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Fair Deal and Mick have already mentioned this but there’s another point of interest to note. Sinn Féin’s Alex Maskey threatened to set his lawyers on Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie for her comments about Robert McCartney’s murder, but with parliamentary privilege in play he had to settle for a gentle chiding of the minister by the Speaker, the DUP’s Willie Hay - as Newton Emerson noted...
The Speaker has censured Margaret Ritchie for her references to the Robert McCartney murder during a debate about Environmental Improvement Schemes in the Markets area.
By William Graham Political Correspondent Irish News **Via Newshound 01/10/08 AN assembly debate yesterday on housing in the Markets area of Belfast turned into a bitter clash between SDLP minister Margaret Ritchie and Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey over the murder of Robert McCartney. During one exchange the minister told Mr Maskey – who is due to meet Ms Ritchie on the matter next month – that all she will...
A Web site has pulled a video game about shooting kindergarteners a week after Finland’s worst-ever school shooting. The debate about video games and violence continues.
At least one school was evacuated, the police questioned two young men about violent Internet postings and a 15-year-old boy was reportedly detained for sending threats to another school.
The gunman in Finland's latest school shooting probably bought his gun in the town where a teenager went on another rampage less than a year ago, police said Wednesday.
Detectives believe a gunman who carried out a massacre at a college in Finland had been in direct contact with another student responsible for a similar school shooting last year.
By Wojciech Moskwa, Reuters A deadly shooting at a Finnish school raises questions over tougher policing of the Internet after the gunman posted menacing videos on the Web before killing 10 people.
Is this an extension of the useless acts of terrorism or suicide bombers or simply a case of random insanity that certainly suggests a trend based on all the cases reported over the years. About the only thing this report suggests is school violence is not exclusively an American phenomenon. That provides no satisfaction [...]