requirements for
increased numbers of Catholic recruits by drawing from the nearly 1,000
Polish people who have applied to join the force.
Published January 12, 2007
Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine has died this afternoon
having suffered two heart attacks and a stroke over the weekend.
Published January 8, 2007
Parties square off ahead of 26-County election
The 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that he would accept Sinn
Féin support for a minority Fianna Fail government after the next
general election, but that he would not agree any deal with them in
return for votes.
Published January 8, 2007
Two further sitting Sinn Féin assembly members have said they will not
stand for re-election in the proposed March assembly poll, but have
denied that the current debate on policing policy lies behind their
decisions.
Published January 8, 2007
Independent republicans to contest all constituencies
A former Sinn Féin member and H-block blanket man is to stand as an
independent in Mid-Ulster if the assembly election goes ahead in March,
while another former IRA prisoner is considering running in
Fermanagh-South Tyrone.
Published January 8, 2007
Ombudsman ‘faces test’ over Lawlor investigation
The parents of murdered father Gerard Lawlor are meeting senior
investigators from the Police Ombudsman’s office today for the first
time over new allegations that the PSNI police failed to act on
information supplied by a witness.
Published January 8, 2007
Four members of the Sinn Féin Assembly team have said they will not be
going forward for re-election amid heightening tensions inside the
party over policing.
Published January 4, 2007
Nationalists clash over policing moves
The nationalist SDLP has said moves by Sinn Féin towards support of
policing in the north pointed to the “futility of the armed struggle”,
while Republican Sinn Féin accused their republican rivals of
“surrender”.
Published January 4, 2007
Charges against two men accused over the Northern Bank raid two years
ago were dramatically withdrawn in Belfast on Wednesday.
Published January 4, 2007
Contingency plans to the fore in 1976
Papers released show considerable political confusion in the British
and 26 County governments in 1976 following the collapse of Sunningdale
power-sharing efforts.
Published January 4, 2007
The oldest surviving IRA member who fought in the War of Independence
celebrated his 105th birthday this week.
Published January 4, 2007
Adams address at Brookeborough
The text of a keynote address by Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams MP at an event in County Fermanagh to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Seán Sabhat and Feargal Ó
hAnnluain who were killed during the Brookeborough raid.
Published January 2, 2007
Sinn Féin to hold Ard Fheis on policing
Sinn Féin’s national executive has backed the motion put by party
President Gerry Adams to convene a special party conference on the
issue of policing today.
Published December 29, 2006
'Do not underestimate the difficulties' - Adams
The full text of yesterday’s statement by Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams, in which he initiated a process to bring about a
critical change in Sinn Féin’s policy on policing in the North of
Ireland.
Published December 29, 2006
The High Court in Belfast has ruled that British Direct Ruler Peter
Hain acted unlawfully when he changed the nature of an inquiry to one
which enables the British Crown to keep evidence secret.
Published December 29, 2006
Some 72 Catholic recruits have quit the PSNI, citing a range of reasons
for dropping out, including work difficulties and republican
paramilitary threats.
Published December 29, 2006
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