There are fears that a new loyalist feud could break out after an attempt to oust the UDA leadership in North Belfast on Monday 13 October. Free article

Tourists strolling through the streets of Killarney last weekend must have thought the Irish equivalent of the Oscars was being held there. Perhaps another of the Taoiseach's daughters is getting married, they may have mused. No, not in this country, anyway. This was the annual gathering of Fianna Fáil. Free article

Within hours of a meeting between Dublin Government officials and Sinn Féin about sectarian attacks by unionist paramilitaries, the home of a Protestant pensioner married to a Catholic was once again attacked Free article

With the Irish presidency of the EU fast approaching, representatives of the Bring Them Home Campaign have conducted a number of meetings with various MEPs to highlight the case of the Colombia Three. Free article

Antrim Sinn Féin Councillor Martin Meehan was scathing after members of the PSNI handed him a booklet on personal protective measures after they informed him on Saturday 11 October that he was under a death threat from unionist paramilitaries. Free article

A former member of the Parachute Regiment who took part in Bloody Sunday subsequently joined the UDA, the Bloody Sunday inquiry discovered. Soldier 203, an arms and ammunition storeman in the British Army, was recalled to the inquiry after involvement with loyalist murder gang leading up to his conviction and imprisonment in 1977 was revealed. Free article

Sinn Féin West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty has demanded that a British soldier - convicted last week in Coventry, England, for attempting to steal a motorbike after putting a replica gun to the owner's head - be immediately removed from the Six Counties. Free article

The Six-County electoral office has admitted that thousands of voters in the nationalist Poleglass Estate of Belfast were "overlooked" during its recent voter registration drive, and thousands more will not have the photographic identification required to claim their vote. Free article

McCreevy 7, Return of the Stealth Tax is coming, launch date 3 December. In this latest installment, Finance Minister Vader lays siege to our disposable income with his competitiveness death star secretly sucking funds from PAYE tax payers, consumers and ordinary households, while interstellar tax evader Jabba O'Brien and other mercenaries still evade capture. Free article