By Danny Morrison
You might think that it would be to the advantage of Tony Blair
and incumbent prime minister Gordon Brown to expose the
involvement of their main opponents - the Conservatives - in
murder. They certainly have the information and power to do it -
but not the will or inclination.
Published March 9, 2006
Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane is to face a retrial in connection with
an IRA action over 20 years ago, the Dublin High Court has ruled.
Published March 9, 2006
Ulster Unionists have rejected an invitation to attend a ceremony
to mark the 1916 Easter Rising and the declaration of the Irish
Republic, describing it as an “act of terrorism”.
Published March 9, 2006
For the first seventeen days of his hunger-strike 25 years ago
this week, Bobby Sands kept a secret diary in which he wrote his
thoughts and views.
The following is his writings for the first nine days.
Published March 9, 2006
The Dublin parliament has unanimously backed a motion calling
for a “full, independent, public judicial inquiry” into the 1989
murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published March 9, 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and 26-County Taoiseach Bertie
Ahern appear to have moved away from plans for a ‘shadow’
Six-County Assembly in Belfast, but are still not revealing any
proposals for reviving the peace process.
Published March 9, 2006
A gun attack on a Catholic taxi driver in north Belfast at the
weekend is the start of a killing campaign against all republican
ex-prisoners, according to the unionist paramilitary UDA.
Published March 9, 2006
A number of related policing and judicial scandals have followed
the murder of a 22-year-old woman at a party in Dublin last
weekend.
Published March 9, 2006
By Jim Gibney (for the Irish News)
What were the British and Irish governments, the SDLP and the DUP
doing when they tried to exclude Sinn Fein from negotiations 10
days ago?
Published March 5, 2006
A unionist group has said it is determined to march through
Dublin in spite of the violence caused by its attempt to do so
last weekend.
Published March 5, 2006
By Danny Morrison (for Daily Ireland)
When recalling the 1981 hunger strike, people often preface their
memories by saying: “You wouldn’t think it was 25 years ago. It
seems like only yesterday.”
Published March 5, 2006
An attempt by the London and Dublin governments to form a Belfast
Assembly with significantly reduced powers is meeting strong
resistance from northern nationalists.
Published March 5, 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to meet the family
of murdered Belfast teenager Peter McBride.
Published March 5, 2006
PSNI police chief Hugh Orde has dodged questions put to him at a
meeting of the North’s Policing Board about the 1998 Omagh
bombing.
Published March 5, 2006
Political activists have demonstrated against stopovers through
Shannnon Airport this week by US President George Bush.
Published March 5, 2006
UDA leaders were among a group of up to 15 unionist
paramilitaries arrested on Friday after PSNI police raided a bar
during a ‘show of strength’.
Published March 5, 2006
There have been calls for an inquiry after a sectarian march
through the heart of Dublin resulted in widespread rioting and
disorder on Saturday.
Published February 28, 2006
Gerry Adams’s unequivocal support for and defence of the peace
process is significant because at the minute the peace process is
being squeezed.
Published February 24, 2006
Sinn Fein won’t be endorsing the PSNI or joining the Policing
Board any time soon.
Published February 24, 2006
Canadian Judge Peter Cory has described the British government’s
approach to the Pat Finucane case as “Alice in Wonderland”.
Published February 24, 2006
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