A scandal-hit assembly member quit Ian Paisley’s DUP yesterday,
potentially altering the make-up of the North’s political
institutions.
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DUP resignation changes calculations
Published February 12, 2006
A Democratic Unionist party mayor has been forced to apologise to
a Sinn Féin councillor and admit he was wrong.
Published February 12, 2006
Sinn Féin Dail Group Leader Caoimhghin O Caolain TD spoke
comprehensively about the current political situation at the
Annual General Meeting of Sinn Féin in the Six Counties at the
weekend. The following is the full text of his address.
Published February 12, 2006
PRISONERS REJECT MAGHABERRY PROPOSALS
The Republican Prisoners’ Action Group have said they reject the
“minimal nature” of recent proposals on Maghaberry prison policy
by the Six County Prisons’ Minister, Shaun Woodward.
Published February 12, 2006
Talks fuel speculation on UDA, UVF disbandment
The husband of the Irish President held secret talks with the UDA
in Belfast last week amid growing speculation about an imminent
announcement by the unionist paramilitary group.
Published February 12, 2006
Irish troops readied in Euro war plan
News that Irish troops are to join European ‘battle groups’ in
international conflict arenas has been met with grave concern by
Irish progressives.
Published February 12, 2006
SDLP go missing on Irish unity vote
A County Tyrone council has become the first local authority in
the North to declare its official support for Irish unity.
Published February 12, 2006
Paisley just a blip in the ongoing peace process
Even though Hain rule is misrule and unrepresentative rule, it is
better than Paisley rule. We’ve waited for 800 years, what’s a
few more?
Published February 8, 2006
Any attempt to conflate republicanism and sectarian Catholic
attitudes cannot be sustained.
Published February 8, 2006
Special Branch knew of threat to Finucane family
Special Branch police were aware of a plot three years ago to
kill the family of Pat Finucane but failed to inform them of the
threat, it has been admitted.
Published February 8, 2006
The British government has rejected calls by the nationalist
parties for the Belfast Assembly to be reconvened as political
talks resumed in Belfast this week.
Published February 8, 2006
The PSNI police have alleged that a solicitor telephoned the
unionist paramilitary UVF from a police station and said a man
they shot should be “taken out” before he made a statement.
Published February 8, 2006
McDowell apologises for Ludlow lies
A statement, issued on behalf of a third party from the Six
Counties, has said that new information would be made available
on the Ludlow case if such an inquiry was set up.
Published February 8, 2006
Ireland gets border-free mobile network
A mobile phone network has scrapped roaming charges between the
26 Counties and the Six Counties for all of its customers for the
first time.
Published February 8, 2006
Political allowances restored to Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is to receive their allowances for the British
parliament and Belfast Assembly after a motion to have them
restored was passed tonight in the House of Commons in London.
Published February 8, 2006
Ugly McCarthyism in the body politic
By Colin O’Carroll (for Daily Ireland)
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry when faced with the latest execrable offering from the International Monitoring Commission (IMC). The toe-curling pomposity of the IMC’s pronouncements, their patronising chiding of the nationalist community for creating a “culture of unlawfulness”, and the vacuous nature of the allegations made against republicans are sick-making.
Published February 4, 2006
Claims by the IMC that two new hardline republican paramilitary
groups are operating in the North of Ireland has been greeted
with doubts.
Published February 4, 2006
Inequality continues in NIO, PSNI
The latest figures has revealed that less than one in four of
core departmental staff of the British government’s Northern
Ireland Office is Catholic.
Published February 4, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP made the following comments regarding the peace process to the National Conference
of Ogra Shinn Féin, the party’s youth organisation, which
met in Dublin City centre on Saturday.
Published February 4, 2006
A conflict has appeared in the political establishment over a
report on IRA and unionist paramilitary activity by the
government-mandated ‘Independent Monitoring Commission’.
Published February 4, 2006
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