By Danny Morrison
Years ago I heard a very young Siobhan O’Hanlon talk about her
Uncle Joe, clearly proud of her connection, through her mom, to
the Cahill clan. I had first got to know Joe - let’s say,
professionally - to the extent that as far as I was concerned he
was first and foremost an IRA man who could produce miracles,
usually in respect to money.
Published July 27, 2004
One man was thrown through a window as a loyalist mob attacked
the homes of three families in County Antrim at the weekend.
Published July 27, 2004
An extract from the biography of Joe Cahill, A Life in the IRA,
written by Brendan Anderson and published by O’Brien press.
Published July 27, 2004
The funeral was held in West Belfast this morning of veteran
republican Joe Cahill, who died last week.
Published July 27, 2004
An Irish Republican has been convicted of the 1992 killing of a
British Army recruiting sergeant after pleading guilty in a
court in Nottingham, England.
Published July 27, 2004
The British Army is understood to have lost one of its most
sophisticated pieces of bomb detecting equipment during rioting
in north Belfast earlier this month.
Published July 27, 2004
The British Ministry of Defence has placed a gagging order on a
former undercover British soldier, who said an IRA sniper attack
could have been prevented.
Published July 27, 2004
Elements of the unionist paramilitary UDA have said that they
are in possession of the intelligence dossier which
“disappeared” from Castlereagh Crown force base in east Belfast
last week.
Published July 27, 2004
Immense anger has lingered in the nationalist Ardoyne community after a Protestant Orange Order parade and a mob of followers were forced theough the area on Monday evening....
Published July 26, 2004
(by Danny Morrison, Andersonstown News)
Last Friday, former UVF killer, Billy Hutchinson of the
Progressive Unionist Party, and North and West Belfast Parades
Commission, said that he didn’t understand nationalist
objections to loyalist marchers coming through nationalist areas
and that he was prepared to talk. Danny Morrison replies.
Published July 23, 2004
Bertie Ahern has begun a reshuffle of his government by naming
unpopular Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy as Dublin’s next
European Union commissioner.
Published July 23, 2004
By The Wild Geese
Today, nearly 400 years since they first arrived, the Irish have
been nearly fully and seamlessly integrated in Canadian society.
While many Irish tended to congregate in the large cities in the
United States, in Canada they tended to spread into the
countryside. Thus Irish-Canadians have been a bit less visible
than the Irish-Americans, but clearly they had a significant
influence on the history of the country.
Published July 23, 2004
Members of the British Army’s Royal Irish Regiment have been
blamed for the “disappearance” of a top secret document from a
joint British Army/PSNI base in east Belfast.
Published July 23, 2004
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has said it is time to “name and shame”
pro-unionist elements in the British government’s civil service
and the PSNI police who are actively working to undermine the
peace process.
Published July 23, 2004
Sinn Féin’s newly elected MEPs attended have attended their
first sessions in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Published July 23, 2004
The Mayor of Dublin has unveiled a memorial this morning in
memory of three CIE transport workers killed in two explosions
in the city in December 1972 and January 1973.
Published July 23, 2004
The 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and the British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, have agreed to hold a three-day summit
aimed at reviving the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in
mid-September.
Published July 23, 2004
By Tom McGurk (for the Sunday Business Post)
When deciding the first Court of Appeal hearing of the case
against the six `Birmingham Bombers’ Master of the Rolls Lord
Denning faced a truly unpleasant choice.
Published July 20, 2004
The official name of Derry may indeed be Derry, and not the
‘Londonderry’ moniker favoured by unionist hardliners.
Published July 20, 2004
Events of the last few weeks have brought into sharp focus two
of the key issues that need to be addressed if there is to be
political progress.
Published July 20, 2004
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