A prominent Belfast priest was targeted for assassination
by the unionist paramilitary UDA with the full knowledge of
the RUC police Special Branch, it has been revealed.
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September 26, 2005
RUC knew of UDA plot to kill Wilson
Ballymena paint bomb attack
The son of a Catholic woman whose home in Ballymena was
targeted in a paint-bomb attack has said she was lucky not
to have been hurt.
Govts urged to act
Following the first formal meeting with the 26-County
government since January, Gerry Adams said that
politicians, North and South and in London, had to be
prepared to exploit the "enormous opportunities" that would
arise from the announcement, which is expected in the next
week.
IRA ARMS MOVE CONFIRMED
An official announcement by the IICD arms decommissioning
body that the Provisional IRA has fully disarmed is to be
announced this afternoon.
Decontamination
The DUP has demanded a 'decontamination' period after the
IRA disarms before it will share power with Sinn Fein.
It's later than the unionists think
Just over a week from the orgy of unionist violence across
Belfast what can be said about it all?
September 22, 2005
SF advances plans for unity
Following a day-long meeting of Sinn Fein assembly members in south Armagh this Thursday, tens of thousands of republicans are expected to converge on Dublin for a historic rally on Saturday.
Unionists claim victimhood
Historians have been baffled by a unionist mural which claims that thousands of Protestant women and children fled to Liverpool from Belfast during the conflict.
IRA TO DISARM
Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness is travelling to Washington on Tuesday amid intense speculation that disarmament by the Provisional IRA is imminent and could come as soon as next week.
Sinn Fein seek progress
The edited text of an address by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams MP to party supporters in South Armagh on Thursday evening.
Divis tower revisited
Gerry Adams took journalists on the roof of Divis Tower in west Belfast to view the now-vacated site of an infamous British spy-post.
Shame on leaders who show moral cowardice
It's a safe bet none of those involved in rioting on the streets of Belfast and elsewhere over the last couple of weeks felt shame when the pictures of flame and destruction were flashed round the world. Why should they?
Divis tower revisited
Gerry Adams took journalists on the roof of Divis Tower in west
Belfast to view the now-vacated site of an infamous British
spy-post.
September 19, 2005
UVF vendetta seen in petrol-bomb attack
Unionist paramilitaries have petrol-bombed the family of one of
their murder victims.
Adams hails US support for peace process
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP, who has spent four days in
political briefings in Washington DC, has expressed his
confidence that the Provisional IRA leadership will honour its
commitments, including that of engaging with the decommissioning
body and putting its weapons beyond use.
Sectarian gangs trawl for victims
A Catholic man from north Belfast has been viciously stabbed by
a unionist gang under the direction of a young woman who yelled:
‘Slice the Fenian bastard’.
UNIONISTS ISSUE DEMANDS
Unionist paramilitaries involved in intense violence on the
streets of Belfast have demanded the British government end what
it described as the “suppression and containment” of Protestants
in the North of Ireland.
Ferry company ships jobs
Irish Ferries is to replace hundreds of workers with seafarers
from eastern Europe in a move that has shocked trade unions and
political leaders.
The SAS
The SAS have carried on a ‘Dirty War’ in British colonies long
before their deployment in the conflict in the North of Ireland
or their latest skirmish in Iraq. A look at the history of the
Special Air Service, from the book ‘Oliver’s Army’ by Aly
Renwick.
CIRA vow to defend nationalist areas
Hardline republicans have promised a “vicious and violent”
response if nationalists are murdered by unionist
paramilitaries.
Heartland’s unionism belongs in a trailer park
By Tom McGurk (for the Sunday Business Post)
Last Saturday night the unionists of Belfast treated us to an evening of truly surreal proportions. Outside City Hall, thousands waving Union Jacks were part of a live BBC broadcast of the last night of the proms. They sang lustily. Donegal Square echoed to Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory.
September 15, 2005
Magilligan prison to go
It was confirmed yesterday that Magilligan Prison in County
Derry is to be replaced with a new jail.
UVF specified; Orange Order moves to fringe
The British government has confirmed that it no longer
recognises the UVF ceasefire. However, it is continuing to claim
that the largest unionist paramilitary organisation, the UDA, is
abiding by a ceasefire.
UNIONISTS BACK RIOTERS OVER POLICE
Mainstream unionist politicians have withdrawn from police
boards, condemning the PSNI police -- but not rioters -- after a
fifth night of disturbances in Belfast.
Unionists must sit down with Sinn Féin
By Martin McGuinness MP (for the Irish News)
The recent historic initiative by the IRA created an unprecedented sense of optimism and expectation that renewed progress can be made towards a lasting peace. The response has been almost universally positive and forward thinking. Except that is within the leadership of unionism. There the response has been negative, cynical and backward looking.
Demographic change sees surge in population, immigration
Ireland’s population is booming, according to new official
statistics which show a surge in immigration.
Colombia 3 case under discussion
The 26-County government has received ‘documentation’ from the
Colombian authorities relating to three Irishmen falsely accused
of training left wing rebels in the south American country.
Attack linked to McCartney dispute
Republicans have been blamed for an attack on a friend of Robert
McCartney in east Belfast on Monday night.
