By Tom McGurk (for Daily Ireland)
Watching the general election in the North has been a deeply
depressing experience. Of course, the continual failure to erect
the devolved governmental structures is bleeding the process dry
and as each year without agreement passes the public appetite
decreases accordingly.
Published April 23, 2005
A summary of the election manifestos of Sinn Féin’s main
opponents.
Published April 23, 2005
Ian Paisley’s DUP has formally declared the 1998 Good Friday
Agreement dead and gone as the party appears set to virtually
wipe out David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party in the May 5
British general election.
Published April 23, 2005
Aiden Hulme, who is alleged to have planned a Real IRA bombing
campaign in England, failed to overturn his conviction on
Thursday.
Published April 23, 2005
An illegal march by the Protestant Orange Order passing a
Catholic Church in east Belfast is expected to go ahead this
weekend without interference from the PSNI police.
Published April 23, 2005
Strip-searching of women prisoners at Hydebank prison in County
Antrim was criticised yesterday by a High Court judge as
humiliating, disproportionate and unnecessary.
Published April 23, 2005
Sinn Féin General Secretary Mitchel McLaughlin has said that all
of the parties and the two governments needed to start preparing
for intensive political negotiations to take place after the
election if progress was to be made before the summer months.
Published April 23, 2005
A weapons haul linked uncovered on ther Shankill Road in west
Belfast has been linked to the unionist paramilitary Ulster
Volunteer Force.
Published April 23, 2005
By Damian Kiberd (for Daily Ireland)
The greatest virtue attaching to the statement of Sinn Féin
president Gerry Adams at the Conway Mill last Wednesday is that
finally – eleven years after the IRA cessation of military
actions against the British – it de-couples the process of change
within Irish republicanism from the process of political
negotiation and bartering, primarily with Britain but also with
Ulster unionism.
Published April 11, 2005
West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty yesterday predicted Sinn Féin would
capture 150 seats in the local council elections on May 5 — a
rise of almost 50 per cent in the party’s representation.
Published April 11, 2005
A look at the second half of the 18 seats up for grabs in the
Westminster elections next month.
Published April 11, 2005
Sinn Féin President has described his appeal to the Provisional
IRA last week to commit itself to purely political and democratic
activity as an attempt to break the “downward spiral” of the
peace process and “create the right political context”.
Published April 11, 2005
Hundreds of construction workers staged protests in Dublin and
Galway this week, alleging that money belonging to them had been
paid into Dutch bank accounts without their knowledge.
Published April 11, 2005
The fmily of murdered Catholic man Patsy Kelly have called on the
PSNI to explain in public why it has not interviewed any of the
people named by a former British soldier in the Ulster Defence
Regiment as being directly involved in the killing.
Published April 11, 2005
Human rights activists have called on members of the North’s
Policing Board who oppose the use of plastic bullets to resign.
Published April 11, 2005
A new report has revealed that thousands of ex-prisoners have
suffered mental illness and considerable difficulty in
readjustment on their release.
Published April 11, 2005
By Vincent Browne (for the Sunday Business Post)
There is an irony and a justice in Minister for Justice Michael
McDowell being shamed over deportation.
Published April 4, 2005
A British army helicopter got into difficulties in South Armagh
on Thursday and almost came down in a residential area.
Published April 4, 2005
The so-called evidence used against the Colombia Three was
dismissed in the dissenting opinion of a judge on the
three-member appeal tribunal, it has emerged.
Published April 4, 2005
Republicans across Ireland last weekend gathered at graveyards
and at memorials don the Easter lily and remember Ireland’s
patriot dead.
Published April 4, 2005
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