A nationalist councillor was forced to open fire to defend his
home from UDA paramilitaries -- less than an hour after the
group’s ‘ceasefire’ was officially recognised by the British
government.
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SDLP man battles UDA after ‘ceasefire’
Published November 16, 2004
Leave messy voting to the working class
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
The Taoiseach has let it be known that he and Tony Blair are thinking of a staged return to operating the Good Friday Agreement, starting with the assembly being resurrected in
Published November 16, 2004
Unionist paramilitaries bombed the home of a Derry woman and her
three children last night.
Published November 16, 2004
Families shut out of inquiries announcement
The announcement by the British government of the terms of three
inquiries into collusion in the North of Ireland has been met
with concern.
Published November 16, 2004
Provisionals ‘accepting British rule’
The president of Republican Sinn Féin, Mr Ruairi O Bradaigh,
argues that any move by the Provisional IRA to decommission its
remaining weapons would be akin to accepting British rule in
Ireland.
The following is the text of Mr O Bradaigh’s address to his party’s annual conference at the weekend.
Published November 16, 2004
The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger
than the late President Yasir Arafat.
Published November 12, 2004
extract from a new book. ‘Holy Cross: The
Untold Story’ by Anne Cadwallader.
Published November 12, 2004
The British government tonight again recognised the UDA to be
abiding by its professed ceasefire, three years after it was
declared meaningless.
Published November 12, 2004
Jackson urges tolerance, peace
U.S. civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson visited Ireland this
week and called on all sides to oppose the growth of racism.
Published November 12, 2004
Orange Order linked to sectarian land grab
The anti-Catholic Orange Order has been linked to a company
founded to prevent “property falling into nationalist hands”.
Published November 12, 2004
DUP leader Ian Paisley is increasingly at the centre of a
political battle over a possible deal to revive the 1998 Good
Friday Agreement.
Published November 12, 2004
SDLP concern over British censorship
The British government is trying to end public inquiries as we
know them and replace them with ones that are state-controlled
and censored, according to the leader of the SDLP.
Published November 12, 2004
Fianna Fail has decided to admit members from the North for the
first time in its history. The move could lead to the party
organising in the North or establishish an alliance with the
SDLP.
Published November 9, 2004
TALKS FALTERS OVER ARMS DISPLAY DEMAND
Hardline unionist demands for the Provisional IRA to undertake a
public show of disarming is now the biggest stumbling block to
the restoration of the Belfast Assembly at Stormont, it has been
confirmed.
Published November 9, 2004
A 37-year-old man has revealed that PSNI Special Branch police
offered to pay him an escalating sum of money to spy on suspected
hardline republicans in the Strabane area of County Tyrone.
Published November 9, 2004
Vicious sectarian attack on kids
A brutal sectarian assault took place on two Catholic schoolboys
in Derry on Thursday.
Published November 9, 2004
Sinn Féin unveils plans for ‘day of reflection’
Sinn Féin mayors and council chairs are to take part in
tree-planting ceremonies and civic events next month in memory
of those killed in all conflicts, it has been revealed.
Published November 9, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
www.dannymorrison.com
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a President who was voted into office by inbred, hillbilly, Bible-thumping, ignoramous hicks. We just happen to live in a country with 58 million of them. That’s why the rest of the world is so confused by us”.
Published November 9, 2004
De Brun gives up Assembly seat
Sinn Féin’s Member of the European Parliament for the Six
Counties, Bairbre de Brun, has resigned as a member of the
suspended Belfast Assembly.
Published November 9, 2004
By Angelique Chrisafis (for the Guardian)
Con Scully lit a candle in the gloom of his decaying house in Coventry. There was no heating, electricity or natural light. The windows were boarded up against vandals and drug addicts.
Published November 9, 2004
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