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Clinton Can Afford Ireland a New Role on World Stage

Sat, Nov 29, 2008

ANALYSIS:After eight years of hard power and military boots on the ground, America is ready for soft power and the subtle art of negotiation, and Hillary Clinton says she will draw heavily on the Clinton presidency's Irish experience in her new role as US secretary of state, writes Niall O'Dowd.
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  • Relatives for Justice to sue chief constable
  • Did Special Branch fund mid-Ulster UVF?
  • Former RUC chief constable to appear at Rosemary Nelson inquiry
  • DUP challenges Sinn Fein on Gaza stance
  • Prospects and challenges for republicans
  • Dublin Bus to cut 290 jobs, reduce fleet by 120 buses
  • Unemployment could reach 450,000 across island by end 200
01/17/2009                                                                                                                                                     Read full Story
  • Obama can play important role in peace process - SF
  • Churches’ relations warm at Drumcree
  • Paisley rebuked for wearing a shamrock by DUP members
  • Enduring legacy of the first Dail
01/18/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Conference to mark life of Pat Finucane 
  • DUP to propose reduction in number of ministries
  • Ford calls for greater clarity on justice role
  • State faces funding crux in country’s two biggest banks
01/18/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Ex-NI police chief denies calling murdered solicitor 'immoral'
  • Former RUC chief ‘unaware’ of Special Branch files on solicito
  • ‘Plan to kidnap Mo’ over Drumcree
  • Obama May Visit Ireland Soon - Reports 
  • He'll always be Barack O'Bama to me
01/19/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Catholics targeted at kids care centre
  • Flanagan 'dismissed death threat'
  • Paper delivery boy attacked
  • Major rise in North unemployment
  • Assembly debates curb on emergency powers
  • Ó Caoláin speech marking 90th Anniversary of 1st Dáil
  • Film: Five Minutes Of Heaven
01/21/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
  • Nelson's killers 'known to RUC' soon after attack
  • Partition crippled Ireland, says Adams
  • Lawyers gather in Finucane's memory
  • Sinn Fein plan unification rallies
  • Victims' relatives will tell Brown to support cross-Border inquiry
  • Adams at Obama inauguration
  • Opin: Waiting for a new generation of politicians to emerge
01/21/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
Sinn Fein
The Week in Review
18-23 January 2009

  • An Chead Dail – the First Dail – celebrated on its 90th Anniversary
  • Adams responds on Eames/Bradley Commission and urges Independent International Truth Commission
  • Gerry Adams attends Obama inauguration
  • Sinn Fein join Ken Livingstone’s Progressive London conference
  • Assembly unanimously pass Sinn Fein motion on Palestine/Israel
  • Sinn Fein back UN call for war crimes investigation
  • Packed audience hears `Hunger’ discussion in London
01/23/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Adams in truth body warning as PM meets Eames and Bradley
  • Troubles victims' payment planned
  • SDLP May Find Usp By Leaving Coalition to Oppose Northern Ireland Government
  • Peter Robinson: Now is the time for all good unionists to show teamwork
  • Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation - 'Right move, wrong bank'
  • Ireland has thriving economy, insists Lenihan
01/23/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Fully Story
http://www.sinnfeinnews.com

Latest News - 23 January, 2009

  • All-Ireland Council hold talks in Derry today
  • Sinn Féin Launch 'An Chéad Dáil' website
  • Adams welcomes appointment of Hilary Clinton as US Secretary of State
  • SF honours women representatives to mark Constance Markievicz election
  • Special Branch shows it's still a law to itself
01/23/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Mitchell returning to hot seat
  • Most aspects of reconciliation plan to prove controversial
  • Main parties enjoying snug power pact — Durkan
  • Chronicles of Long Kesh: Scenes from the inside
                                                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Garvaghy Road residents deny they planned to kidnap Mo
  • Troubles’ toxic debt needs a ‘bad bank’
  • Across the barricades
  • What the Moneygall Obama song really says about the Irish
01/24/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Bloody Sunday Weekend events
  • Should Queen Elizabeth visit Ireland?
  • Opinion: Political reform needed to restore faith in democracy
  • Help Ireland or it will exit euro, economist warns
  • McGuinness in plea over Presbyterian savers
  • Northern film wins Sundance awards
  • New strategy can enrich relations with Irish diaspora
01/26/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
http://www.sinnfeinnews.com

