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
Elections to the Belfast Assembly are to go ahead on March 7 despite
the continuing failure of Ian Paisley’s DUP to agree a power-sharing
deal.
Published February 1, 2007
MI5 unlawfully detained a former republican prisoner last week before
apparently attempting to recruit the man as an informer, it has
emerged.
Published February 1, 2007
The family of a former republican PoW, who is fighting deportation from
the US, say he is devastated at being unable to attend his father’s
funeral in Belfast.
Published February 1, 2007
In a show of hands, a specially convened Sinn Féin ardfheis (party
conference) has voted strongly in favour of a leadership motion
expressing support for the PSNI police.
Published January 28, 2007
The full prepared text of Gerry Adams's address to
the special Sinn Féin conference on policing policy, currently taking
place in the RDS in Dublin.
Published January 28, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has made a last-ditch appeal to party
supporters to sign up to support the PSNI police and British courts in
the North of Ireland ahead of a crucial party conference on the issue.
Published January 27, 2007
The High Court in Belfast has ruled that Derry City Council must use
the British colonial name ‘Londonderry’ for the city.
Published January 27, 2007
A proposed fund for families of the Ulster Defence Regiment killed in
the conflict has been criticised as offensive and one-sided.
Published January 27, 2007
DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson has said his party might move to block
attempts by the Dublin government to fund projects north of the border.
Published January 27, 2007
A high-profile republican whose kidnapping prompted a crisis in the
peace process in 2004 has delivered “a plea for mercy” on behalf of two
of his kidnappers who are due to be sentenced next month.
Published January 27, 2007
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said he does not think there will
be a serious split in his party ahead of a special conference to debate
supporting the PSNI police.
Published January 22, 2007
A call by Sinn Féin to meet with and “brief” the leaderships
of three republican armed groups -- the INLA, Continuity IRA and Real
IRA -- about the current situation has received a cool response.
Published January 22, 2007
The US special envoy to the North, Mitchell Reiss, is to step down this
month after almost three years in the post.
Published January 22, 2007
Ireland’s two Human Rights Commissions have called for the appointment
of a top judge to examine the need for a cross-border public inquiry
into the Omagh bombing.
Published January 22, 2007
Three County Armagh brothers gunned down by a unionist paramilitary
death squad 31 years ago have finally had their names cleared of
involvement with the IRA.
Published January 22, 2007
A second Sinn Féin assembly member has resigned from the party over its
moves towards accepting policing.
Published January 17, 2007
Britain’s Attorney General has received prosecution files on seven
serving and retired RUC policemen after Nuala O’Loan, the North’s
policing ombudsman, conducted an inquiry into accusations of their
involvement in a number of political murders in the 1990s.
Published January 17, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams was among the political leaders who
attended the funeral of the former unionist paramilitary and political
negotiator, David Ervine.
Published January 17, 2007
It would be a travesty of justice if the man accused of the Omagh bomb
atrocity was convicted, his barrister today told the single judge who
will decide his fate.
Published January 17, 2007
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