POLITICAL FIGURES like Bertie Ahern and Jackie Healy-Rae who lost or resigned their seats as TDs should get just a basic redundancy package and not bonus payments at the cost of taxpayers, especially during the economic crisis, Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín has said.

The Meath West deputy said former ministers, TDs and senators are being paid “millions” despite the recession... Free article

IS THE British Government guilty of breaking international law in Libya? Has it been using the UN-authorised humanitarian intervention resolution to protect civilians in Libya’s civil war as a very thin smokescreen to use violence and military might to bring about regime change in another state – an oil-rich state?

Now that the Libyan rebels seem on the verge of ousting Gaddafi... Free article

Fáilte Ireland is unimpressed with the number of British visitors this year

BY MARK MOLONEY

IN the lead-up to the state visit by the Queen of England, newspapers and radio shows bombarded the native populace with a plethora of quislings and 'experts' telling us that the visit of an unelected British monarch would be 'great for tourism'.

But, alas, despite these predictions, ... Free article

SERIOUSLY-ILL Maghaberry prisoner Brendan Lillis was released on licence by the North’s Parole Commissioners on Thursday night.  The 59-year-old, who was rushed to hospital from prison last week, is suffering from a debilitating arthritic illness.

His release has been welcomed by Sinn Féin and the SDLP but unionists say they’re angry at the decision.

DUP Health Minister Edwin... Free article

A NEW gas extraction method, hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’, as it’s commonly called, could allow the exploitation of huge gas reserves in Ireland’s north-west but the controversial method could have major environmental impacts. MARK MOLONEY reports.

ON 1st April this year, a small earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter Scale struck the seaside resort of Blackpool in the... Free article

VICTIM IN A COMA FIVE YEARS AFTER UDA ASSAULT | QUESTIONS FOR UNIONISTS FROM DISTRAUGHT FAMILY

BY PEADAR WHELAN

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PAUL McCAULEY was a young man among friends throwing a farewell party for one of their number who was emigrating.
This was 16th July 2006 in the Waterside area of Derry.
The farewell barbeque had been held in good spirits – no trouble, no bother.Free article

IRISH CITIZENS are being denied the right to vote for the President of Ireland.
They can win an all-Ireland; they can even be a President of all-Ireland; but they cannot VOTE for a President of all-Ireland despite the fact that they are Irish citizens and live in Ireland . . . because they live in the North of Ireland.
Tens of thousands or Irish citizens living in the Six Counties... Free article

MURDER PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT BY BRITISH ARMY AND RUC AGENTS WESTMINSTER DELAYS PROBE DECISION AGAIN

THE WIFE of Pat Finucane, the human rights lawyer whose assassination in his north Belfast home by the UDA in 1989 is suspected to be an act of collusion between the unionist death squad and British crown forces, has accused Secretary of State Owen Paterson of breaking his... Free article

THE BRITISH ARMY’S ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT | NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS WHITEHALL KNEW OF REGIMENT’S LINKS WITH DEATH SQUADS

BY PEADAR WHELAN

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BRITISH GOVERNMENT papers dating from 30 years ago prove what nationalists knew all along — that the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment was heavily involved in collusion with loyalist killer gangs.
Evidence uncovered by the... Free article