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
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
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
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
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
Deputy Prime Minister and Progressive Democrats leader, Tanaiste
Michael McDowell, has quit Irish politics in a dramatic response to his
election defeat today.
Published May 25, 2007
The 26-County general election now seems almost certain to return
Fianna Fail’s Bertie Ahern as Taoiseach, who may do so without the
need to again form a coalition with the decimated Progressive
Democrats.
Published May 25, 2007
In unofficial tallies in Thursday's 26 County General Election, the
vote for Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail appears to be up and, while it is
early days in the election count, the party looks likely to form part
of the next government in Dublin.
Published May 25, 2007
Roisin McAliskey has been arrested on foot of a new extradition bid by
Germany.
Published May 21, 2007
Derry Republican Charlie McMenamin has walked free from court 27 years
after he was wrongly convicted.
Published May 21, 2007
The DUP’s Gregory Campbell has said his party will veto an Irish
Language Act for the North of Ireland.
Published May 21, 2007
Sinn Féin has criticised the PSNI after a prominent republican was
arrested during a raid on addresses in County Armagh and in Dungannon,
County Tyrone.
Published May 21, 2007
Sinn Féin is prepared to co-operate with any independent, international
inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bomb, it has been confirmed.
Published May 21, 2007
The restoration of power-sharing in Belfast marks the dawning
of a new era for the island of Ireland and for Anglo-Irish relations,
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told British parliamentarians last week.
Published May 21, 2007
The appointment of two senior members of the DUP to the Privy Council,
allowing the party to gain access to high-level security intelligence,
has been criticised by nationalists.
Published May 15, 2007
The planting of a walnut tree on the Battle of the Boyne site in County
Meath by 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and DUP leader Ian Paisley on
Friday has highlighted a new dispensation in north-south relations.
Published May 15, 2007
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