Latest News - 26 January, 2009

  • Adams wishes new US President well
  • New York lawyers call for inquiry into murder of Pat Finucane
  • ROBERT HAMILL INQUIRY : RUC Reservist protected suspect
  • ROSEMARY NELSON INQUIRY: Ronnie Flanagan gives evidence
01/26/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Focus of Eames/Bradley should be on truth, not distractions
  • Plans for £12k for victims 'preposterous' - Campbell
  • Economic crisis set to dominate as Dáil resumes
01/27/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Call to canvass united Ireland views in census
  • Troubles legacy proposals to cost £300m
  • Shoppers in South pay 51% more for non-grocery goods
  • President praises outreach project on visit to Shankill
  • Rooney widely tipped as US envoy
  • Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
01/27/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Irish economy 'particularly vulnerable' - EU
  • Adams comments on Eames Bradley report
  • Dealing with wounds of the past
  • Orde loses bid for senior British police job
  • Northern Ireland Troubles legacy group recommendations
01/28/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Northern Ireland needs truth, not money
  • 'No rush to judgment' on plans urge Martin and Woodward
  • Plans for Maze sports stadium officially axed
  • Irish government welcomes Obama rights moves
  • Cost of hotel rooms plummets
  • Hotels, pubs to be badly hit by recession - McKenna
01/29/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Pol Brennan's year
  • 'Death threats led to cancellation of Hamill murder inquest'
  • Hamill inquiry: Teen said he put the boot in, hearing told
  • Family alleges police conspiracy over plastic bullet death
  • Woodward warns loyalists over weapons amnesty
  • Amid quarrels, a shaft of hope for bitter victims of the Troubles
  • DUP blocked 11-plus talks: Ruane
01/29/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
  • Thousands set to join Bloody Sunday march
  • Opin: No sign yet of truth, justice or reconciliation
  • Clarion Capital bids for Waterford Wedgwood-govt
  • Workers spend second night in Waterford plant
  • Irish house prices fell 9.1% during 2008
  • Country hit by more flooding
  • As floods recede, Ireland is set for week of snow and ice
  • Hill of Tara nominated to be world heritage site\
  • MEP urges introduction of Irish subtitles in cinemas
02/01/2009                                                                                                                                                     Read full Story
  • Enda Kenny exclusive
  • People 'outraged' by report, says DUP
  • Death of Rev Roy Magee at 79
  • Slideshow - Thousands attend Bloody Sunday march
  • Safe home for iconic image of Bloody Sunday
  • Waterford workers stage protest at Deloitte offices
  • A darker picture of recent troubled times
  • Nuns leave convent after 140 years
02/03/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
http://www.sinnfeinnews.com

Latest News - 3 February, 2009

  • Thousands attend Bloody Sunday commemoration
  • Eames/Bradley report launched
  • Full House - An Chéad Dáil: 90th anniversary commemoration
  • SF minister meets Govt & guerrillas - Building peace in  Philippines
02/03/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
www.sinnfein.ie

Sinn Fein Week in Review
24 January – 4 February 2009

  • Sinn Fein respond to Eames Bradley report
  • Economic recovery must safeguard living standards and jobs
  • Less well off carrying burden of economic recovery
  • Foreign national workers must not be scapegoated
  • Post academic selection plan announced
  • Gaza -- inclusive dialogue necessary
  • Gerry Adams writes on Middle East & appointment of George Mitchell
  • Bloody Sunday – justice delayed and denied
  • Sinn Fein join discussion on progressive way forward
02/04/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Time running out for UDA and UVF to decommission
  • McCrea challenged to clarify relationship with loyalist murderer
  • Senior republicans lift lid on so-called 'dissident' groups
  • Workers' sit-in at Waterford Crystal
  • Students march through Dublin in fees protest
  • Cigarettes To Go 'Under The Counter'
02/05/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Cowen says recession to cut living standards by over 10%
  • ESB pension fund has deficit of up to €1.5bn
  • Coldest Dublin winter for 18 years, says Met office
  • Freeze-up to continue as drivers warned over icy conditions
  • Snow forces Dublin airport to close down
  • US Ambassador to Ireland:Rooney tipped,Sweeney in frame too
  • Mitchell has what it takes
02/05/2009                                                                                                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Derry republicans win appeal to challenge
  • Gun victim’s father challenges Adams
  • DUP minister praises GAA over rule changes
  • Fine Gael Holds on to Lead in Ireland
  • 'New lead' in Donaldson inquiry
  • Ruane's school speech still under investigation
02/07/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
http://www.sinnfeinnews.com

