Former republican political prisoners plan legal action against
the British government for using a toxic gas to quell a 1974
riot in Long Kesh.
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Ex-prisoners to sue over toxic gas
Published February 20, 2005
Up to 200,000 voters are missing from this year’s electoral
register in the North, it has been confirmed.
Published February 20, 2005
By John Doyle
The Great Train Robbery frame-up of 1976 remains of immense political significance, not solely because it led to the longest political trial in Irish legal history at the cost of well over #1 million, not because State repression became the focus of international attention and to some extent to the downfall of a Coalition Government, but because it failed in its main attempt to discredit and pave the way for the suppression of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP).
Published February 12, 2005
The second part of our feature on the history of the Sinn Féin movement in its
centenary year.
Published February 12, 2005
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused Dublin premier Bertie
Ahern of ‘crossing the line’ over allegations that he and Martin
McGuinness were aware of plans to carry out a bank raid before
Christmas.
Published February 12, 2005
An agency of the London and Dublin governments has been
condemned for particpating in an attempt to smear the leadership
of Sinn Féin.
Published February 12, 2005
OSCE call for investigation of British brutality
A meeting at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in
Europe in Vienna has heard a call for an investigation into
British Crown forces abuses in Ireland.
Published February 12, 2005
Blair wants SF excluded - Durkan
The British government has disputed an allegation by the leader
of the nationalist SDLP party in the North, Mark Durkan, that it
had urged the formation of an administration in Belfast which
would freeze out Sinn Féin.
Published February 12, 2005
No treachery as flag is lowered on Dail
The tricolour on top of the Dublin parliament was taken down from
the mast this week, and not before time.
Published February 12, 2005
Psy-ops linked to Tyrone operation
A County Tyrone family has spoken of their terror following a
prolonged British Army/PSNI invasion and occupation of their
homes.
Published February 12, 2005
By Danny Morrison (for the Irish Examiner)
The statement issued [Thursday] afternoon by the IRA, the second in twenty-four hours, represents an ominous development and a major deterioration in the peace process.
Published February 5, 2005
British silence testifies to guilt - Donlon
The former secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Sean
Donlon, said “certain conclusions” would have to be drawn from
the refusal of the British authorities to provide documents
sought by the inquiry into bombings in in 1972/73.
Published February 5, 2005
Costance Markievicz [nee Gore-Booth], was born at Lissadell,
County Sligo, in Ireland 140 years ago this week.
Published February 5, 2005
IRA ANGER AT WASTED OPPORTUNITY
The Provisional IRA has hardened its approach to peace efforts
in the North following the rejection of its historic peace offer
in December and recent attempts to criminalise its cause.
Published February 5, 2005
Securing peace must be priority - Adams
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP made the following remarks at
Parliament Buildings, Stormont on Thursday following the IRA’s
statement on Wednesday night.
Published February 5, 2005
The politics of the last statement
Some of the most striking quotes of the past few days.
Published February 5, 2005
Republican Sinn Féin have criticised the Special Branch Garda
police for not releasing the proceeds of a raffle seized
following the party’s annual conference in Dublin.
Published February 5, 2005
PSNI aggression in east Belfast
Heavy-handed raids by the PSNI police have led to angry
stand-offs with local residents in the nationalist enclaves of
east Belfast.
Published February 5, 2005
Sceptical response to Ahern comments on sanctions
The Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is meeting the
British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, this afternoon in London
to discuss the latest crisis in the peace process.
Published February 1, 2005
A northern ‘scandal pattern’ is emerging
(from the Irish News)
In light of the high state of confusion that Hugh Orde and his puzzled detectives appear to be in over the Northern Bank job surely its time to call in Scooby Doo, Shaggy and the rest of ‘those perky kids’ who appear to have no problems with these cases.
Published February 1, 2005
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