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  • Michael McIlveen’s killers say sorry to his family
  • Loyalist gets 30 yrs for Robb & McIlwaine Murders
  • I want to meet David’s killer, says grieving dad
  • Paisley jnr says he will protect his source
  • Praise for paramilitary leaders
  • Dissident killings spark surge in PSNI applications
  • Cardinal Brady issues appeal over 'Disappeared'
  • Opin: Courage required on North policing
  • North American visitors may fall 15%
  • Liam Neeson and me, by a former UVF man
04/05/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Visteon Protest Continues
  • Public deserves clearer view of campaigning spending
  • Sligo council debates Lissadell rights of way
  • SF denies claims on hunger strike deaths
  • Chinook that crashed 'should have been grounded'
  • Opin: Timely words for Disappeared
  • Nesbitt: My sadness for pal Liam
  • Nesbitt: Talking up the peace process
  • Michael Kevin Quinn, R.I.P.
04/06/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin Party Political Broadcast for the Ard Fheis 2009
  • Museum vandals 'disrespect our dead' - 'Sunday' relative
  • Irish braced for emergency budget
  • Hoax bombs condemned
  • Clash over Catholics in police service
  • Sammy Wilson urges rethink over Ted Kennedy knighthood
  • Protest over IRA film
  • Sinn Fein MLAs paid party £500,000 in secretarial fees
  • Dublin City Council planning €30m worth of cutbacks
04/07/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • SDLP founder member O'Hanlon dies
  • Video reveals G20 police assault on man who died
  • Gildernew marks Countryside Management Scheme first
  • Opposition condemns budget
  • Transportation Issue Get Ministerial Attention
  • Robinson hits back at expenses 'smear'
  • Councillor sorry for f-word rant
  • Kelly gets Irish advice
  • Three artefacts found in Dublin raid
  • Fr Mc Manus attacks religion satire film as bigoted
  • Opin: This is not the first time we have been tested at Easter
  • Irish downturn hits man and beast
  • Rescued fire dogs to be re-homed
  • Neeson’s first outing with sons since wife’s funeral
  • Michael Collins musical drama for Dublin
04/07/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Head of parades body to step down
  • Review into future of Maze site
  • Israel bars Adams from Gaza visit
  • Hunger Strike deal ‘must be disclosed’
  • Adams urges talks on Gaza visit
  • Kate Carroll: The widow who doesn’t hate, but doesn’t forgive
  • Paisley challenges jail ultimatum
  • Sinn Fein in flats expenses row
  • Rasharkin trouble probed by PSNI
  • Shops open for Twelfth parades
  • Rally for sacked Visteon workers
  • McGuinness & Ritchie unveil design for foot & cycle bridge
04/08/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • British ambassador sticks by Inquiries Act
  • Thomas Devlin stabbed 'climbing fence'
  • Martin McGuinness defends Sinn Féin MPs' expense claims
  • Adams urges talks on Gaza visit
  • Gerry Adams in Gaza
  • SF Councillor suspended from party after rant
  • Peace bridge city symbol of hope
  • Wham Bam! Toughest ever Irish budget unveiled by Lenihan
  • All Irish banks have ratings cut
  • Jane O’Mahony on Ireland and the EU
  • Ireland offers passport deal to Ulster Protestants
04/08/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Schoolboy knifed five times as he tried to flee attackers
  • Death at the G20: did victim suffer three police assaults?
  • Loyalists calls to picket foreign homes as 46 are forced to flee
  • Loyalists get funds to oppose the racists
  • Visteon: We’ll not give up until Ford honours its promises
  • Government owes Sinn Fein millions: McGuinness
  • House of Lords unveils peers’ payments
  • Sinn Féin 1916 events in Galway
  • St Patrick Centre: Tourism mecca or a white elephant?
04/08/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Parades Commission demands explanation for illegal march
  • 'My terror after knee-capping'
  • Hopes rise for Visteon settlement
  • Prices fall 2.6% in 12 months
  • Corporation To Re-Draw Plan For Development Of The Maze
  • Gaza is still an open-air prison, says Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams
  • Archbishop says abuse report 'will shock us all'
  • Colin tells Gay about drink, despair and the meaning of life
04/09/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
  • The future of Long Kesh site – Sinn Féin
  • Sinn Fein leadership’s Easter statement
  • Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams’ visit to the Middle East
  • New hope for undocumented Irish
  • ILIR meets in Boston
  • Opin: Who guards the guards?
  • Loyalist McCord: Brits Betrayed, Befriended by Priest
  • Thar Saile Press Release Regarding Pol Brennan
  • Pat Finucane Centre Moving Premises
  • Suburb decides against holding South Side Irish Parade
04/09/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Obama may make 50,000 illegal Irish US citizens
  • All changed utterly as 'An Phoblacht' omits IRA message
  • Northern Ireland attacks on Poles blamed on loyalists
  • Time for unionists to display their faith in agreements
  • SF official to seek order against O'Dea
  • McDonald among readers of North dead
  • BBC: A Short History of Ireland on line
  • Liam's focuses love on kids
  • 'Hunger' delivers punch to the gut based on last stand
04/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Man 'critical' after N Ireland shooting; Dissidents blamed
