An Irish parliamentarian has been jailed for a month over the
escalating protests against the bin tax in Dublin.
![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/rn.gif) | ![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/harp.gif) |
TD jailed after bin charge protest
Published September 21, 2003
Unionist paramilitaries intensify attacks
In the wake of the UDA campaign to drive Catholic residents
from the Deerpark Road in North Belfast, unionist paramilitary
activity has increased across the Six Counties. A group
calling itself the Loyalist Action Force issued a death threat
against Glengormley priest Fr Dan Whyte. The group is more
than likely a bogus cover name for the UDA.
Published September 18, 2003
Direct Rule is a disaster - we have part time Direct Rule Ministers with remits over multiple departmental responsibilities and have neither the time, even if they possessed the hunger, to bring forward major initiatives to better the lot of people here. Apart from attempting to use the absence of the Assembly to push Water Charges and other revenue raising measures for the Exchequer, no one can be in any doubt that the Direct Rule Ministers are merely going through the motions.
Published September 18, 2003
British govenment to defy document ruling
The British government and the PSNI police are set to defy a
coroner's ruling that they hand over unedited documentation
relating to the killings of ten County Tyrone nationalists
during the 1990s. After a delay of two years and 12
preliminary hearings, when the British Ministry of Defence
(MoD) and the PSNI refused to produce all relevant material,
coroner Roger McLernon has now ordered the MoD and PSNI to
produce all intelligence documents relevant to the killings
within 21 days so the inquests of Roseanne Mallon, Jack and
Kevin McKearney and of seven IRA Volunteers can go ahead.
Published September 18, 2003
Dissidents arrested over police board intimidation
Four men and a woman were arrested early this morning in Strabane, County Tyrone, in connection with attacks against nationalist members of local policing boards.
Published September 18, 2003
Ex-prisoners dismiss Donaldson criticism
In his attempts to be seen as the most hardline of hardline
unionists, Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson has gone on
the offensive over this coming Friday's commemoration of the
20th anniversary of the 1983 H Block in Donegal.
Published September 18, 2003
Unionist paramilitaries intensify attacks
In the wake of the UDA campaign to drive Catholic residents
from the Deerpark Road in North Belfast, unionist paramilitary
activity has increased across the Six Counties.
Published September 18, 2003
Elections failure `could signal end for agreement'
Failure to hold elections soon in the Six Counties could spell
the end of the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein's Martin
McGuinness warned today. As he prepared for a meeting in
Dublin with Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen, the Mid Ulster
MP insisted the Government must set a date for an Assembly
election this year if efforts to restore power-sharing were to
succeed.
Published September 18, 2003
Human Rights Commission crisis puts investment at risk
Sinn Fein spokesperson on Equality and Human Rights, Bairbre
de Brun, has expressed concern that the approach of the Human
Rights Commission to fair employment and parity of esteem
could put future investment in the North at risk.
Published September 18, 2003
Seanad reform proposals debated
The upper house of the Dublin parliament is undemocratic and
elitist, according to Sinn Fein's leader in the Dail [the
parliament's lower house] has claimed.
Published September 18, 2003
Mourners attacked at church service
A mob of up to 200 loyalists disrupted a Catholic church
service at a cemetery on the outskirts of Belfast on Sunday
afternoon and later threw bricks and stones at service-goers.
Published September 15, 2003
Govt popularity falls, Sinn Fein support surges
A poll in Saturday's Irish Independent has show that the
current Irish Government's popularity is and that Sinn Fein
president Gerry Adams is now the most popular party leader in
the 26 Counties.
Published September 15, 2003
H-Block escape event criticised
A historic event to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1983
H-Block escape has become the subject of controversy today.
Published September 15, 2003
MI5 takeover bodes badly for policing
Speculation that `intelligence gathering'in the Six Counties
will, in the near future, be handed over by the PSNI Special
Branch to their superiors in MI5 offers no assurance that the
policy of collusion that has operated in the state for the
last two decades - and been sanctioned at the highest levels -
will be abandoned.
Published September 15, 2003
Police board threats blamed on dissidents
Sinn Fein has dismissed suggestions that mainstream
republicans are behind threats against nationalist district
policing board members.
Published September 15, 2003
Talks intensify for deal to restore peace process
The Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, meets the
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, for talks today in the
latest round of talks aimed at rescuing the peace process and
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Published September 15, 2003
US support sought as Colombia 3 ruling awaited
The Colombia Three ordeal may be brought to a close this
month, with a verdict from the trial judge due any day now.
Published September 15, 2003
British Army General forced to make new statement
As the Bloody Sunday Inquiry resumed at the Methodist Central
Hall in Westminster this week, it emerged that the British
Army's most senior officer, General Sir Mike Jackson, has had
to make a new statement to the Bloody Sunday inquiry.
Published September 13, 2003
The Laffoy resignation is symptomatic of a widespread malaise
in the tribunals - that of corruption, arrogance and
unresponsiveness - writes PAUL O'CONNOR.
Published September 13, 2003
Catholic man survives sectarian hatchet attack
A Catholic man was left for dead after being struck on the
head with a hatchet by a gang of Shankill Road loyalists, as
he walked home along Carrick Hill in the early hours of Sunday
morning.
Published September 13, 2003
Instructions
By default, this search engine looks for all words in any order. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes:
"gerry adams"
The search engine also supports AND, OR, and NOT keywords to specify boolean expressions:
sinn OR fein
sinn NOT fein
Note that only twenty search results are displayed, in chronological order.