David Trimble has failed to justify his assertions that Sinn Féin cannot take their seats in an Executive and in the all-Ireland Ministerial Council until the IRA surrender its arms. Free article

Laura Friel reports on evidence of ongoing intimidation of nationalists in Portadown's Garvaghy Road, evidence which will be presented to Tony Blair next week Free article

Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin has called on the Minister for Justice John O'Donoghue to cancel the forthcoming joint training programme between the Garda Síochána and the RUC. It has been revealed that the Garda/RUC training will begin under the auspices of the FBI in the US later this month. Gardai and RUC members are also due to undertake joint training at locations in Ireland on both sides of the border. Free article

A new umbrella organisation representing 17 republican ex-prisoners groups from ten counties is to be launched in Belfast next Tuesday. Free article

Norman Coopey, found guilty of the brutal sectarian killing of sixteen year old schoolboy James Morgan, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Armagh courthouse last Friday 8 January. Free article

A republican ex-prisoner is in fear of his life after four men dressed in civilian clothing, claiming to be RUC officers, tried to abduct him. Free article