This week the British and Irish governments and all the main
parties in the north of Ireland will be in Leeds Castle in Kent.
Sinn Féin will be trying to unblock the political impasse here.
It will not be easy.
Published September 14, 2004
A sophisticated bugging device was discovered at Sinn Féin’s
offices in west Belfast today.
Published September 14, 2004
A partner at a leading estate agency in Belfast joked about the
breeding habits of Catholics and the size of their families, a
Fair Employment tribunal has heard.
Published September 14, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
A blanket man in the H-Blocks risking a beating and solitary
confinement in order to smuggle GAA results to news-starved
comrades is just one story told in that fine book by Tom
Humphries, ‘Green Fields: Gaelic Sport in Ireland’ (1996).
Published September 14, 2004
The family of Pat Finucane has renewed demands for a public
inquiry into the murder following the conviction of unionist
paramilitary Ken Barrett yesterday.
Published September 14, 2004
Ireland’s right-wing parties have backed the re-election
campaign of Irish President Mary McAleese, while her potential
rivals are struggling to gain the necessary nomination.
Published September 14, 2004
The PSNI police have been criticised for failing to protect
nationalists in Derry’s Waterside after loyalists entered a
Catholic home and attacked two men.
Published September 14, 2004
Sinn Féin has said the Dublin Government must oppose any attempt
to formally reintroduce direct rule in the North in crisis talks
in southern England later this week.
Published September 14, 2004
Given that background and the belief constantly repeated by
unionist politicians that change can only be bad for unionists,
it looks as if racist assaults by unionists will continue to
increase in frequency.
Published September 10, 2004
A masked republican carried out a gun attack on Derry’s PSNI
headquarters yesterday morning, firing up to 30 shots from an
AK-47 automatic rifle.
Published September 10, 2004
(for the Andersonstown News)
The BBC refused to broadcast Amhran na bhFiann from Croke Park
before the All-Ireland football semi-final match between Derry
and Kerry.
Published September 10, 2004
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams has said he is pessimistic about the
prospects of prospect of a breakthrough at next week’s peace
talks at Leeds Castle in southern England.
Published September 10, 2004
The Irish and Scots may be as closely related to the people of
Spain and Portugal as the Celts of central Europe, it has been
reported.
Published September 10, 2004
The Dublin government has controversially decided to abandon its plan to
introduce a new tax on polluting fuels.
Published September 10, 2004
Ethnic minorities in the North have been warned they could be
attacked by racist and far-right groups.
Published September 10, 2004
Just over 800 full-time police reservists, who are
overwhelmingly Protestant, have been offered severance packages
worth up to a hundred thousand pounds sterling as a lump sum,
with a pension to follow.
Published September 10, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
Last Monday on NBC News President George Bush was asked, ``Can
we win'' the war on terror. He replied, ``I don't think you can
win it.'' He thus directly contradicted a previous speech he
made claiming that the war could be won.
Published September 7, 2004
Amid conflicting messages from unionists in recent days, Sinn
Féin president Mr Gerry Adams said yesterday that London and
Dublin must now decide whether the Good Friday Agreement or the
Democratic Unionist Party is to prevail in the North of Ireland.
Published September 7, 2004
The following is an edited version of an address by DUP Deputy
Leader Peter Robinson MP MLA at the annual conference of the
Irish Small Firms Association in Dublin Castle.
Published September 7, 2004
The following is an edited version of the address by Sinn Féin
MP Michelle Gildernew, speaking at the annual Sinn Féin
commemoration of IRA figure Liam Lynch on Sunday at his
graveside in Goatenbridge, on the Tipperary-Waterford border.
Published September 7, 2004
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