Ardoyne, Ligoniel, and the Bone districts of north Belfast have seen some of the worst violence of the troubles. Now a new campaign has been launched in an effort to gain recognition and justice for victims of state violence. Free article

A group of Australian MPs and trade union leaders have this week put their names to a letter sent to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern urging that the Good Friday Agreement be implemented in full, the institutions be restored, and the Assembly elections proceed on 29 May as planned. Free article

Paul Hill and four of the defence witnesses (Catherine Murphy, Michelle Devlin, Ros O'Sullivan and Laurence McKeown) for the Colombia Three trial were harassed by British Special Branch officers at Heathrow as they travelled from Bogota to Dublin, via Madrid and London. Free article

Residents of nine Dublin city centre flat complexes are to be given access to the latest computer equipment with high speed internet connections in new specially built "digital centres". Free article

The echoes of the Progressive Democrats annual conference have barely subsided and already there a clear difference between what the PDs say and what they actually do. Free article

Cathal Holland Free article