The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
UI NOV 69 GO This document charts the developing crisis in the North, and in particular points to the issue of Fianna Fáil intervention both in terms of what it characterises as a ‘takeover of Civil Rights’ and mention is given to the ‘Voice of the North’, a most intriguing publication. It is most exercised by [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Originally published on 24 November 1979 Until he was stopped in a random check on the morning of Lord Mountbatten's murder, Thomas McMahon had had the luck of the Irish. Twice during a lengthy terrorist career he had been taken in by the police. Twice, through no apparent fault of the Irish police, he went free. Sitting in the dock, McMahon cut a singularly unimpressive figure. He is a short, tubby...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
The BBC are reporting that the Army’s Special Reconnaissance Regiment were involved in the apprehension of the terrorists who attempted to murder a young police officer in Garrison. Apparently the SRR which has been particularly active in Fermanagh provided the initial information that the police officer was being targeted and were then involved in watching the terrorists for a number of days....
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport has been properly sceptical before of the suggestion that “having a local Justice Minister might dampen down any dissident violence”. And, following the weekend car bomb attack on the Policing Board headquarters, on today’s Stormont Live he put one of his “stupid” questions to Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly. “Would it...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dissident republicans blamed for attempted murder The target of a republican dissident murder attempt in Northern Ireland was spirited out of his home before his potential killers arrived thanks to an Irish police intelligence report, sources revealed. The man, a Catholic officer with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), and his family were moved out of their house in the border village...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dissident republican violence has the potential to set off a chain reaction that will strain the current political compromise Can the dissident republicans repeat the provisional IRA campaign? The answer, happily, is no. But they do have a purchase on events in Northern Ireland. Their activities serve to intensify unionist fears about the devolution of policing and justice at the very moment when...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sinn Fein assembly member Alex Maskey launches a scathing attack on the SDLP during an assembly debate on policing and justice.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the UK national media had ignored the latest Stormont kerfuffle, they were hardly likely to sit up and pay attention to the weekend convolutions from La Mon House. Ears did prick up though when dissident republicans spoke in language they could easily understand. The obvious conclusions, fair and unfair, will be drawn: the more nationalists think the DUP are screwing Sinn Fein, the more the dissidents...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are fears of an upsurge in violence in Northern Ireland, after an attempt to blow up the headquarters of the policing board in Belfast. Police say dissident republicans left a car bomb outside the building. It is thought only the detonator exploded. Five men have now been arrested, after an exchange of gunfire with police in Fermanagh last night. Sinn Fein member Gerry Kelly discusses his reaction...
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hundreds of up-to-date Housing Executive documents – some of which contain highly sensitive and confidential personal details, including the mental health status of tenants – have been found dumped in a skip in West Belfast. The documents were found in the Glen Road area on Sunday. The man who found the documents does not wish to be identified. He handed over the files to the Andersonstown...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Britain created Fianna Fail to hang them. They were. Britain now bankrolls Sinn Fein to shoot them. They will be.
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...
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Peter Robinson warns Sinn Féin that policing and justice row threatens devolution Northern Ireland's first minister vowed yesterday not to walk away from the Assembly, even if the row with Sinn Féin over policing and justice remains unresolved. But Peter Robinson warned Sinn Féin that its threats to the assembly's institutions were destabilising the entire devolution project....
Dreaming In Text (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Tomorrow I am off to Chester on a week long course organised by The Reader Organisation in association with the Royal Literary Fund. About fifteen other Royal Literary Fund Fellows will be there and, as far as I can tell, we will be spending rather a lot of time talking about poetry. My feelings about this course are a bit like the feelings I had before going on a camp with the cub scouts when I was...
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