By Danny Morrison
(for the Irish Examiner)
If the election results augur well for the future of one party
above all others throughout Ireland, that party is Sinn Féin.
Both North and South its vote has continued to increase and later
today the party’s confirmation as the leadership of northern
nationalists will be reinforced with the election of Bairbre de
Brun to Europe in a close-fought contest with Jim Allister of Ian
Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Published June 14, 2004
The Bloody Sunday inquiry was urged today to determine the extent
of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath’s responsibility for
the deaths of the 13 people shot dead by troops at the civil
rights march in Derry over 30 years ago.
Published June 14, 2004
The results of the European and local elections.
Published June 14, 2004
Sinn Féin has made historic gains in local and European elections
at the expense of Fianna Fáil in the South and the SDLP in the
North.
Published June 14, 2004
A former British Army officer who falsely suggested that murdered
Belfast teenager Peter McBride may have been carrying a bomb when
he was murdered by two soldiers under his command has been
awarded a major private security contract in Iraq by the US
Department of Defence, according to the Pat Finucne centre, a
Derry-based human rights group.
Published June 14, 2004
An MI5 officer has stated publicly that the IRA “fought a just
cause” and won a “successful campaign” during the 30-year
conflict in the North.
Published June 14, 2004
Latest results from the European and local elections.
Published June 14, 2004
The citizenship referendum in the 26 Counties has caused
political damage to the Good Friday Agreement, nationalists have
warned.
Published June 14, 2004
A number of Catholics in a County Antrim town have been warned
they are under threat from unionist paramilitaries.
Published June 14, 2004
By Mark Brennock (for the Irish Times)
You could be forgiven for thinking the State itself was under
threat. A matter has arisen that is so grave that the Cabinet has
now discussed it at least three times in recent weeks.
Legislation has been rushed through the Oireachtas. The Taoiseach
and Minister for Justice speak with growing solemnity about the
situation.
Published June 11, 2004
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a bleak future
following huge losses in the local elections in England and
Wales.
Published June 11, 2004
Judge Peter Cory, who investigated the controversial murder of
Pat Finucane, has revealed that documents relating to the
conspiracy to kill the Belfast defense lawyer were seen by the
British government cabinet.
Published June 11, 2004
By Gerry Adams MP (for the Guardian)
News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great
surprise in republican Ireland. We have seen and heard it all
before. Some of us have even survived that type of treatment.
Suggestions that the brutality in Iraq was meted out by a few
miscreants aren’t even seriously entertained here. We have seen
and heard all that before as well. But our experience is that,
while individuals may bring a particular impact to their work,
they do so within interrogative practices authorised by their
superiors.
Published June 11, 2004
British Crown forces in the North engaged in widespread
harassment and intimidation of voters on Thursday, patrolling
around polling stations and photographing voters as they arrived.
Published June 11, 2004
Turnout in the Six County European election is down by more than
5% on the 1999 poll, with large regional variations in the number
of those who cast their vote.
Published June 11, 2004
Clashes erupted last night between local youths and the PSNI
police as they entered republican areas at the close of polling
in Thursday’s election.
Published June 11, 2004
The so-called ‘ceasefire’ by the unionist paramilitary UVF has
again been discredited after the group was linked to recent
attacks on republicans in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Published June 11, 2004
by Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
A few weeks ago, just on the eve of the European election
campaign, but not, as far as known, in competition with it,
satellite channel UKTV announced that it was to stream a new
reality show called ‘Watching Paint Dry’ on the internet. Viewers
can watch a different kind of paint dry on an empty wall each day
and will be able to vote for their favourite paint.
Published June 9, 2004
Soldiers “probably” were responsible for all of the deaths on
Bloody Sunday, their legal representative admitted today.
Published June 9, 2004
One of the Dublin government’s main prospects for retaining a
European Parliament seat has confirmed that he fáiled to pass on
information about the Dublin attacks to the recent inquiry into
the bombings.
Published June 9, 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.
![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/rn.gif)
![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/harp.gif)