The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Men arrested after police thwarted an alleged attack in Garrison Two men have been charged tonight with attempting to murder a police officer in Northern Ireland following an incident at the weekend. One of them, a 26-year-old, is also charged with shooting at an undercover security force unit that thwarted the alleged attack in the border village of Garrison, Co Fermanagh on Saturday night. He and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Policing board member Alex Attwood says two attempts to murder police officers this weekend shows dissidents are 'broadening scale' Republican dissidents are widening their terror attacks across Northern Ireland, a member of the province's policing board warned today after two separate attempts to murder police officers at the weekend. Two men were arrested following a gun attack on officers in Co...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
While the SDLP have a very serious fight for the position of new leader, the psephologists' guru and Alliance Party Director, Gerry Lynch, has taken campaigning to be a party candidate to a new level in local politics with the launch of a dedicated website for his push to run in the East Antrim Westminster seat. As he is normally associated with North Belfast does this indicate Sean Neeson will be...
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A father whose wife and young son were killed the week before Christmas by a so-called joyrider has said he is “sickened” after a convicted West Belfast death driver was jailed for dangerous driving on the same stretch of road. Harry Marley, 27, was released from prison last year after serving six years for killing West Belfast teenager Debbie McComb on the Upper Springfield Road in March...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BBC 17 Nov 09 A former IRA woman who was jailed for bombing the Old Bailey in London, has been arrested in connection with the shooting of two soldiers in Antrim. Marian Price, who is 55, was arrested in west Belfast on Tuesday. Marian Price is being questioned by police She is being held in connection with the Real IRA murders of two soldiers at Massereene Army base in March. A 39-year-old man was...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Back in May, I wrote this post about the murders of two British Army sappers, Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and fretted that dissident Republicans were getting bolder in their attacks on the police, army, and those it considered traitors to the Feinian cause. Last month, The Christian Science Monitor wondered if IRA splinter groups could "bring...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Homes of legal owners are targeted by violent gang receiving up to £500 for a single weapon A new Irish republican dissident terror group is using a gang of young travellers to steal weapons from gun owners across Northern Ireland. Police are linking a recent upsurge in gun thefts to the "Saor Uladh", the fourth dissident terrorist force to emerge from republicans disenchanted with...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
By Barry McCaffrey Irish News 12/11/09 A leading dissident republican could face charges of involvement in the murder of two British soldiers after CCTV footage identified him buying mobile phones used by the killers . Mark Quinsey and Cengiz ‘Patrick’ Azimkar were shot dead by Real IRA gunmen outside Massereene army barracks in Antrim on March 7. Two men, Colin Duffy and Brian Shivers,...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
David Gordon played his own part in ‘The Fall of the House of Paisley’ by providing the print media’s most comprehensive coverage of the political dynasty’s links to property magnate Seymour Sweeney, and reporting other scandals which rocked the DUP during 2007 and 2008. Indeed the journalist brought to popular attention a number of the important scoops which underpin his new...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A new book charting the downfall of Ian Paisley and his son retells one of the most remarkable political events in Northern Ireland of recent years Unionist hardliner Jim Allister likes to compare himself to a latter-day David-the-giant-slayer. At the annual conference of his Traditional Unionist Voice party in Belfast last weekend Allister relished the prospect of taking on a political Goliath that...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Large-scale search under way after reports that three guns have been found in a wing housing dissident republican inmates Searches are under way in a top security prison in Northern Ireland after reports that three guns have been found in a wing housing dissident republican paramilitary inmates. Legal and family visits have been cancelled this morning after the searches began around half past nine...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Tomorrow MLAs are due a late night as they will be voting on the Justice Bill, the measure which is meant to pave the way for the transfer of justice powers. The voting coinicided with the latest Assembly road show due to take place in South Antrim. Stormont officials had hoped to arrange a Westminster style pairing system, so that panel members wouldn't have to worry about their parties missing out...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
You published an article by ex-minister Kim Howells ( Comment, 4 November ) calling for "necessarily intrusive" surveillance of Muslim communities in Britain because of the al-Qaida threat. The day after you reported that Irish Republican "dissidents" are committed to carrying out terrorist attacks in mainland Britain ( Report , 5 November). Will Howells now call for "necessarily...
Peregrine's Bird Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I finished work and raced down to to Oxford Island on the shores of Lough Neagh for the British Trust for Ornithology Birdwatching Conference 2009. It was a lovely clear morning. The room that the conference took place was filled. A great turnout the only sad thing to me was the age demographic with most being over 50. Over the period of the next 8 hours we were to have 11 speakers. Shane Wolsey the...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The High Court in Belfast has heard that soil found on a boot belonging to prominent republican Colin Duffy matches a sample in a getaway car allegedly used by gunmen who murdered two British soldiers outside a Co Antrim military base.
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