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  • IRA veterans aid N.Ireland dissidents, report says
  • Dublin Appeals To DUP Over Justice
  • Maskey-"West Belfast shooting disgusting"
  • Jacques Chirac criticises Margaret Thatcher re: Hunger Strike
  • Unionist's reject North West's special economic need

  11/04/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • SF may quit over delay in transfer of police powers
  • Anxiety at lack of action on policing and justice
  • Attack on Britain planned - IMC
  • 'Loyalists may hijack remembrance parade'
  • Colliding views over Knock apparitions
  • Protestant farmer's sheep live in fear

11/05/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein threats will stall justice talks, says Peter Robinson
  • TUV apologise for calling Irish a 'leprechaun language'
  • Downing Street and the DUP still failing to learn lessons
  • Nationalists won't accept abolition of Parades Commission
  • SDLP has the chance to be strong political force again
  • Soil 'links Duffy to two murders'
  • The loyalist threat to Northern Ireland

11/06/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • NI leaders in London for talks
  • Golden circle free for all continues
  • Bowls champion’s car is destroyed in petrol bombing
  • DUP’s secret plot to oust Ian Paisley

11/07/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • 'Working for a united Ireland'
  • Allister slams DUP
  • TUV targets end of power-sharing
  • SF 'playing second fiddle' to DUP
  • Fears of Unionist backlash tempered IRA campaign
  • Derry City booted out of League of Ireland
  • Statistics show high rate of police complaints in W. Belfast
  • Impact of pope's decree begins to dawn on Church of England
  • Monopoly omits Falls and Shankill
  • Adams warns British government

11/08/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Police Reserve is deal breaker-DUP
  • PSNI claims compliance with shoot-to-kill inquest
  • Building Plans At RUC Site 'Undemocratic'
  • Unionist leader urges Robinson to ditch Sinn Féin from Exec
  • Five arrests linked to loyalists
  • 'Dissident threat to NI judges'
  • Future generations to shoulder the burden of NAMA – Doherty
  • McCartney contacts FAI President over the future of Derry City
  • Conor Murphy speaks at annual Edentubber Commemoration

11/09/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • PSNI stall on shoot to kill files
  • Justice devolution Christmas call
  • Grim, unrelenting dig for IRA victim's body in the bog
  • Properties seized from alleged IRA killer Sean Hughes
  • Irish Foreign Minister to meet McGuinness and Robinson
  • Harbinson suspended from the Orange Order

11/10/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • Robinson retreats from position on police reserve
  • U.S. Reps. hail progress in North visit
  • Gerry Kelly Welcomes Fr. Sinnott Release
  • IRSP delegation assaulted by crown forces
  • Vindication as pipeline plan is rejected
  • Four appear in court over UDA threat claims

11/11/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • Republican's assets frozen
  • Ex-IRSP leader: I wasn’t Brit informer
  • 'Sharp rise' in loyalist beatings
  • Lockdown as Northern Ireland prison is searched
  • Why did soldiers fail to act as elderley woman was shot?
  • Minister says raids are not acceptable
  • DUP:  Wife must clear her name
  • Poverty in Northern Ireland 'twice that of Great Britain'
  • Gerry Adams comments re meeting with Holland Family
  • Maskey: I would not object to a unionist justice minister

11/12/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • Convictions may be overturned some 30+ years late
  • Deep anger as sinister British raids target Seán Hughes
  • Adams welcomes statements by Basque activists
  • Gaels become planters at Stormont
  • Policing and Justice-evidently nothing's easy
  • McCrea attacks SF on justice devolution
  • Republican alleges ‘cherry-picking’ in extradition cases
  • Myers: Adams and McGuinness "perfect models of courage"

11/13/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Adams urges U.S. to keep pressure on England
  • Loyalist Michael Stone receives date for appeal
  • Sinn Fein's Adams & McGuinness were right (and I was wrong)
  • Mixed reaction as fate of Police Reserve is sealed
  • Irish language strategy in final stages -Cowen
  • Further disappointment at McCausland’s stance on Language
  • Brits to build 7 Nuclear plants along Irish Sea
  • Bush goes to bat for Ronan Tynan

11/14/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • NIreland disarmament chief confirms UVF arms moves
  • Loyalists attack murdered reporter's colleagues at courthouse
  • Man freed in army shooting probe
  • President for Republican Sinn Fein
  • PSNI civilian recruitment ‘must be 50-50’

11/15/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin welcome decision not to stand over convictions
  • The return of securocrats?
  • PSNI stage bogus alert at Derry pub
  • Prominent dissident arrested
  • PSNI target sponsored walk
  • A silent and powerful witness to troubled times
  • Oireachtas parties must act on their commitment

11/16/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • MARIAM PRICE ARRESTED OVER MASSEREENE KILLING
  • 'I'll continue until I clear friend's name' - McDonald
  • Last RAF squadron leaves NI  (hopefully never to return!)

