Pat Doherty is to stand down as Sinn Féin Vice President after over
twenty years in that office.
![]() | |
Pat Doherty is to stand down as Sinn Féin Vice President after over
twenty years in that office.
Published January 9, 2009
PSNI recruitment bid captured on phone
An Omagh teenager has recorded on his mobile phone an attempt by the
PSNI police to persuade him to become an informer.
Published January 9, 2009
Sinn Féin has abandoned 2016 target - DUP
The DUP has interpreted comments by Gerry Adams as an admission that
the hope of a united Ireland by 2016 has been abandoned.
Published January 9, 2009
After a decade of delays and deliberate procrastination, public
hearings in the inquiry into the 1997 murder of Robert Hamill are to
begin in Belfast next Tuesday.
Published January 9, 2009
International events to mark Famine
Ireland is to officially recognise the Great Hunger - more than 160
years after British colonial policies coupled with the collapse of the
critical potato harvest resulted in the death or emigration of some two
million people.
Published January 9, 2009
Published January 4, 2009
Anger as republican is returned to jail
The summary imprisonment of Belfast man Terry McCafferty on the eve of
Christmas is being viewed by republican activists as a vindictive
reprisal for the release of the ‘Derry 4’, whose trial collapsed in
Dublin just days before.
Published January 2, 2009
Secret to unity is Irish abroad - Adams
Campaigns to lobby for a united Ireland could tap into the huge Irish
populations living in the US and in Britain, Sinn Féin President Gerry
Adams has said.
Published January 2, 2009
Christmas bomb attempt at GAA club
A bomb discovered on Christmas Eve close to an Armagh Gaelic club could
have been picked up by children who regularly use the area.
Published January 2, 2009
Peace move claim ‘false’ - O Bradaigh
The President of Republican Sinn Féin, Ruairi O Bradaigh, has rejected
a claim that the IRA sought peace talks with the British government in
early 1978.
Published January 2, 2009
Deaths of Tony Gregory TD and Sean McKenna
Independent TD Tony Gregory died today [Friday] at the age of 61 after
a long illness.
Published January 2, 2009
Ireland condemns Israeli bombings
Published December 29, 2008
Published December 19, 2008
A British soldier has said that locally recruited RIR soldiers allowed
two well-known unionist paramilitaries, stopped a short distance from
the home of human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson shortly after her
murder, to escape.
Published December 19, 2008
PSNI loyalists caught on camera
Four PSNI members have been suspended after they were caught on camera
singing sectarian songs and waving guns while joyriding in their patrol
vehicles.
Published December 19, 2008
A Catholic man is planning to move out of the house where he was tied
up and beaten by a loyalist gang who also ransacked the property on the
outskirts of south Belfast.
Published December 19, 2008
Convicted UDA murderer Michael Stone has said he is to appeal the
16-year jail sentence handed down last week for the attempted murder of
Sinn Féin leaders Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams.
Published December 19, 2008
Miami Showband hold Banbridge gig
The Miami Showband were treated like heroes by adoring fans after
completing a “milestone performance” in the town where three of their
members were massacred by the unionist paramilitary UVF 33 years ago.
Published December 19, 2008
Bill of Rights proposed for North
More than 10 years after a bill of rights was first agreed in the Good
Friday Agreement, the North’s Human Rights Commission has presented its
recommendations on the bill to the British government.
Published December 12, 2008
Provocative speech by Tory leader
The leader of the British Conservative party, David Cameron, has
reversed two decades of Tory policy on Ireland.
Published December 12, 2008
By default, this search engine looks for all words in any order. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes:
"gerry adams"
The search engine also supports AND, OR, and NOT keywords to specify boolean expressions:
sinn OR fein
sinn NOT fein
Note that only twenty search results are displayed, in chronological order.