Ten years ago, on October 13th, 1994.the Combined Loyalist Military
Command, representing the UDA, UVF and Red Hand Commando,
declared a ceasefire.
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Published October 15, 2004
Unionist paramilitaries have declared Protestant housing estates
to be no-go areas for Catholics.
Published October 15, 2004
Sinn Féin has called on the international community to urge
Israel to end its two-week military operation on the Gaza strip.
Published October 15, 2004
George Harrison was perhaps the most unrepentant Fenian of them
all.
Published October 15, 2004
Brighton – The Price they Paid
by Danny Morrison (for the Andersonstown News)
Twenty years ago, in the early hours of tomorrow morning, 12 October, a 100lbs bomb exploded inside the Grand Hotel in Brighton. It had been planted by the IRA some weeks earlier using a long-delay timing device and it was aimed at Margaret Thatcher and senior Tories who were staying at the hotel during the Conservative Party conference.
Published October 12, 2004
Charges dropped in bogus IRA case
Charges of gathering information “likely to be of use to
terrorists” have been dropped against a West Belfast man in the
latest such case to collapse or be downgraded.
Published October 12, 2004
Ireland may lose gold medal in doping furore
Ireland’s Olympic gold medallist Cian O’Connor has denied his
horses were doped with sedatives to enhance their fence-jumping
in the Athens Games.
Published October 12, 2004
The Anglo-Irish negotiations of 1921
Talks leading to a deal which saw the Six Counties partitioned
from the rest of Ireland began 83 years ago this week.
Published October 12, 2004
Ireland’s new foreign affairs minister Dermot Ahern tonight said
he looked forward to the day when Sinn Féin is in government in
both parts of Ireland.
Published October 12, 2004
UDA, DUP blamed for intimidation
A former loyalist politician has described how he and his family
have been targeted over the past 18 months in a unionist
paramilitary campaign of intimidation.
Published October 12, 2004
McGuinness sets Halloween deadline for talks
Sinn Féin has set a deadline of Halloween for a peace process
deal involving the hardline unionist DUP.
Published October 12, 2004
A high-profile environmental campaign has begun a bid to stop
the construction of a motorway close to the historic seat of the
High Kings of Ireland.
Published October 12, 2004
Wounded pride may take yet another fall
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
The thing about it is this. Sinn Féin and the DUP did not negotiate the Good Friday Agreement: it was the SDLP and the UUP. Furthermore, in 1998 it was presumed by all concerned, especially Dublin and London, that no arrangement in the north would work that did not enjoy the support of the SDLP and UUP.
Published October 8, 2004
The beheading of Kenneth Bigley, who had been held hostage in
Iraq for 22 days, has dismayed those campaigning in Ireland for
his release.
Published October 8, 2004
George Harrison, patron of Republican Sinn Féin and celebrated
veteran Irish Republican, died on October 6th at his home in
New York.
The following article by Jimmy Breslin for Newsday recounts a life in struggle against British colonialism, oppression, racism and inequality.
Published October 8, 2004
Amid wrangling over what might constitute the fundamentals of
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Ian Paisley’s DUP has again
cast doubt that a new agreement may be reached in the short term.
Published October 8, 2004
The Provisional IRA has said it killed 15-year-old Bernard
Teggart in 1973.
Published October 8, 2004
UVF, UDA threaten nationalists
Nationalists in Derry have been urged to review their safety
after a joint statement from unionist paramilitaries warned of
attacks on the nationalist community.
Published October 8, 2004
Sinn Féin support continues to rise
A poll has shown a rise in support for Sinn Féin, which could
hold the balance of power after the next 26-county general
election.
Published October 8, 2004
Belfast jobs go as airlines cut back
The future of Shorts in Belfast and its 5,500 employees is
threatened after parent company Bombardier Aerospace laid off
another 560 workers.
Published October 8, 2004
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