  • West unites to slam dissidents
  • Fears over dissident attacks during Springfield parade
  • Adams meets Hamas leaders in Gaza with Blairs Help
  • Father wants to meet Tandragee murderer
  • Celebrating 100 years of Na Fianna éireann
  • Visteon workers hit the streets
  • Church to buy back Milltown Cemetery plot
  • Troubles victims' names read out
  • Family’s action forced ombudsman to withdraw report
  • Gas prices to decrease by 12%
  • Postmaster pays out of own pocket
04/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Brits hold back documents on 1981 Hunger Strike
  • Northern Ireland police 'need armoured vehicles'
  • Crimson & Orange to Step Out in Larne
  • Cabinet approves surveillance legislation
  • Foreign nationals targeted after NI match
  • Call for action on Tillie's site
  • NI based units in Helmand command
  • Save Bantry General Hospital Emergency Services
  • Tackling cross border crime
  • Auto workers occupy plants in Ireland and England
  • Showrooms targeted in car parts workers' dispute
  • Ireland’s budget infuriates middle class
  • Blair talks of his spiritual side
  • Michael Collins Irish Whiskey Wins Double Gold in SF
  • Films: Rebirth of the reel IRA
04/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Man shot in Belfast fourth victim of such attacks
  • Gang attack treated as attempted murder
  • MPs’ expenses: claim and counter-claim
  • Adams to send out Middle East report
  • Future of special needs school hangs in balance
  • Hundreds out of pocket due to post office cash shortage
  • Violence complicates Irish releases
  • World Irish dancing contest takes big step to US
04/10/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Nationalists foil PSNI attack
  • Orange hall hit by petrol bomb attack
  • 'Church helped reduce Troubles' retaliation'
  • Caroline Kennedy appointment to Vatican scotched
  • Book Rev: easter 1916 -- myths, lies and newsreels
  • Book Rev: 1916 and all that
  • Interview with Seamus Heaney
  • GAA: The Fading of the Green
  • Learning Irish
04/11/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Assembly gets powers to set up justice ministry
  • Man stable after Belfast shooting
  • Church dedication to priests shot dead by British soldiers
  • 2014 ‘could be date for Irish unification’
  • Ahern 'powerless' over extradition of Sean Garland
  • Abhaile Aris Arts and Craft shop opens
04/11/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Continuity IRA issues warning of more attacks against police
  • Real IRA threaten to take campaign to Britain
  • 'Model estate' rises above terrorist killings
  • Adams to 'Post': Hamas wants peace
  • Why Adams sticks to his Maze myth
  • Walk to the Black Rock
  • Turning suicide into TV fodder is unfair
  • Census of Ireland 1911 Online
  • New film 'may give IRA  Nesbitt are on target
04/11/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Derry Sinn Féin office attacked by dissident republicans
  • IRA dissidents threaten top Sinn Fein politician
  • Arsonists target primary school
  • 2,000 gather for Rising event
  • Amazon lifts bar on Irish shoppers
  • Easter Saturday and a Funeral for a Fish
  • Secrets of mass grave revealed
  • New 169-room hotel opens in city
  • Brass box holds Titanic 'secret'
  • Major Hollywood movie to be shot in Belfast
04/12/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Adams: 'Dissidents are hijackers'
  • Real IRA: We will take campaign to Britain
  • How Real IRA Killed Denis Donaldson
  • Terrorism has no place in modern Ireland
  • Real IRA Statement to be read at Derry tomorrow
  • Massereene Murders Sets North Back Years
  • Opin: Northern Editor's Analysis
  • Irish Road Traffic volume falls 4% in 12 months
04/12/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Organise for Freedom - Adams
  • Real IRA's Easter message to McGuinness: 'traitors' die
  • Full Story of Brutal Killings May Never be Known
  • MLA condemns graffiti near scene of shooting
  • Sinn Fein blame dissidents for arson attack
  • Significant decline in new arrivals as economy shrinks
  • Seamus Heaney hailed as he hits 70
  • Wood you believe it? Stonehenge find at Tara
  • Catholic ID card calls for priest in case of emergency
  • TDs will be asked to give up pensions
  • Budget 2009: Ministers to take 10% pay cut
  • Ireland's largest rocket launched in Tuam
04/12/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Dissidents ‘open to dialogue’
  • Easter Statement from Republican Sinn Fein
  • Arson attempt at Derry SF office
  • March of hate
  • Opin: Northern Ireland needs new brand of unionism
  • McCrea blasts 'decent IRA' comments
  • 200 take part in peaceline walk
  • Heaney honoured on 70th birthday
  • Patriotism alive at 1916 Rising ceremony
  • Copy of 1916 Proclamation for auction
  • Lucky dog's miracle cliff escape
04/13/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Dissidents on wrong road, says Sinn Fein minister
  • New project aims to let victims tell how Troubles affected the
  • Recession hitting Northern Ireland business hardest
  • Crucial words Real IRA statement missed out
  • Donaldson: The spy gunned down in his Donegal hideaway
  • Apprentice Boys step out for start of the marching season
  • Joke photo man in 300 feet plunge down cliff
  • Memorial urged for women of 1916
  • Love? Women more fussy than romantic, it seems
04/13/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • O'Reilly criticised over 'Telegraph' coverage
