It has emerged that a former deputy mayor of Ballymena was a leader of
the unionist paramilitary UDA while he was a serving British Army
officer.
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Politician, policeman, paramilitary
Published May 17, 2006
Portadown Orangeman Don MacKay has been forced to resign from the
Parades Commission after being exposed earlier this year for using
false references when joining the commission.
Published May 17, 2006
Concern for Afghan hunger strikers
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan are mounting a determined hunger strike
in Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral in a campaign for refugee status.
Published May 17, 2006
Shadow of the Belfast Assembly
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has said he will nominate DUP leader
Ian Paisley as First Minister and his own party’s chief negotiator
Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister when the Belfast Assembly is
reconvened on Monday.
Published May 13, 2006
British Direct Ruler Peter Hain has said Sinn Fein will not be forced
to publicly back policing in the North as a condition of power-sharing.
Published May 13, 2006
The US government is to consider the possibility of blocking access to
the website of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement following a meeting
with relatives of the 1998 Omagh bomb.
Published May 13, 2006
26-County Army closer to conflict
Plans for participation in European Union battle groups by the
26-County Army has come in for strong criticism.
Published May 13, 2006
The final report of the Bloody Sunday inquiry will not be published
until next year, the families of those killed have said.
Published May 13, 2006
Members of the family of Bobby Sands assembled for a private gathering
on Friday in the former Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to mark the 25th
anniversary of his death.
Published May 8, 2006
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams made a weekend plea to Ian Paisley's
DUP to play a leading role in ensuring a peaceful Protestant marching
season.
Published May 8, 2006
The Sinn Fein leadership has issued a call for four republicans who
failed to turn up in court for sentencing after admitting the abduction
of a dissident republican to turn themselves in.
Published May 8, 2006
It is thought that growing pressure on British Prime Minister Tony
Blair to resign could undermine his ability to continue the current
phase of the peace process.
Published May 8, 2006
The organisation behind the long-running television show Sesame Street
has launched a new project which aims to break down sectarian barriers
between children in the North.
Published May 8, 2006
Sinn Fein will be forced to give its backing to the PSNI police when
powers for policing and justice are devolved from London to Belfast,
British Direct Ruler Peter Hain has claimed.
Published May 3, 2006
The PSNI police has been strongly criticised after allowing a mob of
loyalists to attack defenceless nationalists after wrecking a billboard
erected in honour of the 1981 hungerstrikers.
Published May 3, 2006
Orders to maintain talks boycott
Leaders of the Protestant marching orders have said they still will not
talk directly to Sinn Fein or to residents groups about their sectarian
parades through Catholic areas.
Published May 3, 2006
26-County Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey has been accused of
siding with Shell Oil following a government report on its planned
high-pressure gas pipeline through County Mayo.
Published May 3, 2006
O’Hare release angers loyalist
Hardline unionist Willie Frazer has claimed that the PSNI police failed
to arrest former Irish National Liberation Army leader Dessie O'Hare at
his wife's home in south Armagh at the weekend.
Published May 3, 2006
An official report for the Dublin and London governments on allegations
of IRA and unionist paramilitary activity is the “most positive” yet
about the Provisional IRA following a peaceful path.
Published April 28, 2006
Marching season ‘breakthrough’
Nationalist residents have welcomed talks involving the Protestant
marching orders over their provocative and triumphalist parades through
Catholic areas in the summer months.
Published April 28, 2006
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