A sister of Robert McCartney has said the family’s campaign for
the killers to hand themselves into the police “can’t go any
higher” following a meeting with US President George Bush at the
White House.
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Published March 18, 2005
Castlerea men press case for release
Legal proceedings aimed at securing the release under the Good
Friday Agreement of the Castlerea 4 were adjourned in the High
Court yesterday.
Published March 18, 2005
The father of a man killed by unionist paramilitaries has
criticised political representatives of ignoring a police
cover-up in the case.
Published March 18, 2005
Rosemary Nelson and the Garvaghy Road
Robbie McVeigh recalls Rosemary from
the point of view of the people she worked for in the
nationalist enclave of the Garvaghy Road.
Published March 18, 2005
Legal figures blast Finucane inquiry restrictions
Lord Saville, chair of the new Bloody Sunday Inquiry in Derry,
has publicly condemned the British government’s controversial
plans for holding a restricted inquiry into the murder of
Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published March 18, 2005
Talks planned after White House shamrock ‘snub’
US President George Bush has broken with tradition in presenting the traditional bowl of shamrock to 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on St Patrick’s Day in the absence of other Irish political leaders.
Published March 18, 2005
PSNI ‘building case’ in McCartney killing
PSNI chief Hugh Orde has defended his force’s handling of the
Robert McCartney case and its failure to take witness
statements.
Published March 18, 2005
Establishment should hang its head in shame
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
Dispute over secretive inquiries legislation
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
UVF killers were working for police
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
Anti-republican hysteria could backfire
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
Victims group left cold by police reinvestigations
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
Renewed focus on Finucane case
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
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
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