PSNI police chief Hugh Orde has ben strongly criticised after he said that his force cannot cope with the demand to deal with outstanding murder cases of the conflict.
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Orde accused of political intervention
Published February 25, 2004
PSNI prepare to use CS gas weapons
Deployment of controversial CS gas spray by the PSNI police appears set to go ahead after the force advertised for components of the weapon.
Published February 25, 2004
WHEN I am teaching creative writing I often quote the oxymoron that fiction is 'a lie that tells a truth'. Writers imagine and create characters, which, hopefully, rise from the page as flesh and blood. The author will place them in challenging situations - be it a conflict, a dilemma, an issue of love or ambition - and through their experiences, adventures and decisions they emerge at the other end changed, and the reader, in turn, empathises, learns or has confirmed some philosophical truth about the meaning of life.
Published February 23, 2004
Radical change needed for SDLP
Continuing our series of feature articles on the policies of the
North's various partiers, were present an abridged version of a
speech by SDLP Leader Mark Durkan to his party's annual
conference at the weekend.
Published February 23, 2004
Four West Belfast men have been charged with causing grievous
bodily harm during an alleged attempted abduction in the city on
Friday night, but none were charged with membership of the IRA.
Published February 23, 2004
New law to plug Garda leaks on peace process
Members of the South's Garda Siochana police who leak stories to the media regarding the peace process or paramilitary groups could now face up to five years in prison.
Published February 23, 2004
Inquiry into bus tragedy this week
The company which operates Dublin Bus said today said an inquiry
into Saturday's accident, in which five people were killed in
Dublin city centre, would begin on Friday.
Published February 23, 2004
South Belfast general practice doctor Alasdair McDonnell has been
elected the new deputy leader of the nationalist SDLP in the
North.
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
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
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
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
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