Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness met with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday and impressed upon him the need for positive movement in the political process before the Christmas break. Free article

Gerry Adams, writing from Washington, outlines the continuing Unionist strategy to renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement Free article

The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become, The further you take my rights away, the faster I will run. . . Free article

Damning new evidence about Bloody Sunday which has just come into the public domain will now form part of the evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry. Free article

Weapons brought into Ireland from South Africa by British Intelligence for use by loyalist death squads have resurfaced in the hands of the Red Hand Defenders and the Orange Volunteers. Free article

Sinn Fein in Belfast has stepped up the street campaign for the Disbandment of the RUC with a series of protests. Starting last Friday and continuing throughout the week they mark an increasing impatience among nationalists for radical change in the nature of policing. Free article