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Please read all current SAOIRSE32 posts here:SAOIRSE32 (main site)The older archived stories are here where you are right now and even more can be accessed at SAOIRSE32 - Current posting and some archives at Worpress.com. If you have any questions, please write to me here.Thank you,micheailin

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BN.ie17/11/2006 - 08:53:42A former Democratic Unionist councillor will be sentenced in a court in the North today after admitting fraud during the 2005 elections.Sentencing was delayed last month after former Coleraine mayor Dessie Stewart punched a press photographer on his way in to court in Antrim.He will appear at Newry Crown Court after admitting in September four counts of pretending to be

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BBCNew laws to tackle knife crime as well as a second amnesty have been announced by the government.The Violent Crime Reduction Act makes it illegal to sell knifes to anyone under 18 and introduces a new offence of using someone to mind a weapon.The knife amnesty will begin on 20 November. Almost 900 items were handed in during the first amnesty.Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson said the

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Derry Journal16 November 2006THE INLA is NOT targeting prominent Sinn Fein leaders, the political party linked to the paramilitary group has revealed.Earlier this week, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness told the 'Journal' that the party was convinced of an "active threat" to members of its leadership.The Mid-Ulster MP revealed that there had been growing concerns for some time of a "coming together

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 12:18:49The Northern Ireland Assembly is to be dissolved next January to prepare for a fresh Stormont election on March 7, the British government revealed today.Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain’s Bill implementing the St Andrews Agreement confirmed the Assembly would be dissolved on January 30 ahead of the full restoration of power sharing.The Bill will enable a

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 15:20:26The British government wants the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin to indicate next week who will be their choice for first and deputy first ministers at Stormont if efforts to revive power sharing are to remain on course.Following the publication of the Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill, it became clear DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin's Martin

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BBC16 November 2006A second forensic scientist has called into question the DNA evidence at the Omagh bomb trial.Professor Allan Jamieson said in his view, low copy number DNA was unreliable and the test results were open to interpretation.This technique, where DNA profiles can be obtained from samples with only a few cells, is an important part of the prosecution's case against Sean Hoey.Mr Hoey

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nio.gov.ukThursday 16 November 2006The Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill received its first reading in the House of Commons today and will be debated in both houses of Parliament next week.>>Agreement .pdf file

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Belfast Telegraph**Note: Archive link not working at this time.By Lesley-Anne Henry16 November 2006A new website archiving the Omagh bomb and its aftermath has been officially launched.The Omagh Bomb Digital Archive was due to be unveiled by former Beirut hostage Terry Waite at the town's library this morning.The site is based on the archive collection housed in Omagh Library and includes media

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GuardianMatthew Tempest and agenciesWednesday November 15, 2006Guardian UnlimitedPeter Hain, the Northern Ireland secretary, will tomorrow (Thursday) begin the job of rushing through one of the most urgent pieces of legislation in the Queen's speech - a bill to create a transitional Northern Ireland assembly under the historic St Andrews agreement.The bill would create a transitional assembly

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Newty DemocraWednesday, November 15, 2006 OVER 2,000 people attended the 49th anniversary of Edentubber on Sunday where they heard senior Sinn Féin member Martina Anderson say the St Andrew's Agreement provides an opportunity to move the stagnant political situation forward.Republicans from across Ireland were there to remember the night of November 11, 1957, when Paul Smith from Bessbrook,

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Newshound(William Graham, Irish News) Ministers in a future Stormont executive, including Sinn Féin, will have to take a ministerial pledge fully endorsing the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the criminal justice system. The wording of such a pledge is to be published in legislation tomorrow (Thursday). Political sources have told The Irish News that the pledge will be very

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 08:08:06The family of murdered Donegal Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton will raise demands for a public inquiry today at a long-awaited meeting with the Taoiseach.Mr Fullerton was shot dead in front of his wife at his Buncrana home in May 1991, in an attack by a loyalist paramilitary gang.The Taoiseach’s decision to meet the Fullerton family comes after intensive campaigning

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 08:12:40The British government is due to publish new legislation today giving effect to the St Andrew's proposals for restoring devolution in the North.The bill will set March 7 as the date for fresh Assembly elections to endorse the proposals, rather than the more risky option of a referendum.It will also introduce changes at the behest of the DUP that the ministerial pledge of

