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

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

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

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

11/07/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

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

11/09/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

11/10/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

11/11/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

11/12/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


12/02/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


12/12/09                                                                  Read Full Story

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


01/05/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Iris Robinson attempted suicide after an affair
  • UDA decommissioning welcomed
  • UDA gives up its guns - reaction
  • Woodward remarks 'banal' says Sinn Fein leader
  • Sinn Fein prepare to punish council rebel
  • Senator Dodd retirement a huge blow to Irish lobby
  • Family misfortunes for DUP and Sinn Fein leaderships
  • Terrorist threat must not stifle changes in policing
  • 32CSM vow to 'provide leadership'
  • A Better way forward is available - Mitchel McLaughlin MLA

01/06/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • BBC-Robinson's broke the law
  • UDA 'has decommissioned all weapons
  • Republican found guilty of assault on PSNI inspector
  • Loyalist charged with assault on horse, donkey
  • Liam Adams controversy continues
  • Details emerge of British torture techniques

01/07/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Policing impasse ‘must be resolved despite Iris scandal’
  • Police officer critically injured by car bomb
  • Northern Ireland: Not just the Robinsons' affair
  • Give Peter a week - DUP
  • UVF brothers to face 100 charges
  • Celtic fan’s murderer preparing for release from jail
  • Volunteer Feargal O'Hanlon remembered on New Year's Day


01/08/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Iris Robinson thrown out of DUP after scandal
  • Adams statement on poltical situation
  • Robinson denies wife abuse rumour
  • Robinson under pressure to resign
  • Why Iris Robinson deserves little sympathy
  • Sinn Fein hit by new crisis as Forde quits
  • Pat Finucane – Lest We forget
  • Three top suspects in custody after raid by Garda
  • UVF killer freed-given Hero's welcome
  • Adams receives death threats from loyalists


01/10/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Robinson to step aside 'for six weeks'
  • Paisley 'beyond fury' over Robinson sleaze
  • Robinson will not survive a week, says Trimble
  • Robinson affair may threaten powersharing
  • Policing agreement in North hangs on Robinson's fate
  • Outstanding political issues must be resolved – Kelly
  • Only topic in town as Robinsons dominate pub talk
  • Gerry Adams rejects ‘cover-up’ claims over suspect brother

01/11/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • The Irish Family Robinson
  • Appointment 'puts party before country'
  • New revelations: Iris lover feigned illness to end affair
  • Efforts to devolve policing to go on, says British govt
  • NI policing talks 'at serious stage'
  • Martin McGuinness is the biggest winner after the affair
  • IRA dissidents burgeon, youth wing now set up
  • DUP close to agreement on policing powers transfer

01/12/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • PMs Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen to hold justice talks
  • SF refuses to be drawn on detail of DUP talks
  • DUP turmoil brings little joy to repub. streets of Belfast
  • McCord to meet Serious Crime chief
  • Come clean on collusion says IAUC
  • Sinn Féin MLA Maskey faces death threat
  • Material for bombs that killed 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan may have come from the British Army

01/13/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Optimism on talks as Robinson returns to Stormont
  • Iris Robinson resigns from NI Assembly
  • Loyal sons of Ulster unionism were undone by tea girl
  • Probe into Adams' claims over brother
  • Cllr Christy Burke: What's really rotten at the heart of Sinn Féin

01/14/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Peter Robinson full interview - Truth about Iris and me
  • Leaders brief DUP on Stormont talks
  • Church's outrage over Taliban jibe
  • Hillary Clinton intervenes in Northern Ireland talks
  • Adams unaware of his brother's role in Sinn Fein cumann
  • Liam Adams traded on brother's name to advance career
  • No support for dissident attacks
  • Mad Dog Adair: I'm going home
  • Republican to challenge trial without jury
  • 32CSM dismiss Republican drug seizure link

01/17/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Belfast talks entering crunch time
  • Calling time on Stormont
  • We won't be rushed into policing deal, insists DUP
  • Return of ‘Mad Dog’ could pose a real threat to peace
  • Processed peace

01/18/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • McGuinness defends Gerry Adams over sex abuse claims
  • Sinn Fein denies mishandling abuse claim
  • Secret Unionist talks in England over weekend
  • Lurgan Shooting Was 'Revenge' Attack
  • Sinn Fein suspends woman politician in sex abuse inquiry
  • Stormont deal could be done by end of the week
  • PSNI 50-50 policy 'disgraceful'

