Pressure for a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday is now unstoppable. Damning new evidence from a paratrooper who was in Derry when 14 civilians were murdered by his fellow soldiers has blown the lid off 25 years of lies and cover-ups. Free article

A County Armagh man who has admitted that he worked for British intelligence for two years while living in London has been ordered by the IRA to leave the Six Counties. Free article

US Senator Ted Kennedy, speaking at a reception in New York on Friday evening, urged both John Major and Tony Blair to promise to allow Sinn Féin into the Stormont talks if the IRA ceasefire was renewed. Kennedy said there should be no preconditions to Sinn Féin's inclusion. Free article

``The closure of the Royal Victoria Hospital's world famous neonatal unit has been averted following intensive efforts by Dr Joe Hendron'' boldly proclaimed an SDLP election newsletter delivered through the doors of West Belfast last week. Free article

``Unequal in life, unequal in death,'' was how a neighbour of the latest victim of the loyalist death squads described the callous and random slaying of Catholic father of ten John Slane. Free article

Washington was the green capital of the world this week, as the Irish, first, second, and economy class, jetted across the Atlantic to what is now the annual pilgrimage to the mecca of US politics, the White House. Free article