Efforts by the PSNI police chief Hugh Orde to blame the spying
activities of a British informer on Sinn Féin have been greeted
with derision by nationalists.
Published December 22, 2005
A prominent playwright is in hiding, and his family have been
forced to flee their homes - after a campaign of death threats
and bomb attacks by unionist paramilitaries.
Published December 22, 2005
The Tanaiste has emerged from the shadows
to claim that police files are “not confidential at all”.
Published December 19, 2005
There is no denying that republicans are angry and disgusted by
the outing of the once popular, and occasionally revered, Denis
Donaldson.
Published December 19, 2005
It was a weekend of confusion, reaction, hyperbole
and, probably, even more deception.
Published December 19, 2005
The exposure of a top-level spy within Sinn Fein has dealt a
significant if belated blow to the British government’s efforts to
control and manipulate the peace process.
Published December 19, 2005
The first Irish gay couple to form a civil partnership hope “many
more” will follow. Grainne Close and Shannon Sickels exchanged
vows in a private ceremony at Belfast City Hall before emerging
to the cheers of supporters, the crush of photographers and
opposition from hymn-singing protesters.
Published December 19, 2005
The Centre for Public Inquiry is standing solidly behind its
chief Frank Connolly, denounced as “a subversive” [a
republican] by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell.
Published December 19, 2005
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has now called on the British
government to accept responsibility for bringing down the North’s
power-sharing executive in 2002.
Published December 19, 2005
The following is the statement of former British agent Denis
Donaldson.
Published December 19, 2005
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
Stormontgate is not the first time the DPP and the British
attorney-general have decided not to proceed with a prosecution.
Far from it.
Published December 15, 2005
By Tim Hourigan
Having spent the past four years monitoring Shannon airport
through wet summers and cold winter nights, I think I can speak
for the small group of Shannon watchers when I say it would be
nice to be able to trust official assurances.
Published December 15, 2005
Trade unions are expected to call for its members to support an
apparent resolution of the Irish Ferries’ dispute during talks
early Wednesday morning.
Published December 15, 2005
A leading member of the American Anti-war movement and a mother
of a US soldier killed in Iraq has called on the Dublin
government to stop being “complicit in war crimes.”
Published December 15, 2005
Sinn Féin has clashed in the Dublin parliament with the embattled
Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, over his admission that
he leaked official documents to the media in an attempt to
destroy an independent government watchdog body.
Published December 15, 2005
The public inquiry into the murder of human rights lawyer
Rosemary Nelson is to be delayed by a year.
Published December 15, 2005
Sinn Féin is to hold a protest outside Castlederg PSNI police
station tomorrow over the continuing sectarian and brutal
treatment of the local nationalist community by the PSNI.
Published December 15, 2005
The row over the collapse of charges against three men accused of
operating an “IRA spy ring” at the Belfast Assembly has continued
following the refusal of the British Direct Ruler Peter Hain to
make a statement on the matter.
Published December 15, 2005
For almost a year now, the PSNI have been spearheading the
campaign to hinder the progress of Sinn Féin.
Published December 12, 2005
Sean Garland has no chance of getting justice in the United
States and it is on that basis -- not out of sympathy for the man
or his party -- that his extradition should be opposed and
resisted.
Published December 12, 2005
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