01/19/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Martin in Stormont amid fears for talks
  • SF threat to sue over claims of sex abuse cover-up
  • Launch of Bloody Sunday campaign
  • Ex-prisoners appeal denial of compensation
  • Shots fired over republican's coffin
  • RIRA accused to challenge return to jail
  • Stop and search protest at police public meeting

01/20/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Political crisis could be resolved in matter of hours: Maskey
  • UDA chief’s fears over ‘dissident’ loyalist groups
  • Adams response to Sunday Tribune
  • Sectarian stand-off at Finaghy
  • Sinn Féin Vice-President comments following Officer Board meeting

01/21/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein says talks end without progress
  • Justice talks end in failure
  • Sinn Féin to discuss power sharing role
  • Police stop-and-search powers used most in North West

01/22/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein seeks meeting with Robinson
  • Paisley: I prayed with McGuinness
  • Historic handshake
  • Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams’ statement:

01/23/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Hillary Clinton in last-ditch bid to save Irish peace talks
  • UUP leader Sir Reg Empey warns of early election
  • Snap election not likely to benefit Sinn Fein or DUP
  • Shoukri could be another Mad Dog
  • Officer arrested over Loughinisland misconduct probe

01/24/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Talks extend into the night
  • DUP's lack of humility may torpedo Stormont
  • Adams kept quiet about his brother's SF role, says niece
  • Gunmen fire shots at Crossmaglen police station
  • Bloody and brutal history of UDA in North Belfast
  • Memorial for 1957 'Edentubber bombers'
  • Analysis: Ruling greeted by the sound of silence

01/25/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Brown and Cowen work on blueprint with North parties
  • Same old story in North but with a different cast
  • Time for an end to the DUP veto
  • Adams faces calls for ‘open’ inquiry into abuse claims

01/26/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • PMs quit talks; Brown demands deal by Friday
  • Sinn Fein dismay amid talks recriminations
  • Devolution vehicle has crashed on the long and winding roa
  • Meehan daughter defends mum
  • Now for the final push

01/27/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • ‘IT’S NOT OVER YET’ - ADAMS
  • Ballymurphy group ‘dismissed’ by Victims Commission
  • ‘Real IRA’ claim over Cork drug dealer
  • They came, they tried, they failed
  • First phase of Conway mill completed
  • Editorial Opinion- Can Disney save Northern Ireland?


01/28/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Talks to resume Monday
  • Equality for all must now be set in Stormont stone
  • Town hall attacked in loyalist protest
  • The ghostly presence of Drumcree hangs over talks
  • Did MI5 bring down Peter and Iris Robinson?
  • Creggan man has IRA convictions quashed

01/31/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • DUP in ‘turmoil’ as talks continue
  • Bloody Sunday remembered
  • Anger as children searched by PSNI
  • Adams sees any accord as a 'staging post'
  • Power-hungry unionists no longer rule the roost
  • Crossmaglen bomb parts man McAllister gets 12 years

02/02/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Robinson on the brink as party revolts over SF deal
  • Robinson resumes First Minister role
  • Assembly elections called if NI Executive falls - PM
  • The house arrest talks were sheer torture
  • Kelly condemns north Belfast pipe bomb attack

02/03/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Deal over Northern Ireland justice in danger: Woodward
  • DUP ‘are just Sinn Fein props’
  • Power-share and share alike could hold the key
  • Peter Robinson to take action against BBC

02/04/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • The "Deal"- read for yourself
  • Ó Caoláin welcomes Agreement
  • Orange order welcomes deal
  • Gerry Adams tells of his nights on the floor

02/05/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Party leaders to meet Obama
  • DUP seeks side deal
  • British troops on the ground in north Belfast
  • Shankill and Falls divided on merits of agreement
  • Spooky image at Moyola Drive

02/06/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin endorses NI power-sharing deal
  • The truth about Hillary Clinton and the NI breakthrough
  • "Another good Friday"-Gerry Adams
  • Republicans benefit if they’re seen to ‘deliver’
  • With humble pie off the menu, the deal was done

02/07/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • SF tightens security around Adams after death threat
  • DUP diehards forced to heed the political will of  people
  • Alliance not ready to nominate justice minister
  • McGuinness slams 'nonsensical' SDLP
  • Sinn Fein call for boycott of ambassador to Ireland
  • INLA announces it has disarmed


02/08/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • First parade meeting "Business-Like"
  • Were there any policing and justice side deals?
  • Sinn Fein and DUP fill parades group with own people
  • Maze Prison buildings to keep listed status
  • Stumbling blocks seen for Hillsborough Agreement
  • Disposal of weapons by NI groups welcomed
  • Police target dissident republicans on both sides of Irish border

