By Gerry Coleman (Irish Northern Aid)
On the 14th of August 1969, thirty five years ago today, British troops were deployed on Irish soil for the first time in the current phase of the fight for Irish freedom.
![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/rn.gif) | ![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/harp.gif) |
35 years of British military presence
Published August 17, 2004
Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party has said it it is
willing to work with Sinn Féin in a Six-County power-sharing
executive, but only if it supports the police, and the IRA ends
its activities and and disarms in a convincing fashion.
Published August 17, 2004
Marches pass off without incident
Saturday’s Apprentice Boys’ parades passed off without major
violence following an order against one parade in north
Belfast.
Published August 17, 2004
Furore over hospital organ sales
Six hospitals have admitted they secretly sold organs from the
bodies of deceased children to pharmaceutical firms.
Published August 17, 2004
To many of us who live in Belfast, the Rathenraw Estate in
Antrim town for long conjured up the image of a drugs bazaar
where various substances were bought and sold on the open
market.
Published August 17, 2004
Unionism’s validity is disappearing
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
There has been a flurry of comment on Gerry Adams’s remarks last Thursday, especially the bit where he said that the IRA might have to go out of business in order to remove any excuse from unionists for refusing to negotiate or work the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement.
Published August 13, 2004
Joe Black, a former IRA Volunteer detained in the US for the
past five weeks, is to be released tomorrow.
Published August 13, 2004
The day I heard about the ceasefire
Danny Morrison recalls the day ten years ago this month, when
the mainstream IRA declared a unilateral, opened cessation of
military activity.
Published August 13, 2004
Deformities linked to spy equipment
Emissions from British Army spying equipment has been blamed for
gross birth defects in livestock in the South Armagh area.
Published August 13, 2004
A 38-year-old Nigerian woman, who faced death by stoning if
returned to her home country, was yesterday granted a court
order restraining any immediate move to deport her from Ireland.
Published August 13, 2004
Speaking to a packed hall at the west Belfast festival to
deliver the PJ McGrory Memorial Lecture, Geraldine Finucane has
described her family’s determination to expose the truth about
her husband’s murder.
Published August 13, 2004
A reported plan by a Protestant marching group to circumvent a
ruling against a coat-trailing parade in nationalist north
Belfast has been stopped.
Published August 13, 2004
The British government’s failings in the peace process were
highlighted today by Sinn Féin today as the party turned its
focus away from fruitless exchanges with the hardline unionist
DUP.
Published August 13, 2004
The following is the text of an Irish Times article by Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams today.
Published August 10, 2004
Irish athlete admits doping offence
Irish athlete Cathal Lombard has created a shock after he
admitted that he used a banned substance while in training for
the Athens Olympics.
Published August 10, 2004
Ireland is Atlantis, says expert
The mythical underwater empire of Atlantis is actually the
island of Ireland, according to a new book.
Published August 10, 2004
A man was hospitalised late on Saturday night last after he was
beaten around the head with rifle butts by members of a British
Army/PSNI patrol.
Published August 10, 2004
Ciaran O’Fearaigh has been in an American jail in Denver, Colorado,
for Five Hundred and Forty days, yet has not been charged with a
crime.
Published August 10, 2004
Ian Paisley’s DUP has cast doubt on the possibility of an
agreement including policing in the North of Ireland next month
and has again dismissed a statement by Gerry Adams last week
that the IRA could be “removed”.
Published August 10, 2004
Anger at award of Iraqi contract
A contract awarded to a former British Army officer to help
secure post-war Iraq should be revoked, Irish-American lobbyists
in Washington said yesterday.
Published August 10, 2004
Instructions
By default, this search engine looks for all words in any order. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes:
"gerry adams"
The search engine also supports AND, OR, and NOT keywords to specify boolean expressions:
sinn OR fein
sinn NOT fein
Note that only twenty search results are displayed, in chronological order.