11/17/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Paisley praises Sinn Fein
  • DUP rejects past history
  • Court told of man’s arm break in PSNI encounter
  • Groups getting high on torture
  • Marion Price- woman held over murders freed

11/18/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Neal warns of dissident threat
  • Congressman Albio Sires of West New York observes peace process in Ireland
  • Sinn Fein select former Orangeman for seat
  • Prominent Loyalist faces Child sex charges
  • Defused mortar bomb 'designed to kill police officers'
  • DUP should have 'sold' SF coalition to faithful-Robinson
  • Ireland cheated out of World Cup by Thierry Henry handball

11/19/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Securocrats say Seán Hughes raid was payback time
  • Volunteer Liam McParland Commemoration
  • Powers transfer would ‘hit dissident support’
  • Texts urge loyalists to confront republicans
  • Inmates to take action over jail searches
  • MEP pledges support for Ballymurphy 11 families
  • Referees' decisions can't be beyond question - Ferris
  • People living in 'Dickensian' conditions - SF councillor
  • Sinn Féin slams SDLP support for DUP gerrymander attempt
  • Women central in the struggle, central to building the peace

11/20/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Robinson: The DUP will not walk away from Assembly
  • Ógra Shinn Féin National Congress meets in Belfast
  • Bloody Sunday report could face further delay
  • A journey from orange to green
  • ‘Unionism winning’ claims DUP document
  • Cork city left under water as ESB opens floodgates


11/21/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Car Bursts Into Flames Near HQ Of Northern
  • Police:  Dissidents plant car bomb in Belfast
  • Police ‘can’t explain’ fractured arm after republican’s arrest
  • Johnny Walker: A terrible injustice

11/22/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Army involved in Dissident arrests
  • 5 arrests following bombing attempt
  • Dissident suspect is refused bail
  • Gerry Kelly urges nationalist community to pass info to RUC
  • N.Ireland parties unite after huge car bomb planted
  • Tip-off saved Catholic officer targeted in Fermanagh attack
  • Maskey attacks SDLP over justice

11/23/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • US Congress statement on NI attacks
  • Dissident list circulated to PSNI
  • Two charged with PSNI murder bid
  • DUP - No policing and justice date 'before Christmas'
  • Where do we draw the peace line now?
  • Second strike date set for 3 December
  • Flood aid for worst hit - Cowen
  • Old Firm skirmishes should be old hat in the modern game

11/24/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Oglaigh na hEireann blamed for Policing Board car bomb
  • Sinn Fein: Devolution of powers would foil dissidents
  • Dublin rejects ads for Belfast
  • All 26 counties represented as hordes invade Newry
  • Truth costs nothing’ MEPs tell Ballymurphy Massacre familys
  • Police ask for anonymity in Donnelly case
  • Journalist beaten up in Belfast
  • Shannon communities braced for more flooding
  • Sinn Féin to meet British Prime Minister
  • London and Dublin must act to halt this deepening crisis

11/25/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein refuses to budge on its deadline for policing
  • Justice devolution fuss continues
  • PSNI double talk over Divis is simply not good enough
  • Former loyalist paramilitary jailed over knife attack
  • UDA gang wins Shoukri release
  • Section 44
  • SRR planned Fermanagh ambush
  • ‘We’re not sectarian’: Irish extreme unction

11/27/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • SF to hold talks with Cowen
  • Heated Words Cloud Justice Transfer
  • Ireland’s police forces unite to thwart  terrorists
  • Report Says Irish Bishops and Police Hid Abuse
  • Robinson call for Stormont change
  • Fermanagh - the swamped county
  • Arrest and charge those complicit in child abuse cover up

11/28/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • DUP causing 'justice train-wreck'
  • Disturbances in Portadown by loyalist youth mob
  • Bishop 'has questions to answer'
  • Northern Ireland minister 'must insist MI5 shares intelligence'
  • Call for inquiry into convictions
  • McGuinness comments following meeting with An Taoiseach

11/29/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Loyalist mob lays claim to Portadown centre
  • Parades decision a ‘sick joke’
  • Same Game, New Rules
  • HET investigation branded 'meaningless'
  • Violence Echoes Past Policing Problems
  • McGuinness tops popularity poll
  • Address to Hogan/Martin commemoration

11/30/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • DEVOLUTION BILL PASSES FINAL STAGE IN ASSEMBLY
  • Baggot criticized over interview
  • Pipe bomb found near PSNI base
  • IRA mother condemns dissidents
  • Sinn Féin to raise Portadown loyalist protest concerns
  • Martina Anderson MLA to visit Dungavel detention centre
  • 'All we want is justice and truth'

12/01/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • SF death threats came from Spain
  • Coroner asks MoD to hand over SAS ambush details
  • Ban loyalist band: MLA
  • Call for removal of Sands shrine
  • Vandals set fire to McDonald's car
  • Unknown soldiers: Fianna Fáil opens Northern front. Sort of.


