There have been calls for an inquiry after a sectarian march
through the heart of Dublin resulted in widespread rioting and
disorder on Saturday.
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February 28, 2006
ORCHESTRATED RIOT
February 24, 2006
Top UDA man named as police agent
One of the most notorious sectarian killers of the conflict
worked for the RUC Special Branch police, it has been revealed.
Paisley suggests arming for conflict
The SDLP has accused DUP leader Ian Paisley of being
“disgraceful, reckless and inflammatory” after he
suggested that Protestants should be “forearmed” to deal with an
alleged IRA threat.
Ahern blanks Ludlow family
Relatives of a Dundalk man murdered by a gang of unionist
paramilitaries and British soldiers have criticised the 26-County
Taoiseach for refusing to meet them.
Concerns over ‘Love Ulster’ march
There are fears that a ‘Love Ulster’ parade organised by unionist
hardliners on Saturday through Dublin city centre could lead to
violence.
THE SPYING GAME
A document has been found which reveals the extent of ongoing
covert British military activity in south Armagh.
British ‘moving the goal posts’ - Cory
Canadian Judge Peter Cory has described the British government’s
approach to the Pat Finucane case as “Alice in Wonderland”.
SF won’t make the same mistake twice
Sinn Fein won’t be endorsing the PSNI or joining the Policing
Board any time soon.
Vision of freedom deserves to be honoured
Gerry Adams’s unequivocal support for and defence of the peace
process is significant because at the minute the peace process is
being squeezed.
February 20, 2006
Mass murderer kept in police pay
A unionist paramilitary convicted of 12 sectarian murders
continued to be paid by police after his release from prison, it
has emerged.
Paisley hates Irish President
26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today described a scathing
attack on President Mary McAleese by Democratic Unionist Party
leader Ian Paisley as immature.
USA feared Irish civil war
The US embassy in Dublin warned Washington after Bloody Sunday in
1972 that its failure to press Britain to change its policy in
the North threatened to plunge Ireland into civil war, it has
emerged.
UDA carry out brutal murder
The unionist paramilitary UDA has been accused of bludgeoning a
man to death in an alleyway on Saturday.
MUSICAL CHAIRS FARCE
Attempts to hold “phased multi-party talks” involving the North’s
five main political parties collapsed amid acrimony on Monday
afternoon.
Struggle has changed but goals remain - Adams
The following is an abridged version of the speech by Sinn Féin
president Gerry Adams to the party’s annual conference on Saturday.
US action alerts
The following action alert was issued by Irish Northern Aid.
Sinn Féin grassroots tackle party leadership
Delegates at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis were deeply divided in a
debate on policing and coalition policies, which saw the party
leadership narrowly holding its position.
February 16, 2006
Talks to go ahead without Blair
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has cancelled plans to go to
the North of Ireland to deliver a major speech intended to pave
the way for the restoration of a local power-sharing
administration.
Protest over PSNI raids
PSNI police raided the home of a former Sinn Féin councillor in
County Down this week as part of continuing efforts to smear the
party over last year’s Northern bank raid.
MI5 to run more informers
Plans to give British military intelligence an enhanced role in
the North of Ireland are being strongly opposed by nationalists.
Hunger strike commemorations launched
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the 25th anniversary of the
1981 hunger strikes must be used as an opportunity to look
forward as well as remember those who died.
AHERN RENEGES
A sudden u-turn by the 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on issue
of representation for northerners in the Dublin parliament has
shocked Sinn Féin.
Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan
As part of our continuing series on the 25th anniversary of the
1981 hunger strike, we look at the period of the early seventies,
including the death on hunger strike of Frank Stagg -- 30 years ago
this week.
Upbeat Ard Fheis planned
Sinn Féin is preparing to lay the groundwork for the next general
election in the 26 Counties at the 2006 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in
Dublin this weekend.
Sinn Féin facing highest hurdle
By Mick Hall (for the Blanket)
The bar of the hurdle which the UK government insist Sinn Féin must first overcome before they can join any Stormont Assembly Administration is currently set at SF’s membership of the PSNI Policing Boards. I have excluded the Irish government as I’m increasingly bewildered as to what their role in this matter is.
February 12, 2006
SDLP go missing on Irish unity vote
A County Tyrone council has become the first local authority in
the North to declare its official support for Irish unity.
