Kelly selected for North Belfast
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Gerry Kelly is selected as the Sinn Fein candidate to fight the North Belfast seat in the next general election.
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Gerry Kelly claims Peter Robinson got twenty million pounds for former part-time police officers…
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Gerry Kelly claims Gordon Brown slipped twenty million pounds to Peter Robinson for former part-time police officers. Shock horror! Another side deal involving government ? Surely not! Who was at the negotiating table? What has been going on?
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Robinson accuses Kelly of snooping…
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Another rift has opened up between the DUP and Sinn Fein. Earlier today Gerry Kelly said a twenty million pounds ‘side deal’ had been agreed by Gordon Brown for former part time police officers. Peter Robinson said this afternoon a letter from Mr Brown to him should not have been available to Mr Kelly. He added: “For clarity it should be known that the Prime Minister’s...
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Anglo Irish 'culture' infected the DDDA
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... he too was invited to join the board of Anglo". Meanwhile, acting DDDA chief executive officer Gerry Kelly has told the Sunday Tribune that the authority is involved in a multi-million-euro arbitration dispute in relation to the U2 tower. The arbitration involves a claim against loss of fees by architect BCDH, which designed the original winning design for the tower. The design was...
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Long Way Down
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... is no need to watch the twists and turns to fully grasp the summersault. When someone told me Gerry Kelly had been lending his shoulder to the tout wheel I was not surprised. It is what Sinn Fein leaders do these days, boxed in as they are with nowhere else to go. Still, I wanted to actually listen to what he had to say and not merely rely on an account of someone else who might have...
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“When this place becomes durable, functioning and sustainable..”
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I previously asked, on Sinn Féin’s selection (unopposed) of Northern Ireland Executive Junior Minister, Gerry Kelly, MLA, as their candidate for north Belfast in the next general election, whether the party thinks the new restrictions on multiple mandates won't apply to them? So reports of yesterday’s debate in the Assembly on ending “double-jobbing” led...
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“the dissidents themselves are actually attacking the direct local accountability institutions”
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport has been properly sceptical before of the suggestion that “having a local Justice Minister might dampen down any dissident violence”. And, following the weekend car bomb attack on the Policing Board headquarters, on today’s Stormont Live he put one of his “stupid” questions to Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly. “Would...
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Today: Northern Ireland dissident threat 'deeply personal'
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
There are fears of an upsurge in violence in Northern Ireland, after an attempt to blow up the headquarters of the policing board in Belfast. Police say dissident republicans left a car bomb outside the building. It is thought only the detonator exploded. Five men have now been arrested, after an exchange of gunfire with police in Fermanagh last night. Sinn Fein member Gerry Kelly discusses...
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Dissident republicans blamed for 400lb bomb after 'spectacular' threat
Times Online (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... device would have led to very serious injury or loss of life,” a police spokeswoman said.Gerry Kelly, a Sinn Féin minister in the power-sharing Executive and a former IRA bomber, called the failed bombing unacceptable.“These actions are futile and have no place in advancing republican or democratic objectives. These activities need to end,” he said.The car carrying the bomb crashed...
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400lb car bomb goes off outside Northern Ireland's Policing Board
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... with the strong message that these dissidents will not succeed.” Sinn Fein Assembly member Gerry Kelly said the attack “is unacceptable and I condemn it”. “These actions are futile and have no place in advancing republican or democratic objectives,” he said. “These activities need to end.” Two men were arrested following the exchange of fire in Garrison, in which no one was hurt....
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Reaction to dissident attacks
BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... all information that may assist the prosecution of those responsible. Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly The Policing Board is made up of locally elected politicians and members of the public working to hold the PSNI to account. This attack is an attack not just on the Policing Board members but on the communities who elect them. It is unacceptable and I condemn it. Alliance deputy...
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DUP + TUV - Troubles 100% the fault of Nationalists, no wrong doings on 'other side'.
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The TUV have just declared that the 'terrorist' community should never hear any recognition of wrong doing from the 'decent' community he represents. He was backed up by the DUP on tonights spotlight programme. Jim Allister implied that the bloody Sunday victims were not innocent and the British forces were ONLY defending people. Sinn Feins Gerry Kelly admitted he regrets what he done...
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Making a list, checking it twice..
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly wants the DUP to produce a list of conditions for the devolution of policing and justice [Is that how they hope to assess “community confidence”? - Ed] and he declares in the iol report - “We need to get this sorted by Christmas”. Fortunately his party president, Gerry Adams, will be meeting Santa Claus in Dublin tomorrow…...
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Sinn Féin & TUV Seek Clarity From Robinson
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Following yesterday's embarrassing volte-face from DUP junior minister Jeffrey Donaldson, his Sinn Féin counterpart in the OFMDFM, Gerry Kelly...
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SF demands DUP justice clarity
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The Sinn Fein junior minister Gerry Kelly says he wants the DUP to spell out their conditions for the devolution of policing and justice.