The soaring rate of suicides in nationalist areas of Belfast has
driven relatives of the victims to picket a health trust
meeting, carrying placards demanding action.
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April 28, 2005
Families seek help as suicide death-toll mounts
PSNI chief speaks out as IMC report put on hold
The PSNI police chief has accused the Provisional IRA of
continuing to recruit and target potential victims -- but added
that it was not set to return to armed struggle.
NATIONALISM IN TRANSITION
With just days left before elections in the North of Ireland,
Sinn Féin has called for a new nationalist strategy on Irish
unity.
No Pope Here
By Danny Morrison (for Daily Irelannd)
The loyalist prisoners in Crumlin Road Jail cheered and whooped with joy and we were convinced that a Catholic had probably been killed overnight. We had no radio in our cell but quickly learnt that the news had announced the death of Pope John Paul who had been Pope for just thirty-three days.
Trimble will swing - Paisley
Unionist hardliner Ian Paisley has said rival unionist leader
David Trimble will get “the electric chair and the rope” in
regard to the May 5 elections.
Investigation ordered into alleged Garda cover-up
Families of victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings
have said they have no confidence in a new ‘Commission of
Investigation’ into the police inquiry into the bombings, blamed
on collusion between unionist paramilitaries and state forces.
Sinn Féin under fire over suspensions
Gerry Adams was barracked and abused in republican south Belfast
this week over Sinn Féin’s support for the McCartney sisters.
Open season on the peace process
By Jim Gibney (for the Irish News)
It is no coincidence that the nationalist turnout in the 2001 Westminster and Local Government elections was the highest in nearly a decade.
April 23, 2005
Shankill arms find
A weapons haul linked uncovered on ther Shankill Road in west
Belfast has been linked to the unionist paramilitary Ulster
Volunteer Force.
SF calls for talks as unionists back exclusion
Sinn Féin General Secretary Mitchel McLaughlin has said that all
of the parties and the two governments needed to start preparing
for intensive political negotiations to take place after the
election if progress was to be made before the summer months.
‘Barbaric’ strip-searching may end
Strip-searching of women prisoners at Hydebank prison in County
Antrim was criticised yesterday by a High Court judge as
humiliating, disproportionate and unnecessary.
PSNI set to allow illegal Orange march
An illegal march by the Protestant Orange Order passing a
Catholic Church in east Belfast is expected to go ahead this
weekend without interference from the PSNI police.
Hulme appeal rejected
Aiden Hulme, who is alleged to have planned a Real IRA bombing
campaign in England, failed to overturn his conviction on
Thursday.
DUP EYES VICTORY
Ian Paisley’s DUP has formally declared the 1998 Good Friday
Agreement dead and gone as the party appears set to virtually
wipe out David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party in the May 5
British general election.
Manifesto season
A summary of the election manifestos of Sinn Féin’s main
opponents.
Bored stiff with the same old rhetoric
By Tom McGurk (for Daily Ireland)
Watching the general election in the North has been a deeply depressing experience. Of course, the continual failure to erect the devolved governmental structures is bleeding the process dry and as each year without agreement passes the public appetite decreases accordingly.
April 11, 2005
Ex-prisoners endure suspicion, discrimination
A new report has revealed that thousands of ex-prisoners have
suffered mental illness and considerable difficulty in
readjustment on their release.
Human rights groups urge SDLP resignations
Human rights activists have called on members of the North’s
Policing Board who oppose the use of plastic bullets to resign.
Family demand answers on PSNI inaction in murder case
The fmily of murdered Catholic man Patsy Kelly have called on the
PSNI to explain in public why it has not interviewed any of the
people named by a former British soldier in the Ulster Defence
Regiment as being directly involved in the killing.
Immigrant workers abused
Hundreds of construction workers staged protests in Dublin and
Galway this week, alleging that money belonging to them had been
paid into Dutch bank accounts without their knowledge.
ADAMS BACKS NON-VIOLENCE
Sinn Féin President has described his appeal to the Provisional
IRA last week to commit itself to purely political and democratic
activity as an attempt to break the “downward spiral” of the
peace process and “create the right political context”.
Westminster constituencies (part II)
A look at the second half of the 18 seats up for grabs in the
Westminster elections next month.
McCartney backs down as election contest heats up
West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty yesterday predicted Sinn Féin would
capture 150 seats in the local council elections on May 5 — a
rise of almost 50 per cent in the party’s representation.
The Stickie business of demonisation
By Damian Kiberd (for Daily Ireland)
The greatest virtue attaching to the statement of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams at the Conway Mill last Wednesday is that finally – eleven years after the IRA cessation of military actions against the British – it de-couples the process of change within Irish republicanism from the process of political negotiation and bartering, primarily with Britain but also with Ulster unionism.
April 4, 2005
Another week of loyalist violence
A Catholic man is recovering in hospital after being beaten and
robbed by a gang of loyalists who daubed ‘Taigs Out’ in his north
Belfast apartment.
IRELAND MOURNS
The death on Saturday of Pope John Paul II has had a profound
effect in Ireland as it has throughout the world.
Republicans are dynamic of change
The following is an edited version of the speech made by Sinn
Féin president Gerry Adams at his party’s Easter Commemoration in
Derry on Easter Sunday.
SF wins seat on Udaras na Gaeltachta
Sinn Féin has won its first seat on the Board of Udaras na
Gaeltachta, the authority with responsibility for Irish-speaking
regions in Ireland.
Republicans rally at Easter
Republicans across Ireland last weekend gathered at graveyards
and at memorials don the Easter lily and remember Ireland’s
patriot dead.
Colombia 3 lawyers plan appeal
The so-called evidence used against the Colombia Three was
dismissed in the dissenting opinion of a judge on the
three-member appeal tribunal, it has emerged.
Chopper makes forced landing in South Armagh
A British army helicopter got into difficulties in South Armagh
on Thursday and almost came down in a residential area.
Hard To Understand McDowell’s Mindset
By Vincent Browne (for the Sunday Business Post)
There is an irony and a justice in Minister for Justice Michael McDowell being shamed over deportation.
