The eighth anniversary of the killing, by two British soldiers, of North Belfast teenager Peter McBride was marked by a series of events throughout the Six Counties and in London this week. Free article

Long-standing Ardoyne republican Martin Meehan will carry the Sinn Féin torch in this month's Westminster by-election in South Antrim. The election, to be held on 21 September, is for the seat left vacant by the death of Ulster Unionist stalwart Clifford Forsythe earlier this year. Free article

Ormeau Road residents saved a man from serious injury or death when they frightened off a loyalist gang who were attacking him. Free article

The decision by Mo Mowlam to announce her retirement from politics was hardly a surprise. In the last week, the rumour mill had started to crank itself up, speculating on her imminent departure. So when the former Six-County Direct Ruler, on Monday 4 September, made her announcement, the political obituaries were more or less written and ready to go to print. Free article

Rosemary Nelson was an ordinary mother. An ordinary solicitor living in an ordinary house with an ordinary job. Last Wednesday night, this was the biased and totally unrepresentative image that ITV's Britain's Most Wanted programme portrayed of Rosemary Nelson. The politically sensitive nature of her work and the threats she had received were never once mentioned, despite the fact that such considerations were key to the circumstances surrounding her murder. Free article

A retired Australian High Court Judge has been appointed to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry. Free article

At last July's meeting of Louth County Council, the council management tried, as they have done in every other county council meeting, to railroad through M. C. O'Sullivan's draft waste management plan for their region. Free article

Plans by property developers to dwarf historic Kilmainham Jail and surrounding houses are being opposed by residents of Kilmainham and Inchicore in Dublin. Free article

Last Friday, Galway County Council unanimously rejected the Connaught Regional Draft Waste Management Plan. Free article

Seven months have gone by since the disclosure earlier this year of systematic falsification of quality control records at British Nuclear Fuel's Sellafield (BNFL) Mox reprocessing plant, yet nothing has happened to create even the smallest amount of confidence in the British nuclear industry. In fact, the opposite is the case. The nuclear power industry is still unsafe, still badly run and even more economically inviable, especially now that the magnitude of the decommissioning costs of obsolete power stations is becoming more clearly known. Free article