Sinn Fein Latest News - 7 February, 2009

  • Senior republicans lift lid on so-called 'dissident' groups
  • Families of British Army and UDA victims meet Martin
  • British Agents 'attended INLA death plot' against King Rat
  • DUP MP challenged to clarify relationship with loyalist murderer
02/08/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Call on DUP to Join Irish National Caucus
  • DUP Cheers As SF Taunts
  • DUP environment minister bans climate change ads
  • Time will tell if justice will come for Bloody Sunday
  • Opin: With the South in freefall, would you vote for united Ireland now?
  • Obit: The Reverend Roy Magee
  • Haunting Troubles Film To Premier In Dublin Festival
  • Troubles Movie Wins Screen Accolade For NI
02/09/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Bloody Sunday - Brooklyn seeks justice for slain Irish activists
  • DUP chairman says North-South Council should be abolished
  • Tories vow to keep cold-case team
  • Vigilantes won't solve drug problems -McCartney
  • Radar search starts for babies’ graves
  • Court told of Garda belief Cunningham was in IRA
02/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
Sinn Fein Latest News - 10 February, 2009

  • DUP chairman says All-Council should be abolished
  • Pat Finucane 20th Anniversary events to take place
  • Full list of Pat Finucane 20th Anniversary Events
  • Remembering the Past: The Fenian who wrote 'The Red Flag
02/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • DUP seeks protection against naming sources
  • Army defuses pipe bombs left in street
  • Pat Finucane Anniversary
  • Report vindicates SF's pursuit of Equality Agenda in Executive
02/11/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Twenty years on, Geraldine Finucane remembers
  • Americans fly out for Finucane 20th anniversary events
  • Taoiseach has not yet received White House invitation
  • Cork man denied any IRA connection
  • '€7bn gamble on the wrong horse'
  • Police investigate fatal shooting of Derry drug dealer
02/11/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/twenty-years-inquiry-patrick-finucanes-death

Twenty years on, still no inquiry into Patrick Finucane's death

11 February 2009

Call for an independent public inquiry into the killing of Patrick Finucane
02/12/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Finucane death marked 20 years on
  • No-confidence vote puts Wilson under pressure
  • Belfast museum faces legal battle over Darwin exhibition
  • McGuinness to address Davey commemoration
  • Government wins Dáil vote on banks
  • Viewpoint: Saville - the last of the big spenders
02/12/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
Latest News - 12 February, 2009

  • Adams Accuses British State of Involvement in murder of Pat Finucane
  • Martin McGuinness attends the vigil with the Finucane family
  • Amnesty International calls for independent Finucane probe
02/12/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • INLA directly involved in drugs trade - McGuiness
  • Number seeking housing debt help in NI trebles
  • Devolution legislation set for late February
  • Cowen blames decisions on economy for poll result
  • Garland bailed ahead of extradition case
  • SF TD says criticism of his use of Nazi analogy is 'ridiculous'
  • Interview Part 1: Cloud on horizon loomed for Finucane family
  • Interview Part 2: Battle for truth continues 20 years on
  • Candlelight vigil for Stardust victims
  • Airport immigration delays 'damaging tourism'
02/14/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Stardust families say they feel vindicated at vigil for victims
  • 20th anniversary of solicitor's murder
  • POLICING : Six-County policing seminar in Belfast
  • Irish Historical Mysteries: St Valentine in Dublin
02/14/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
http://sinnfeinnews.com

Latest News - 14 February, 2009

  • Ard Fheis 2009 - A vision for Ireland's future
  • Irish Unity makes Economic Sense
  • New book: 'Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism
02/14/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Letter throws fresh doubt on Finucane killing probe
  • Puppets behind the killing of lawyer Finucane are known, but who pulled the strings?
  • Collusion led to my father's death. I owe it to him to find out the truth
02/16/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Stormont finances facing major cuts by Westminster
  • Eames-Bradley payments termed a 'mistake' by SF
  • British Labour to become official party in NI
  • Irish attitude to EU in decline since 2006, survey finds
  • Oil spill expected to hit south coast in 16 days
02/17/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Rise in number of searches in NI causes concern
  • Time for the truth about Pat Finucane
  • INLA admit McConnell murder & warn:'We'll kill more drug dealers'
  • Are all things created equal? (Joint First Ministers?)
  • Book Review: Ireland in Twentieth Century by Tim Pat Coogan
  • Michael Collins musical to open in Cork
02/17/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
  • Irish Mortgage lending fell 57% in fourth quarter
  • Environment Minister Sammy Wilson to face Stormont watchdog
  • Coast Guard continuing to monitor oil spill
  • Five Irish on cruise ship trapped in Antarctica
02/18/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Obama can open collusion lid
  • For Pat's life - Trinity conference hears of Finucane legacy
  • Orde: Dissidents determined to kill
  • Russia had its eye on Galway
  • Texas first for Irish Echo