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 09:16:49Sinn Féin is to hold its first-ever meeting with the Scottish Nationalist Party at Holyrood today.A spokesman for Sinn Féin confirmed that Upper Bann Assembly member John O’Dowd will lead a delegation to the Scottish Parliament for a round of meetings with MSPs, including the first-ever talks with the SNP.Talks have also been scheduled with civil servants from the

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 10:19:48Up to 200 people a year die from lung cancer caused by high levels of radon gas in Ireland – way above the global average, health organisations revealed today.Between 6% and 15% of annual lung cancer deaths across the world are caused by exposure to the gas, which equates to up to 170,000 deaths, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).In Ireland, up

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Irish IndependentSenan Molony15 November 2006NEW investigations into killings in which Northern security forces are suspected of collusion were promised yesterday.The Police Service of Northern Ireland is to establish a "white team", based in London and comprised of outside detectives and investigators, to examine such incidents throughout 30 years of the Troubles.The announcement was made

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Belfast Telegraph'Significant' statements to follow November 24 political deadline14 November 2006Loyalist paramilitary leaders have begun preparing their members for significant statements that will change the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando organisations, it can be revealed today.A statement read on behalf of the 'Brigade Command' of the UVF last Sunday said Northern Ireland may be

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Belfast TelegraphBy Linda McKee14 November 2006Many of the serious crimes that took place during the Troubles will never be re-examined, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has warned.The Chief Constable told an audience at Queen's University Belfast last night that there is not the capacity within the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) to deal with all the cases that left people maimed or dead, and

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Newshound(Susan McKay, Irish News) Does anybody think Peter Hain's bid to be appointed second in command of the government of the UK will be scuppered or even damaged by the fact that the secretary of state has been found to have abused his powers, breached the Good Friday Agreement, acted out of an improper motive, withheld evidence and misled the High Court in Northern Ireland? And in

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Newshound(Irish News) The Willie Carson picture of Martin McGuinness in military uniform was taken at the funeral of two Derry teenagers shot dead by the British army on March 14 1972. Colm Keenan (19) and Eugene McGillan (18) were shot close to Dove Gardens in Derry's Bogside on the night that the first Widgery Inquiry into Bloody Sunday ended. Colm Keenan was a particularly close

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Newshound(Seamus McKinney, Irish News) The publication of what is believed to be the only pictures of Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuinness wearing an IRA uniform is a "dramatic reminder" of why republicans must endorse and support police and the courts, it has been claimed. (See previous article) The Irish News yesterday (Monday) published a series of pictures of the MP taken at the funeral of

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BBCA son of former INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey has been released on bail by the High Court.Declan McGlinchey, 30, of Gulladuff Road in Bellaghy, is charged with constructing and possessing a bomb discovered at a garage yard in July.The prosecution is relying on DNA material.After hearing submissions from prosecution and defence, a judge said the evidence was "not the strongest case," and

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Belfast TelegraphParty urged to sever links with PUPBy David McCord08 June 2006A UVF murder victim's father is to meet the UUP's only MP in a bid to persuade her to totally repudiate the party's Progressive Unionist Party link-up.Lady Sylvia Hermon spoke last month of her "deep distress" at her party's Stormont alliance with PUP leader David Ervine.But she also stated that the move would be "

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BBCThe leak occurred at the Thorp complex at SellafieldThe operator of Cumbria's Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant is facing a criminal prosecution over a leak of radioactive material.Acid containing 20 tonnes uranium and 160kg (353lb) of plutonium spilled from a ruptured pipe into a sealed cell at the site's Thorp complex.The spillage, discovered in April 2005, may have happened eight months

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Reuters.co.ukWed Jun 7, 2006 6:30 PM BSTLONDON (Reuters) - Video footage of the IRA's bombing of Manchester city centre in 1996 were released on Wednesday for the first time.The bomb, one of the largest to explode in Britain during peace-time, did not kill anyone.Although a coded warning had led to the evacuation of the area more than 200 were injured and the city's Arndale Shopping Centre, which

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32CSM Message BoardPosted by 'Con'MANCHESTER BOMB INVESTIGATIONVideo onsiteGreater Manchester PoliceGreater Manchester Police has conducted a review of the investigation into bombing of Manchester city centre in 1996.Deputy Chief Constable Dave Whatton said: "The Manchester bomb had a tremendous impact on the lives of people in the area, which is why we have thoroughly reviewed the case. A team

