For a man bristling out there on the right of the
political spectrum, who believes there should be minimum
interference by the state in peoples’ lives, Michael McDowell's record is one
of petty interference anywhere he can in peoples’ lives.
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Gardaí have lots in common with RUC
Published June 10, 2005
Ireland to vote on troubled EU treaty
The 26-County government is determined to hold a referendum on
on the European Union’s Constitution despite Britain’s decision
to postpone indefinitely its own referendum.
Published June 10, 2005
Portadown and the Marching Season
The outline facts on the Protestant marching season and the
annual confrontation between marchers and Catholic residents of
the Garvaghy Road enclave in Portadown.
Published June 10, 2005
The weapon of change remains ourselves
By Mairtin O Muilleoir (for Daily Ireland)
I was barely out of shorts the day I saw Malachy McNally tumble from a Morris 1100 outside our house and loose off a volley of shots from his M1 Carbine at a British army pig which had been negotiating the barricade at the top of Ramoan Gardens.
Published June 6, 2005
Men charged in McCartney murder
There were angry scenes outside the court on Saturday where a
man was charged with the highly controversial murder of Belfast
man Robert McCartney. Another man, James McCormick, was charged
on Saturday with the attempted murder of Mr McCartney’s friend
Brendan Devine.
Published June 6, 2005
Amnesty International has launched an online appeal asking
people worldwide to write to senior UK judges, urging that
neither they nor other judges sit on any public inquiry under
the Inquiries Act 2005 into the murder of Belfast lawyer Patrick
Finucane.
Published June 6, 2005
There have been renewed demands for intervention after two more
young men from west Belfast took their own lives at the weekend.
Published June 6, 2005
Ballymena march forced through
There were minor clashes betweeen nationalist protestors and the
PSNI police when a sectarian parade was forced though a Catholic
area of Ballymena on Saturday.
Published June 6, 2005
McBrearty abuse video fuels scandal
The 26-County government will consider dismissing senior members
of the Garda police criticised in the second report of the
Morris tribunal, according to its Minister for Justice, Michael
McDowell.
Published June 6, 2005
Belfast man killed by PSNI vehicle
A 29-year-old west Belfast man was killed in controversial
circumstances at the weekend when he was hit by a PSNI police
Land Rover driving at high speed.
Published June 6, 2005
Ian Paisley’s DUP has been challenged to formally enter dialogue
with republicans for the first time.
Published June 6, 2005
Garda police in Donegal tried to frame two innocent men for
murder, according to a damning tribunal report which has shaken
the Dublin government.
Published June 3, 2005
Unionists on Lisburn City Council have backed sectarianism after
voting to fly the Union Jack permanently on all council flag
poles.
Published June 3, 2005
International observers have highlighted systematic violations
of rulings on parades by the Protestant Orange Order.
Published June 3, 2005
A police investigation is underway at a nursing home in County
Dublin following the broadcast of shocking scenes of neglect and
mistreatment of elderly patients.
Published June 3, 2005
Unionists wary of IRA statement
Ian Paisley’s DUP will not be deceived by “rhetoric” by the
Provisional IRA, the party’s North Belfast MP has declared.
Published June 3, 2005
Dodging questions on Sellafield
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
Dick Roche, the Irish environment minister said it reminded him of Homer Simpson, who, as you know, is safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Plant where he keeps just ahead of the posse of government inspectors. Roche was talking about the latest leak at the Thermal Oxide Re-processing Plant (Thorp) at Sellafield. Or, more correctly, the latest leak from Sellafield as far as we know.
Published June 3, 2005
Derry man approached in recruitment bid
A member of Republican Sinn Féin in Derry has said that PSNI
police tried to recruit him as an informer.
Published June 3, 2005
The following is an outline of the main events relevant
to the second interim report of the Morris Tribunal released
this week.
Published June 3, 2005
The edited text of an address by Sinn
Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald, speaking at a major conference on
the EU Constitution in Dublin at the weekend.
Published May 30, 2005
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