A judge who quashed a conviction against a Sinn Féin assembly member
and a Derry-based journalist has spoken of a “distinct feeling of
unease” about the 1979 convictions.
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Published February 20, 2007
Intimidation threat over GAA facilities
A unionist group in Antrim has threatened ‘another Harryville’ if plans
for development of facilities by St. Comgall’s Gaelic Athletics club
proceed.
Published February 20, 2007
Family of New Lodge Six appeal for meeting
The families of six men shot dead in the New Lodge area of Belfast have
called on the British government to launch a new investigation into
their deaths after a former unionist paramilitary admitted he helped
plan the attack with British intelligence.
Published February 20, 2007
The Six Counties is facing its biggest election contest in years as
some 250 candidates launch their bids for seats in the troubled Belfast
Assembly.
Published February 15, 2007
British Army spytower comes down
The last remaining British Army spypost in South Armagh has been
dismantled in a move which has been described as ‘the end of an era’.
Published February 15, 2007
DUP leader Ian Paisley has said any move to allow republicans facing
conflict-related prosecutions in the north of Ireland to come home
would be “a deal breaker” for sharing power with Sinn Féin.
Published February 15, 2007
O Caolain suffers heart attack
Sinn Féin’s leader in the Dublin parliament, Caoimhghin O Caolain, is
recovering after suffering a heart attack at his home last week.
Published February 15, 2007
UVF man links FRU to New Lodge massacre
A former unionist paramilitary has revealed that British military
handlers organised and took part in a gun attack that left six Catholic
men dead.
Published February 15, 2007
Tourists caught up in sectarian violence
The ‘Paddywagon’ company, which uses green minibuses decorated with
leprechauns and shamrocks, released photographs of a bus which was
targeted in Belfast on Tuesday.
Published February 10, 2007
Justice bill provokes anger, concern
Nationalists have expressed dismay at the draft legislation relating to
justice issues in the Six Counties which is currently passing through
the London parliament.
Published February 10, 2007
The DUP is experiencing its own problems as it faces into an election
amid a public expectation that the result could see it sharing power
with Sinn Féin.
Published February 10, 2007
Finucane conspirator Mark Barr found dead
UDA paramilitay Mark Barr, who was once charged with the killing of
Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, has been found dead in mysterious
circumstances.
Published February 10, 2007
So-called ‘supergrass’ Raymond Gilmour has been warned he will be targeted by the
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) if he tries to set foot back in
Derry.
Published February 10, 2007
‘Devolution or dissolution’ threat as DUP stalls
The future of the northern Six Counties must lie in a local,
accountable, devolved, power-sharing government, 26-County Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern has said at the conclusion of a meeting with the British
Direct Ruler Peter Hain.
Published February 5, 2007
New plastic bullets found to be more lethal
So-called safer plastic bullets, first fired in 2005, have caused more
harm than those used previously, according to research on people struck
by them in the North of Ireland.
Published February 5, 2007
Northern committee back on Leinster House agenda
Plans for Six County members of the Westminster parliament in London
to take part in a special committee of the Dublin parliament have been
welcomed as a step forward by nationalist politicians in the North.
Published February 5, 2007
Republicans consider electoral strategy
An umbrella group led by former republican prisoners opposed to Sinn
Féin’s new political direction is due to meet in the Gasyard Centre
later today [Monday] to plan a strategy ahead of the Assembly elections
in March.
Published February 5, 2007
Policing Board faces new controversies
The Policing Board, which oversees policing in the North of Ireland, is to be reconstituted with Sinn Féin
representatives for the first time later this month.
Published February 5, 2007
DUP press home policing demands
Pressure has mounted on the DUP to accept power sharing in light of
Sinn Fein’s latest concessions, but DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson
said his party will wait to see if Sinn Fein displayed support for the
PSNI “on the ground”.
Published February 1, 2007
Bloody Sunday victims remembered 35 years on
The 35th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was marked with a rally attended
by several thousand people in Derry on Sunday. The massive crowd,
believed to have been significantly larger than last year’s, retraced
the steps of the civil rights and anti-internment marchers of January
30 1972 from Creggan to the Bogside.
Published February 1, 2007
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