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02/18/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Nothing ruled out as Sinn Fein focuses on a greater future role
  • SF ardfheis to hear call to increase State borrowing for infrastructure
  • Adams appeal: 'Don't punish us for McCabe killing'
  • Reminders of Ireland's waning star are everywhere
  • Schumer to take helm on immigration panel
  • 'Hunger,' history top Irish awards
  • Development of National Museum is postponed
  • St Aidan’s the only primary in world with a ‘peace room’
  • Sports fans' lives are at risk in unsafe Northern Ireland venues, claim MLAs
02/19/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein launches united Ireland drive
  • Sinn Féin ardfheis begins in Dublin
  • Orde criticised over excuses offered for policing failures
  • All killed in the Troubles are victims, says Sinn Fein minister
  • Pat Finucane Murder, 1989: The quest for the truth
  • Courts criticised over report by ombudsman on Omagh
  • Irish Mogul's Empire Totters As Slump Tames Celtic Tiger
  • Dissidents lack support and guns but threat is real
  • Oil slick prompts criticism of emergency planning
  • NI film based on tragic killing
  • Film review: Hunger (5 stars)
02/20/209                                                                                                                                                      Read Full Story
  • Today's court ruling ensures collusion cover-up of PSNI worker and loyalists
  • Full text of Gerry Adams' Ard Fheis speech
  • Opin: A new face to shake off Sinn Fein's bloody past
  • Neeson & Nesbitt: the real-life bravery behind our new Troubles drama
02/21/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • SF focuses on southern economy (& SF Ard Fheis video)
  • Opin: Liam Clarke: Sinn Fein is turning into Sands's dodo
  • Dev's shaving mug is acquired by museum

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02/22/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
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  • Unionist majority rule 'gone forever'
  • 'We have a major part to play in starting to right all the wrongs'
  • Opin: SF now has its best chance to make inroads in South
  • Lisbon will not solve economic problems, says McDonald
  • Ireland: over 100,000 march against government in Dublin
  • ICTU protest: Workers angry over pension levy, jobs & wages
  • Opin: Adams must pass the torch for his party's sake
  • Ireland, Belarus treaty allows Chernobyl children visits
  • O'Dea decides against 'unaffordable' salvage of 'Asgard'
02/23/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Pearse Jordan's family want inquest obstacles removed
  • Backers of Northern Ireland Troubles payouts to face MPs
  • SDLP and Sinn Fein battle as Euro-poll moves closer
  • SF ard fheis: Tough talk and a call for plain speaking from DUP
  • DUP men face 'conduct' complaints
  • Sinn Fein to take its case for Irish unity to Britain
  • Opin: Is anyone really interested in SF’s call for Irish unity?
  • Opin: The Sinn Féin agenda
  • SF Minister’s ex-driver facing rifle charge
  • Gardaí raid offices of Anglo Irish Bank in Dublin
  • Parishes to remember infamous Wicklow banker
  • Cutting out alcohol urged for Lent
02/24/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • UK government abandons payments for NI victims
  • QC stresses need for legal protection for Troubles commission witnesses
  • Speculation over police involvement in killing
  • Opin: UUP now confident of a secure future within the UK
  • Brian Friel's letters from an internal exile
  • Film: Brutality study strikes a chord in Hunger
  • Protest at U2's tax exile status
02/25/2009                                                                                                                                            Return to Headlines
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  • McIlveen murder verdicts welcomed









  • Tories & Ulster Unionists unite under new name for elections
  • Labour decides to organise in Northern Ireland for 2011 polls
  • NI minister criticises UK climate change policies
  • No arrests made during 625 'stop and searches' in Strabane
  • Hibernians honor hero
  • Belfast novelist wins peace award
  • 1st Catholic to represent UK at Holy See defies all stereotype
02/26/2009                                                                                                                                                  Read Full Story
Latest News - 26 February, 2009

