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Clooney base plans welcomed (Free article)
5 May 2005
Derry citizens have welcomed the decision that the former British Army base at Clooney is to be re-developed to create social and economic benefits for the people of the city. However, the speed with which the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the Northwest Development Office secured the site and published a consultation paper on its…
Tournament a success (Free article)
5 May 2005
The inaugural One League five-a-side soccer tournament, organised to promote the creation of a unified Irish soccer league, proved a massive success last Sunday, when supporters' teams from Cork City, Derry City, Glenavon, Linfield and Bohemian FC played in a friendly yet competitive competition in Dublin.
UDA members to tell all on cohorts (Free article)
5 May 2005
It emerged at Belfast High Court on Wednesday 27 April that two UDA members currently in protective custody, are to give evidence against six men accused of membership of the loyalist paramilitary organisation and of drug offences.
British accused of double standards (Free article)
5 May 2005
Sinn Féin candidate in North Belfast, Gerry Kelly, (above) has hit out at what he described as gross double standards after a PSNI member was awarded £416,000 for injuries he received when a British soldier shot him.
Sectarian attacks in Derry (Free article)
5 May 2005
Two Catholic schoolboys were assaulted in a sectarian attack in Derry by up to six loyalist youths as they made their way home from school on Thursday 28 April.
East Europeans attacked by racist thugs (Free article)
5 May 2005
There has been a series of racist assaults over the past week. In the first racist attack, a pipe bomb was left at the home of three workers, all from Eastern Europe, on Thursday 28 April. Residents at Greenfield Park in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, had to be evacuated from their homes after the device, believed to have been planted by loyalists,…
SF MEPs support GUE/NGL resolution on McCartney (Free article)
12 May 2005
Sinn Féin MEPs Bairbre de Brún and Mary Lou McDonald on Tuesday supported a GUE/NGL resolution in the European Parliament supporting the McCartney family's campaign for justice. That motion was rejected by the parliament, which backed a motion on the issue that Sinn Féin could not support. The Sinn Féin MEPs abstained on the motion that was…
Don't miss the point (Free article)
12 May 2005
Last week's Westminster and local elections were painted very much as battles between Sinn Féin and the SDLP on the one hand, and the DUP and the UUP on the other.
Who is Peter Hain? (Free article)
12 May 2005
By my reckoning, the North of Ireland is now on its 15th secretary of state since the introduction of direct rule in 1972, beginning with William Whitelaw [of whom Margaret Thatcher famously said - and without a trace of irony, so don't go thinking that she has a sense of humour or anything - "every Prime Minister needs a Willie"] to the present…
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