02/09/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • DUP's 'clever device' revealed
  • Policing and Justice - what it means to you
  • North deal may help to settle parades issue, says Martin
  • The Johnstons and the McKinneys - and the Paras

02/10/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Gerry Adams ready to go to local Orange Lodge
  • DUP cry “Cultural Apartheid”
  • Crucial week for parades
  • Deal falls on deaf ears
  • Special Branch targeting vulnerable family members
  • Vindictive sentence for environmental activist
  • London conference to put Irish unity on the agenda

02/11/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • DUP attacks Adam's parade comments
  • Poll shows Sinn Fein largest party in NI
  • 32CSM warn shops on police
  • Dissidents 'must retract threat'
  • Order 'should give up Garvaghy' - Martin McGuinness

02/12/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Paisley in apparent rebuke to Robinson over ‘clever tricks
  • Majority want Robinson resignation - survey
  • SAS triple killing 25th anniversary
  • Man uses wife as shark bait

02/13/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Adams reveals £20m for Irish language
  • Sinn Féin leader going ‘primetime’ with Ard Fheis speech
  • An Irishman's Diary
  • Ingenious were the peacemakers in Northern Ireland
  • UVF brothers plead guilty to 73 offences

02/15/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Sinn Fein jumped through DUP’s hoops and fell short
  • 'DUP have betrayed people of Ulster' says Calvert
  • NIO told: explain secrecy over ‘deal on hunger strike’
  • 'Use CCTV to catch loyalist attackers' - PSNI told
  • Gerry Adams unanimously selected to fight west Belfast seat

02/16/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Mad Dog told not to return to North
  • Two more arrested over Constable Carroll's murder
  • Keep M15 away from Saville
  • Call for 'Journey to Peace' tourist trail
  • Concerns over parade return

02/17/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • A game changer at Hillsborough
  • Shell to Sea protestors jailed
  • Ritchie taken to task
  • Report into suspicious death imminent
  • 'Order should not march Garvaghy'

02/19/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Irish Unity conference in London
  • Harassment of Republicans continues in Newry
  • Orange Order leaders voice concern on parades proposal
  • Orange Order to communicate directly with Sinn Fein
  • Victims' families still waiting for justice

02/20/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Martin McGuinness interview in full
  • Sinn Féin's McGuinness defends record on sexual abuse
  • Gerry Adams: the one we think we know
  • Dissidents’ mortar bomb abandoned at PSNI station
  • Officer injured in car bomb out of intensive care
  • Adams comments on Dolours Price Interview

02/21/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Dodds demands McGuinness apology
  • British deny murdered lawyer any justice
  • Cold War in Armagh
  • Parades dispute escalates
  • ‘The Dark’ remembered amid tension over new book
  • Irish unity conference in London


02/22/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Bomb blast blamed on dissidents
  • Newry bombers want to prove they can mount campaign
  • Provo expertise behind Newry attack - Allister
  • Adams challenges 'enemies of a united Ireland'
  • Election could delay IRA inquest
  • Brooklyn Irish remember Bloody Sunday
  • Statement from Bloody Sunday Families


02/23/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Irish unity is inevitable
  • Dissident deaths 'only a matter of time' says former cop
  • Murphy acquitted of conspiracy in Omagh bombing retrial
  • Trio charged with IRA membership
  • Brethren urged to 'reject deal'


02/25/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Real IRA man 'executed' for informing about drugs
  • MI5 ‘made approach to Real IRA assassination victim’
  • Family of Derry victim hit out at MI5
  • Cowardly, mindless murder
  • 'I was totally sincere about Sinn Fein deal'-Paisley

02/27/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • éirigí pair targeted by cops – again
  • Wright family responds to Price's claims in Irish News
  • Thousands pay tribute to Strabane IRA Volunteers
  • New republican historical society visits Dublin sites
  • UVF killer supergrass converts to Catholicism
  • Shankill Butcher William Moore found dead in flat

02/28/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Police fire plastic rounds as riots erupt in Craigavon
  • Newry court bombing: government denies complacency
  • Steady growth in ranks of dissident republicans
  • My son's Real IRA killers are ‘total scum’
  • 'The army has lied time and time again'

03/01/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Ian Paisley quits after 40 years as MP
  • Paisley: From a firebrand unionist to sharing with SF
  • Allister promises "fierce battle"
  • IRA groups as strong as Provisionals - Ahern

