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Clare Lockout - Community management board shuts up shop (Free article)
5 February 2004
Imagine a scenario where you, the taxpayer, has ordered that some of your taxes be directed to a worthwhile local scheme finding work for the long-term unemployed. Imagine that that scheme is extraordinarily successful and is slowly helping an area of disadvantage get back on its feet. Now imagine that the management board of that invaluable…
Young racists target Indian family (Free article)
5 February 2004
An Indian family who recently moved to Bangor has been subjected to regular racial abuse from children as young as ten and plagued by young racists attacking their home with eggs and stones. The devoutly Christian family has already endured a long line of attacks since they moved into their new home on Beechwood Avenue only three months ago.
Special Branch up to old tricks (Free article)
5 February 2004
Sinn Féin in Derry says the PSNI Special Branch kidnapped a man in an attempt to recruit him as an informer. The incident came to light after the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, contacted Sinn Féin. Councillor Barney O'Hagan told how the man was abducted after being stopped on Foyle Bridge in the early hours of Friday 23 January by uniformed…
Sinn Féin member threatened (Free article)
5 February 2004
Those behind an alleged threat issued to a County Armagh Sinn Féin activist are "lacking in political intelligence and credibility", says Sinn Féin Councillor Cathy Rafferty. A Mass Card with a bullet enclosed and containing the words RIP and was signed Continuity IRA, Armagh was sent to the member last week.
80 maritime distress flares in UDA hands (Free article)
5 February 2004
The nautical distress flare used in a sectarian attack on children at the Lamh Dhearg GAA pitch on the outskirts of West Belfast on Sunday 25 January by the UDA was the first one used from a batch of 80 stolen by unionist paramilitaries from business premises in Dunmurry last February.
Antrim Road PSNI heads civilian complaint list (Free article)
5 February 2004
Newly-released figures from the Police Ombudsman's office show that the PSNI barracks located on the Antrim Road in North Belfast has received more complaints and allegations of mistreatment than any other in the Six Counties. Statistics show that out of 552 allegations of misconduct made between October 2000 and November 2003, a shocking 444…
British Government under pressure over Cory Report (Free article)
5 February 2004
Pressure is mounting on the British Government to publish the Cory Report after the family of assassinated human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson lodged papers at the High Court in Belfast last Wednesday 28 January seeking a judicial review of the British Government's refusal to publish the report.
PSNI accused of media manipulation (Free article)
5 February 2004
Sinn Féin Councillor Marie Moore has accused the PSNI of "media manipulation" after they carried out a series of house raids and arrests in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast last Wednesday 28 January. And the Sinn Féin councillor has revealed that just hours after the PSNI briefed journalists that four men arrested in the raids were part of…
Belfast petition for St Paddy's Day funds (Free article)
5 February 2004
SDLP Mayor of Belfast and Sinn Féin Councillor Tom Hartley joined forces with Irene Sherry of the St Patrick's Day Carnival Committee to launch a petition outside City Hall in Belfast calling for Belfast Council to fund a St Patrick's Day Carnival at the City Hall.
Catholic man escapes sectarian murder bid (Free article)
5 February 2004
Sectarian tensions have increased in Newtownabbey and North Belfast, where a young man was lucky to escape with his life after he was attacked by two loyalists armed with a machete or large kitchen knife on Sunday 1 February. Liam Hughes (24), a father of one, was set upon at 7.30am by two men who jumped out of a white Vauxhall Astra car near the…
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