Two fundamental questions surround the discovery of a sophisticated bug in a car used by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams. They are: (i) Who authorised the operation? and (ii) If the British government did not, then are elements within the British secret services in Ireland now effectively out of control? Free article

Speaking in the Dáil on Budget 2000 on 2 December, Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin described it as the ``most divisive in years''. He lashed the tax discrimination against parents who choose to care for children in the home. Deputy Ó Caoláin said: Free article

The mother of a four-month-old baby girl says her child had a narrow escape when their home was attacked by loyalists at Broadway, West Belfast at 4.45am on Sunday 5 December. Free article

The RUC arrested a 12-year-old boy and his uncle on Saturday 4 December 1999, after three Downpatrick republicans held an anti-RUC protest on the rooftop of the local barracks. Free article

Rule 21 debate alive and kicking and Tough draw for McCarthy's men Free article

Sinn Féin Assembly member for North Belfast, Gerry Kelly, has slammed a sectarian attack on residents in the Bone and Ballybone areas of the Old Park. Free article

In a statement released at 12 noon on Sunday, 5 December, the IRA said that a meeting was held between an IRA representative and General John De Chastelain. Free article