Dessie O'Hare, former leader of the Irish National Liberation Army
(INLA), has finally been freed from prison, but not under the terms of
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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April 28, 2006
O’HARE RELEASED
IMC fuels calls for progress
An official report for the Dublin and London governments on allegations
of IRA and unionist paramilitary activity is the “most positive” yet
about the Provisional IRA following a peaceful path.
Marching season ‘breakthrough’
Nationalist residents have welcomed talks involving the Protestant
marching orders over their provocative and triumphalist parades through
Catholic areas in the summer months.
Helicopter incident in South Armagh
A South Armagh man is lucky to be alive after a lump of concrete fell
from a British Army helicopter onto his roof.
Monarchs not wanted
Britain’s ‘Duke of Edinburgh’, Philip Mountbatten, joined Irish
President Mary McAleese as guest of honour at an awards ceremony in
Dublin today despite protests by republicans.
Partition a tragedy for northwest
The partition of Ireland has left border communities struggling under a
lack of services both North and South, a Sinn Fein conference was told
on Wednesday.
Michael Davitt
May 2006 marks the centenary of the death of Michael Davitt,
nationalist, trade unionist, agrarian agitator and founder of the
National Land League.
A few bad apples don’t make a bad barrel
The IMC has failed to report that almost 70 active members of a certain paramilitary organisation have been convicted of criminal offences.
April 24, 2006
KILLERS ON THE LOOSE
Members of the PSNI police who shot and killed a motorist in County
Down last weekend are still armed and on duty, it has emerged.
DUP urged to move on
A government report is expected to again confirm that the Provisional
IRA no longer poses a threat and has moved further in what is described
as “ending criminality”.
Anti-Catholic parades in line for aid
Member lodges of the Protestant Orange Order have applied for over
two hundred thousand Euros of grant aid money to stage sectarian
parades.
Stab victim survives sectarian attack
A 20-year-old man has described how he was stabbed in the back in a
vicious sectarian attack at a busy shopping centre on a Saturday
afternoon.
Jurists criticise inquiry legislation
Controversial new legislation which will dictate how inquiries into
British Crown force collusion in a number of murders are held has been
criticised by an international panel of eminent jurists.
Easter lily sanction suspended
A judge has ordered a republican prisoner to be released from a County
Antrim prison's punishment block while a legal challenge is heard on
the wearing of Easter lilies.
Remembering Tom Barry
Gerry Kelly spoke on Sunday
at the annual Crossbarry commemoration, remembering the British Army
operation of 1921 which set out to eliminate Tom Barry’s famous Third
West Cork Flying column.
Values of Rising need to be renewed
There needs to be a debate about what it really does mean to be
Irish.
April 21, 2006
RIOTS FOLLOW ARRESTS
Rioting has continued in Lurgan, County Armagh for two days after PSNI
police staged a raid on Wednesday on what they claimed was a dissident
republican bomb factory.
Prisoners punished over Easter Lily
A republican prisoner has been refusing food and water after being
thrown into the prison's punishment block for wearing an Easter Lily.
Bill creates ‘transitional Assembly’
British Direct Ruler Peter Hain is rushing emergency legislation through the London parliament to enable the recall of the Belfast Assembly on May 15th....
Concern at Bloody Sunday delay
Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims have described the delay in the
publication of the report of the new Saville Inquiry into the 1972
shootings as 'ridiculous'.
Sectarian attackers ‘seen at parade’
Councillors in north Antrim have said members of a sectarian gang who
stabbed a young Catholic last weekend were spotted on
the sidelines of a parade by the Protestant Apprentice Boys
organisation in Ballymena.
SF seeks to prevent export of artefacts
Sinn Fein is to put forward a motion in the Dublin parliament demanding
legislation to prevent the sale and export of important historical
documents.
Siobhan O’Hanlon - a tribute
We shall benefit from the work Siobhan O'Hanlon did in her life - in the freedom
struggle, in the peace process, in the bridges she built.
Shootings ‘cult of silence’ must end
Until Easter Sunday Neil McConville was the only person the PSNI had
shot dead.
April 18, 2006
EASTER KILLING
A man shot dead by the PSNI at a checkpoint in County Down was unarmed
at the time, it has been revealed.
Huge turnout for Rising events
The Dublin establishment has joined in the commemorations held across
Ireland this Easter weekend to mark the 90th anniversary of the 1916
Rising.
UVF collusion scandal
A former senior RUC police officer has confirmed that a north Belfast UVF
commander was involved in more than a dozen murders while he worked for
RUC Special Branch.
Quiet start to marching season
The first of this year’s parades by the Protestant marching orders have
passed off without incident.
Dissident bomb ‘misguided’
An attempted bomb attack in Derry on Thursday has been linked to
dissident republicans.
IRA apologises for death of civilian
The Provisional IRA has apologised to the family of a Catholic man
killed in a bomb blast almost 32 years ago.
Proclamation at ‘heart and soul’ of republic
An edited version of the address by Sinn Féin’s Gerry
Adams at the annual Easter commemoration in Belfast.
