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
The British government considered banning Irish immigration and
stripping the Irish community in Britain of social security and voting
rights after eight plain-clothes SAS men were arrested in the
26-Counties on active service.
Published July 17, 2006
Republicans have expressed concern after talks between the unionist
paramilitary UDA and the 26-County Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in Dublin.
Published July 17, 2006
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has denied his government is to blame for the
mounting death-toll on Ireland’s roads.
Published July 17, 2006
Provisional IRA Volunteers accompanied a forensics expert to the burial
sites of five victims whose remains were never recovered, the Sinn Féin
President revealed on Monday.
Published July 12, 2006
The Provisional IRA has issued a statement affirming that Jean
McConville had been an informer at the time she was killed in 1972
following a declaration by Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan that she had
no evidence to corroborate the claims.
Published July 12, 2006
Nationalists have criticised Ian Paisley’s party for its continuing
efforts to undermine a local power-sharing solution in the North of
Ireland as set out in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Published July 12, 2006
Irish politicians have expressed fears about a new generation of
nuclear plants like Sellafield located across the Irish Sea after the
British government indicated it intends to build nuclear power
stations.
Published July 12, 2006
Bertie Ahern has given the green light for his government to sell off
Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus.
Published July 12, 2006
Nationalists have expressed anger that a coat-trailing Orange Order
parade is to be allowed to pass Ardoyne in north Belfast on the evening
of the Twelfth of July, despite calling off a protest for a morning
parade on the same day.
Published July 7, 2006
The farm of an RUC policeman was used as a centre of operations for
unionist paramilitary activity at the height of the conflict, according
to the final report of Justice Henry Barron.
Published July 7, 2006
The British army is expected to vacate its last hill-top spy post in
south Armagh next week amid a controversy over the future of British
Army lands in the area.
Published July 7, 2006
The PSNI police has been accused of “working hand in glove” with the
unionist paramilitary LVF to erect flags in the nationalist end of
Lurgan town last week.
Published July 7, 2006
Catholic homes in Lurgan and a school in County Derry came under attack at the weekend.
Published July 7, 2006
A statement on the state of the peace process and a ‘work plan’ were issued in Belfast on
Thursday by Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern.
Published July 2, 2006
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