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INA/Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 42Today, 8 June, in 1981, Thomas McElwee began his hunger strike."Thomas McElwee was born into a large family of eight girls and three boys. He lead the typical life of a nationalist lad in the South Derry countryside, full of promise but very little chance to rise in the world. Young Tom wanted to study to become a mechanic, but the only opportunity to do so was

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CAINMonday 8 June 1981Tom McElwee, then an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner, joined the hunger strike.Thursday 11 June 1981A general election was held in the Republic of Ireland. [When counting was completed a minority government was formed between a coalition of Fine Gael (FG) and Labour. On 30 June 1981 Garret FitzGerald replaced Charles Haughey as Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister). Two

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Irish IndependentTOP loyalist Mark Haddock is prepared to testify against a former boxer accused of trying to kill him, a court has heard.Ronald Bowe (29), is the second man to be charged with the attempted murder of the alleged Special Branch agent.Haddock (37), was shot six times as he stepped out of his car for a meeting in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, last Tuesday.The outlawed UVF is

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Irish Examiner07/06/2006 - 12:43:05 PM The Democratic Unionist Party has secured the chairmanship of nationalist-dominated Strabane District Council in Co Tyrone for the first time ever.DUP councillor Thomas Kerrigan was unanimously elected as the town's mayor last night, with Sinn Féin supporting his candidacy in the interests of power-sharing.The republican party is now calling for

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For today please read all posts >>here or >>here.Thanks,micheailin

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Derry JournalDERRY'S NEWLY elected Mayor, the SDLP's Helen Quigley, has vowed to play a lead role in transforming the city into a place that everyone is "proud to call home." Last night, at the Guildhall, where she was officially inaugurated as Derry's new First Citizen, Mayor Quigley spoke of her determination to "make Derry a better place to live, an easier place to get a job, a safer place to

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BBCA man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the murder of six men in County Down 12 years ago.The six men were murdered in the Heights Bar, LoughinislandBoth were arrested in the greater Belfast area on Tuesday and are being held for questioning at a police station in Antrim.Six Catholic men were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries as they watched a soccer match in the Heights Bar,

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BBCThe transfer of responsibility for matters of national security from the police to MI5 is a cause for concern, a policing watchdog has said.NI Oversight Commissioner Al Hutchinson said the move had "profound potential implications for the police service".In his 16th report, he said the transfer must not stop police from investigating organised crime.The report also criticised the failure to

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05 June 2006Family and friends of murdered Ballymena schoolboy Michael McIlveen gathered on Saturday to stage a football tournament and fun day to raise money towards a memorial garden close to his home.Sean McIlveen, uncle of the 15-year-old Catholic who died on May 8 a day after being attacked in the centre of the County Antrim town, said they want the garden to be a place of remembrance and

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RTÉ05 June 2006 22:44The leaders of the Orange and Loyal orders have had their first-ever formal meeting with the leaders of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland.The delegation met Archbishop Seán Brady and other northern bishops at Dr Brady's residence in Armagh at the request of the Loyal orders.The group consisted of Robert Saulters and Drew Nelson from the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland,

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Irish IndependentA FORMER associate of loyalist Mark Haddock was charged yesterday with trying to murder him.Mark Haddock (left) leaving court in Belfast last January with Darren Moore (right) who was charged yesterday with trying to murder him - click to view Darren Moore (36), of Mount Vernon Park, north Belfast, was remanded in custody after appearing at Belfast Magistrate's Court.Mr Haddock (

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cryptome.org/5 June 2006A writes:Martin asked could you please put up his response to the Liam Clarke piece today: http://cryptome.org/mcguinness-spy3.htm Martin Ingram is the co-author with Greg Harkin of the best seller Stakeknife: Britain's secret agents in Ireland. A point of CorrectionMartin IngramI have no intention of getting into a public slanging match with Liam Clarke but I feel I

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IAIS06/05/06 09:01 ESTThe first meeting in Northern Ireland of the Preparation for Government Committee has ended in stalemate. The representatives of all the main parties failed to agree who would be appointed as chairperson of the body.A variety of proposals were discussed but no agreement was reached at the meeting held at Stormont today.Sinn Fein`s Martin McGuiness suggested that the

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cryptome.org5 June 2006Liam Clarke is co-author with Kathryn Johnston of Martin McGuinness - From Guns to Government. Liam Clarke, Sunday Times, writes:You are performing a good service covering this McGuinness debate.However I notice you are carrying a link (click >>here) to Martin Ingram's reply to my article. His reply is tendentious on some points and it is more likely to be accessed through

