Six County Economy Minister Baroness Denton personally ordered the transfer of a high ranking Catholic civil servant who suffered sectarian harassment in her Department of Agriculture job in 1995. Free article

Classified British army documents with instructions for using weapons such as grenade launchers and `Shrike' exploders have been found outside Gortin in County Tyrone. Free article

The South Armagh Brigade of the IRA has said that one of its units shot and killed British soldier Stephen Restorick who was hit by a single shot as he operated a checkpoint in the heavily fortified village of Bessbrook on Wednesday 12 February. Free article

Last Saturday 22 February, in the latest in a series of incidents, the RIR stopped a Lurgan taxidriver near Craigavon and made threats on his life. Free article

``I am a Catholic living in a Protestant estate and that is the only reason I was singled out. It's just sickening to think that someone would want to harm a pregnant woman and her child because of their religion.'' These words, spoken the morning after eight months pregnant Karen McVicker was burnt out of her Coleraine home, contradicted an RUC statement that the attack was not sectarian. Free article

``The issue of peace must take precedence over this election,'' said Sinn Fein Vice-President Pat Doherty during a press conference this week. Free article

How one visitor to a POW in England faced the vindictive disruption of visits Free article

I was talking to a guy the other week. I'm afraid to say it was in a pub as readers may start to think that I spend a goodly portion of my time in such places. But then it's often over a pint of the dark stuff that some of the most original ideas ferment. Anyhow, this fellow is from another part of the city, neither south or east; he comes form the place that people from West Belfast believe they need a passport to visit. Free article

Strabane Unionist councillors, in a bizarre exchange, have proposed making a ``pound for pound'' donation to the local British Army Benevolent Fund matching it to the 1000lb IRA bomb left in the town on 10 February. Free article

The side effects of genetically-engineered food are unknown yet it may soon be grown in Ireland. Robert Allen reports. Free article