  • More bomb hoaxes hit West Belfast
  • ‘Dissidents won’t hijack our history’
  • Dissidents 'dishonour IRA dead' - Sinn Fein MP
  • UUP: Close Down Voices and Sources of Terror
  • Derry: Railway museum new flashpoint
  • SDLP issues ‘historic’ Easter address
  • SF want lily on a par with poppies
  • Attitude to drink changing for better - Meas
  • Bainbridge natives travel to Ireland
  • Suffolk residents say living conditions are intolerable
  • Republic's NI project funding roads uncertain
  • Tests find NI water safe to drink
  • Irish dance champs puts Philly 'on the map'
  • B&B bookings increased by over 20% this year
04/14/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein office attacked again
  • Attack on hall disgusting and disgraceful' - MLA's
  • Derry: Wrong time for police cuts - MLA
  • McGuinness says Sinn Fein willing to meet dissidents
  • SF/RSF split evident at Roslea Easter commemorations
  • Fermanagh priest (Fr McManus) meets victims' campaigner
  • Opin: Easter, 2009, and IRA’s silence speaks for the future
  • Bushmills 'bonfire bowl' examined by Moyle Council
  • Derry: Wind farm 'splitting community'
  • Surfer killed off Inis Oírr is named
04/15/2009                                                                                                                                         Read Full Story
  • Pol Brennan loses again
  • MEP raises concerns over Press freedom
  • 'Death threats will follow me to the grave'
  • Derry: Anger at language proposals
  • Inmates to be punished over lilies
  • Opin: Irish Lessons
  • Opin: Disturbing insight into RIRA
  • Irish American installed as New York archbishop
  • Crumlin Road gaol tours get hard cell
  • South may get deeds to much of Shankill
  • 3,000 year-old bracelet found in field
  • 97 years later, the tragic loss of Titanic still resonates
04/15/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Orde Leaves Position of PSNI Chief Constable
  • Orde will be hard act to follow
  • SF: Transforming policing has never been about individuals
  • Pól Brennan should be allowed to remain in the US –Sinn Féin
  • Brennan makes final appeal
  • SDLP Councillor target of hoax bomb
  • MP condemns hoax bomb alert
  • Visteon workers given cash offer
  • Website profiles election candidates
  • Principal of St Antdrews: I’d have joined the IRA in a heartbeat
  • Northern Ireland's £1bn credit card debt
  • Dedicated blitz memorial for Belfast
04/16/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Boston cop poised to Lead N Ireland police
  • Garda replacement for Orde 'unacceptable'
  • Desperate bid by ex-IRA man to stay in U.S.
  • Family 'forced out' after attacks
  • 'Sectarian attackers' target cars
  • SF: Human Rights report reforms must be acted upon speedily
  • Recession watch: Northern Ireland facing more job losses
  • First Minister Robinson hits out at economic doom-mongers
  • Visteon sit-in workers 'face eviction hearing'
  • Dialogue the only way forward in Visteon dispute – Sinn Féin
  • Court D-Day for Ian Paisley Jnr
  • Irish cardinal to talk peace with Ulster militants
  • Catholic principals support Ruane
  • Statement from Catholic secondary schools welcomed
  • Opin: Rebels an inconvenient truth for Adams and Co
  • 1916 movie ‘will not glorify violence’
04/20/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • McGuinness meets Israelis & Arabs in Donegal peace meeting
  • A United Ireland – How Do We Get There
  • Sinn Fein's Declan Kearney speech on Easter Sunday
  • Large attendance at Carrickmore Easter Commemoration
  • Reports and pics from various local Easter Commemorations
  • Home Secretary decision paves the way for collusion families
  • Act Now to Stop the Deportation of Pól Brennan
  • Stormont facing a climate change rift
  • Visteon workers to ignore eviction order
  • Irish diplomats join walkout at UN racism conference
04/20/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Maze can mirror peace centres around world: McGuinness
  • Nazis target loyalist estates
  • Man, 40s, shot in both legs in Bogside attack
  • Talks held over Holyland trouble
  • Severance payments for PSNI officers to cost £1bn
  • Purvis: Unionism is condemning Protestant men to failure
  • Belfast's peace walls get artistic makeover
  • Expenses exemption is 'sop to SF'
  • Prisoners at the polls: a long-standing tradition
  • Duffy candidacy ‘could be a mandate for terror’
  • Unionist attack on Sen. Ted Kennedy
  • Sinn Fein to veto victims definition bill
  • Opin: UDA must now decommission
04/21/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Violence 'cannot succeed' - Adams
  • Budget: Northern Ireland Assembly to lose £123m
  • NI reaction to Darling's Budget
  • Man gets two years for ammunition seizure
  • Second Basque terror suspect arrested in Northern Ireland
  • SF: DUP's climate change stance means Sammy must go
  • Weary Visteon protesters remain firm and resolute
  • Unemployment in North up again as output falls
  • Heineken reports dip in beer exports
  • Cybergang targets millions of PCs
  • Unionist peace wall makeover shows a gentler side of Shankill
  • Sinn Fein fears over 1916 buildings
04/22/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Irish Unity: Adams announces series of public meetings
  • McGuiness: Dissidents trying to kill me
  • North needs greater fiscal autonomy
  • South Belfast urged: 'Unite against hate crime'
