The Protestant Orange Order has refused to back new laws to deal with
sectarian marches in the North of Ireland, ensuring the controversial
Parades Commission will remain in place for at least another marching
season.
The world’s most-famous chat show star has dubbed 26-County Taoiseach
Brian Cowen a “drunken moron” following his infamous “hoarse” interview
on morning radio in Ireland.
A booby-trap device left at a PSNI base in Crumlin village earlier this
month has been claimed by the breakaway IRA group using the name Oglaigh
na hEireann.
A Junior minister was allegedly told to leave the studios of Ireland’s
state broadcaster, RTE, over fears that republicans were among a group
of unemployed audience members of Pat Kenny’s Frontline programme.
On September 23 1996, IRA volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill was shot dead
during an arrest operation by armed members of the Metropolitan Police
in Hammersmith, London, England.
Last week’s finding that there had been no State collusion in the
killing of Billy Wright said more about the unwillingness of the British
authorities to come clean about their own role than about the
circumstances of Mr. Wright’s death.
A socialist is likely to become the next 26-County Taoiseach according
to a new poll, which shows a further decline in support for the Fianna
Fail-Green Party coalition.
Shell Oil was forced to suspend work on the proposed new Corrib pipeline
route in north Mayo yesterday when two Shell to Sea campaigners boarded
one of the drilling rigs.
Tom Elliott, a 46-year-old Assembly member for Fermanagh-South Tyrone,
has been elected the new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party to succeed
Reg Empey.
A controversy has erupted in the North after loyalists were filmed
taking down County Down flags in south Belfast ahead of the All-Ireland
senior football final last week.
The daughter of Charlie Armstrong, one of the conflict’s so-called
‘Disappeared’, has thanked those who provided the information that
helped locate her father’s remains.
IRA Volunteer Tom Williams was hanged at age 19 by the British in
September 1942, 68 years ago this month, for his part in a gun battle
with the RUC which left one RUC man dead.
The 26-County Prime Minister Brian Cowen has insisted he retains the
full support of his Fianna Fail parliamentary party despite calls by
some members for a meeting to discuss his leadership.
Claims last week that a secret fund has been set up to channel money to
certain loyalist organisations have still not been denied by Six County
officials
The London and Dublin governments should sponsor a process between the
parties in the Six Counties to bring forward a Bill of Rights for the
North, the head of the North’s Human Rights Commission has said.
The Dublin government is being brought “screaming before the courts” by
Sinn Fein on the issue of the three outstanding by-elections, according
to the party’s Dail leader Caoimhghin O Caolain.
The opening address to Sinn Fein’s ‘think-in’ ahead of
the resumption of the Dublin parliament next month, by the Sinn Fein
Dail leader Caoimhghin O Caolain.
The 26 County Taoiseach Brian Cowen has been forced to apologise for a
Tuesday morning radio interview that embarrassed his Fianna Fail party
and generated widespread negative international commentary.
British military intelligence has said no sanctions should be placed on
the UVF despite the unionist paramilitary group murdering a man while
supposedly on “ceasefire”.
Incompetence by prison warders and not state collusion created
conditions which led to the killing of Billy Wright, the inquiry into
his murder has found.
A number of hidden cameras found in trees overlooking the headquarters
of British military intelligence in Ireland may have been planted by a
republican armed group, according to reports.
New evidence has emerged of attempts by the old Stormont regime and the
British Army to prevent British soldiers who shot innocent Irish
civilians in the early years of the conflict being tried for murder.
Ulster Unionists were accused of “sour grapes” at a court hearing in
Tyrone over attempts by Unionist unity candidate Rodney Connor, who lost
out by four votes, to declare void Sinn Fein’s victory in the
Westminster election in May.
The Billy Wright Inquiry has found there was no collusion by the British
state in the murder by the republican INLA (Irish National Liberation
Army) of the unionist paramilitary leader in Long Kesh 13 years ago.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has called for the Dublin parliament to
be reconvened immediately to discuss the banking crisis and soaring
unemployment.
A 700-Page report into the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
execution of unionist paramilitary leader Billy ‘King Rat’ Wright is to
be published later today.
The 26-County state been ordered by the European Court of Human Rights
to pay compensation to senior republican Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane for the
extraordinary decade-long delay in bringing him to trial.
The rescue of Colonel Kelly and Captain Deasy while they were being
conveyed to Salford gaol, near Manchester (September 18th, 1867), is one
of the most stirring episodes of the Fenian movement.
A UDA gang is believed to have planted the pipe bomb at a largely
Catholic primary school in County Antrim on Monday which was found by an
eight-year-old
The North’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said he was in
the IRA in Derry city in 1972 but did not know who carried out the
Claudy bomb attack, and still doesn’t know.
Sinn Fein’s Six-County Ministers have refused to comply with British
and DUP requests to identify areas to target public spending cuts in
their departments at Stormont.
Families of eleven people killed by the British army in Ballymurphy
nearly 40 years ago have revealed that they have been contacted by one
of the British soldiers involved in the shootings.
The High Court has dismissed a claim by survivors of the Dublin and
Monaghan bombings that the handling of parts of a report complied by the
Commission of Investigation into the atrocities amounted to a breach of
the State’s human rights obligations.
It will not come as a surprise to the leadership of Eta or the political
leaders of the banned Herri Batasuna - the party closest to Eta - that
the Spanish government’s response to the ceasefire announcement was
insulting and offensive.
The Spanish authorities today defied international peace appeals and
said they will maintain their bloody conflict with Basque armed group
ETA, which is fighting to win independence for a Basque state northeast
of Spain.
Several hundred people took to the streets of Dublin on Saturday to
demonstrate against the presence of former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair in the capital.
Irish republican prisoner Michael Campbell, who has been held in Lukiskes
prison in Lithuania since early 2008, has now contracted malaria at the jail.
A report into the 1992 murders of five Catholics in a south Belfast
bookmakers has revealed one of the guns used by the UDA had been handed
back to the gang by the RUC (now PSNI) police.
British soldiers watched as a pro-British death squad murdered a
Catholic teenager in west Belfast, a report by the police’s Historical
Enquiries Team (HET) has found.
In his memoirs, ‘A Journey’, published yesterday, the former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair said he took “horrendous” chances and
stretched the truth “past breaking point” as he dealt with unionists and
republicans deadlocked over talks to restore devolved powers.
A number of progressive and republican organisations are to hold a
protest in Dublin this weekend as former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair signs copies of his autobiography.
British Army bomb experts have carried out a controlled explosion this
afternoon [Thursday] on Craigavon Bridge in Derry following what the
PSNI police said was the discovery of a “suspicious object” by a
pedestrian.
A new survey shows middle income families in the 26 Counties are
struggling like never before with escalating unemployment coupled with
serious mortgage repayment difficulties.