20 June 2002 Edition
Licensed to kill
20 June 2002
``Finucane would be alive today if the peelers hadn't interfered.'' These are the direct words spoken by Ken Barrett, former RUC Special Branch agent and one of the two loyalist gunmen said to be involved in the 1989 killing of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Free article
50 days of attacks
20 June 2002
"This community has been physically, socially and psychologically persecuted over the last 50 days," says Sinn Féin's Joe O'Donnell. He is standing beside a row of houses in the Clandeboye area of Short Strand, the nationalist enclave in east Belfast that has been the focus of a sustained loyalist attack. Free article
Neither rain nor soccer dampen spirits
20 June 2002
The mood of the annual Bodenstown commemoration last Sunday wasn't dampened by pouring rain nor the fact that the Irish had just lost to Spain in the World Cup. Free article
More screening at Bloody Sunday inquiry
20 June 2002
Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims have reacted angrily to a ruling by Lord Saville allowing for the screening of two British soldiers when they give evidence to the inquiry. Free article
Former POW wins damages from NIO
20 June 2002
In what was described as a precedent setting case, an Armagh ex-POW has won damages against the NIO for injuries received as a result of the treatment of prisoners following the discovery of a tunnel in Long Kesh in 1997. Free article
Shot for carrying a chair leg
20 June 2002
The inquest into the shooting of Harry Stanley by the Metropolitan police on 22 September 1999 opened at St Pancras coroner's court, London, on Monday. Free article