  • Brady to hold meeting with loyalist leaders
  • UDA delegation says there is no going back to past
  • Paisley won't contribute to Wright inquiry legal costs
  • Carlton cinema plan 'positive' for 1916 site - architect
  • 16 Moore St & GPO should be made part of historic quarter
  • Conflict still surrounds Maze prison
  • Cancer death rates higher in Republic
  • HSE plan would cause health chaos
  • Oliver Kelly: Tributes for a Donegal friend
  • Movie: 'Hunger' is a question of humanity
  • 'Hunger' is a brutal, one-sided but riveting movie
  • Movie rev: Savagery, unexpected tenderness mix in 'Hunger'
04/224/2009                                                                                                                                                Read Full Story
  • 'UVF supergrass was drug addict'
  • Delivering Real Change - Adams
  • Big Step Forward In Omagh Shared Educational Campus
  • Dissidents in threat to life of McGuinness
  • Adviser gets 10 years for laundering over £3m
  • Breaking down barriers in our schools and community
  • Amann to shed 330 jobs in north Kerry
  • Hundreds mourn two Connemara fishermen
  • Ireland ranks ninth in child 'happiness'
04/25/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Funeral of Bloody Sunday victim takes place
  • Stormont: Working together but still split
  • Irish auto workers continue sit-down
  • New tribute to Michael Hogan
  • Pete Seeger Turns 90 - For Pete's Sake
05/04/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • McGuinness:'We will not be bullied from the job at hand'
  • Paramilitary groups 'preparing to destroy weapons'
  • Real IRA allies claim republican activist beaten up in Liverpool
  • Irish Murderers Tour Auschwitz
05/05/2009                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Loyalist killing strikes new blow for North's extremists
  • Unionist murder man, leave 1 critical & beat pregnant woman
  • Calls for greater abuse compensation
  • FF down again in latest poll
  • Opin: Political rivalry eggs on sectarian thugs
  • UDA rebels decommission and condemn McDaid killing
05/31//2009                                                                                                                                                Read Full Story
  • Fianna Fail attacks Fine Gael for Sinn Fein 'power share'
  • Cowen tries to stave off disaster
  • Orde Defends Holding Talks With Loyalists on Murder Day
  • Montreal's Irish remember thousands who died in 1800s
  • Seeking hope, they found death
  • In Coleraine 'We knew this was coming'
  • Lawrence loses beloved Irishman David Burke, 69
  • NYC mourns a man who gave immigrants a foot on the ladder
  • Austin Delaney, popular restaurateur, dead at 70
05/31/09                                                                                                                                                  Read Full Story
  • Funeral for loyalist mob victim
  • 'Living in fear' on edge of Fountain Estate
  • Ancient hatreds, gangs & killings lurk beneath a fragile peace
  • UDA breakaway brigade in vow to hand over weapons
  • Opin: Public support for Lisbon rises as recession deepens
  • Derry: Death of Ian Young
  • Protestant fraternity returns to Irish spiritual home
  • Unsung immigrant hero celebrated 100 years later
  • Notorious Co Tyrone road claims life of teen
  • Tourists in Kerry march to sound of different drum
06/01/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • McDaid Wake: Much to ponder in priest's words
  • Victim of loyalist mob buried as data shows rise in hate crimes
  • Trade unionists to stage anti-sectarian rally in Northern Ireland
06/01/09                                                                                                                                                      Read Full Story
  • Unionists fear Sinn Féin could top poll
  • Election officials reject Sinn Fein’s complaints
  • Sinister threat to loyalist mob murder witness
  • Dad died saving man from mob
  • Kenny tried three times to get SF support, say Greens
  • Murder plot solicitor 'warning to profession'
  • Opin: Missed chances for wholesome governance
  • IRL Loses Iceland Stigma as Euro Ensures No Return to Past
  • Tributes flow for Dave Burke
  • Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane
06/04/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein 'likely to top EU poll'
  • Sinn Fein's American outreach
  • 'Dissident' Attack On SF Murphy's Home
  • DUP MP slams McGuinness over sectarian divisions
  • Executive 'fails' on language
  • Loyalist monitoring saw 70 warned
  • Five 'threatened' in murder case
  • Nine charged after loyalist invasion of estate
  • Disgraced lawyer in the dock
  • St. Kieran: Parish not forgotten
06/05/09                                                                                                                                                      Read Full Story
  • Anti-Catholic remarks fuel Church Attacks
  • Anderson comments on UDA statement
  • Community concerns over UPRG statement
  • Strong support for cause of Irish unity in San Francisco
  • Progress confirmed on Loyalist decommissioning
  • McDaid murder - witnesses' lives threatened
  • Residents say there is a win-win solution to contentious march
  • Ballymurphy Massacre Families Brief US Congressional
  • Over 100 Relatives bereaved by the British army attend vigil
  • Victims of State Violence Meet Belfast Mayor
