Concerns increased last night over the state of the UVF’s ceasefire
after it 20lbs of high-powered explosives -- enough to power ten car
bombs -- was uncovered.
Published August 10, 2006
Tensions have increased along two north Belfast interfaces ahead of
parades by the unionist Apprentice Boys organisation.
Published August 10, 2006
A parade by republican hardliners passed off peacefully in Ballymena
last night with its organisers vowing to continue with the annual event
until restrictions on it are lifted.
Published August 10, 2006
The arrest of two so-called RUC police ‘whistleblowers’ and a third
former RUC man by the office of the Police Ombudsman has clouded the
issue of RUC collusion with unionist paramilitaries.
Published August 10, 2006
Anti-war demonstrators yesterday occupied the premises of a military
contractor in Derry in protest at the company’s involvment in the war
in the Middle East and in particular its work for the Israeli Defence
Forces.
Published August 10, 2006
An 11-year-old girl caught scribbling her name on a section of Derry’s
walls was subjected to a terrifying ordeal by the PSNI police.
Published August 5, 2006
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
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