By Tom McGurk (for the Sunday Business Post)
What an extraordinary political week it has been. The backdrop
to the desultory by-election campaigns in Kildare and Meath has
illustrated, if illustration were ever needed, the sheer
mediocrity of our public services and political classes.
Published March 14, 2005
Canadian judge Peter Cory has said an independent inquiry into
the murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane would be
impossible under new restrictions being imposed by the British
government.
Published March 14, 2005
The Bogside Artists are known throughout the world for their
larger than life murals in Derry. The artists are currently
visiting the USA for a number of events, and a brief itinerary
follows this manifesto, a statement of their artistic goals.
Published March 14, 2005
Four Provisional IRA prisoners refused early release despite
qualifying under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement have said they
will not allow themselves to be used as political pawns in any
new talks process.
Published March 14, 2005
The Meath and North Kildare by-elections on Friday brought bad
news for the government and good news for the opposition,
particularly Sinn Féin.
Published March 14, 2005
The Orange Order has voted to cut links with the Ulster Unionist
Council, the ruling body of David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist
Party.
Published March 14, 2005
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has arrived in the United States
for a week of engagements with supporters.
Published March 14, 2005
A former top RUC policeman has confirmed that two unionist
paramilitaries behind a series of murders in the 1990s had been
working as British agents at the time.
Published March 14, 2005
Senior civil servants in the 26-County government knew that
pensioners were being illegally charged for nursing home care
years before the matter became public knowledge, it has emerged.
Published March 10, 2005
The Provisional IRA has made it absolutely clear that those who
killed Robert McCartney in a knife-fight outside a Belfast bar
last month must be held to account.
Published March 10, 2005
Sinn Féin was prevented on Thursday from receiving 440,000 pounds sterling
($1m) of allowances and funding by the British government in
connection with the party’s elected members of the Westminster
parliament.
Published March 10, 2005
There is no alternative but to press ahead with building a
process affirmed by a huge majority of voters in 1998 by way of
referendum.
Published March 10, 2005
The British government has announced is is to investigate up to
2,000 unsolved killings from 1968 to 1998, funding the PSNI
police up to 32 million punds sterling (46 million Euros) to do
so.
Published March 10, 2005
A group of peace activists known as the Pitstop Ploughshares are
currently on trial in Dublin over their efforts to stop US
warplanes using Shannon airport in the west of Ireland en route
to Iraq.
The following is their statement of faith and an appeal for
support.
Published March 10, 2005
Pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister Tony Blair over
his government’s refusal to have a public inquiry on the murder
of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published March 10, 2005
By Brian Feeney (for the Sunday Business Post)
Nearly 50 years ago, the British government arrested Archbishop
Makarios, the Greek Orthodox primate of Cyprus, and exiled him
to the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
Published March 6, 2005
The only person to have been convicted in connection with Bloody
Sunday today branded the new Inquiry into the killing of 13
civil rights demonstrators in Derry in 1972 as “a farce”.
Published March 6, 2005
People are undoubtedly angry about the IRA in the Short Strand
area of Belfast - but it’s not anger at the intimidation of
witnesses who might finger those who killed Robert McCartney at
a city centre bar on January 30. Far from it.
Published March 6, 2005
Sinn Féin has responded to its political critics with an
extraordinary annual conference in Dublin this weekend.
Published March 6, 2005
Irish-language TV coverage in the North of Ireland took another
faltering step forward yesterday when Ireland’s Irish language
television station, TG4, began broadcasting a test signal from
Divis Mountain on the outskirts of Belfast.
Published March 6, 2005
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