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More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
21 May 2009
IT'S NOT often that I regret my family's having left the ancestral hearth in North Tipp but this election has provided one reason. If I was there then I would be able to vote for someone other than Seán Kelly in the European elections. Toireasa Ferris, obviously, but the main object of the exercise would be NOT to vote for Seán Kelly. Why, you…
Hamill Inquiry - RUC officer denies suspect tip-off (Free article)
21 May 2009
ONE of the four RUC officers at the scene during a brutal sectarian attack in which Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill was fatally injured denied at the Hamill Inquiry last week that he had tipped-off one of the loyalist murder suspects. Robert Hamill was walking home with a friend and two female cousins when they were attacked by a sectarian mob…
Remembering the Past: Brave Volunteer prevents mass murder (Free article)
21 May 2009
In May 1994 the Irish Peace Process was in its most delicate early stages with the Irish Government, Sinn Féin and the SDLP moving towards political progress which would lead, later that year, to the first IRA cessation. But set against the process were powerful forces, not least British military intelligence and their loyalist surrogates. On 21…
Omagh bombing - RUC refused to testify (Free article)
21 May 2009
A MEMBER of the RUC investigating team and another Special Branch officer refused to co-operate with an inquiry concerning the 1998 Omagh bombing, a committee of Westminster MPs has heard from the inquiry chief, Sir Peter Gibson. The inquiry was established after a BBC Panorama programme claimed that Britain's Government Communications…
Shankill Butcher under investigation found dead (Free article)
21 May 2009
A RINGLEADER in the notorious Shankill Butchers loyalist sectarian murder gang has been found dead in his north Belfast home. William Moore was due to be questioned by the PSNI's Historical Enquiries Team about the murder of a west Belfast man in January 1974.
Loyalist gangster Shoukri fined £1 (Free article)
21 May 2009
NORTH BELFAST Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly has described the £1 fine imposed by Belfast High Court on former UDA leader Andre Shoukri last week as "beyond belief". Shoukri, renowned for his life of crime and the lavish lifestyle it funded, is currently serving a nine-year sentence for the extortion and blackmail of a north Belfast bar owner.
Adams attends Palestine Solidarity AGM in Dublin (Free article)
21 May 2009
THE Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign's AGM in Dublin last Sunday was attended by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, recently returned from a fact-finding visit to Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. One of the speakers at the AGM was Independent Leftist PLO Executive member As'as Abdul Rahman, whom the Sinn Féin leader met in Palestine only weeks…
Deireadh na scéime 'Baile Beo' (Free article)
21 May 2009
Fógraíodh droch-scéal an tseachtain seo caite do choisti aggus pobail Ghaeltachta nuair a deimhnigh Pádraig Ó hAoláin, Príomhfheidhmeannach Údarás na Gaeltachta na ráflaí a bhi ag dul thart le tamall nach mbeidh an scéim 'An Baile Beo' ag dul ar aghaidh feasta - droch-thoradh eile na gciorruithe atá an tÚdarás ag cur i fheidhm mar gheall ar an…
Policing meeting in Irish a historic step forward (Free article)
21 May 2009
The North's Policing Board held a groundbreaking meeting this week entirely through the medium of Irish. Speaking in advance of the meeting in Derry's City Hotel on Tuesday night Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Martina Anderson described it as a historic step forward in terms of equality for the Irish language community. "This is a…
International : Sri Lanka (Free article)
21 May 2009
While the Sri Lankan military has achieved a 25-year-old goal in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) this does not equate with a guarantee that the war for an independent Tamil homeland is over. Already, lurid stories are beginning to circulate of the fate that befell the last remaining Tamil Tigers, including the senior…
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