The St. Stephen’s Day horse-racing meeting at the ‘Down Royal’
course outside Hillsborough in County Down was evacuated on
Monday because of a bomb alert.
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Dissidents cause race event cancellation
Published December 30, 2005
Some of the other details which have emerged so far from
the historical papers released in Dublin, Belfast and London
under the 30-year-rule.
Published December 30, 2005
The following is a letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
signed by a number of Irish-American political leaders.
Published December 30, 2005
Good riddance to 2005, it was a real stinker
By Anne Cadwallader (for Daily Ireland)
The big day is over. The head is throbbing. The kids are bored. Their presents are either already broken or run out of battery-power. Thoughts are inexorably turning to the year we are about to leave behind and the one yet to come.
Published December 30, 2005
The Dublin government had no plans in 1975 to defend or aid the
nationalist people in the North, despite fears of a major
escalation in the conflict following a predicted British
withdrawal.
Published December 30, 2005
Nothing to do with national security
By Jude Collins (for Daily Ireland)
Breathtaking - that’s the only word. I normally approach political life with a healthy cynicism, at the back of my mind the deathless words of Jeremy Paxman: ‘Why is this lying bastard lying to me?’ But this past week has still left me empty of breath.
Published December 22, 2005
Chef fears Donaldson link in ‘scapegoat’ bid
An American chef linked to an alleged “break-in” at the PSNI
police headquarters in Belfast has said it is very possible he
has been set up by British agent Denis Donaldson and PSNI Special
Branch detectives.
Published December 22, 2005
British must commit to peaceful and democratic activity
The so-called Stormont-gate affair was a carefully constructed
lie created by the Special Branch in order to cause maximum
political damage to the Good Friday Agreement.
Published December 22, 2005
Sinn Féin has withdrawn its support for the British government’s
controversial Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill, which deals with
the issue of individuals on-the-run (OTRs) from outstanding
conflict-related prosecutions.
Published December 22, 2005
Website used to trace missing LVF victim
The family of a woman thought to have been murdered by unionist
paramilitary criminals earlier this year has launched a website
in a bid to find her remains.
Published December 22, 2005
Republican Sinn Féin are to organise a counter-demonstration to
oppose a rally in Dublin by the ‘Love Ulster’ campaign on January
28, which has apparently been given the go-ahead by city authorities.
Published December 22, 2005
Orde excuses on Stormontgate ‘an insult’
Efforts by the PSNI police chief Hugh Orde to blame the spying
activities of a British informer on Sinn Féin have been greeted
with derision by nationalists.
Published December 22, 2005
A prominent playwright is in hiding, and his family have been
forced to flee their homes - after a campaign of death threats
and bomb attacks by unionist paramilitaries.
Published December 22, 2005
The following is the statement of former British agent Denis
Donaldson.
Published December 19, 2005
Republicans should insist informers are unmasked
The Tanaiste has emerged from the shadows
to claim that police files are “not confidential at all”.
Published December 19, 2005
There is no denying that republicans are angry and disgusted by
the outing of the once popular, and occasionally revered, Denis
Donaldson.
Published December 19, 2005
It was a weekend of confusion, reaction, hyperbole
and, probably, even more deception.
Published December 19, 2005
The exposure of a top-level spy within Sinn Fein has dealt a
significant if belated blow to the British government’s efforts to
control and manipulate the peace process.
Published December 19, 2005
The first Irish gay couple to form a civil partnership hope “many
more” will follow. Grainne Close and Shannon Sickels exchanged
vows in a private ceremony at Belfast City Hall before emerging
to the cheers of supporters, the crush of photographers and
opposition from hymn-singing protesters.
Published December 19, 2005
CPI backs Connolly, due process
The Centre for Public Inquiry is standing solidly behind its
chief Frank Connolly, denounced as “a subversive” [a
republican] by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell.
Published December 19, 2005
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