30 August 2001 Edition
Boy assaulted by loyalists in Newry
30 August 2001
Fourteen-year-old Stephen Mathers, from Greenfield Park, Newry was viciously assaulted during a loyalist band parade in the town on Friday evening, 24 August. Free article
Derry UDA abduction attempt
30 August 2001
Sinn Féin Derry Cityside Councillor Barney O'Hagan has accused the UDA of attempting to abduct a man in the Abercorn Road area of the city in the early hours of Friday morning. Free article
Family's lucky escape in double pipe-bomb attack
30 August 2001
The father of a family of six, speaking after they had a lucky escape from a double pipe-bomb loyalist attack on their home in Ballynahinch in the early hours of Wednesday morning, has described a litany of loyalist attacks they have endured. Free article
Sinn Féin meet British government in bid to kick start talks
30 August 2001
Sinn Féin North Belfast Assembly member Gerry Kelly, Fermanagh South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew MLA and Dublin councillor Séan Crowe met British Minister Des Browne in Castle Buildings in a bid to kick start a process aimed at resolving the four outstanding issues blocking the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Free article
Colombia spook set-up
30 August 2001
It is now clear that the recent high profile arrests of three Irishmen in Bogota is a result of the machinations of shadowy forces within secret intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic with an interest in scuppering the direction of the peace processes in both Colombia and Ireland. Free article
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`Drugs Cocktail' claims three in West Belfast
30 August 2001
The families and friends of three young men and the entire West Belfast community are in a state of shock this week after the bodies of the three, who had earlier consumed a lethal mixture of drugs, were discovered on Sunday morning in Andersontown and Ballymurphy. Free article
Derry solicitor challenges RUC on Omagh
30 August 2001
Derry Solicitor Des Doherty, acting for Laurence Rush, whose wife Libby was killed in the Omagh bomb, has called on the RUC to answer claims that it had prior knowledge of the Real IRA attack. Free article
Holy Cross blockade looms again
30 August 2001
As the new school year approaches, the prospects of a return to Holy Cross Primary School in North Belfast for scores of young children appears bleak after loyalists walked out of talks chaired by the Mediation Network aimed at resolving the blockade. Free article
The Agreement is not a final settlement - Jim Gibney
30 August 2001
Looking around the Irish Labour History Museum in the former army base at Beggars Bush Barracks, Sinn Féin's Jim Gibney expressed the hope that the day would come when British bases in Ireland would serve a similarly useful purpose as the hosting of the Thirteenth Desmond Greaves Summer School. Free article
Haughey's slick sales job
30 August 2001
Yes he is. No he isn't. Yes he is, but not quite yet. Isn't it very telling that ten years after being forced from office and in the wake of three different tribunals that have left his political integrity shattered, we still have Charlie Haughey putting susceptible journalists through the hoops. Free article