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RTÉ05 June 2006 12:25A court in Baghdad has sentenced an Iraqi man to life in connection with the abduction and murder two years ago of the Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan.A court official said Mustafa Salman had been charged with aiding and abetting the kidnappers.Another man was cleared and a third was freed due to lack of evidence.AdvertisementMrs Hassan, who was 59, had British, Iraqi

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IrelandclickBritish Irish Rights Watch ask US Special Envoy to Ireland to help with Ballymurphy feudBy Ciarán BarnesPresident Bush’s Special Envoy to Ireland has been asked to broker an end to a West Belfast feud that has claimed one life and left more than a dozen people injured.The respected human rights group, British Irish Rights Watch (BIRW), has written to US government official Mitchell

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IrelandclickBY Aine McEnteeHundreds of republicans gathered in Beechmount yesterday (Sunday) to pay tribute to deceased IRA volunteers and Sinn Féin activists from the area.In bright sunshine plaques in their honour were unveiled at a specially designed garden in Beechmount Avenue while two trumpeters played a lament.The garden was designed and built by the Mid-Falls Commemoration Committee and

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Belfast TelegraphBy Chris Thornton05 June 2006The Orange parade that sparked widespread loyalist rioting last autumn has been scheduled for the last Saturday in this month - with the Parades Commission due to rule on it in the aftermath of its membership crisis.Last year's Whiterock parade was initially postponed and eventually led to serious disorder - including a gun attack on police - when it

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Newshound(by Suzanne Breen, Sunday Tribune) To say it's the tale of two Martins is an under-statement. It's a full-blown war. Hated by many outside his own community, adored by IRA grassroots, Martin McGuinness has been causing controversy for decades. But never before have his republican credentials been questioned. Now, former British intelligence officer, Martin Ingram, is claiming that

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BN.ie05/06/2006 - 08:39:54Martin McGuinness has accused his enemies of "trying to have him killed" by claiming he was a British spy.The Sinn Féin chief negotiator has also revealed his fury that allegations he once worked for MI6 had been published, but admitted he was powerless to stop them.The claims against him were printed in a Sunday tabloid newspaper.Mr McGuinness rubbished the rumours and

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http://martiningram.blogspot.com/'Martin Ingram is a Freelance Journalist, & former British Army Intelligence Officer, he is the co author of the best seller Book Stakeknife. (contact) ingrammartin@yahoo.co.uk''Welcome to the Dark Side' is a blog which is purportedly written by Martin Ingram. At present, Martin is intent on 'outing' Martin McGuinness.

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canada.comLee BerthiaumeThe Ottawa Citizen; with files from the Canadian PressSunday, June 04, 2006The three tonnes of ammonium nitrate police seized in Friday's terror raids posed a "real and serious" threat, but the substance is still readily available as a fertilizer.Police said the arrests foiled a series of terrorist attacks that could have caused catastrophic damage.One tonne of ammonium

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BN.ie04/06/2006 - 16:03:03Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan, who was murdered in Iraq, died because the British government refused to speak to her kidnappers, her family claimed today.The Care International worker was taken hostage in October 2004 and killed just under a month later. Her body has never been found.Today her family said that during her captivity four calls were made to her Iraqi

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Sunday LifeMad Dog's barking up wrong tree: Killer Stone claims Adair won't make thousands from book Exclusive by Stephen Breen04 June 2006EXILED terror boss Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair will NOT get £100,000 for his controversial autobiography.The claim was made last night by cemetery killer Michael Stone, who maintains the Shankill loyalist will only receive around £10,000 for the book.Adair's life

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Sunday Life04 June 2006COPS are expected to pay "priority" visits to a number of senior UVF members before an explosive report into how the organisation was undermined by informers is published.The murder bid on Mark Haddock has underlined the danger individuals identified in the Police Ombudsman's report into the activities of police informers within the UVF could face.The first draft of the

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Sunday LifeBy Sunday Life Reporter04 June 2006A ROGUE UDA gang is suspected of copying the tactics of their one-time hero Johnny Adair to paint-bomb a young, disabled gay man's home.He was forced to flee his home - in the Co Down village of Killyleagh - after a window at the house was smashed and beer bottles filled with paint were splattered inside.The gang has copied a tactic perfected by Adair

