On his latest visit to the North only last week, Robert McBride,
now a South African cop responsible for policing two million
people, appeared as a guest of Coiste na n-Iarchimi.
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Published July 2, 2004
An announcement that a British Army base in County Down is to
close has been greeted with cynicism by republicans.
Published July 2, 2004
Concerns that a sectarian march could still be forced through
the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown were resolved after
the Protestant Orange Order dropped a legal challenge today.
Published July 2, 2004
Free Ciaran Ferry campaign appeal
The Ciaran Ferry Freedom Action Committee is holding a raffle to
benefit the legal defence fund for Ciaran, an Irish republican and
current U.S. resident unjustly imprisoned at the whim of U.S.
immigration authorities.
Published July 2, 2004
Another member of the Human Rights Commission has resigned,
claiming the body’s failure may have been orchestrated by the
British government.
Published July 2, 2004
Bomb alerts cause Belfast chaos
The breakaway ‘Real IRA’ has claimed responsibility for a series
of hoax bomb alerts which created traffic chaos across Belfast
early yesterday.
Published July 2, 2004
New Deputy Mayor commemorates Somme
Sinn Féin’s approach to the annual commemoration in Belfast of
the World War I Battle of the Somme has again proven
controversial.
Published July 2, 2004
DUP attacks Trimble after ‘scrap Stormont’ call
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today accused of trying
to undermine efforts to restore the Belfast Assembly after
calling for it to be scrapped if a deal to revive it is not
reached it by September.
Published July 2, 2004
Adams meets Parades Commission after Springfield u-turn
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP led a party delegation today
to meet with the Parades Commission, which adjudicates over
contentious marches in the North of Ireland.
Published June 30, 2004
Consistently inconsistent is the policy
By Brian Feeeney (for the Irish News)
Bertie bounced in from Tokyo on his way to Shannon to meet Bush. Blair swanned in on his way to Istanbul. They patted the politicians from the north on the head, held a cursory press conference and made off.
Published June 30, 2004
Collusion concerns over spy post deployment
The British Army has installed elements of the notorious Ulster
Defence Regiment (UDR) in the spy post on the top of Divis Tower
in the heart of west Belfast.
Published June 30, 2004
Frequently asked questions about Travellers
The following information about the Travellers is from the
Pavee Point organisation, www.paveepoint.ie
Published June 30, 2004
Four men cleared as PSNI’s use of informer queried
Four County Tyrone men set up for arrest by a PSNI police informer have been acquitted by Belfast Crown Court judge Justice Girvan.
Published June 30, 2004
British military assessor backs McBride family
The mother of north Belfast teenager Peter McBride has welcomed
criticism by an independent agency of the decision to allow his
killers to return to the British Army.
Published June 30, 2004
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has rebuffed demands by the hardline
unionist DUP for a six-month transition period for the IRA to
demonstrate their peaceful intentions before they would consider
sharing power with Sinn Féin.
Published June 30, 2004
Traveller groups warn of crisis
Deterioratinmg relations between Ireland’s gypsy-like Travellers
and the settled community have led to a growing mood of despair
among Travellers.
Published June 30, 2004
By Tom Luby (for the Blanket)
The key questions that arise from the recent all-Ireland European election are not to do with whether or not Sinn Féin has become an unstoppable vote-gathering machine which one day soon will relentlessly propel Gerry Adams into the Taoiseach’s office in Government Buildings, but conversely whether the Sinn Féin steamroller is beginning to run out of steam in the North, why this is happening and what impact it could have on SF’s fortunes in the South.
Published June 25, 2004
PSNI bins residents’ protest application
Sinn Féin councillor Bridge Meehan has accused the PSNI in
Glengormley of ‘disgraceful sectarian behaviour’ after an
application for a peaceful protest was openly binned by the
PSNI.
Published June 25, 2004
Protests against the war in Iraq are underway across Ireland
ahead of the arrival of US President George Bush to County Clare
this evening.
Published June 25, 2004
Republican 26-County local representatives
The following is a complete listing of Sinn Féin’s local
representatives following the breakthrough election for the
party last week.
Published June 25, 2004
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