Lurgan Champagne and Other Tales: Real Life Stories from Northern Ireland
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Irish News 27 Nov 09 An order for one of the men charged in connection with the murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan to have no association with loyalist paramilitaries is unenforceable, it was claimed in the High Court. Lawyers for Robin King (43) argued he could unwittingly breach the bail condition because thousands of people in Northern Ireland might have links to outlawed organisations....
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Guardian Thursday 26 November 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...
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...
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.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a 35-year-old man after a pensioner was found murdered in a house in Lurgan in Co Armagh on Thursday evening.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
BBC 10 November 2009 The police have asked for more time to hand over secret reports into so-called shoot-to-kill incidents in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. Coroner John Leckey, who set a November deadline for the material to be handed over, has received a letter from the PSNI asking for a delay until February. The request will be considered at a court hearing at the end of this month. Six people,...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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....
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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) | 23/10/2009
BBC Thirty five MI5 officers are to give evidence against three County Armagh men arrested after an operation against the Real IRA, a court has heard. The trio pleaded not guilty at Belfast Crown Court to the charges, linked to what police believe was an international gun-smuggling operation. The officers have applied to give evidence anonymously behind screens. The court heard 90 hours of bugged...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Shots are fired at the front window of a house in Lurgan, County Armagh, police say.
BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
On this day in 1976, two men from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) were each jailed for 35 years in connection with the murders of members of the Miami Showband. The UDR soldiers were members of the outlawed paramilitary organisation the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Imposing the longest life sentences in Northern Ireland history, the judge said "killings like the Miami Showband (pictured right)must...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Bases on high alert over bomb intelligence By Deborah McAleese Belfast Telegraph Wednesday, 7 October 2009 The security forces have been placed on heightened alert after receiving intelligence of a dissident republican plot to attack a Northern Ireland Army base, the Belfast Telegraph has learned. Security chiefs are concerned that a mortar attack on one of the bases is imminent and have placed all...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Diana Rusk Irish News 21/09/09 AFTERMATH: The streets of Lurgan, Co Armagh after three nights of trouble in the town (Photos: Justin Kernoghan/Photopress) A SINN FEIN assembly member has praised police for the way they have handled violence in parts of Co Armagh that escalated into armed vehicle hijackings . John O’Dowd said police had “carried out the operation well” by refusing...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
BBC 20 Sept 09 Trouble has flared on the streets of County Armagh for a third night. Disturbances are thought to have been sparked last week when three local men were jailed over a dissident republican mortar bomb plot to kill police. Vans were hijacked and set alight The latest unrest in Lurgan and Craigavon comes a day after police stepped up patrols to try to head off any threat from dissident...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
FRESH TROUBLE broke out in Lurgan, Co Armagh, last night as police mounted a special operation at 7pm to counter dissident republican activity.
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