07/11/09                                                                                                                                                    Read Full Story
  • Anti-Catholic intimidation accompanies loyalist marches
  • Killer: I'm no terror boss
  • Stolen 4x4 man is shot by police
  • Adams: A united Ireland is possible
  • Opin: Adams still repeating the same old boring inanities
  • Seamus Heaney: A life of rhyme
  • FEATURE: Republican tells of a 'fascinating' Twelfth
07/19/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
  • 'Orange' Parade of 'Sectarian Hatred'
  • Another Dublin City Council member leaves Sinn Féin
  • New UUP MLA hits out at 'petty politics'
  • Give public help to Whiteoaks - SF
  • Complaints against PSNI double
  • Derry: Views wanted on city name change
  • 'Do not pussyfoot' with UDA: SDLP
  • Downfall of the US tycoon unmasked as IRA millionaire
  • UPRG: more 'dignified' loyalist protest marches to come
  • Probe launched after man shot by police officer
07/21/09                                                                                                                                                        Read Full Story
  • Pol Brennan in US legal limbo
  • Haughey: uncertainty as to strategy for Northern Ireland
  • NI policy with Haughey in power
  • Anti-Treaty IRA burn orphanages to the ground in Galway
  • Radical group seek republican ground lost by Sinn Fein
  • Nationalist gripes and recession 'threat' to peace
  • UDA magazine 'an incitement to murder'
  • Orange Order rejects dialogue with Sinn Féin on parades
  • PSNI cleared of wrongdoing over use of Taser gun
  • PUP voice concerns on loyalist issues
07/26/2009                                                                                                                                                  Read Full Story
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  • Mixed feelings as Pól returns
  • 'Kennedy a bulwark of the peace process'-Durkan
  • Kennedy 'Snub' To Adams Recalled
  • Kennedy's efforts for peace remembered by Irish leaders
  • Ted Kennedy recalled as N. Ireland peace broker
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy's career timeline
  • McGuinness tells DUP stand firm
  • Shot soldiers’ families to get invite to parade
  • Pol Brennan returned to Ireland
  • Ulster 'cold case' unit charges man with sectarian murder
  • Witness For Hamill Inquiry Welcomed
08/26/2009                                                                                                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Man for court over McDaid's murder
  • Catholic Youths attacked by sectarian mob
  • Internal report critical of NI policing
  • Opin: North peace being taken for granted
  • Memorial held for attack victims
  • Ted Kennedy, Ireland's friend
  • Kennedy 'was the very worst sort of outsider'
  • How Edward Kennedy saved the Irish peace process
  • Funeral of man shot dead in US held
  • Google to translate 'as Gaeilge'
08/27/2009                                                                                                                                                   Read Full Story
  • Arsonists destroy Gaelscoil in Co Down
  • Ballymoney Catholic family forced to move
  • Loyalist triumphalism in Rasharkin
  • Sinn Féin launches fight against education cuts
  • FAIR slams Adams over rally speech
  • Jean Kennedy Smith: The Last Kennedy Standing
  • Seminaries in Ireland report highest intake for a decade
08/28/09                                                                                                                                                       Read Full Story
  • Orde steps down as PSNI chief
  • 'Operation Armageddon' would have been doomsday
  • Former IRA member reveals ministers’ role in arms plot
  • Union Asks Irish Workers to Reject EU Treaty
  • Kennedy gave a voice 'to those not heard'
  • PSNI steps up patrols against Real IRA threat
  • UDA split widens as general visits
  • Viewpoint: A crucial week in the shift to normality
  • Opin: PSNI is out of step with the need for more street patrols
08/31/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Gerry Adams comments on Lisbon result
  • Irish Lisbon referendum: How the "Yes" was won
  • Editor's Viewpoint: Our discord is economic suicide
  • Rights and revelry at St George’s Market
  • Committee formed to address parades
  • Funding row over loyalist ‘garden of reflection’
  • Brown aiming to resolve NI policing row
10/03/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • McCord testimony won’t be the last on Capitol Hill
  • Minimal Troubles at Ulster Museum
  • Until now, the last time Sinn Fein met a Tory leader it was 1921 and Collins was negotiating the Treaty
10/23/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • NI policing talks move to London
  • Post mortem on custody death
  • Anguish as son's body found in police station
  • Violence erupts at Coleraine flashpoint
  • Britain offered Gaddafi £14m to end military support of IRA
  • Anderson warns of Stormont 'crisis'
10/05/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Army braced for imminent attack in Northern Ireland
  • Policing talks end without a deal
  • Hillary Clinton set to visit NI
  • Cut off from Ireland and Europe!
  • BRADY DEATH PROTEST VIGIL
  • IrishNews rehashes bogus claim of 'deal' during Hunger Strike
  • Shell to Sea