12/02/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • Republican dissidents plot to down helicopter
  • Commission refuses to review Ardoyne parade
  • Loyalist assassin jailed for beating of sisters
  • NY City Hall event to mark MacBride anniversary
  • Ardoyne activists gassed, arrested by PSNI
  • PSNI admits ‘facilitating’ sectarian mob
  • Why were these thugs allowed to boot my husband?
  • Kelly calls for respect for residents wishes over march
  • Graffiti slammed
  • Justice devolution is 'years away'

12/03/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Diplock convictions to be quashed
  • Deputy First Minister and MP on fact-finding visit to Flood
  • Loyalists attack Ógra Basque demo... and chat with PSNI
  • TUV distances itself from petition to free loyalist killer
  • Culture minister accused of Irish language plans 'insult'
  • Events to mark anniversary of IRA men's deaths
  • Death of British army Motorman chief
  • Lundy's Day parade troublemakers warned off
  • Israeli police visit North to learn PSNI methods
  • Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74

12/04/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Ireland needs leadership based on republican values’
  • Ireland should cut diplomatic relations with Israel
  • Alliance wants progress before nomination
  • World mourns passing of an inspirational folk legend

12/05/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Is SOCA a front for MI5?
  • Publish pre-conditions says McGuinness
  • Terrorists likely to attack UK troops in NI during Christmas
  • FIFA shock as Charlize Theron picks Ireland as first WC team
  • Israelis deny they banned Irish minister from Gaza Strip

12/06/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • SF challenges DUP on policing
  • Lawyer for Robert Hamill's family outlines case against RUC
  • Police attacked after Creggan pipe bombs
  • Maghaberry prison governor quits
  • Making peace with your enemies
  • Adams and his pals in red, white and blue
  • If he looks Irish....Sounds Irish.......maybe he IS Irish??
  • Lundy’s Day passes off peacefully

12/07/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Four RUC officers failed to help Hamill, inquiry told
  • Retailers on alert as police warn of NI festive bomb blitz
  • Taoiseach Brian Cowen is warned over ‘coup’ threat
  • £1b funding at risk over justice powers delay: McGuinness
  • Attack on parochial houses in Ballyclare and Newcastle
  • NI Secretary Woodward: No Stormont suspension

12/08/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin minister receives bomb threat
  • Sinn Fein voters 'want action' on policing
  • EX RUC chief Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s 'credibility in ruins’
  • Brady family in DPP protest
  • SF Backs Ritchie Justice Nomination
  • Lenihan slashes public pay, social welfare, sets new taxs
  • Opposition: Budget targets society's struggling
  • Robinson falling into same trap as Trimble
  • Ex-Orangeman now a 'contented Irishman'
  • Row continues over Adams' documentary

12/09/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Better Times For Belfast-Forbes Magazine
  • Communities to hold first joint Christmas fair
  • The border should not be a barrier to compassion
  • Polls apart at Stormont
  • Gunman arrested outside Tony Blair's home
  • Alcohol cuts are toast of the town but raise health fears

12/10/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Relatives angry as PSNI stall on Stalker/Sampson again
  • RUC cover-up over baton round death of mum, court told
  • Further talks over policing
  • Parade fears simmer
  • Felons' Club gets a new look
  • Budget day protest over oil and gas giveaway
  • Derry Remembers 25th anniversaries of fallen Volunteers
  • Standing on the shoulders of giants: The roadmap revisited

12/11/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Ritchie is only candidate for Justice Minister
  • Republicans have waited for this moment since 1916. No Bluff.
  • A long way from there to here
  • Scottish independence concerns
  • Irish Catholic Church shake-up 'likely' after abuse
  • Remembering the Past: Sinn Féin member and five IRA Volunteers killed


12/12/09                                                                  Read Full Story

  • Catalans vote in symbolic independence referendum
  • Irish Brigade leader's sword makes a return visit
  • Christmas chill in Border counties