Irish troops readied in Euro war plan
News that Irish troops are to join European ‘battle groups’ in
international conflict arenas has been met with grave concern by
Irish progressives.
Talks fuel speculation on UDA, UVF disbandment
The husband of the Irish President held secret talks with the UDA
in Belfast last week amid growing speculation about an imminent
announcement by the unionist paramilitary group.
PRISONERS REJECT MAGHABERRY PROPOSALS
The Republican Prisoners’ Action Group have said they reject the
“minimal nature” of recent proposals on Maghaberry prison policy
by the Six County Prisons’ Minister, Shaun Woodward.
Our struggle has advanced
Sinn Féin Dail Group Leader Caoimhghin O Caolain TD spoke
comprehensively about the current political situation at the
Annual General Meeting of Sinn Féin in the Six Counties at the
weekend. The following is the full text of his address.
DUP apology for disinvitation
A Democratic Unionist party mayor has been forced to apologise to
a Sinn Féin councillor and admit he was wrong.
DUP resignation changes calculations
A scandal-hit assembly member quit Ian Paisley’s DUP yesterday,
potentially altering the make-up of the North’s political
institutions.
IMC suits the last-ditchers in the DUP
What happens next year when the DUP is ready to sign up to a deal
with SF only for the IMC to emerge and provide another dollop of
what Martin McGuinness called ‘Balderdice’?
February 8, 2006
Ireland gets border-free mobile network
A mobile phone network has scrapped roaming charges between the
26 Counties and the Six Counties for all of its customers for the
first time.
McDowell apologises for Ludlow lies
A statement, issued on behalf of a third party from the Six
Counties, has said that new information would be made available
on the Ludlow case if such an inquiry was set up.
Lawyer ‘is member of UVF’
The PSNI police have alleged that a solicitor telephoned the
unionist paramilitary UVF from a police station and said a man
they shot should be “taken out” before he made a statement.
TALKS RESUME
The British government has rejected calls by the nationalist
parties for the Belfast Assembly to be reconvened as political
talks resumed in Belfast this week.
Special Branch knew of threat to Finucane family
Special Branch police were aware of a plot three years ago to
kill the family of Pat Finucane but failed to inform them of the
threat, it has been admitted.
Ownership of the Republic
Any attempt to conflate republicanism and sectarian Catholic
attitudes cannot be sustained.
Paisley just a blip in the ongoing peace process
Even though Hain rule is misrule and unrepresentative rule, it is
better than Paisley rule. We’ve waited for 800 years, what’s a
few more?
Political allowances restored to Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is to receive their allowances for the British
parliament and Belfast Assembly after a motion to have them
restored was passed tonight in the House of Commons in London.
February 4, 2006
Pipeline protestors defiant
The Rossport Five have suspended their involvement in a mediation
process with Shell Oil established by the Dublin government.
‘Not an inch’ - Paisley
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement was pronounced dead at the party’s
annual conference today as party leader Ian Paisley again
declared “No surrender” and “Not an Inch”.
Disband the IMC - SF
Sinn Féin has published a Bill in the Dublin parliament calling
for the 26-County government to end its political backing and
funding for the IMC and to have the legislation, which brought it
into being, repealed.
LIES AND PROPOGANDA
A conflict has appeared in the political establishment over a
report on IRA and unionist paramilitary activity by the
government-mandated ‘Independent Monitoring Commission’.
Rhetoric is not enough
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP made the following comments regarding the peace process to the National Conference
of Ogra Shinn Féin, the party’s youth organisation, which
met in Dublin City centre on Saturday.
Inequality continues in NIO, PSNI
The latest figures has revealed that less than one in four of
core departmental staff of the British government’s Northern
Ireland Office is Catholic.
CIRA to fight on
Claims by the IMC that two new hardline republican paramilitary
groups are operating in the North of Ireland has been greeted
with doubts.
Ugly McCarthyism in the body politic
By Colin O’Carroll (for Daily Ireland)
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry when faced with the latest execrable offering from the International Monitoring Commission (IMC). The toe-curling pomposity of the IMC’s pronouncements, their patronising chiding of the nationalist community for creating a “culture of unlawfulness”, and the vacuous nature of the allegations made against republicans are sick-making.
