General John de Chastelain, head of the arms decommissioning
body, confirmed before the world’s media at the Culloden Hotel
in Belfast, the Provisional IRA had put all of its weapons
beyond use.
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Historic announcements as IRA destroy weapons
Published October 1, 2005
Police forces launch exchange programme
A member of the 26-County Garda police is to be deployed to the
PSNI in the North as part of a new exchange programme.
Published October 1, 2005
The Rossport Five were released on Friday ahead of a major rally
in Dublin to stop energy giant Shell building a high-pressure
gas pipeline past their homes in County Mayo.
Published October 1, 2005
A couple and a three-year-old boy have escaped injury in a
unionist paramilitary bomb attack on Thursday.
Published October 1, 2005
An undercover British army unit has been found attempting to
install a spying device in the home of a County Tyrone family.
Published October 1, 2005
It's later than the unionists think
Just over a week from the orgy of unionist violence across
Belfast what can be said about it all?
Published September 26, 2005
The DUP has demanded a 'decontamination' period after the
IRA disarms before it will share power with Sinn Fein.
Published September 26, 2005
An official announcement by the IICD arms decommissioning
body that the Provisional IRA has fully disarmed is to be
announced this afternoon.
Published September 26, 2005
Following the first formal meeting with the 26-County
government since January, Gerry Adams said that
politicians, North and South and in London, had to be
prepared to exploit the "enormous opportunities" that would
arise from the announcement, which is expected in the next
week.
Published September 26, 2005
The son of a Catholic woman whose home in Ballymena was
targeted in a paint-bomb attack has said she was lucky not
to have been hurt.
Published September 26, 2005
RUC knew of UDA plot to kill Wilson
A prominent Belfast priest was targeted for assassination
by the unionist paramilitary UDA with the full knowledge of
the RUC police Special Branch, it has been revealed.
Published September 26, 2005
Gerry Adams took journalists on the roof of Divis Tower in west
Belfast to view the now-vacated site of an infamous British
spy-post.
Published September 22, 2005
Shame on leaders who show moral cowardice
It's a safe bet none of those involved in rioting on the streets of Belfast and elsewhere over the last couple of weeks felt shame when the pictures of flame and destruction were flashed round the world. Why should they?
Published September 22, 2005
Gerry Adams took journalists on the roof of Divis Tower in west Belfast to view the now-vacated site of an infamous British spy-post.
Published September 22, 2005
The edited text of an address by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams MP to party supporters in South Armagh on Thursday evening.
Published September 22, 2005
Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness is travelling to Washington on Tuesday amid intense speculation that disarmament by the Provisional IRA is imminent and could come as soon as next week.
Published September 22, 2005
Historians have been baffled by a unionist mural which claims that thousands of Protestant women and children fled to Liverpool from Belfast during the conflict.
Published September 22, 2005
Following a day-long meeting of Sinn Fein assembly members in south Armagh this Thursday, tens of thousands of republicans are expected to converge on Dublin for a historic rally on Saturday.
Published September 22, 2005
Heartland’s unionism belongs in a trailer park
By Tom McGurk (for the Sunday Business Post)
Last Saturday night the unionists of Belfast treated us to an evening of truly surreal proportions. Outside City Hall, thousands waving Union Jacks were part of a live BBC broadcast of the last night of the proms. They sang lustily. Donegal Square echoed to Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory.
Published September 19, 2005
CIRA vow to defend nationalist areas
Hardline republicans have promised a “vicious and violent”
response if nationalists are murdered by unionist
paramilitaries.
Published September 19, 2005
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