Political prisoner Gerry McGeough has been released from Maghaberry
Prison after serving two years of his sentence for his part in an IRA
action more than 30 years ago.
The family of Marian Price have been told this evening that her
application for compassionate parole following the tragic death of her
sister Dolours has been refused.
The British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers has dismissed nationalist
calls for a border poll on Irish unity, saying political attention was
“better focused elsewhere”.
The rate of suicide among young people in Ireland is one of the highest
in Europe, new figures show, with the rate even higher in the Six
Counties area.
A Derry man has revealed how he was approached at a French airport by
two men who identified themselves as members of MI5. Another man has
said he was recently approached to become an informer by the PSNI in
Derry, while another reported recruitment bid took place recently in
Manchester.
Tributes have been paid to Inez McCormack, a key supporter of the
MacBride principles on fair employment, who died this week aged 69
following a battle with cancer.
US radio talk show host Sandy Boyer (SB) interviewed Bernadette
Devlin-McAliskey (BDM) about this weekend’s Bloody Sunday March in Derry.
A transcript of that interview, which also ranges over
other matters.
The Short Strand, a small working class nationalist and republican enclave
of less than 3,000 men, women and children, has come under a renewed
siege in the past week by violent loyalists.
New efforts to end the flag riots in the North of Ireland have seen
church leaders and even loyalist paramilitary figures take the lead in
seeking an end to the violence.
A terminally ill Derry man has experienced elation and heartbreak this
week after an appeal court in Belfast quashed his controversial
conviction for the 2009 Real IRA attack on the Massereene British Army
base -- only to order a retrial, while refusing him bail.
The media coverage of the flag protests and riots is being increasingly
called into question after members of the UVF were seen to act as guides
for some members of the international media covering the flags protests.
Britain’s Tesco retail chain store has been linked to factories
manufacturing and selling beefburgers in Ireland containing a high
percentage of horsemeat.
The unionist forum was devised as a stop-gap, a talking shop, a
cynical ploy to try to take the heat out of the commotion on the
streets. In that respect it has already failed as it was bound to. In
other respects it has set the clock back.
A sudden attack on the small nationalist enclave of the Short Strand
tonight saw the homes of elderly residents set ablaze and a group of
adults with special needs come under petrol bomb attack.
A flags protest at Belfast City Hall swiftly degenerated into violence
this afternoon after a unionist mob charged towards a nationalist
enclave in east Belfast, attacking homes and launching into hours of
intense riots.
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Plastic bullets were fired and water cannons were used as rioting
erupted early this evening at loyalist flags protests.
A deal between the 26 County Garda police and arch-loyalist Willie
Frazer for a secret protest in Dublin has been revealed -- just hours
after Frazer said he would not condemn an assassination attempt on the
life of Six County Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Legal proceedings against Marian Price were adjourned on Wednesday at
Derry’s Magistrate’s Court after District Judge, Mr Barney McElholm said
he would have to take advice from medical professionals regarding the
republican prisoner’s fitness to appear.
Two senior republicans are seeking to go before the European Court of
Human Rights in a bid to overturn a ruling that they were liable for the
Omagh bombing.
Ongoing investigations into the UVF mean that even
if some solution is found for the flag protests, disturbances will not
end in loyalist districts which the UVF control.
A loyalist gunman opened fire tonight in east Belfast as three nights
of rioting by the paramilitary UVF escalated. Tonight again saw attacks
against both the PSNI police and residents of the nationalist Short
Strand enclave.
Unionists and loyalists angered by the removal of the British Union Jack
flag above Belfast City Hall are increasingly turning to violence and
threats as their protests fail to deliver any progress.
A member of the PSNI police discovered a potential bomb under his
vehicle in east Belfast last Sunday afternoon, and republican militants
are believed to be responsible.
A loyalist paramilitary gang is engaged in a spate of attacks in the
Glens of Antrim, with little interest shown by the police, according to
Sinn Féin.
A Newry tradesman has been the subject of a failed PSNI attempt to
recruit informers, according to the socialist republican party, eirigi.
The latest such incident occurred just before Christmas.
Sinn Féin’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has been awarded an
English aristocratic title in order to secure his resignation as an MP,
it has been confirmed.
A further look at the archives of government papers, mostly from
the year 1982,
which were released ahead of the New Year period in Dublin, London and Belfast.
The New Year is traditionally a time for Sinn Fein and republican groups
to issue statements to their supporters. We present a round-up
of the statements issued this year.