03/02/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Presidential Proclamation--Irish American Heritage Month
  • Big man with a bad mouth bows out at last
  • Police officer denies he broke republican’s arm
  • David Ford to meet Bloody Sunday families
  • City of culture contender Derry divides over 'UK' in title
  • McFarlane escapee case heard in Europe

03/04/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Adams bruised and battered but unbowed at ardfheis
  • MI5 'not accountable to assembly'
  • Maskey’s disgust at dissident kill threat
  • Ford offers apology to Bloody Sunday families
  • Provocative loyalist parade on St Patrick’s Day
  • New anti-terrorist police unit deployed in Fermanagh area
  • Sinn Féin Ard Fheis begins in RDS this evening
  • Paramilitary Shoukri group gives up final arms

03/05/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Irish Gov't has to go-Adams
  • Martin McGuinness Address to Ard Fheis 2010 – Saturday
  • Sinn Féin delivering on justice - Maskey
  • Ard Fheis OPENING SPEECH – Mary Lou McDonald

03/06/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Stormont backs devolution of policing and justice
  • McGuinness: UUP rejecting deal for 'cynical' reasons
  • Ulster officials defy 'bullying' after G.W. Bush 'intervention'
  • Alleged ex-IRA man on trial for trying to kill UDR soldier
  • Marching into another summer of discontent
  • 'Why am I on trial and McGuinness is not?'
  • Prison told 'get cells ready' for more dissidents
  • New NI justice minister will be 'enemy of the Irish people'
  • Four arrested in Operation Ballast

03/09/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Our inconsistent record over Ireland
  • Muslim website calls for 'Sharia' Islamic law in Ireland
  • Woodward, Saville and MI5
  • Former IRA members removed from 'No Fly' lists in the US
  • Call to take veteran republicans off govt ‘hit list’
  • Thousands rally for collusion victim
  • Specialist police deployed as MI6 recruit

03/11/10                                                                 Read Full Story
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  • 3 mos. sentence for playing Wolfe Tones during march
  • Real IRA ' threat to kill' SF press officer
  • 'Aggressive' police search slammed
  • McGuinness sets off for US trip
  • No love lost

03/12/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • What really happened on Bloody Sunday?
  • The unsettling power of MI5
  • Campbell slams Adams Irish unity comments
  • Dissidents 'like London street gangs' - Matt Baggott

03/15/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • One on four Protestants expects Irish unity
  • Former US commissioner says policing gamble paid off
  • Long journey for N. Ireland leader
  • Bloody Sunday family centre opens
  • Shamrock shortage in Ireland sparks St. Pat's fears
  • SDINA raises the Tricolor at St. Patricks Day Parade

03/17/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Obama's St. Patrick's Day wish is to visit Ireland
  • Irish ancestry? Ireland offers discount on college fees
  • Capitol Hill unveiling for portrait of Pat Finucane
  • Bloody Sunday relatives protest at Downing Street
  • Donnelly mounts hunger protest
  • Cardinal accused of cover-up

03/18/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Security alerts bring Derry to a standstill
  • Dissidents blamed for rush-hour havoc in the North
  • Real IRA say they caused Londonderry security alerts
  • Donnelly still on hunger strike
  • Republican anger at hunger strike graffiti
  • We do not need to be told the truth. We need truth to be told

03/20/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Gun attack follows wave of alerts
  • Donnelly ends Maghaberry hunger strike
  • M15 blocks Bloody Sunday report
  • British MPs criticise Omagh secrecy
  • Miscarriage of justice overturned

03/22/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Civil Rights veteran slams 'callous and cruel' Real IRA
  • Top bishop quits over child sex abuse cases
  • Court hears Michael Stone appeal
  • Saville report delay 'unacceptable'

03/23/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Massachusetts passes United Ireland Resolution
  • Call for O'Loan to oversee UVF murder probe
  • Court to hear amnesty question
  • British practise war on Derry coast

03/25/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Stop-and-search power being abused by PSNI
  • Take it down from the mast
  • Band march in field behind houses
  • 'Sunday' family 'lose all hope of ever learning the full truth
  • Orange Orders Anti-Catholic Nature Laid Bare
  • Pope will force Brady to resign

03/27/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Adams linked to IRA actions
  • Scepticism over book in Gerry Adams’political heartland
  • 'I'm suing Adams for the truth -- it is not about money'
  • Couple 'fled home after loyalist threats'
  • Orangeman runs for BNP
  • Progress in legal battle over SAS killings
  • Govt urged to recover 1916 tricolour