  • Sinn Féin Ard Fheis review
  • McGuinness tells Brown: stick to your financial pledges
  • Transfer of Policing and Justice Bill submitted to Westminster
  • Gerry Adams Presidential Address Ard Fheis 2009
02/27/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Labour MP calls for Finucane inquiry
  • Encouraging response to Campbell murder probe
  • €7.6m taken from bank as family held hostage
  • 'Woodward has capitulated to the backwoods men & political dinosaurs of unionism'
  • LIsanelly & St Lucia motion passed at Sinn Féin Ard Fhéis
  • Workers refuse to wear uniform with Irish logo
  • Number out of work rises 69% during last quarter of 2008
  • Bono rejects criticism of U2 tax status
  • Ireland: National one-day strike proposed for March 30
  • Hill of Tara makes Smithsonian endangered list
  • Knowth graffiti artists leave writing on the wall
  • Liam Neeson - The Big Fella: The Big Man and Me
                                                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • HUNGER - Film Trailer
  • Police recover half Bank of Ireland's stolen cash
  • FF falls to lowest ever rating - poll
  • Tories' reform plan for Stormont
  • Opin: Collusion sentences fail to convey society’s horror
  • Irish politicians inaugurate Molloy College program
  • Five Minutes of Heaven Film Review: Shadows of the gunmen
  • Book Rev: Shannon - He fits all the Ireland he can in 393 page
02/28/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Stories
  • Bobby Sands' Hunger Strike Began 28 Years-ago Today
  • Tories want voluntary coalition system in the North if elected
  • Meltdown as poll shows FF exodus
  • Lisbon Treaty approval rating climbs again
  • Mad Dog Adair's pals beat women to a pulp after cocaine party
  • New law to license casino gaming in private clubs
  • Book Review: In remembrance of Ireland
  • GAA and Rangers unite to promote Gaelic games
  • Guinness campaign celebrates 250th anniversary
03/01/2009                                                                                                                                                      Read full story
  • Hamill Inq: Witness knew Catholics just ‘by looking at them’
  • Man held over 1972 double murder (Leo John Duffy and Thomas Marron)
  • Attack victim's 'life sentence' (Paul McCauley)
  • Spotlight focuses on brutal Derry attack (Paul McCauley)
  • SF McMullan urges Ombudsman co-operation  Re: Joe Campbell
  • Ireland’s boom ends – with a vengeance
  • Sectarian link to south Belfast attack suspected
  • Omagh Acute Care Axed
  • Hundreds attend funeral of Joe Bruton
  • Blatter backs Republic's stance
  • President Obama's Irish-American Heritiage Mth Proclamation
03/03/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
Latest News - 3 March, 2009

  • McGuinness and Robinson to meet Obama
  • de Brún calls on EU and US to demand an end to Gaza siege
  • Younger faces take up key roles in party leadership
  • A spirit that cannot be quenched

03/03/2009                                                                                                                                          Read Full Story
  • Man found guilty of double murder (David McIlwaine & Andrew Robb)
  • Eames-Bradley archive refusal dismays academics
  • Donaldson: Saville’s bills are a waste of public funds
  • Bk Rev: Important look at SFs long march towards unity
  • Ministers' travel plans for Patrick's Day still secret
  • Bob Doyle 1916-2009
03/03/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Bill Devolving Policing Passes Commons
  • Brehons press British on Finucane probe
  • Opin: The obscenity of giving Ted Kennedy a knighthood
  • Molloy speakers deliver North reality check
  • New consulate for southwest
03/04/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Man (72) held over 1977 killing of RUC officer Joe Campbell
  • Victim's family (Paul Quinn) in minister call 
  • Unemployment could surpass 400,000 - Cowen
  • Opposition 'shocked' as Lenihan opens the books
  • North to weather recession best in UK - report
  • IRA urged to help Northern Ireland Troubles group
  • Opin: Anger at knighthood for Brown’s old friend Ted Kennedy
  • Opin: Fitting honour for a peacemaker Edward Kennedy
  • Tory backlash over Kennedy honour
  • BOOKS: Sinn Féin looks left
  • Major cuts in St Patrick's travel by Ministers
03/05/2009                                                                                                                                                  Read Full Story
In Northern Ireland, Getting Past the Troubles

A decade after Protestants and Catholics agreed on a peace treaty, both sides are adjusting to a hopeful new reality