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Sunday LifeEx-UVF man's speaks of his hopes for peace and of the time he shared a stage with Sinn Fein delegates By Karen Ireland04 June 2006AN EX-UVF terrorist - who once stood on the platform at a Sinn Fein annual conference - spoke last night of his hopes of seeing Protestants and Catholics united at a prayer service at Stormont today.David 'Packie' Hamilton - who served 11 years for terrorist

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Sunday Life04 June 2006A CONTROVERSIAL move is underway to name a council-owned park in Downpatrick after a dead IRA commander.Sinn Fein is claiming that an all-party commitment by members of Down District Council to rename a sports pitch in Newcastle after former Ulster Unionist council chairman the late Gerry Douglas should result in "equality" for republicans.And they want to name part of the

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Sunday Life04 June 2006THE Canadian High Commission in London has agreed to meet a delegation from an Omagh bombing relatives' group to discuss a Real IRA-linked website which is hosted in Toronto.The High Commission's political affairs minister, Ron Hoffman, has been in touch with the group to discuss possible dates for a meeting to examine how to deal with the website, which Lord Trimble says

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Sunday LifeWarnings about IRA stealing explosives ignored, claims new bookBy Ciaran McGuigan, Chief Reporter04 June 2006THE Dublin government ignored repeated warnings that the IRA was able to steal explosives for its deadly bombing campaigns from right under their noses, according to a former Irish army officer.The shocking claims are made in a new book - Speaking Truth to Power - by

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Sunday Life04 June 2006A dossier outlining alleged Garda/IRA collusion in the border areas is to be handed over to the Dublin Judge investigating the killings of RUC officers, Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan.It is understood the dossier also pinpoints houses on the Cooley peninsula and Co Monaghan which were allegedly used by the IRA as interrogation and murder centres.The 'collusion dossier' is the

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Sunday LifeExclusive by Ciaran McGuigan, Chief Reporter04 June 2006THESE are the men being quizzed by cops about the attempted murder of UVF double agent Mark Haddock. (Photo not here)The man hiding behind the Hallowe'en mask is convicted blackmailer Willie 'Mr Muscles' Young, Haddock's former second-in-command in the Mount Vernon UVF.Young was a regular in the public gallery during Haddock's

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Sunday LifeBy Stephen Gordon04 June 2006JOHNSTON Brown - the retired CID detective who says shot loyalist Mark Haddock was given a "licence to kill" by Special Branch officers - says he is appalled that police have not investigated his claims.Mr Brown says he has felt like a "voice in the wilderness" after revealing how a gang of UVF killers from Mount Vernon were allowed to kill and kill

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Sunday Life04 June 2006SPECIAL Branch informer Mark Haddock has been linked to 21 murders and branded a serial killer.He was publicly identified as being involved in nine murders by Irish Labour TD Pat Rabbitte using Dail privilege.He named the victims as being:Sharon McKenna in 1993;Catholic builders Gary Convie and Eamon Fox in 1994;Alleged informer Thomas Sheppard in 1996;Protestant clergyman

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Sunday Life04 June 2006THE father of a UVF murder victim last night repeated calls for Special Branch agent Mark Haddock to be arrested in his hospital bed.Raymond McCord, whose son Raymond jnr was battered to death almost nine years ago, wants Haddock charged in relation to a string of murders carried out by the Mount Vernon UVF since the early 1990s."I am calling on Hugh Orde to arrest Haddock

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Sunday Business PostBy Pat Leahy04 June 2006 A large part of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin will be closed to allow the building of an underground rail station.Most of the park is likely to be excavated and construction will continue for two to three years, as part of the building of the new metro and rail network. The Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) is in negotiations with Dublin City Council,

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Sunday TimesLiam ClarkeJune 04, 2006DAVID ERVINE, the leader of the Progressive Unionist party, has predicted overtures from the Ulster Unionist party (UUP) to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) will eventually result in peace moves. Sir Reg Empey, the UUP leader, is facing increasing criticism for accepting Ervine’s party, the political wing of the UVF, into the Ulster Unionist grouping in the

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Sunday TimesJune 04, 2006A DOCUMENT purporting to show that Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein’s chief negotiator, was an agent for MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, is a fake, according to senior security sources.It was obtained by Martin Ingram, a former agent handler with the British Army’s force research unit, with the help of Kevin Fulton, a disgruntled former agent who is trying to