10/06/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Assembly’s demise could prove disastrous for DUP
  • Call for groups to attend collusion hearing
  • Language lawyer at NYU
  • Jordan inquest judge stands aside
  • Fears grow for safety of police on the streets of Northern Ireland
  • Bonkers about conkers in the West
  • Ruairi O'Bradaigh to step down

10/07/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Robinson issues financial ultimatum on justice devolution
  • Aer Lingus CEO to address workers in Shannon
  • Brown presents leaders with package
  • You’ll be better off if you take a pay-off and let us clear off
  • Dissident republicans fire shots at funeral in Northern Ireland
  • Gerry Adams: the type of truth process I will work with
  • Man held over loyalist murder in 1997
  • PSNI searches slammed
10/08/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Adams calls for republican participation in truth process
  • 'Leaving Belfast was like the end of a love affair' - Priest
  • Policing talks 'make progress'
  • DUP and Sinn Fein on brink of sealing historic deal
  • 'Full disclosure needed on Brady death' - Priest
  • Fianna Fáil bred culture of corruption, cronyism -Ferris
  • Hillary Clinton aims to finish the business of peace in NI
  • Why truth can't be the final victim of Bloody Sunday
10/10/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Armed struggle is over' - INLA
  • Questions remain over INLA arsenal
  • Reaction to INLA renouncing violence
  • Clinton upbeat on NI devolution
  • Claims MI5 plotted to blow up Sinn Féin HQ
  • Official IRA starts talking to arms body
  • Orange group issues message of defiance