By Joshua Hammer
Smithsonian magazine, March 2009
03/05/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • McGuinness criticises police chief recalling covert army units
  • PSNI's Orde defends use of intelligence specialists
  • Row over return of Army to fight splinter IRA terrorists
  • Sinn Féin reps at Shankill policing forum
  • Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2009 - ‘Reunification will happen’
  • Gang shoots man in legs in west Belfast
  • Endangered Site: The Hill of Tara, Ireland
03/06/2009                                                                                                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Two soldiers shot dead in attack on Antrim barracks
  • Gerry Adams' Statement on Antrim Shooting
  • Antrim shooting: Political reaction 
  • Soldier's Killing Terrible Development
  • Analysis: Attack in Northern Ireland marks setback for peace
  • RFJ considers legal challenge on decision to deploy SRR
  • SRR: secret Army unit that sparked old hatred in Ulster
  • Campaigners urge parties to back victims candidate in EU poll
03/07/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Real IRA may have been behind Antrim attack
  • Northern Ireland Assembly may hold debate on shootings
  • Attack must not be allowed to undermine peace - Cowen
  • Security guards stood by as gunmen killed N Ireland soldiers
  • Opin: Response to attacks must be measured, proportionate
  • Opin: Murders could help galvanise the N Ireland Executive
  • Opin: Security boomerang for British
  • Opin: If we are at peace, why are soldiers still dying?
  • Opin: It's not that the Troubles are back – they never left
  • St Patrick's Day: who's going where
  • O'Loan appointed as envoy on women and peacemaking
  • Tributes paid to actress Anna Manahan
03/08/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Security forces on high alert against further dissident attacks
  • Robinson calls for matter to be left with police
  • Special Forces may have sparked assault
  • McGuinness stands by criticism of Orde's decision
  • Who are the Real IRA?
  • AOH Statement: British Soldiers Killed
  • Opin: No return to North's dark days
  • Opin: Response of parties must be tough & uncompromising
  • Opin: We have come too far to let the peace slip away
03/08/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Soldiers killed in Antrim army base attack are named
  • Adams urges republicans to aid police investigation
  • Northern Ireland shootings: Attack condemned in US
  • Irish America stunned by RIRA attack
  • People join in prayer for slain soldiers
  • Professionalism of soldiers who gave first aid praised
  • Opin: All sides must hold their nerve after terror attack
  • Timeline: army demilitarisation
  • Lessons from the NI Peace Process: Jonathan Powell
  • Tara group plans St Patrick's Day protests
  • Wolfe Tones Playing To Bipartisan Crowd in Hartford
03/09/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Policeman shot dead in Northern Ireland
  • No immediate terrorism link in police shooting
  • Reaction to the fatal shooting of a policeman
  • Report: Orde to Quit
  • Devolved policing will not limit Orde
  • Opin: N leaders aware of trap posed by republican dissidents
  • Town searches after phone warning
  • Adams denies any ambiguity in his criticism of attack
  • Fury As Adams Says SRR Provoked Murders
  • North's politicians unite to condemn violence
  • Killers will be brought to justice, says Taoiseach
  • Soldiers Quinsey & Azimkar hit by 60 bullets  
  • Annesley to attend Wright Inquiry
  • Ireland and Italy least competitive of EU states
03/09/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Two arrests over shooting of Northern Ireland policeman
  • Real IRA gun attack captured on CCTV
  • Anger over unionist demand to bulldoze Maze site
  • Was Omagh bomb car bugged by security services?
03/10/2009                                                                                                                                            Return to Headlines
  • Murdered policeman was grandfather of three
  • Dissidents behind attacks are traitors, says McGuinness
  • Gerry Adams Blog - The only way to go is forward
  • Irish America and US government condemn Antrim murders
  • Bring back SAS to combat dissidents, says unionist
  • Power-sharing agreement faces its biggest test
  • 'They are better understood in the context of criminals'
  • Opin: Dissidents for whom the war in N Ireland never ended
  • Opin: Guns fired & we saw our imperfect peace process
  • Hamill inquiry police witnesses get temporary anonymity
  • Man held over murder of alleged UDA man
  • Curtain falls on Questions and Answers
  • RTÉ broadcaster Gerry Ryan says he will take pay cut
03/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Loyalists: 'The War is Not Over'
  • Dáil unites to condemn dissident violence
  • Gerry Adams on Attack at Massereene Army Base, Antrim
  • Adams, McGuinness 'hypocrisy' criticised
  • Carroll shooting: How a routine night shift ended in murder
  • Neighbours are afraid to speak but the writing is on the wall
  • Simmering discontent in estate since last August
  • Opin: Unity will strike a blow against the murderers
  • Troubles became rallying cry
  • Opin: Questions for RTE to Answer
03/11/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • SF mayor and loyalist representatives meet
  • NY Times: Gunmen Have ‘United’ Northern Ireland
  • We will not retaliate over latest killings, loyalist promises
  • Boston Globe: Latest killings — a drive to stoke old grievances
  • Shot for wearing ‘all-party’ uniform
  • Thousands gather across North for peace vigils
  • Policeman's shooting 'was not murder', say dissidents
  • Shootings aim to embarrass Sinn Féin
  • Craigavon: City of hope and fear
  • Memorial Mass for Nelson
  • Opin: Will loyalists seek bloody revenge?
  • Aer Lingus reports €119m pre-tax loss for 2008
03/11/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Northern Ireland tense as officials hunt for smuggled bomb
  • Policing bill to become law
  • Checks stepped up along Border
  • Murders delaying demilitarisation - Ó Caoláin
  • Garda and PSNI to work closely on dissident threat
  • Body of constable returned to his family
  • Shell to Sea campaigner jailed for 28 days for assault on garda
  • Owners accuse council as Lissadell dispute intensifies
  • Economy may shrink by 6.5%, warns Taoiseach
  • Eircom broadband spend under review, committee told
  • Consumer prices down 1.7 per cent in February
  • Call for €2 increase in price of cigarettes
03/12/09                                                                                                                                                      Read Full Story
  • PSNI has forensic lead in search for killers of soldiers
  • Adams wants dissidents isolated
  • Loyalist leaders warned to keep a lid on revenge
  • Widow pleads for his death ‘to be the last’
  • Swift U.S. condemnation of soldier shootings
  • 'Hoax' bomb security alert ends
  • Opin: Mary Lou McDonald: SF wants to forge a new alliance
  • Crumlin Road Courthouse on fire: emergency services
  • Outrage at TD pay rise
  • Hibernians won't march with McDonald in parade
  • Irish-Americans saw JFK election as landmark
03/12/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • PSNI arrests third man over policeman's killing