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Sunday TimesEnda LeahyJune 04, 2006A BRITISH Army intelligence officer has provided vital new evidence to Patrick McEntee in his inquiry into the Dublin Monaghan bombings of 1974, the largest terrorist attacks carried out in the republic, according to one of the victims.Last week McEntee was given a two-month extension for his inquiry after reporting that he had made a key breakthrough in the

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Sunday Times June 04, 2006Martin McGuinness denies spying for MI6. So how has he survived when those around him have been shot or jailed, asks Liam Clarke RAYMOND GILMOUR, the “supergrass” who infiltrated the IRA in the early 1980s, used to wake up screaming following nightmares that Martin McGuinness was about to shoot him. But now he suspects his life was protected by his former IRA commander

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BBCA man is due to appear in court charged with the attempted murder of leading loyalist Mark Haddock.The 37-year-old, who remains seriously ill, was shot six times in the Doagh Road area of Newtownabbey, County Antrim, on Tuesday.The attack took place at Mossley Orange Hall after he got out of his car.Police said the man charged was arrested during searches in Belfast on Saturday. He is due to

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ObserverHenry McDonald looks at Brian Kennaway's brave account of the decline and fall of the Orange Order, A Tradition Betrayed Sunday June 4, 2006The ObserverThe Orange Order: A Tradition Betrayedby Brian KennawayMethuen £15.99, pp320 In this time of outre conspiracy theories (Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene and siring children; MI5 bumping off Princess Diana; the Duke of Edinburgh acting as an

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BBC - ScotlandThe march is an annual eventAbout 800 people have taken part in the annual James Connolly march through the centre of Edinburgh.The event ended with a rally in the capital's King Stables Road on Saturday afternoon.The procession commemorates the life of the socialist and Irish Republican, who was born in Edinburgh in 1868, the son of Irish parents.Connolly was court-martialled and

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IrelandclickThe distraught parents of young asthma victim Jim McMillan have spoken of how they want to raise awareness of the medical condition after it tragically claimed his life at the tender age of 16.The New Lodge teenager was extremely popular in the area and at his funeral on Tuesday hundreds of young people turned out to pay their respects at a packed St Patrick’s Church.Jim’s mother

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IrelandclickNationalist politicians have called for loyalist flags to be removed from outside a Catholic school in North Belfast. Last Friday a number of UVF flags were put on lampposts outside Our Lady of Mercy secondary school on the Bilston Road in the heart of the loyalist Ballysillan area.This comes a year after the Housing Executive and PSNI launched an initiative to ensure that the flags

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IrelandclickIn the next few weeks the Historical Enquiries Team will begin its investigation into the McGurk’s Bar bombing which claimed the lives of 15 people over 35 years ago.Relatives of the families have been contacted by the team to advise them the case will be reopened by the police team based in Lisburn.Pat Irvine who was a teenager when her mother Kathleen was killed in the attack on

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Guardian**Via Newshound**See also Police hunt Shergar's kidnapper'sWe should recall the marvel of 1981 for his greatness, not his unfortunate and mysterious disappearance, writes Sean Magee Saturday June 3, 2006Twenty-five years ago today the Aga Khan's white-faced colt Shergar scampered up the Epsom straight to win the Derby by 10 lengths, the longest winning margin in the race's 226-year

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Belfast TelegraphBy Ashleigh Wallaceawallace@belfasttelegraph.co.uk03 June 2006SIX men caught wearing loyalist paramilitary uniforms in a disused shop on the Monkstown estate were yesterday jailed after admitting professing to belong to the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force.The six men and two others were arrested after police using CS gas stormed the empty shop on January 18, 2003. All eight told

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Newshound(Jim Gibney, Irish News) Long Kesh has been at the centre of the Irish political conflict for most of its 30 years as a prison. Opened in late 1971 and closed in 2000, 25,000 republican and loyalists were held there, tens of thousands of relatives visited them, 15,000 prison warders and thousands of British soldiers detained them. The International Red Cross said few prisons in the

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Daily IrelandCiarán Barnes Leading loyalist Mark Haddock was last night reported to have confessed to family and friends that he has been a Special Branch informer for 16 years.The ex-Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) leader, who was shot six times by his former paramilitary friends on Tuesday, made the admission as he recovers from his injuries under armed PSNI guard in Belfast’s Royal Victoria

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Daily Ireland British secretary of state Peter Hain has been forced into a U-turn on next week’s sitting of the Stormont assembly, the Democratic Unionist Party claimed last night.Ian Paisley’s party said Mr Hain had been forced to back down on a plan to hold no debates for the second week running at Stormont after the DUP threatened not to take part in a special committee to prepare for devolved

