As part of our continuing series on the 25th anniversary of the
1981 hunger strike, we look at the period of the early seventies,
including the death on hunger strike of Frank Stagg -- 30 years ago
this week.
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Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan
Published February 16, 2006
A sudden u-turn by the 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on issue
of representation for northerners in the Dublin parliament has
shocked Sinn Féin.
Published February 16, 2006
Hunger strike commemorations launched
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the 25th anniversary of the
1981 hunger strikes must be used as an opportunity to look
forward as well as remember those who died.
Published February 16, 2006
Plans to give British military intelligence an enhanced role in
the North of Ireland are being strongly opposed by nationalists.
Published February 16, 2006
PSNI police raided the home of a former Sinn Féin councillor in
County Down this week as part of continuing efforts to smear the
party over last year’s Northern bank raid.
Published February 16, 2006
Talks to go ahead without Blair
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has cancelled plans to go to
the North of Ireland to deliver a major speech intended to pave
the way for the restoration of a local power-sharing
administration.
Published February 16, 2006
IMC suits the last-ditchers in the DUP
What happens next year when the DUP is ready to sign up to a deal
with SF only for the IMC to emerge and provide another dollop of
what Martin McGuinness called ‘Balderdice’?
Published February 12, 2006
DUP resignation changes calculations
A scandal-hit assembly member quit Ian Paisley’s DUP yesterday,
potentially altering the make-up of the North’s political
institutions.
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
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
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
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