10/11/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Clinton wants speedy devolution of justice
  • Hillary Clinton's appeal
  • Row flares after DUP duo walk out during Clinton ovation
  • Clinton Urges Irish Peace Process
  • Joint Press Statements With Robinson and McGuinness
  • Police Chief supports Devolution Package
  • RSF: "Clinton should go home "
  • End of road for billy goats?

10/12/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin accepts Brown's policing offer
  • McCord to give Congress testimony
  • Bomber who tried to kill Thatcher: 'Regret,' but not 'sorry'
  • What Clinton didn't say at Stormont
  • Smiles from Robinson and McG can't hide fragile relationship
  • New Connolly plaque
  • Deplorable arson attack on historic West Belfast site
  • Hunger striker's mother 'fully behind' INLA move
  • Anger at PPS after arrest of notorious West Belfast criminal
  • Loyalism must move to next stage, Purvis tells PUP

10/13/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Robinson stalling on accepting package
  • Inquest into American citizens death in Belfast
  • Sinn Féin to repay £3,000 overpaid to Martin McGuinness
  • De Valera had an exceedingly difficult game to play
  • Minister brands Halloween carnival 'Satanic'


10/14/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story

  • Parties briefed on justice plans
  • Plastic bullet death under review
  • IRA aids search for victims
  • Abandoned van feared to contain 600lb bomb
  • Dissidents 'had details of Ian Paisley jnr’s movements'
  • Man shot in stomach, hand and leg in Belfast
  • West Belfast shooting will achieve nothing - Maskey
  • ‘Cost of contentious parades unsustainable’ - Anderson
  • Four held under terror laws
  • American travel agents visit Derry

10/15/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • PSNI stretched by attack alerts
  • "There was no deal"- Gerry Adams
  • Car bomb 'could have killed'
  • Coroner forced to stand down from Pearse Jordan inquest
  • Irish jokes in British prison newspaper prompt complaints
  • NYY pull plug on Ronan after tenor's bad joke about Jews
  • Aer Lingus planning to end U.S.-Shannon direct route
  • Irish-American activists pressure Irish government over Magdalene Laundries

10/16/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • McGuinness condemns perpetrators of Belfast attack
  • Bomb is intended to spread fear
  • Gardaí to pound streets of West Belfast on visit
  • Ulster should keep eye on any move towards Scottish split
  • Orangemen form group to oppose Papal visit
  • Martin McGuinness: 'All I can do is make the future better'


10/17/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Church leader speaks on Mass row
  • Britain's role in treatment of terror suspect to be revealed
  • Northern Ireland angler survives crocodile attack
  • Lockerbie bombing: UK Government backed release
  • Brown makes 'U-Turn' on Libya and IRA terror claims
  • "A compensation double standard"- by Gerry Adams

10/18/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Brown to publish policing budget
  • High Court action by owners of Lissadell
  • Orange parades will have role in united Ireland: Adams
  • Suspended sentence for man who sang sectarian songs
  • Fury as cars found burned in Bogside
  • Man held over Army base murders
  • People in Republic 'feel better'

