West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty yesterday predicted Sinn Féin would
capture 150 seats in the local council elections on May 5 — a
rise of almost 50 per cent in the party’s representation.
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McCartney backs down as election contest heats up
Published April 11, 2005
Westminster constituencies (part II)
A look at the second half of the 18 seats up for grabs in the
Westminster elections next month.
Published April 11, 2005
Sinn Féin President has described his appeal to the Provisional
IRA last week to commit itself to purely political and democratic
activity as an attempt to break the “downward spiral” of the
peace process and “create the right political context”.
Published April 11, 2005
Hundreds of construction workers staged protests in Dublin and
Galway this week, alleging that money belonging to them had been
paid into Dutch bank accounts without their knowledge.
Published April 11, 2005
Family demand answers on PSNI inaction in murder case
The fmily of murdered Catholic man Patsy Kelly have called on the
PSNI to explain in public why it has not interviewed any of the
people named by a former British soldier in the Ulster Defence
Regiment as being directly involved in the killing.
Published April 11, 2005
Human rights groups urge SDLP resignations
Human rights activists have called on members of the North’s
Policing Board who oppose the use of plastic bullets to resign.
Published April 11, 2005
Ex-prisoners endure suspicion, discrimination
A new report has revealed that thousands of ex-prisoners have
suffered mental illness and considerable difficulty in
readjustment on their release.
Published April 11, 2005
Hard To Understand McDowell’s Mindset
By Vincent Browne (for the Sunday Business Post)
There is an irony and a justice in Minister for Justice Michael McDowell being shamed over deportation.
Published April 4, 2005
Chopper makes forced landing in South Armagh
A British army helicopter got into difficulties in South Armagh
on Thursday and almost came down in a residential area.
Published April 4, 2005
Colombia 3 lawyers plan appeal
The so-called evidence used against the Colombia Three was
dismissed in the dissenting opinion of a judge on the
three-member appeal tribunal, it has emerged.
Published April 4, 2005
Republicans across Ireland last weekend gathered at graveyards
and at memorials don the Easter lily and remember Ireland’s
patriot dead.
Published April 4, 2005
SF wins seat on Udaras na Gaeltachta
Sinn Féin has won its first seat on the Board of Udaras na
Gaeltachta, the authority with responsibility for Irish-speaking
regions in Ireland.
Published April 4, 2005
Republicans are dynamic of change
The following is an edited version of the speech made by Sinn
Féin president Gerry Adams at his party’s Easter Commemoration in
Derry on Easter Sunday.
Published April 4, 2005
The death on Saturday of Pope John Paul II has had a profound
effect in Ireland as it has throughout the world.
Published April 4, 2005
Another week of loyalist violence
A Catholic man is recovering in hospital after being beaten and
robbed by a gang of loyalists who daubed ‘Taigs Out’ in his north
Belfast apartment.
Published April 4, 2005
Let he who is without blame cast the first stone
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
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Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy refused to meet Gerry Adams on St Patrick’s Day in Washington last week.
Published March 26, 2005
A tribunal of inquiry is being set up by the 26-County government
into the killing by the Provisional IRA of two leading members of
the RUC police (now PSNI) in County Armagh in 1989 -- but there
is still little prospect of open inquiries into British collusion
with unionist paramilitaries.
Published March 26, 2005
SDLP criticised as Policing Board backs plastic bullets
The North’s Policing Board has given approval for the deployment
of a new and potentially lethal plastic bullet.
Published March 26, 2005
Electorate to become more polarised
Everybody’s back from Washington & after dozens of speeches,
acres of newsprint & scores of interviews the political scene
remains exactly as it was.
Published March 26, 2005
McCartney visit was organised by SDLP
Senior members of Mark Durkan’s SDLP helped arrange the McCartney
family’s trip to Washington last week, it has been revealed.
Published March 26, 2005
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