A decision to remove whistleblower medic John Crown from the panel of a
popular Irish chat show has been strongly condemned as a new form of
censorship.
Published November 15, 2007
The largest faction of the unionist paramilitary UDA has announced
that its armed gangs -- who use the cover name of the ‘Ulster Freedom
Fighters’ (UFF) -- will “stand down” from midnight tonight.
Published November 11, 2007
The North’s First Minister Ian Paisley has lobbied British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown for an assurance that planned new border passport
controls will not be established between Britain and Ireland but
between the North and South of Ireland.
Published November 8, 2007
Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan - who left office this week - has
revealed that she could not believe what she was seeing when she
compiled her major report on police collusion with UVF killers earlier
this year.
Published November 8, 2007
Fianna Fail has suffered a large drop in support since the general
election in May and satisfaction with the party leader and Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern is also down significantly.
Published November 8, 2007
Proposals by the sport’s international regulators FIFA have been
welcomed by nationalist politicians as paving the way for an
all-Ireland soccer team.
Published November 8, 2007
Full prepared text of the oration delivered by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams at the funeral of Martin Meehan this week.
Published November 8, 2007
Veteran republican Martin Meehan has died, aged 62. It is believed he
suffered a heart attack at home in Belfast on Saturday morning.
Published November 3, 2007
The plight of Tyrone woman Roisin McAliskey was prolonged further this
week when a Belfast court deferred a decision on whether or not the
mother-of-two will face extradition to Germany.
Published November 1, 2007
The campaign to find the truth behind the truth of the murder of the
two Cairns brothers in 1993 will continue despite a controversial
finding by Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan that there was no evidence of
British Crown force collusion in the killings.
Published November 1, 2007
An engineer falsely accused of being an illegal immigrant while
holidaying in the North of Ireland was arrested and imprisoned purely
because of his race, the Equality Commission said this week.
Published November 1, 2007
The North’s first programme for government aimed at boosting investment
and employment was overshadowed this week by the announcement that over
900 jobs have been lost in a County Derry plant closure.
Published November 1, 2007
A key American behind-the-scenes player in the Irish peace process
visited Belfast in recent days in a bid to encourage what once were
warring communities to come together.
Published November 1, 2007
Senior members of the unionist paramilitary UDA have made a
thinly-veiled threat to return to full-scale violence following a
decision by the Belfast Executive to halt funding for a UDA-linked
'peace' group'.
Published October 24, 2007
A leading unionist politician is among seven members of the unionist
paramilitary UVF who have been arrested by the PSNI investigating the
brutal sectarian murder of a Catholic child two years ago.
Published October 24, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has denied his movement had any
involvement in the murder of a 21-year-old County Armagh man.
Published October 24, 2007
Former MP Bernadette McAliskey told a court yesterday that she could
never see her daughter Roisin allowing herself to be extradited to
Germany to stand trial for an alleged IRA attack on a British Army base
in 1996.
Published October 24, 2007
Dublin officials are on standby to prepare for a historic visit by the
English Queen sometime next year, it has been confirmed.
Published October 24, 2007
The British government is under pressure to intervene after a minister
in the Six-County executive ruled out plans to introduce an Irish
language bill in the Belfast Assembly.
Published October 17, 2007
Republican hardliners in County Armagh have vowed to continue their
armed campaign in the area despite a massive PSNI/MI5 operation in the
Craigavon area on Thursday.
Published October 17, 2007
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