The Dublin government presented a generous budget on Wednesday
in a transparent effort to boost its rating in the polls.
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Degree of welcome for giveaway budget
Published December 3, 2004
Release of Castlerea 4 part of deal - Ahern
Bertie Ahern has accepted that four Provisional IRA men still
held in Castlerea prison should be released as part of a
comprehensive deal in the peace process.
Published December 3, 2004
SDLP veteran Seamus Mallon’s Westminster seat will be contested
by Dominic Bradley of the SDLP and Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy.
Published December 3, 2004
The following is the edited text of an address by Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams in Navan, County Meath this week.
Published December 3, 2004
Is Paisley preparing to compromise?
The prospects of a comprehensive deal involving the IRA and Ian Paisley’s DUP were boosted tonight with just four days remaining before the Dublin and London governments bring the current process to a close.
Published December 3, 2004
Republican released as forensic evidence queried again
A Tyrone man was released yesterday after a non-jury court
cleared him of charges of conspiring to bomb a police base four
years ago and membership of the breakaway ‘Real IRA’.
Published December 3, 2004
Wave of suicides ignored by British officials
The Department of Health in the Six Counties has no suicide
prevention strategy despite escalating numbers of deaths among
young people in deprived nationalist areas.
Published December 3, 2004
We will never be allowed to hear the truth
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
You have to admit they did it well, the so-called Inquiries Bill, that is. Knowing it would be a big issue for nationalists, the British government snuck it out at their favourite time for bad news, Friday, the worst news day of the week when it was certain to be buried, as indeed it was.
Published December 3, 2004
Historic Sinn Fein meeting with police chief
Sinn Féin has described its historic first ever meeting with the
chief of the British police in the North, Hugh Orde, as
“useful”.
Published November 30, 2004
DUP has to swallow bitter pill
By Danny Morrison (for the Anderstownstown News, 29/11)
More details have emerged on the proposals to deal with the issue of trust which has bedevilled the peace process from the very outset. Talks sources suggest that by the end of December General John de Chastelain could report that he now has physical proof that the DUP has put all its sectarian bigotry ‘beyond use’.
Published November 30, 2004
Registered voters to stay on register
The British government is to scrap the practice of making voters
in the North register every year for elections.
Published November 30, 2004
A peace process - any peace process - is enormously difficult.
But with determination and a preparedness to take risks and make
compromises, a peace process can succeed.
Published November 30, 2004
Ian Paisley has admitted for the first time that his party is seeking to humiliate the Provisional IRA....
Published November 30, 2004
Ardoyne ‘Lundy Day’ parade rerouted
The Parades Commission has ruled that the Protestant Apprentice
Boys organisation cannot march through the republican Ardoyne
area of north Belfast this weekend. Instead, marchers will
travel past the area on buses.
Published November 30, 2004
SF man jailed for four years on IRA charges
Two men convicted on charges of membership of the Provisional
IRA have been sentenced to four years in prison by a non-jury
court in Dublin.
Published November 30, 2004
A gang of UDA unionist paramilitaries were arrested as they were
allegedly about to carry out a kidnapping and armed robbery this
week.
Published November 30, 2004
Will Grinch say ‘nevaar’ to new deal
At the end of 40 years of wrecking every political development,
will Paisley’s sole achievement be to have postponed the
inevitable by 30 years?
Published November 26, 2004
This weekend marks the culmination of a year of events marking
the centenary of one of Ireland’s best loved poets, Patrick
Kavanagh.
Published November 26, 2004
A petition to save Ireland’s major
archaeological site, the ancient Irish capital of Tara, which is
threatened by a motorway development.
Published November 26, 2004
Acrimony over Hill of Tara highway
The destruction of the Hill of Tara valley was “cultural
vandalism akin to ripping a knife through a Rembrandt”, the
Dublin parliament has heard during a bitter debate about a
proposed new motorway.
Published November 26, 2004
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