The prison diary of Brian Nelson, the chief intelligence officer of the unionist paramilitary UDA, show that the British Army and the RUC police trained, armed and directed the UDA's death squads during its campaign of sectarian murder in the North.
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Nelson diary reveals FRU/UDA training misssions
Published April 5, 2004
No unionist pact for Westminster election
A decision by Ian Paisley's DUP to contest the Westminster seat
for the Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency could mark the end of
unionist electoral co-operation for marginal seats.
Published April 5, 2004
Naming of new Rodaí Mac Corlaí bridge
Republicans are to rename a newly opened bridge on the main Belfast to Derry road in honour of an Irish patriot, hanged from the original bridge in 1798.
Published April 5, 2004
Adams backs campaign to save 16 Moore Street
The Dublin government has been condemned for its lack of
commitment to save the house where the leaders of the 1916 Easter
Rising against British rule made their last stand.
Published April 2, 2004
The British government's announcement of public inquiries into
three recent cases of alleged collusion yesterday has masked its
continuing attempt to cover up a sprawling conspiracy of official
terror and assassination.
Published April 2, 2004
The following was prepared by the Committee for the Administration of
Justice.
Published April 2, 2004
Finucane campaign will continue
Mrs Geraldine Finucane accused the British government of ongoing
delaying tactics and vowed that the campaign for an inquiry would
continue.
Published April 2, 2004
CORY REPORTS, BRITAIN DISGRACED
The Cory reports have exposed those sections of the British Crown forces in the North who engaged in their own murderous `Dirty War' in Ireland.
Published April 2, 2004
FRU men seek Finucane inquiry?
Members of the British Army's secretive Force Research Unit
are prepared to face any public inquiry, it was
claimed today.
Published April 2, 2004
The British minister for security and education in the North,
Jane Kennedy, is leaving Belfast in a cabinet reshuffle caused by
the resignation of immigrations minister Beverley Hughes.
Published April 2, 2004
Trimble fuels nationalist outrage
Comments by Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble about Rosemary
Nelson and Pat Finucane have been greeted with anger and
disbelief by the families of the two victims.
Published April 2, 2004
Government has failed ex-prisoners
So far this has proved barren ground but it's worth turning it over every few months because eventually it's going to bear fruit. It's one of the many aspects of the Good Friday Agreement which the two governments have not implemented. The difference with this one is that while Dublin and London either lie or puff out a smokescreen to cover their failures in, for example, equality and human rights here, on the issue of former prisoners they remain silent.
Published March 31, 2004
Pressure for uncensored Cory report
The families of four people killed with the collusion of the
British state have received their copies of the Cory Report into
the killings.
Published March 31, 2004
Fianna Fáil has denied a report that it has dropped `the Republican Party' as part of its name.
Published March 31, 2004
Review becoming a `farce' - Adams
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has described the review of the
Good Friday Agreement review as ``now little more than a farce''
after the British and Irish governments cancelled talks for two
weeks.
Published March 31, 2004
British Military Intelligence - Double edged sword
An extract from Bombed and Abandoned - The experience of the bereaved and
maimed of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, originally published
in 1999.
Published March 31, 2004
BOMBINGS COMMITTEE CALLS FOR FRESH INVESTIGATION
An Irish parliamentary committee has called for another
investigation by an international judge on the 1974 Dublin and
Monaghan bombings after it concluded hearings on a previous
inquiry by Ireland's Justice Barron.
Published March 31, 2004
Tension has risen in north Belfast after a series of loyalist attacks.
Published March 31, 2004
South-east and midlands are new poorest regions
The counties of the midlands and the south-east are now the most
disadvantaged areas in the 26 Counties, with household income in
the midlands and south-east below 85 per cent of the national
average for household income.
Published March 31, 2004
Sinn Féin has revealed its response to criticism by US envoy
Mitchell Reiss of its New York Times advertisment on policing
in the North of Ireland.
The following, taken from an IAIS report, contains the points made in the NY Times advertisement in quotes, followed by Sinn Féin's defense of their claim.
Published March 29, 2004
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