Destroying Ulster, not loving it
Last week’s rioting shows that unionists still remain leaderless
and have learnt little from the clear PR disasters that were
Drumcree, Harryville and Holy Cross.
September 12, 2005
Movement seen on IRA weapons, policing
The Provisional IRA is reported to be engaged in putting its
weapons beyond use this weekend, at the start of another week of
significant movement in the peace process.
Rip-off backlash hits Government support
Support for Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s Fianna Fail party has
declined dramatically, as voters blame the 26-County government
for higher prices.
PEACE UNDER SIEGE
Unionists riot to block process
A wave of intense street violence has gripped Belfast and other towns in the North of Ireland as unionists seek to send a message over recent developments in the peace process.
Colombia may seek extraditions
Jeffrey Donaldson of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party has
said that the Colombian foreign minister is to serve papers
seeking the extradition of the Colombia Three.
Ceasefire to be declared over
After days of open warfare, British Direct Ruler Peter Hain is
finally to admit that the unionist paramilitaries are no longer
on ceasefire.
Belfast fearful as mobs rampage
Nationalist residents of west Belfast’s Springfield Road were
subjected to hours of unionist intimidation and threats on
Saturday as the PSNI police stood by.
Hurricane of violence reaches Antrim
Several towns in County Antrim witnessed their worst ever street
violence over the weekend.
PSNI ignores incitement to hatred
In the bad old days of The Troubles there was a term coined
called “selective horror”. People were horrified by certain
acts, but not by others.
September 8, 2005
Ballymena butchers still at large
A Catholic man has described how loyalists discussed cutting up
his body with a saw after they mistakenly thought they had
stabbed him to death.
Catholics attacked as PSNI look on
Tension is mounting in west Belfast ahead of tomorrow’s
anti-Catholic march by the Orange Order in the Whiterock area.
Hain lets UVF ‘away with murder’
A report of the British government’s IMC sanctions body has
blamed the unionist paramilitary UVF for recent killings,
putting pressure on the British Direct Ruler Peter Hain to admit
that the group is in breach of its ceasefire.
PRESIDENT EMBRACES UDA LEADER
Irish President Mary McAleese provoked controversy yesterday by
publicly hugging a unionist paramilitary leader, despite being
forced to cancel a visit to the Shankill in Belfast under the
threat of violence.
McBrides find backing in battle for justice
By Barry McCaffrey (for the Irish News)
A north Belfast mother sat alongside the families of British soldiers and the loved ones of murdered Iraqi civilians.
Irony of voter registration drive
Electoral officers in the North are said to have launched a
campaign to return the votes of hundreds of thousands of people
disenfranchised by recent legislation.
‘Little Irelanders’ lack vision of the nation
Nationalists in the north are once again feeling the heat,
caught between two states.
After the border nothing exists
By Jude Collins (for Daily Ireland)
www.judecollins.net
When a TV programme is watched by one in four of the viewing population and puts the wind up politicians, it’s worth having a look at. So Monday found me switched on to the final episode of RTE’s Rip-off Ireland.
September 5, 2005
PSNI go easy on UVF rioters
The handling of a loyalist riot by the PSNI police in north
Belfast on Monday stands has sharply contrast with violent
clashes with nationalists over the weekend.
Omagh bomb trial to go ahead
There are fears that a miscarriage of justice could take place
in the case of a man accused of making the Omagh bomb.
Irish respond to US hurricane
The 26-County government will donate O1 million in aid towards
Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and is considering sending
troops to the region.
LIES OVER LUDLOW KILLING
An inquest into the death of a County Louth man shot dead by a
unionist paramilitary/British Army murder gang has been told
that the 26-County Gardai police knew the identity of his
killers within 18 months, but never sought their extradition.
The Seamus Ludlow campaign
Decommissioning ‘imminent’
Ian Paisley’s demands on decommissioning will fall on deaf ears
unless his party engages in direct talks with Sinn Féin, Martin
McGuinness has said.
Unionists and Gardai head to Colombia
The Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said the plight of the
Colombia Three now rests with the legal process -- even as
unionist hardliners and Ahern’s Minister for Justice campaign
for their prosecution.
Colombia Three - A Damning Case
Those who call for the Colombia Three to be forcibly returned to jail are full of hate and blind to reason when it
comes to discussing justice for Irish republicans.
September 1, 2005
UVF considering peace move - reports
Reports have claimed that the unionist paramilitary UVF may be
preparing to make a significant move in the peace process,
including ordering its members to ‘stand down’.
Blockade of oil depot planned
The main entry point for Shell Oil into Ireland is to be
blockaded as part of escalating protests against a controversial
new gas pipeline and onshore gas refinery.
Decision on Omagh bomb trial due
A magistrate will rule tomorrow on whether South Armagh man Sean
Hoey should stand trial for the murders of the 29 people killed
in the Omagh bomb of 1998.
FLAMES OF HATE
Two primary schools in Ballymena have been struck by unionist
arsonists in a start-of-term message of hate.
John Devoy
John Devoy was a persevering, courageous man -- involved in
every aspect of Irish revolutionary politics for over 60
years.
Ever get the feeling no-one’s in charge?
By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)
Tomorrow Sir Hugh Orde meets the Policing Board for the first time since July.
Keep your eye on the case of Sean Hoey
By Fr Des Wilson
The case of Sean Hoey will have to be watched with great care.
