Shaun Woodward has been named as Britain’s new Northern Secretary,
replacing Peter Hain.
Published June 28, 2007
In a carefully choreographed handover of power in London, Tony Blair
has tendered his resignation as British Prime Minister to the Queen at
Buckinghame Palace.
Published June 27, 2007
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has strongly criticised British Secretary
Peter Hain and former Policing Board vice chairman Denis Bradley over
the establishment of a new group to ostensibly examine ways to deal
with the past conflict.
Published June 27, 2007
The last British soldiers pulled out of south Armagh at the weekend.
Published June 27, 2007
Nationalist residents are considering legal action following
a Parades Commission ruling on the controversial Whiterock parade in
west Belfast next Saturday.
Published June 27, 2007
There has been a cautious welcome to the appointment of former
oversight commissioner Al Hutchinson as Police Ombudsman in the North.
Published June 27, 2007
Unemployment among Catholics remains twice that of Protestants, despite
advances in the peace process and increasing employment north of the
border.
Published June 27, 2007
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has given the clearest signal yet that Tanaiste
Brian Cowen will replace him as leader of Fianna Fail and Taoiseach
during the course of the new parliament in Dublin.
Published June 18, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and the party Chief Negotiator Martin
McGuinness have held what is expected to be their last talks with the
British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons.
Published June 18, 2007
Larry Zaitschek, the American chef who faces extradition proceedings
against him over the so-called Castlereagh barracks ‘break-in’, has
been warned by the FBI that he faces a death threat if he returns to
the North.
Published June 18, 2007
A breakaway republican paramilitary group has admitted responsibility
for the murder of a father-of-five in west Belfast four years ago,
saying the killing was “criminally wrong”.
Published June 18, 2007
The Chief Constable of the PSNI police, Hugh Orde, has been told to
rethink plans to arm his force with 50,000-volt stun guns.
Published June 18, 2007
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.
Published June 14, 2007
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
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
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
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