Rising played pivotal part in Irish history
Shortly before 1pm on Easter Monday 1916, outside Dublin's GPO, the British
empire started to crumble.
April 14, 2006
RISING REBORN?
This weekend Ireland will witness one of the biggest official
commemorations of any historic event since partition.
Prison protest fast ended
An Irish republican awaiting repatriation from an English prison has
ended a fast begun in a bid to obtain better medical attention and
speed up his repatriation to be nearer his loved ones in Ireland.
DUP ‘disdain’ for new approach
Ian Paisley's DUP has warned London against any attempt to jointly
manage the Six Counties with the Dublin government.
Death of Siobhan O'Hanlon
A Sinn Fein official who was heavily involved in the party’s
negotiating team at the Belfast Assembly in the run up to the 1998 Good
Friday Agreement has died.
SDLP dissidents challenge Durkan
SDLP leader Mark Durkan is set to face a leadership challenge from the
former vice-chairman of the party.
Easter 1916
Just before noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, a group of 150 men
strode out of Liberty Hall in Dublin, then marched toward Sackville
Street (now O’Connell Street) a few hundred yards away.
McAllisters face deportation
In a decision filed on Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit decided against the McAllister family’s appeal
against deportation.
1916 and all that...
To justify or to sympathise or, at the minimum, to understand, 1916, is to justify, sympathise or understand the IRA’s armed struggle in the North.
April 13, 2006
IRA Easter message 2006
The text of the annual Easter message by the
Provisional IRA, in English and in Irish.
April 9, 2006
SF TO ATTEND STORMONT
Sinn Féin has said it will attend the reconvened Belfast Assembly on
May 15th with the purpose of forming a power sharing government.
RUC man revealed Donaldson hideout
A former RUC policeman helped identify the remote hideaway of British
superspy Denis Donaldson last month, it has been revealed.
Parades routed through flashpoint areas
The Protestant Apprentice Boys organisation has been given a green
light to hold sectarian marches through two combustible ‘interface’
areas on Easter Monday.
Prison abuses continue
Maghaberry prison authorities are trying to drive conditions for
prisoners on the republican wing back to those of the 1970s.
MI5 in US recruitment bid
British intelligence services tried to recruit him a Tyrone man to spy
on the Real IRA while on a family holiday last month in the United
States.
Same old story for Policing Board
Nationalists have criticised the re-election of Desmond Rea as chairman
of the North’s Policing Board.
A possible end to the political impasse
For the first time this week the notion of a ‘Plan B’ emerged.
Who killed Denis Donaldson?
Few in the media or among mainstream political parties have dared to
consider British involvement.
April 6, 2006
Joint Statement by Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair
The text of a Joint Statement issued today by
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the
city of Armagh
April 5, 2006
DEATH OF A DOUBLE-AGENT
The murder of top republican informer Denis Donaldson has caused
political shockwaves amid intense speculation about his killing.
Govts press ahead with recall plan
Sinn Féin has told Tony Blair that under no circumstances will it take
part in a powerless ‘shadow’ assembly in Belfast or its committees.
Movement on demilitarisation welcomed
Republicans have welcomed action on the promised demolition of five
remaining British army spy posts in south Armagh, which began suddenly
this week.
No Catholics need apply for new fund
Catholic areas are excluded from a new 33 million pound plan to
combat poverty in Belfast, it has been revealed.
Parades Commissioner openly biased
A member of the supposedly independent Parades Commission has admitted
he is working in support of the Protestant Orange Order “from inside
the fence”.
IRA Volunteer jailed
A former IRA Volunteer has been imprisoned in Germany over an attack on
a British army base in the country almost 17 years ago.
Uncanny parallel to Tan War
A review of the new book, 'The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920', by
Brian P Murphy.
Sham assembly just like old times
Tomorrow’s performance by Blair and Ahern promises to be a perfect
example of “the triumph of hope over experience”,
April 4, 2006
Top informer found dead
Denis Donaldson, who spied for British forces for over twenty years while working as a top
Sinn Fein official, has been found dead.
April 3, 2006
DUBLIN COLLUSION ALLEGED
Evidence has emerged that suggests the Dublin government ordered Garda
police not to pursue British military and unionist paramilitary
killers of Irish citizens in the 1970s.
Paisley’s demands conceded, say reports
It is being reported that the Belfast Assembly will be recalled three times in the next few
months and could be finally shut down on November 24.
Adams off US ‘terror’ list
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has been removed from a US government
‘terrorist watch list’ following a meeting between US politicians and
transport officials.
Sinn Fein condemns Derry bomb hoaxers
Republican youths have been blamed for bringing parts of Derry’s
Bogside area to a standstill
British demilitarisation promised
An announcement that British army personnel in the North will be
reduced to 5,000 by July 2007 has been greeted with scepticism by
nationalists.
SDLP stunned by resignation
The vice-chairman of the SDLP has resigned from his position, launching
a bitter attack on the party and its leadership.
A republican who could not be bought
A historian is aiming to rediscover the story of an Irishwoman whose
courage saved the leaders of a rebellion in 1803.
‘Feudal lord’ has illusions above his station
If ever there was a
politician on the make, it’s Peter Hain.