  • A good man to have in your team
  • Police witnesses want to remain in shadows
  • Special Forces - puppet masters in Britain's Dirty War
  • Real IRA Arms Suspect To Face Trial In Lithuania -Prosecutors
  • Dissidents Expect To Be 'Taken Out'
  • INLA: 'We didn't kill Claudy farmer'
  • Hunger: A harrowing and splendid film
  • Irish Protestants: St. Patrick's Day admirers from afar
03/13/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Flames on Ulster streets as terror cops hunt arms cache in UK
  • Evil of a wicked minority
  • Former IRA prisoner arrested in N. Ireland
  • Collins' shadow falls again across Ireland
  • In the gunmen's shadow again
  • Malachy McAllister: Man facing deportation again
  • Profiles in Irish-Texan Heritage
03/14/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Talks with dissidents ruled out
  • Nine in custody in connection with republican killings
  • Wounded soldier's attack trauma
  • PSNI attacked after series of arrests over killings
  • Call for Stormont to join worldwide 'black-out'
  • Yeats-link 19th century house could face demolition
  • Politicians lead annual Paddy's exodus
03/15/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Priest condemns rioters after PSNI officers targeted
  • Son of terrorist ‘Mad Dog’ held over killing of two soldiers
  • Fatal lack of intelligence
  • McGuinness plays down disturbances
  • My former deputy has shown real leadership, says Paisley
  • Opin: McGuinness’s words are a milestone in republicanism
  • Cowen: review of our relationship with the US is 'timely'
  • 500,000 expected to see Dublin parade
03/16/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • McGuinness declares: I won’t be intimidated by dissidents
  • 'Just a criminal act'
  • Govt to impose draconian austerity measures with support
  • Opin: Refusing to take the road to nowhere
  • Busiest year yet for Free Derry Tours
03/16/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Police make two arrests over killing of PC Stephen Carroll
  • Two guns recovered near murder scene
  • Gerry Adams steps up warnings against use of special forces
  • Adams: Keep perspective on tragic Northern Ireland murders
  • Clinton condemns 'criminals' who killed troops & PSNI officer
  • Committee told of Omagh 'catalogue of failings'
  • Opin: St Patrick's in White House is not shamrock diplomacy
  • Sunshine to brighten up 70 parades around country
  • Celebrations planned across North
03/16/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Obama nominates Dan Rooney as Irish ambassador
  • Adams remarks at the National Press Club Washington, DC
  • Adams Meets Hillary Clinton and Congressional leaders
  • San Diego Irish Northern Aid in St Patrick's Day Parade
  • Doherty meets MoD Minister on Lisanelly transfer issue
  • Who are the Republicans?
  • Northern Ireland: the peace illusion
  • Behind Northern Ireland’s peace walls
  • Martin McGuinness distances himself from Gerry Adams
  • Opin: Americas only special relationship is w/ Ireland (& Israel)
  • Belfast City partying marks saintly day
03/17/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein leader calls for dialogue on Ireland's future
  • St Patrick's Day parade cancelled in Ulster over security fears
  • Ex-UVF Alistair Little: 'I'd have got on a bus & killed everyone'
  • Sinn Féin Chair of Policing Partnership condemns attacks
  • Is there a split between Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams?
  • Opin: Sinn Fein’s actions must speak louder than words
  • Opin: Northern Ireland's honeymooners
  • Ambassador warns of 'no' vote
  • Gaelique football in Ballycastle
  • Knocks Drama Group brings laughs a-plenty
03/18/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Obama hosts an Irish host in the White House
  • UK soldier killed in Northern Ireland laid to rest
  • Drunken mayhem mars St. Patrick's in Ireland
  • Queens society will honor Maskey
  • Opin: Media misses parallel Ireland’s past: British troops
  • Opin: I want a united Ireland, but only through dialogue
  • Veteran cardiologist still taking heart
  • Union troops gave Irish poet a proper gravestone
  • New Website For Irish Diaspora In USA
  • Any luck better than luck o' the Irish, some say
03/18/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Northern Ireland politician calls for US to join dialogue
  • Adams stresses dialogue & Condemns IRA dissidents
  • Dissidents won't unite Ireland 'in a million years' - McGuinness
  • All-Ireland fantasists are 'living with the fairies' - Harte
  • Ma always fought hard for peace
  • Opin: North peace shaken, but not destroyed
  • Obama brings buzz back to Washington St Patrick's bash
  • Derry: Name change row
03/19/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • N Ireland PC murder suspects 'held longest since Internment'
  • Maskey opposes detention period
  • Dissident protest outside police station
  • Gerry Adams at the Kennedy School: No going back
  • Adams: No chance of N Ireland returning to the ‘Troubles’
  • Campbell concerned over Free Derry Corner
  • Tricolours 'spoil St Pat's carnival'
  • Historic day as Hibernian dignitaries visit Larne mayor
03/19/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Robinson: US will name economic adviser & special envoy
  • 93rd Reading of Easter Rising Proclamation in Baltimore
  • Gardaí found Garda uniforms in INLA defendant's car
  • Micro groups' attacks delay a united Ireland, says Jim Gibney
  • Sinn Féin meets UDA-linked UPRG in wake of killings
  • Accused money launderer denies he could dispose of £10m
  • Protestants press Government on primary school exam
  • 'Most rewarding work I have done'-Martin Ferris on farm report
  • Dell set to cut 230 jobs in Dublin and Limerick
  • Hunger Movie Review
03/20/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Ireland Commits to Accept Guantanamo Detainees
  • PSNI will not charge Robinson over homosexuality remarks
  • Irish priest ashamed at stealing US parish cash
  • Opin: Shying away from damage to Irish unity done by the IRA
  • Opin: Taoiseach did the country proud in Washington
  • Climate gives Ireland advantage in biofuel growth
03/20/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • From one President to another
  • Sectarian graffiti attack on primary
  • Finucane case central on Capitol Hill
  • Ireland’s pulling power in the USA
  • Belfast SF councillor Marie Moore dies in hospital
  • Gerry Adams comments on the death of Cllr Maire Moore
  • Murder arrest man refusing food
  • No decision on justice minister post, says Ford
  • £20m tobacco smuggler being put up by UDA thug
  • Barriers to a Belfast Peace
  • Grand Slam Ireland welcomed home
03/22/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • N.Ireland teen charged with killing policeman
  • Rights chief visits PSNI station
  • Charge or release shootings suspects, says Adams
  • Sinn Féin loses electoral reform vote
  • Loyalists hint at move on weapons
  • Compulsory redundancies at TV3
  • Government halts up to 80 major road schemes
  • Sinn Fein says number of schools being built should treble
  • Waterford group working to re-establish glass manufacturing
03/23/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
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Latest News - 25 March, 2009

