Lurgan SF councillor John O'Dowd has accused the RUC of ``blatant harassment'' over its continual arrest and detention of people who took part in a `Nationalists Right To March' protest in Lurgan town centre two years ago. Free article

Loyalists attacked homes in two nationalist areas of Belfast on Monday evening. In separate incidents gangs of Loyalists attacked homes in Hillman Street in the New Lodge area of North Belfast and the Glengoland area in West Belfast. Free article

Just prior to their rampage in the Broadway area of West Belfast in the early hours of Tuesday 10 November, when they smashed in the windows of up to ten nationalist-owned houses, a loyalist gang attacked two men on the Falls Road. Free article

The `rebel' Orangeman Joel Patton - as he is dubbed by the media - is to appeal a decision by the Tyrone Orange Order to expel him. Patton had been charged with bringing the Order into disrepute. Free article

An Phoblacht has learned that the RUC in Armagh are continuing their campaign to recruit young men from the area to act as informers. Free article

A Sinn Féin delegation spent Monday and Tuesday of this week visiting the remaining five POWs in English jails who are awaiting repatriation to Ireland or transfer to the H Blocks. On Monday the delegation, Sean Crowe, Edel Kelly and Eoghan Mac Cormaic, visited Jan Taylor in Frankland prison, and in the evening spent an hour and a half with Patrick Kelly and Jimmy Murphy in Full Sutton. On Tuesday morning they travelled to see Nicholas Mullan and Michael Gallagher in Long Lartin. Free article

Residents from the Rathenraw housing estate in Antrim have challenged RUC statements about drug dealing. Free article

A spokesperson for the human rights group, Relatives for Justice, has complained of a campaign of intense RUC harassment. Free article

Anti-Catholicism In Northern Ireland 1600-1998 The mote and the beam By John D. Brewer with Gareth I. Higgins Free article

Sinn Fein Assembly member for Upper Bann, Dara O'Hagan, has written to the Patten Commission on Policing expressing the concern of North Armagh nationalists about two of the venues they selected for public meetings on 4 December. Free article