03/30/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Adams continues to reject book's allegations
  • Sinn Fein' Gerry Adams ‘proud’ of association with IRA
  • Hasty retreat for PSNI 'checkpoint Charlies'
  • Three arrested in dissident inquiry
  • Derry couples seeking Pagan weddings – claim
  • Republicans to commemorate Easter Rising across Ireland this weekend

04/01/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Sinn Féin Leadership Easter Statement
  • Rival republican groups mark Rising
  • We thought bomb alerts were April Fool prank’
  • Months of meetings lead to shared weekend
  • Anger at cynicism involved in latest anti-Sinn Féin book

Easter Weekend                                                             2010
  • Adams accuses media of a witch-hunt against Sinn Fein
  • Adams says IRA won rights for nationalists
  • Britain was "behind IRA lawyer's murder"
  • Dissident republicans in jail stand-off as Army tackles bomb
  • Alex Maskey at Campaign For A United Ireland event

04/05/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • NI's parties gear up for election
  • Election battle between Unionists and Nationalists
  • Real IRA warns of upsurge in campaign of violence
  • Ex-Provo backs comrade's scathing account of Adams
  • I’m glad the war is over, says Gerry Adams
  • IRA dissidents cannot be ignored
  • Gerry Adams' Easter Speech 2010, Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.


  • Tinderbox inside Maghaberry
  • DUP anger over Easter rally
  • Bloody Sunday report postponement confirmed
  • New group to oppose contentious marches
  • McGuinness says armed struggle was a tactic
  • Why Butler is ‘the most hated man in Lisburn’

04/08/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Could an election be heading our way?
  • Unionists agree on joint candidate
  • UVF Behind Village Attacks
  • Maghaberry prisoners must be treated with respect

04/09/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Transfer of Policing and Justice arrives with a "Bang"
  • Large protest outside Maghaberry
  • Baggott plays waiting game on collusion, shoot-to-kill
  • Solicitor says proposal to arrest Pope in UK 'will succeed'
  • Attack on Orange hall every five days
  • Orange Order cultural mask slips again

04/12/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Real IRA claims responsibility for MI5 explosion
  • Sinn Féin denounces Real IRA bombing of MI5 headquarter
  • MI5 attack shows intelligence 'gap'
  • SDLP dismisses idea of election pact with Sinn Féin
  • Adams attacks SDLP response to proposed alliance

04/13/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • The meter is ticking on the Real IRA campaign
  • RIRA leader personally planned MI5 bomb attack
  • RSF row over 'traitor' comments
  • Royal visit in the cards
  • McGuinness is favourite to be elected
  • Vatican scoffs at calls for Popes arrest

04/14/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • SDLP and Sinn Fein proclaim rival vision for united Ireland
  • In Paisley heartland of North Antrim, election battle rages
  • Omagh investigation is 'the cover-up of the century'
  • Is it time to whitewash Northern Ireland's paramilitary murals?

04/16/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • The truth about the man who accuses Adams...
  • Election fever in Britain highlights total apathy in North
  • Durkan hoping to hold off any Sinn Féin surge
  • DUP election models are Mormons from the US
  • IRA informer's wife in 'Stakeknife' legal bid
  • Inside story of Long Kesh revels in the humans and the humour

04/19/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Writer welcomes US condemnation of alleged IRA threat
  • Guns 'were for dissidents' police claim in court
  • Belfast's murals: Off the wall?
  • Sinn Fein withdraw Maskey from S. Belfast contest
  • Former POW summarily jailed
  • PSNI intimidation in Belfast

04/20/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Protestors invade Anglo-Irish HQ
  • Teen charged with murder as hundreds attend sombre vigil
  • TUV- The Unionist version of "Bipartisanship"
  • Killing accused ‘was promoted by loyalists’
  • Irish dissidents discuss plan to carry bomb to England
  • Adams is up for polls challenge
  • A tale of two cities (and guess which one is getting nothing
  • Adams and Robinson face toughest questions in first debate
  • A real Cead Mile Failte as Irish rescue American tourists
  • Adams attacks unionist parties over Bill of Rights

04/24/10                                                                 Read Full Story
  • Crunch policing talks on dissident campaign
  • Man arrested in west Belfast dissident probe
  • Birmingham on Real IRA terror hitlist
  • Moyle Council 'No' to Armed Forces Flag
  • Pope receives apology from UK FO for 'condom' memo
  • PSNI "under pressure"
  • Adams clashes with McGeough over harassment

04/26/10                                                                 Read Full Story