A look at the growing campaign to free Dessie O’Hare, one of a handful
of prisoners qualifying for release under the 1998 Good Friday
Agreement but who remain in jail by order of the 26-County government.
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Published August 16, 2005
Loyalist feuding set to escalate
UVF gunmen who assassinated a delivery driver outside a south Belfast
shop have pledged to intensify their onslaught against their
paramilitary rivals.
Published August 16, 2005
Elements within the UVF murdered a Catholic child as he shopped for
sweets with friends last week and yesterday shot dead a paramilitary
rival.
Published August 16, 2005
Apprentice Boys parade passes quietly
Saturday’s parade by the Protestant Apprentice Boys organisation
through the city centre of Derry passed off without major incident.
Published August 16, 2005
Ireland’s Alamo falling into ruin
The last refuge of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising should be
converted into an interpretative centre before it becomes a ruin,
heritage campaigners have said.
Published August 16, 2005
Family flees loyalist fire-bomb campaign
Another family has been forced to leave the under-siege village of
Ahoghill after sectarian paint bombers launched new attacks on a
Catholic chapel, school and house.
Published August 16, 2005
The Washington-based lobbyist Father Sean McManus
gave the annual Damian Walsh lecture last week.
Published August 11, 2005
There is increasing evidence that there is no legal basis nor
political will to return three victims of a miscarriage of
justice to Colombia or to imprison them in Ireland.
Published August 11, 2005
Marchers call for release of republican
A number of Catholic homes were attacked by unionist
paramilitaries in Ballymena following a republican march in the
town.
Published August 11, 2005
Campaigners for justice in the case of murdered Belfast teenager
Peter McBride have met US consul-general Howard Dean Pittman to
discuss a U.S. link to the killing
Published August 11, 2005
Councillor targeted in murder bid
A Sinn Féin councillor has escaped injury in a petrol bomb
attack on his County Down home.
Published August 11, 2005
Speculation grows over new policing moves
New British legislation, providing for the eventual transfer of
policing and justice powers to the Belfast assembly, is expected
to be passed in October, according to reports.
Published August 11, 2005
DUP’s world of fantasy comes crashing down
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
www.dannymorrison.com
The fantasy world of the DUP and its voters came crashing down around them in the space of a few days last week. In their delusional world - which became even more heady when the DUP outpolled the Ulster Unionist Party to become the chosen representatives of the unionist people - the DUP are masters of the universe and the UUP “sell-out” would not only end but be reversed.
Published August 11, 2005
Continuity IRA mount bomb attack
Dissident republicans placed a bomb in a hijacked vehicle and
told its driver to park it outside a PSNI station on Tuesday.
Published August 11, 2005
North political momentum must be maintained
By Gerry Adams (for the Irish Times)
On Tuesday, I stood with the residents of Divis Tower in west Belfast, as the British army began dismantling the infamous spy post that has blighted their lives for more than three decades.
Published August 7, 2005
A summary of the case, trial, acquittal and conviction on appeal
of the Colombia 3.
Published August 7, 2005
Feuding continues as police move in
A shooting in north Belfast which left a man seriously injured
has been blamed on the unionist paramilitary feud as police
efforts to mount a crackdown have led to serious rioting.
Published August 7, 2005
Joy for Colombia 3 families
Caitriona Ruane, who led the ‘Bring Them Home’ campaign for the Colombia 3, described the moment when the families were reunited as “one of the memories that will remain with me for the rest of my life”.
Published August 7, 2005
Unprecedented lottery win for Limerick woman
Limerick housewife Dolores McNamara has collected the biggest
jackpot in European Lottery history, sustaining frenzied tabloid
coverage of the extraordinary windfall.
Published August 7, 2005
Shell accused of ‘red herring’
Shell Ireland has announced that it will not lay the offshore
section of pipeline for the Corrib gas field until next year
after heavy protests by local residents and environmentalists.
Published August 7, 2005
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