Controversial peace proposals discussed
The Irish and British governments are presenting their formula
for a deal to the DUP and Sinn Féin later today [Wednesday] in
the hope of striking a deal involving a return of power-sharing
government in the North and a public move by the Provisional IRA to wind up
its activities.
Published November 16, 2004
Derry man Seamus Doherty has been cleared of charges of having a
booby trap car bomb, just 24 hours before a police informer was
due to give evidence in the trial.
Published November 16, 2004
A video depicting the brutal death in Iraq of an Irish-born aid
worker appears to confirm the worst.
Published November 16, 2004
A nationalist councillor was forced to open fire to defend his
home from UDA paramilitaries -- less than an hour after the
group’s ‘ceasefire’ was officially recognised by the British
government.
Published November 16, 2004
U.S. civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson visited Ireland this
week and called on all sides to oppose the growth of racism.
Published November 12, 2004
The anti-Catholic Orange Order has been linked to a company
founded to prevent “property falling into nationalist hands”.
Published November 12, 2004
DUP leader Ian Paisley is increasingly at the centre of a
political battle over a possible deal to revive the 1998 Good
Friday Agreement.
Published November 12, 2004
The British government is trying to end public inquiries as we
know them and replace them with ones that are state-controlled
and censored, according to the leader of the SDLP.
Published November 12, 2004
The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger
than the late President Yasir Arafat.
Published November 12, 2004
extract from a new book. ‘Holy Cross: The
Untold Story’ by Anne Cadwallader.
Published November 12, 2004
The British government tonight again recognised the UDA to be
abiding by its professed ceasefire, three years after it was
declared meaningless.
Published November 12, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a President who was voted into
office by inbred, hillbilly, Bible-thumping, ignoramous hicks.
We just happen to live in a country with 58 million of them.
That’s why the rest of the world is so confused by us”.
Published November 9, 2004
Sinn Féin’s Member of the European Parliament for the Six
Counties, Bairbre de Brun, has resigned as a member of the
suspended Belfast Assembly.
Published November 9, 2004
By Angelique Chrisafis (for the Guardian)
Con Scully lit a candle in the gloom of his decaying house in
Coventry. There was no heating, electricity or natural light.
The windows were boarded up against vandals and drug addicts.
Published November 9, 2004
Fianna Fail has decided to admit members from the North for the
first time in its history. The move could lead to the party
organising in the North or establishish an alliance with the
SDLP.
Published November 9, 2004
Hardline unionist demands for the Provisional IRA to undertake a
public show of disarming is now the biggest stumbling block to
the restoration of the Belfast Assembly at Stormont, it has been
confirmed.
Published November 9, 2004
A 37-year-old man has revealed that PSNI Special Branch police
offered to pay him an escalating sum of money to spy on suspected
hardline republicans in the Strabane area of County Tyrone.
Published November 9, 2004
A brutal sectarian assault took place on two Catholic schoolboys
in Derry on Thursday.
Published November 9, 2004
Sinn Féin mayors and council chairs are to take part in
tree-planting ceremonies and civic events next month in memory
of those killed in all conflicts, it has been revealed.
Published November 9, 2004
Sunday week ago on Diarmaid Ferriter’s RTE radio programme What
If?, journalists Fintan O’Toole and John Waters discussed the
question, what if there had been no Magill magazine?
Published November 5, 2004
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