The Independent Monitoring Commission which has been set up by the Irish and British governments to adjudicate on paramilitary ceasefires and other peace process issues, met for the first time yesterday.
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Sanctions body meets for first time
Published October 13, 2003
``The people who voted for the Agreement, which included the desperately difficult issue of the early release of paramilitary prisoners, did so on the basis that there would be no place for anyone who would use violence to achieve political ends. ``
Published October 13, 2003
Thousands march in support of jailed bin tax protestors
Thousands of protesters staged a rally outside Mountjoy Prison
in Dublin on Saturday to demand the release of jailed anti-bin
charge campaigners.
Published October 13, 2003
Bad week for Peace Process optimists
To date, Sinn Féin's discussions with the two governments and
the UUP have focused on the need to secure firm commitments -
guarantees - on the implementation of the Good Friday
Agreement and the sustainability of the institutions.
Published October 10, 2003
Major protest called after further bin tax jailings
Anti-bin-charge campaigners called for a massive demonstration
in Dublin tomorrow following the jailing of 10 more
protesters.
Published October 10, 2003
In the second part of her examination of the Gardaí police in
the 26 Counties, JOANNE CORCORAN looks at the measures
necessary to create a policing service based on accountability
rather than on a culture of denial.
Published October 10, 2003
Loyalists have carried out a series of sectarian attacks
against Catholic homes over the past two
days.
Published October 10, 2003
By Michelle Gildernew
In Caledon, County Tyrone there is a small housing development called Kinnard Park, a place that I had never been to until I was an adult, but somewhere that I heard about throughout my childhood. It was here in 1968 that my family were evicted from a house in an event that was to have major implications for my future and that of this country.
Published October 10, 2003
Para wanted to shoot Martin McGuinness
A former British soldier who wanted to take Sinn Féin's Martin
McGuinness ``dead or alive'' on Bloody Sunday claimed he had him
in his rifle sights during earlier street disturbances in
Belfast.
Published October 10, 2003
UUP feud ends amid poll threat
Three dissident Ulster Unionist MPs are to rejoin the party's
group at Westminster following a hardening of the party's
attitude to the Good Friday Agreement.
Published October 10, 2003
BY ROISIN DE ROSA
What is going on with cutbacks in jobs in education and health? Isn't there a crisis in these sectors? What is the government doing?
Published October 10, 2003
By Mícheál MacDonncha
All parties in the Dáil agree that it was wrong for the British government to unilaterally cancel the Assembly elections in the Six Counties. They voted accordingly after a debate called by Sinn Féin TDs before the summer recess and on Tuesday in the Dáil the Taoiseach repeated that the postponement was a move ``we opposed and continue to oppose''.
Published October 8, 2003
British army harassment in Fermanagh
Sinn Fein has criticised the level of British army activity in
the Fermanagh area after a Sinn Fein activist was verbally
abused and held for 45 minutes on Thursday night 2 October.
Published October 8, 2003
Bloody Sunday soldier accused of murder
A British soldier who fired a total of 22 shots in Derry on
Bloody Sunday yesterday denied that he was a ``systematic liar''
and that he was a member of a ``murder squad'' on the day the
British Army shot dead 13 civilians and wounded 13 others.
Published October 8, 2003
Coroner finds MoD, PSNI in contempt
The PSNI police and the British Ministry of Defence are in
contempt of court after they failed to comply with a coroner's
ruling to provide unedited material and video tape linked to
the SAS and Loyalist killings of 10 people in Tyrone.
Published October 8, 2003
Family recounts night of masked loyalist terror
A Catholic family of four have told how they were forced to
flee their home on the Parkhill estate in Antrim after an
attack by a gang of masked unionist paramilitaries on Sunday
night 5 October.
Published October 8, 2003
A series of two articles by JOANNE CORCORAN on the police
in the 26 Counties, An Garda Síochána [Guardians of the Peace]
Published October 8, 2003
Judge finds police investigations were incomplete
The Canadian judge investigating collusion between the
security forces and paramilitaries in Ireland has said he has
uncovered lines of inquiry that have not been followed by
detectives.
Published October 8, 2003
Talks for pre-election deal go `down to the wire'
The Sinn Féin president, Mr Gerry Adams, has warned that
unionists and the two governments ``have set the bar too high''
for republicans.
Published October 8, 2003
I see the ongoing revolution in Ireland as an amazing, extraordinary, path breaking project on the world stage of the struggle for justice. However, I am not sure that everyone sees it like this. This article is to explain, and put the amazing events of the last 30 years in context - so that we can stand back and see the wood for the trees.
Published October 8, 2003
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