12/13/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • 'DUP/SF axis is in meltdown'
  • Cowen to meet North leaders on impasse
  • Ex-IRA chief's son claims he was assaulted by policeman
  • White Christmas for Ireland, says Ulster postman
  • Army advances on north for Christmas blow-out
  • New IRA terror group forms

12/14/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Justice Rift Goes Public
  • Flanagan denies witholding information
  • Judge Flees Home
  • 'No evidence of rule of law' in RUC killing
  • British Army bomb squad wrecks home
  • Tommy English murder accused denied bail
  • Shell to Sea campaigner to be jailed for nine months
  • Volunteer Malachy Carey commemoration
  • Why the only successful future is a shared one
  • RAAD admit Creggan shootings

12/15/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness to meet UDA chief
  • Govts seek to end Sinn Féin-DUP row
  • UDA may decommission more weapons over Christmas
  • Worrying attitudes' to shootings - Durkan
  • Army Killers 'Psychotic'
  • MacBride's night
  • Expanding the McBride agenda

12/16/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • UDA pulls out of meeting with McGuinness at eleventh hour
  • Martin McAleese fails in plan to deliver UDA guns
  • McCord killing claims revealed on US website
  • A ministerial view
  • Woodward reappoints parades body
  • Ex-CIA official: N. Ireland peace targeted
  • Sinn Féin and the SDLP in unity candidate talks
  • Irish bishop resigns over Dublin sex-abuse scandal
  • Catholic Church in crisis
  • Report highlights continued failings of Prison Service

12/17/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Joint statement issued on Northern policing
  • PSNI pledge over Operation Ballast investigation
  • Hammill inqury hears final submission
  • Harm must be repaired if North is to move on
  • RUC men 'lied' over killing of Nora McCabe
  • Belfast jail recall man was 'RIRA chief'
  • Dissidents plan honey traps in bid to kill troops
  • Santa Claus 'buried in Ireland'

12/18/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Maghaberry dissident note 'planted' claim examined
  • Christmas toy voucher used in MI5 recruitment bid
  • Public will question if the PSNI can and should be investigating themselves – Anderson
  • Sinn Féin calls for Liam Adams’ arrest
  • Personal Statement From Gerry Adams

12/19/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Gerry Adams reveals family's abuse by his father
  • Joe Doc - 40 years of republican activism
  • Martin to make Vatican plea if bishops don't go

12/20/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Loyalist leader faces tough time from his own ranks
  • Abuse questions mount
  • Emigrant pursued over Nairac death
  • IRA faction ‘disbands’ Derry group
  • First Minister's wife Iris Robinson to quit politics
  • Gerry Adams did block brother, says SF

12/28/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Loyalist terror group UDA to fully disarm before February
  • Warning for Sinn Fein over policing
  • President wants Queen to visit in 2010
  • Drastic steps needed to save native-spoken Irish

12/29/09                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Philadelphia Council calls for a united Ireland
  • Dissidents blamed for PSNI station attack
  • Bomb parts find sparks fresh terror fears
  • Adams told two Chief Constables about abuse
  • Bloody Sunday weekend to look at Paris massacre
  • British army wanted to shoot escaping inmates
  • Thatcher considered vote ban on Irish in UK
  • Interview with Gerry Adams
  • International aid must be allowed to enter Gaza – SF
  • Irish passengers brace for security chaos on U.S. flights

01/01/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Mitchell Scholar to trade Brooklyn for Belfast
  • Irish atheists challenge new blasphemy laws
  • Gun attack on PSNI base
  • British Fury over IRA attacks records reveal
  • Walls never work: in the Middle East or in Ireland

01/02/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • UVF brothers to turn 'supergrass' in murder case
  • Gerry Adams under pressure over brother
  • Robinson’s ‘silence’ on Cardinal's death sparks backlash
  • The usual suspects misjudge the public mood
  • Pope should visit Ireland and apologise to victims -- O'Connor

01/03/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Time running out for UDA over decommissioning
  • Opposition wishes Lenihan well
  • Irish Government faces $14 million bill for protecting G.I.s
  • Survey suggests devolution doubts
  • Poll suggests majority want justice powers devolved
  • Cardinal lies in state in Armagh as mourners file past open coffin

01/04/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Hundreds attend Daly funeral 
  • Meeting over NI devolution impasse
  • Condemnation of China looks like hypocrisy
  • Talks that reveal the war has melted away
  • Adams crisis may reveal a Brit spy — stand by for more
  • 2009 marching season 'most difficult' in recent times
  • Dissidents blamed as gang shoots man in legs
  • Gaza within reach for Derry campaigners
  • Unity


01/05/10                                                                 Read Full Story