An announcement by Shell OIl that the controversial Corrib gas
pipeline is to be re-routed has not impressed residents of the
Rossport area of County Mayo.
Published August 5, 2006
The PSNI has been forced into a climbdown over plans to make residents
in Crossmaglen, County Armagh hand over valuable land to the force.
Published August 5, 2006
A major national hunger-strike commemorative rally is set to go ahead
on August 13th at Casement Park stadium, owned by the Gaelic Athletics
Association, despite the opposition of the GAA’s Dublin-based central
council.
Published August 5, 2006
The DUP has accepted the principle of power sharing and dialogue with
Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams has said.
Published July 31, 2006
Several hundred loyalists staged a rally in Belfast on Saturday night
in a ‘show of strength’ amid trouble between rival factions in the
unionist paramilitary UDA.
Published July 31, 2006
Community Restorative Justice (CRJ) has branded the British
government’s latest proposed guidelines overseeing the restorative
justice project as “arrogant”.
Published July 31, 2006
Republican prisoners in Maghaberry in County Antrim have stepped up
their protest by staging a 24-hour fast.
Published July 31, 2006
A political schism of more than 35 years has ended with the return of
the Blaney clan’s Independent Fianna Fail grouping into the party it
split from in 1970.
Published July 31, 2006
The London and Dublin governments now accept that the Provisional IRA’s
war is over, according to statements made today by the British Direct
Ruler in the 6-Counties, Peter Hain, and the 26-County Minister for
Justice, Michael McDowell.
Published July 25, 2006
The Continuity IRA has said it carried out two gun attacks on the PSNI
in Armagh city on July 12.
Published July 25, 2006
Leading figures in Irish America have testified in opposition to the
ratification of a proposed extradition treaty between the United States
and Britain at Senate hearings in Washington.
Published July 25, 2006
The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has said she expects the
Dublin government to give ‘profound consideration’ to any United
Nations request to contribute to a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
Published July 25, 2006
Five anti-war members of the ‘Pitstop Ploughshares’ have been found not
guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of damaging a US aeroplane at
Shannon Airport over three years ago.
Published July 25, 2006
The British government has been accused of allowing the UDA to “stick
up” taxpayers after engaging the unionist paramilitary group in talks
for funds to “retrain” its murder gangs.
Published July 20, 2006
The Dublin and London governments are being urged to spell out their
plans in the apparently likely event of political parties in the North
missing the November deadline for a deal.
Published July 20, 2006
The killing by Garda police of a depressed young man outside his County
Longford home six years ago was unnecessary, the judge who carried out
a two-year inquiry into the incident has said.
Published July 20, 2006
Republican hardliner Michael McKevitt has been given leave to go to the
Supreme Court in a fresh bid to challenge his controversial non-jury
conviction for ‘directing terrorism’.
Published July 20, 2006
There is anger and concern in Ireland at Israeli attacks on civilian
targets in Lebanon, with little action by the international community
to intervene.
Published July 20, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused DUP leader Ian Paisley and
his party of having done nothing to ensure a peaceful Twelfth - in
contrast to republicans.
Published July 17, 2006
There was concern this week after DUP leader Ian Paisley expressed his
party’s potentially violent opposition to political compromise,
undermining British government attempts to win over Sinn Féin support
for the PSNI.
Published July 17, 2006
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