10/20/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • BROWN UNVEILS DEVOLUTION PACKAGE
  • Boyle urges Hibs to attend hearing
  • Cameron ends Tories' long silence with Sinn Féin
  • 'Alarm' at rise in police stop and search' operations
  • Pa. pub owner gets 18 months in tax, weapons case
  • Probe water-boarding, not collusion – peer
  • Three swine flu-related NI deaths
  • Uniforms found in car, INLA case told
  • Francie Brolly to retire
  • Taoiseach must confront British Government on Dublin Monaghan bombings – Ó Snodaigh
10/21/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • McCord addresses US Congressional hearing
  • Bomb attack at British Army base
  • Murdered Belfast man's father lobbies in Washington
  • Philly Irish bar owner gets 18 months
  • £1bn for policing, now just do it
  • Unionists will never share views of Adams
  • 'Irish unification could help boost Welsh economy'

10/22/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
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  • Ian Paisley joins "United Ireland!"
  • Empey demands four-party talks over devolved justice power
  • Repression fails to silence Basque independence movement
  • Spies testify on 'Real IRA sting'
  • Tories 'would end costly probes into NI "Troubles"
  • Strabane republican commemoration
  • Dissidents leave loyalist guns deal on a tightrope
  • Doherty welcomes publication of devolution proposals

10/24/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Conservatives warned over abandoning NI inquiries
  • Security lapse risked Queen's life
  • Wrongly convicted man back in court
  • Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to give talk in Madison Nov. 5


10/25/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • President hosts event for RUC widows
  • McCord in call for HET funding
  • Clarification urged in Hunger Strike debate
  • Finucane fight for independent inquiry
  • A headstone for Martha
  • Gaddafi: deal done over IRA victims
  • Eamon de Valera 'was a British spy'
  • David versus Goliath in a Mayo bog

10/26/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Family demand 'full truth' of Motorman death
  • Inquest into Motorman death opens
  • SF defend Guildhall dinner dance
  • Greysteel killer back behind bars
  • Loyal parades debate for Commons
  • BBC Northern Ireland favours republicans claims DUP MP
  • Nightmare as 250,000 shoppers head North
  • Ulster loyalist hardliner charged with child sex crimes

10/27/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • DUP injects marching issue into devolution deal
  • "No amount of motions from unionist politicians" -O'Dowd
  • Irish American Groups Unite to Support Truth Recovery in NI
  • For my son
  • Pearce to play Pearse in 1916 movie


10/28/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • 'Deal has  been done' -Adams
  • Sinn Féin and DUP clash over transfer of policing
  • Efforts continue to free priest
  • Files reveal growing NI terror threat
  • Medal and £650k or I walk: MI5 witness
  • RUC put out false story within hours of McGurk’s bar attack

10/29/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Government trying to buy off DUP: Kelly
  • Legal hold-up in IRA inquest
  • Significant party meeting agrees way forward
  • Onus is on Orange Order to engage - Adams
  • Abuse victims call for full inquiry
  • Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly in talks to free priest
  • Loyalist rape case is adjourned
  • Noam Chomsky warns against rise of extremists
  • Greysteel families break their silence on Knight's sentence
  • Traces of Semtex chemical found in Republican cells


10/30/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story

  • Ireland strife down, not out, 2 women say
  • ILIR and AOH meet Lindsey Graham for immigration reform
  • Republicans angry over payment offer to former policemen
  • Goram still sees himself as 'the victim'
  • Has bigotry reached from beyond grave?

10/31/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story

  • If Libya pays out, then why shouldn’t the British?
  • Robinson blasts SF 'snoops'
  • Sinn Féin 'fears book by ex-IRA commander Brendan Hughes
  • Policing Board hold Irish-language meeting in Belfast
  • Do you own a home in Ireland?

11/01/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story

  • Doherty backs child abuse inquiry call
  • Assembly to investigate extent of child abuse in North
  • 'No IRA role in disappearance'
  • GAA tree planting for Stormont
  • No ransom to be paid for Irish priest
  • Justice money 'may be withdrawn'

11/02/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story
  • Former Irish bank boss in 'anti-Protestant tirade'
  • Toxic waste dumped on public land
  • Strabane man claims informer approach
  • 'My business has stalled because I won't inform'
  • Tynan's anguish
  • Unionists argue over cause of Troubles
  • Official IRA to begin decommissioning ‘within weeks
  • Minister hits out at Paisley’s rhyme
11/03/2009                                                                                                                                     Read Full Story