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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
[This is taken from A Note from the Next Door Neighbours, the monthly e-bulletin of Andy Pollak, Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh and Dublin] On 13th December 1999 a long line of black Mercedes snaked across the border into Armagh for the first meeting of the new North/South Ministerial Council set up by the Good Friday Agreement the previous year to oversee the new cross-border...
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E F pastor emeritus (Free subscription) | yesterday
The report of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission, which has now been published, gives a shameful picture of the pattern of sexual abuse of children by priests in the diocese during the period of the Commission’s remit. While acknowledging the work that was done and the structures that were gradually developed to deal with this appalling problem during my tenure as Archbishop, the report is severely...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Jim McDowell , northern editor of the Irish newspaper, Sunday World , was attacked last night in Belfast city centre. He said that as two men approached him one shouted: "Your paper's trying to get my brother killed". Then he was struck, he thinks, by some sort of object, which felled him. He was then repeatedly kicked while on the ground. He told the BBC: "I was dazed and then the...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A 35-year-old man is charged with murder following the death of an elderly man in County Armagh earlier this month.
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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...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The PSNI is investigating the discovery of a suspicious object in the Mall area of Armagh City.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Mall in Armagh is closed off in a security alert as an army bomb disposal team examines a suspicious object.
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Organized Rage (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
'Long war' model bodes ill for West. Gordon Brown and the opposition leader David Cameron have conceded that the British army in Afghanistan needs additional helicopters to ferry the front-line troops around due to the heightened danger of roadside improvised explosive devices. In doing so, they have inadvertently admitted that the war against the Taliban cannot be won. Once an occupying army loses...
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If Sam Tarran Was In Charge (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Today, we learned that "Irish republican terrorists tried to blow up a police building in Belfast and murder police officers in an ambush in Fermanagh last night", both attacks part of what police say is " growing terrorist activity ". Last week a mortar bomb was discovered hidden on a roadside in Armagh. Police said it was designed to kill officers. Earlier this month, the Independent...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Suzanne Breen, Northern Editor Tribune.ie November 15, 2009 The Real IRA has strongly denied involvement in the largest ever haul of smuggled cigarettes captured in the Republic. A spokesman for the organisation insisted it had “no connection” with the cargo of 120 million cigarettes uncovered in Greenore Port in Co Louth following a massive surveillance operation. “It has absolutely...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Suzanne Breen Tribune.ie November 15, 2009 **Via Newshound A republican facing extradition for questioning about the murder of a British Army recruitment sergeant in Derby 17 years ago has accused the authorities of “cherry-picking” whom they try to extradite . Anthony Gorman, who is living in Co Cavan, said he suspected Sinn Féin’s influence prevented similar action being...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
BBC 21 Nov 09 Shots have been fired at police in a County Fermanagh village close to the border with the Irish Republic. Officers returned fire when they came under attack in the village of Garrison, 20 miles from Enniskillen, on Saturday evening. Police have sealed off the area and are searching nearby woodland but there have been no reports of any injuries. Security officials believe that dissident...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Police in Northern Ireland are appealing for information following the discovery of a viable device in Co Armagh this morning.
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