Policing representatives called off a meeting in south Armagh
today following fierce resistance from residents.
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South Armagh anger at police board exercise
Published May 10, 2004
A group calling itself the Protestant Action Force has claimed
responsibility for a number of pipe bombs planted in Randalstown
outside Belfast overnight.
Published May 10, 2004
Sisters of Mercy make apology to abuse victims
A religious order has issued an unconditional apology to all the
children who suffered abuse in its orphanages and industrial
schools throughout Ireland.
Published May 7, 2004
Treaties don’t stir good memories
By Ray O’Hanlon (for the Irish News)
An American anniversary passed quietly last week. On April 29 1868, representatives of the United States government and of the Sioux and Arapaho Indian nations signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in Wyoming. Signatories for the United States included General William ecumseh Sherman, a few years on from his civil war triumphs.
Published May 7, 2004
Bank caught overcharging customers
Allied Irish Banks, Ireland’s largest bank, has been exposed for
overcharging foreign exchange customers over an eight-year
period.
Published May 7, 2004
Cory tells US Congress of collusion findings
Retired Canadian Supreme Court Judge Peter Cory testified before
the U.S. Congress in Washington on Wednesday giving detailed
evidence of collusion of British Crown forces in four murders in
the North of Ireland.
Published May 7, 2004
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills
where St Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to the heartland
of Mesopotamia, and Baghdad, and the Shia south. I have seldom
felt as safe in any country.
Published May 7, 2004
STORM OVER PRISONERS THREATENS TALKS
The case of four Republican prisoners who were denied release
under the Good Friday Agreement was in the spotlight tonight
amid allegations that their release was a secret part of a deal
that collapsed dramatically in October last year.
Published May 7, 2004
British move to block SF fundraising
The British government has been accused of damaging the
democratic process by restricting the fund-raising of political
parties.
Published May 7, 2004
Primate’s speech provokes mixed reaction
The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Sean
Brady, was branded as a republican sympathiser by the DUP’s Ian
Paisley jnr after he made a wide ranging speech on the peace
process in the North of Ireland.
Published May 7, 2004
Within just a week of publishing its findings the fallibility of
the Independent Monitoring Commission became easily demonstrated
if one considers how it would have reported had it been
established in 2001, with the same punitive powers and using the
same jaundiced criteria it was to use in the Tohill affair.
Published May 4, 2004
Seven to stand for EU elections in North
The former leader of the Ulster Farmers’ Union John Gilliland
has announced that he is standing as an independent in the
forthcoming European elections in the Six Counties.
Published May 4, 2004
Bring Them Home campaign continues
An international campaign to allow the three Irishmen known as
the ‘Colombia 3’ to be released into freedom is underway
following their acquittal in Bogota on charges of training
rebels last week.
Published May 4, 2004
Interview with Caitriona Ruane
Caitriona Ruane, coordinator of the campaign to
release the Colombia Three, talks to Toni Solo about the case and
continuing dangers preventing the men returning home
Published May 4, 2004
SDLP SEEKS ‘CIVIL ADMINISTRATORS’ FOR NORTH
A plan for a temporary administration apoointed by London has
been proposed by the nationalist SDLP as a stop-gap measure
while the political process in the North remains deadlocked.
Published May 4, 2004
Tohill accuses PSNI of ‘frame-up’
A republican at the center of an alleged IRA kidnap plot stormed
out of a courtroom and claimed he had been framed because he
refused to make a statement blaming the Provisional IRA for an
alleged abduction and beating.
Published May 4, 2004
Viking site found at site of new motorway interchange
The discovery of a 1,200-year-old Viking fortress at Woodstown,
near Waterford city, has been hailed by a leading historian as
“the most significant new find in Viking studies in perhaps a
century”.
Published May 4, 2004
Orchestrated violence at soccer final
Unionist paramilitaries have been blamed for orchestrating
violence which marred Saturday’s Irish Cup soccer final at
Windsor Park in Belfast.
Published May 4, 2004
Three Irish men arrested on leaving FARC territory in Colombia
during august 2001 were acquitted of the most serious charge of
providing training to FARC rebels yesterday in Bogota.
Published April 28, 2004
Inquests reopen into Dublin and Monaghan bombings
The inquests into the deaths of 34 people in the Dublin and
Monaghan bombings 30 years ago were reopened yesterday by the
Dublin City Coroner, Dr Brian Farrell.
Published April 28, 2004
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