24 May 2001 Edition
Loyalists step up sectarian attacks
24 May 2001
With tension across the North rising in the run up to Westminster and local government elections and the marching season, loyalist activity is once again on the increase Free article
McCreesh and O'Hara remembered
24 May 2001
Fr Brian McCreesh, accompanied by parish priest Fr Bradley, concelebrated the 20th anniversary mass for his brother Raymond in Camloch last Monday night, 19 May. Free article
Remembering Carol Anne
24 May 2001
With the British government coming under sustained nationalist pressure over its refusal to ban the use of plastic bullets in the North, the 20th anniversary of the killing of 12-year-old Carol Ann Kelly was marked near her Twinbrook home on Sunday 20 May. Free article
Bloody Sunday Inquiry - The MoD fix is in
24 May 2001
One way or another, the British security services, none more so than the MoD, are determined to bring down the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. The latest tactic, which has evolved over the course of the past two weeks or so, has crystalized around the proposed use of intelligence material gathered on something like 1,200 witnesses to the inquiry. Lawyers acting for the British soldiers are hoping to use such information to attempt to discredit witnesses in their continuing efforts to shift attention away from the British Army's actions on the day. Free article
British officer suspect in Dublin/Monaghan bombings
24 May 2001
From the outset, British collusion in the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings and in the subsequent cover up has been suspected. Now, a retired civil servant who witnessed a British Army officer acting suspiciously in Dublin city centre on the day of the bombings, has come forward. Free article