  • Court frees then police re-arrest murder suspect
  • Sinn Féin launch Job Retention and Creation Strategy
  • Most rewarding work I have done - Martin Ferris on farm report
03/25/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Clinton steps out anew on St. Patrick's Day
  • Dissidents not recruiting young people - McGuinness
  • Flanagan denies there was a conspiracy to murder Billy Wright
  • Eames-Bradley proposals criticised by SF president
  • Texas Irish plan Bill Flynn college tribute
  • Irish researchers discover new way to kill hospital superbug
  • Dublin man pleads guilty to cutting off carpenter's hand with sword
03/25/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Britain’s ‘secret plot to kill Gerry Adams’
  • Dissident campaign pointless, says top Provo
  • Robinson hoping for loyalist arms move
  • SF calls on Government not to target the vulnerable in Budget
  • Opin: Republicans to hear hardline message from dissidents
  • Adams’ key role from the Troubles to the peace process
04/03/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Two injured in Belfast & Derry shooting attacks
  • We've lost control of Ardoyne, IRA warns
  • Sectarian Tension Returns to Northern Ireland
  • No collusion by my prison staff re: Wright's murder inquest
  • Stone preparing to appeal conviction
  • 200,000 voters disenfranchised by Electoral Office
  • Police Attracts Record Numbers Of Catholic Recruits
  • North's Education Minister points the way forward
  • Sinn Féin Leader Gerry Adams to Visit Gaza
  • Protest goes on, say Visteon workers at plant sit-in
  • 'Sunday' QC dies suddenly
  • Hibernians honor Menendez for McAllister effort
  • Edward Daly: 35 years a Bishop - dark days, happy memories
  • IRA infiltrator forced to give his film a miss
04/04/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story