A deal to restore the suspended Belfast Assembly and
power-sharing institutions in the North of Ireland appears to be
getting closer following three days of intensive all-party
negotiations in southern England and further talks in Belfast
this week.
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Published September 21, 2004
McAleese re-election to be uncontested
Irish President Mary McAleese is set to serve another seven year
term as no other candidate has emerged to challenge
her re-election.
Published September 21, 2004
The Agreement will endure - Sinn Féin
Speaking at a news conference in London this morning, Sinn Féin
Vice-President Pat Doherty outlined his party’s view of the
course of events preceding and during the intensive talks at
Leeds Castle this past weekend.
Published September 21, 2004
No prizes on offer for isolating Sinn Féin
(for the Sunday Business Post)
Some brave soul recently sprayed: ‘‘A’ company, 3rd battalion IRA defunct’ on the wall of the library at Ardoyne.
Published September 21, 2004
Daphne Trimble in election challenge
The wife of Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble is to try
to unseat Paisleyite and former UUP rebel Jeffrey Donaldson at
the next Westminster election.
Published September 21, 2004
The DUP will not overturn its manifesto
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
Writing in Monday’s Irish Times (see above) Gerry Adams asserted that “The DUP represents the anti-agreement minority of the electorate.” Hmm. That’s only if you think the UUP is united in its support for the agreement. It isn’t. Let’s not forget the dozen convocations of backwoodsmen that dissident UUP members like Jeffrey Donaldson called to stymie the agreement’s progress. Remember, Trimble usually managed only a 54% vote at those meetings and that only because each time he was driven further away from his obligations under the agreement.
Published September 17, 2004
Rapid conviction delays search for truth
Ken Barrett’s conviction yesterday for the murder of Pat
Finucane does not help the search for the truth surrounding the
lawyer’s murder, according to the dead man’s family.
Published September 17, 2004
Orange ‘Master’ jailed for sectarian killing
A former district master in the Orange Order has been sentenced
to at least 15 years of a life term for the sectarian murder of
Glengormley man Trevor Lowry, a 49-year-old Protestant father
of two who was mistaken for a Catholic.
Published September 17, 2004
Unionism cannot be allowed a veto over progress
By Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams (for the Irish Times)
Sinn Féin is approaching the discussions in Leeds Castle later this week positively and with a determination to see the crisis in the political process resolved, the political institutions restored and the process of change outlined in the Good Friday agreement accelerated.
Published September 17, 2004
Huge press interest surrounds intensive talks at Leeds Castle in
Kent in southern England, where the prospects of a deal between
Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley is the increasing subject of rumour
and speculation.
Published September 17, 2004
‘Fruit of the Loom’ moves to Morocco
A decision by the Fruit of the Loom corporation to close its
Donegal and Derry plants has come as a massive blow to the
northwest.
Published September 17, 2004
Martin Morgan, a leading member of the nationalist SDLP and a
former mayor of Belfast, is to leave politics.
Published September 17, 2004
Protest against plastic bullets
A widow whose husband was killed by a plastic bullet yesterday
confronted a senior member of the North’s Policing Board,
demanding a ban on the use of the baton round.
Published September 17, 2004
Discrimination allegations aired
A partner at a leading estate agency in Belfast joked about the
breeding habits of Catholics and the size of their families, a
Fair Employment tribunal has heard.
Published September 14, 2004
By Danny Morrison
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A blanket man in the H-Blocks risking a beating and solitary confinement in order to smuggle GAA results to news-starved comrades is just one story told in that fine book by Tom Humphries, ‘Green Fields: Gaelic Sport in Ireland’ (1996).
Published September 14, 2004
The family of Pat Finucane has renewed demands for a public
inquiry into the murder following the conviction of unionist
paramilitary Ken Barrett yesterday.
Published September 14, 2004
Irish President may get unopposed second term
Ireland’s right-wing parties have backed the re-election
campaign of Irish President Mary McAleese, while her potential
rivals are struggling to gain the necessary nomination.
Published September 14, 2004
The PSNI police have been criticised for failing to protect
nationalists in Derry’s Waterside after loyalists entered a
Catholic home and attacked two men.
Published September 14, 2004
Dublin urged to oppose Direct Rule
Sinn Féin has said the Dublin Government must oppose any attempt
to formally reintroduce direct rule in the North in crisis talks
in southern England later this week.
Published September 14, 2004
Don’t dodge the issue of collusion
This week the British and Irish governments and all the main
parties in the north of Ireland will be in Leeds Castle in Kent.
Sinn Féin will be trying to unblock the political impasse here.
It will not be easy.
Published September 14, 2004
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