IRISH PEACE PROCESS
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Post Views: 3 The Six-County administration at Stormont has been criticised for adopting a ‘securocrat’ response to the marching season. Trade union leader Peter Bunting had been among those who called for political leadership from Stormont, particularly from the First
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Post Views: 3 Supporters of critically ill Maghaberry prisoner Brendan Lillis are to stage a hunger protest in a last-ditch attempt to convince the Stormont and British authorities to release him from prison before he dies. His partner Roisin Lynch
Read More‘Militant republicans’ blamed for second night of violence in Belfast 0
Post Views: 11 Democratic Unionist MP denies violence was caused by loyalists’ insistence on marching past Catholic Ardoyne area Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent Nationalist youths set fire to a hijacked car during rioting following an Orange parade in Belfast. Photograph:
Read MoreTwenty arrested as rioters and gardaí clash for almost three hours in city Scuffles between protesters and gardaí took place yesterday in Dorset Street and adjoining streets in the north inner city. 0
Post Views: 5 CONOR LALLY, Crime Correspondent HUNDREDS OF rioters clashed with gardaí for almost three hours in Dublin city centre yesterday, throwing fireworks, glass bottles and bricks. Riot squad officers responded by charging the crowds.There were 20 arrests, with
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Irish Republican Marian Price interned
Post Views: 26 Prominent republican Marian Price has been summarily jailed by the British government following her rearrest at a Derry courtroom yesterday.The order to send Ms Price to jail came last night on the eve of her court appearance,
Read MoreQueen to begin historic State visit to the Republic 0
Post Views: 8 Gardai search pedestrians at security barriers yesterday in preparation for the arrival of Queen Elizabeth in Dublin city centre.Photograph: Eric Luke STEPHEN COLLINS and CONOR LALLY Queen Elizabeth II will arrive in Baldonnel at noon today to
Read MoreBombing Omagh 0
Post Views: 4 By Anthony McIntyreOmagh is the last venue that armed republicanism might be expected to have put in an appearance. It takes some nerve. There, the levels of abhorrence for the phenomenon are probably higher than they are
Read MoreOmagh murder fuels fears that terror groups have new weapons 0
Post Views: 36 Anti-ceasefire republicans better-organised, say security forces as booby-trapped car kills 25-year-old Ronan Kerr Henry McDonald and Richard Norton Taylor Forensic officers work at the scene after Catholic police officer Ronan Kerr, 25, was killed by a booby-trap
Read MoreBomb explodes in Derry 0
Post Views: 14 A car bomb exploded in Derry city last night (4 October) in a commercial riverside district near the junction of the Strand Road and Culmore Road. There were no casualties, but substantial damage was caused to the
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Orange parade forced through Ardoyne
Post Views: 6 The controversial Orange Parade has been forced through Ardoyne in north Belfast after a non-violent sit-down protest was brutally forced off the road. The protestors were clubbed and beaten by riot police and pushed from the Crumlin
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