South Belfast general practice doctor Alasdair McDonnell has been
elected the new deputy leader of the nationalist SDLP in the
North.
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Published February 23, 2004
Calls for exclusion of Sinn Féin
The failure to bring charges of IRA membership or arms possession
against the four men involved in the incident on Friday night
could ease the pressure on Sinn Féin in the current talks
process.
Published February 23, 2004
Stevens urged to end Finucane murder probe
The widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane's widow urged British police chief John Stevens to halt his inquiry into the killing.
Published February 23, 2004
President calls for help for 'pockets of despair'
The Irish President, Mrs Mary McAleese, has spoken out following
the recent spate of suicides in her native Republican Ardoyne in
north Belfast.
Published February 20, 2004
Ex-prisoners set forth plans for prison museum
Former republican prisoners have put forward their proposals for
the former prison site of Long Kesh prison.
Published February 20, 2004
105-year-old woman targeted in loyalist attacks
A 105-year-old grandmother was showered with glass during a
series of attacks on homes in north Belfast blamed on loyalists.
Published February 20, 2004
Ahern calls for 'partnership' and 'closure'
In what was billed as a significant speech, the Irish Prime
Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said the 1998 Good Friday
Agreement retains the capacity to "transform Northern Ireland for
the better".
Published February 20, 2004
New start, not regurgitation, of policing needed
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Féin spokesman on policing and justice, has
responded to a recent opinion piece by the SDLP's Joe Byrne, who
argued that new policing structures would be weakened if they
were burdened with reinvestigating controversial cases from the
past. Mr Kelly argues that it is "not a matter of resources, it
is a matter of will".
Published February 20, 2004
Cool response to Truth Commission proposal
The chairman of the North's Policing Board, Desmond Rea has proposed a truth commission be established to achieve a sense of closure for the war in Ireland.
Published February 20, 2004
Next Monday shall see UTV's Insight, with typical investigative
skill, unpick the threads that have been weaved together
post-Patten to fashion a renamed garment now termed the PSNI.
Published February 20, 2004
The full Nally Report into the 1998 Omagh bombing cannot be
published for security reasons, Dublin's Minister for Justice has
claimed.
Published February 20, 2004
Now that the proposals of the two main players in the Good Friday Agreement review are known you can see how far apart they are and how little chance there is of political progress.
Published February 18, 2004
Ardoyne seen in distress following suicides
Some 18 people have taken their own lives in the nationalist enclave of Ardoyne since Christmas, two in the past week alone.
Published February 18, 2004
Battle on to fill seats vacated by Hume, Paisley
Belfast Mayor Martin Morgan is to seek the SDLP's nomination as the party's candidate in June's European election fror the Six Counties, it has been confirmed.
Published February 18, 2004
As I write this there is an attempt to start a civil war in
Haiti, engineered in the United States of America and supported
by its lapdogs in Caricom and the Organization of American
States.
Published February 18, 2004
BRITISH ARMY OFFICER 'PRIMED MONAGHAN BOMB'
A former officer in the Irish defence forces has told a Dublin
parliamentary committee investigation into the Dublin and
Monaghan bombings of 1974 that he had information that a senior
British Army officer was the person who armed the bomb that
killed six people in Monaghan in May 1974.
Published February 18, 2004
Massive distrust over e-vote plans
Plans by the Dublin government to introduce electronic voting are to be revised following the combined opposition of the other parties in the 26 Counties.
Published February 18, 2004
Unionist paramilitaries are plotting an attack on a prominent republican in County Antrim, it has emerged.
Published February 18, 2004
Southerners shunning Six Counties
Census figures have shown that 50% more people are leaving the
Six Counties for the rest of Ireland than made the return move
last year.
Published February 18, 2004
Apologies won’t bring back the missing years
By Tom McGurk (for the Sunday Business Post)
There they were, ghosts from the past, still shuffling along like actors from an old drama in search of its denouement.
Published February 16, 2004
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