SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday
News Letter 06 November 2009 POLICE are to comply with a court order to hand over top secret reports on an alleged officer shoot-to-kill policy during the Troubles, a senior commander revealed yesterday . While the PSNI is still seeking clarification on how much of the controversial Stalker and Sampson documents must be disclosed, Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris said the service would not go...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC 6 Nov 09 Soil on a boot belonging to republican Colin Duffy matched a sample in the getaway car used after the murder of two soldiers, a court has heard. Mr Duffy, 41, of Forest Glade, Lurgan, County Armagh, denies the murders of sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21. They were shot dead at the gates of Massereene Army barracks in March. Mr Duffy was applying for bail at the High Court....
asap news (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Over €50,000 in cash has been seized from an Armagh resident as he tried to board his Barcelona flight on Monday at Belfast International Airport. Officials of the UK Border Agency arrested the man on suspicion of being engaged in money laundering. After thorough interrogation by the authorities, he was then freed on bail to [...]
Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Anglican Archbishop of Armagh has said that further confidence building measures are needed to ensure that the political process in Northern Ireland can continue to work.
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Archbishop of Armagh says confidence building measures are needed to show that devolution in Northern Ireland works
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
SWEDEN: Anglicans snub Swedish lesbian bishop http://www.thelocal.se/23074/20091104/ November 4, 2009 Anglican bishops from England and Northern Ireland have rebuffed invitations to attend the ordination of the openly gay Eva Brunne to be the next Bishop of Stockholm. Five bishops from various levels within the Anglican Church, including Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, have decided not to...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Report by International Monitoring Commission warns dissident threat has reached six-year high Henry McDonald Guardian 4 November 2009 Republican dissidents will shift their attacks across the Irish Sea to mainland Britain if they get the opportunity, the body overseeing paramilitary ceasefires warned today. The International Monitoring Commission also said former Provisional IRA members were helping...
Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Next September, I plan to be in Armagh for an astronomy conference- not that I ever need much of an excuse to go to Northern Ireland. Now, these days we are encouraged to go green, and to use the train for short ( i.e. domestic travel) rather than flying. And it has to be said that the Channel Tunnel has improved rail links to the rest of Europe- apparently, by train, the nearest capital city to London...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
BBC Some former Provisional IRA members are helping dissident republican efforts to wreck the peace process, the paramilitary watchdog has said . The Independent Monitoring Commission said the dissident republican threat was the highest for almost six years. It said most new recruits were "inexperienced young males" but the involvement of former IRA members "significantly added to the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Report by International Monitoring Commission published hours after two men injured in paramilitary 'punishment shootings' The dissident terrorist threat in Northern Ireland is at its highest for nearly six years, the body overseeing the paramilitary ceasefires said today. The International Monitoring Commission's latest report on terror groups in Northern Ireland was published hours after two men...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
More than £50,000 euro is seized from a County Armagh man as he attempts to board a flight at Belfast International Airport.
Philippine Commentary (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
JAMES USSHER, the 16th Century Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland-- in a stupendous article of Faith and Science, Annales Veteris et Novi Tentamenti -- is famous for proving that God created the Universe on 23 October, 4004 BC, based on the Biblical enumeration of the generations of the ancient Israelites back to Adam and Eve and a vast erudition of Bible history. Even Jose Rizal was aware...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
NEARLY no-one noticed, but an “arcane, archaic, unenforceable and outdated law” in Northern Ireland could have been heading down the path to abolition last Wednesday in the House of Lords. Instead, any change to the law on blasphemous libel here is starting out on a new route to Stormont, where it will end up in the hands of the first Minister for Policing and Justice. And so it came to...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
News Letter 03 November 2009 DOZENS of petrol bombs and paint containers were thrown as republican youths laid siege to a police station in south Armagh at the weekend. However, details of the attack, involving up to 50 people, were only released by police after a request for information was made by the News Letter . Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy criticised how police reported the attack, saying...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Craigavon, in Co Armagh, faces another by-election after the local council failed to agree on a TUV (Traditional Unionist Voice) replacement.
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