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Daily Ireland by Ciarán Barnes An Irish government agency has been accused of supporting partition after it failed to include the six northern counties in a series of 150-year-old maps of Ireland.At the beginning of the week, Ordnance Survey Ireland launched a new website at www.historicmaps.ie.This contains a series of old maps of Ireland.The maps were drawn years before partition, meaning

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Daily Ireland Exclusive – City’s new SDLP lord mayor was interned in Long Kesh by Ciarán Barnes Belfast’s new SDLP lord mayor is a former political prisoner, Daily Ireland can reveal.Pat McCarthy was locked up in 1971 for being an alleged member of the Official IRA.He was interned without trial for 11 months in the Crumlin Road jail in Belfast and in Long Kesh prison.The 53-year-old father of

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BN.ie02/06/2006 - 19:14:16The 41-year-old paedophile who had been released from jail after his detention for raping a 12-year old girl was deemed unlawful was rearrested today, less than two hours after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to prison.After three days of freedom, the man was arrested by gardaí.Officers would not say where he was being held.A garda spokesman said: “Following the

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Larkspirit A loyal, determined republican with a great love of life 'THE EIGHTH republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on May 23rd, following the death of Patsy O'Hara, was twenty-five-year-old fellow INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch from the small, North Derry town of Dungiven who had been imprisoned since his arrest in 1976.Click to view CAIN posterA well-known and well liked

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Sinn FéinPublished: 2 June, 2006Sinn Féin Justice, Equality and Human Rights spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has welcomed the news that the Supreme Court has ruled that the sex offender known as Mr. A should be re-arrested and imprisoned.Deputy Ó Snodaigh said, "At last a little bit of good news in this whole debacle. I welcome the fact that the beast known as Mr. A will soon be back where he

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BN.ie02/06/2006 - 15:23:01The trial of the suspected master bomber accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing will start in September, it was announced today.Mr Justice Weir set September 6 as the start date of the trial of electrician Sean Hoey, 36, the only man charged in connection with the Real IRA bombing in August 1998.During a brief hearing at Belfast Crown Court the judge made

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BBCNow a second is being held alsoThe victim was shot in NewtownabbeyA man has been arrested by detectives investigating the attempted murder of leading loyalist Mark Haddock, police have said.The 36-year-old, who remains seriously ill, was shot six times in a gun attack in County Antrim on Tuesday.Mr Haddock was shot at Mossley Orange Hall on the Doagh Road in Newtownabbey after he got out of

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Belfast TelegraphAs UVF sources admit the attack on Mark Haddock, security expert Brian Rowan assesses the political fall-out 02 June 2006The Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey will be feeling the heat of the political kitchen right now.Even before the UVF fired six shots into Mark Haddock on Tuesday, there was some serious questioning of Sir Reg's judgement in inviting David Ervine to join the

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Belfast TelegraphBy Jonathan McCambridge02 June 2006The presence of the PUP chairperson on the Policing Board has ignited fresh controversy with the UVF the main suspects in the attempted murder of Mark Haddock.A political representative has said she felt constrained from raising the shooting with the Chief Constable because the PUP's Dawn Purvis sits on the board.Haddock remains in hospital

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Belfast Telegraph'Why no arrests over my son's murder?' By Michael McHugh02 June 2006The mother of a republican victim linked to British agent Kevin Fulton has spoken of her 16-year battle for justice after fresh details emerged of the killing.Ailish Morley (64) said she was disappointed that nobody had been arrested for the 1990 killing by the IRA despite Fulton reportedly admitting his

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Belfast TelegraphBy Michael McHugh02 June 2006Garda detectives probing the murder of Seamus Ludlow are to complete a report by the end of June, the Belfast Telegraph has learned.A specialist team under the command of Assistant Commissioner Martin Callaghan is reviewing the Dundalk forestry worker's 1976 murder by loyalists in an effort to bring the killers to justice.The investigation was ordered

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Belfast TelegraphBy Brian Rowan02 June 2006The UVF was behind the attempted murder of the informer Mark Haddock, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today.The disclosure comes from a senior and credible source, who spoke to this newspaper within the past 24 hours.Another source has revealed that Haddock will know the gunman who fired the shots that critically wounded him.The only unanswered question

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An PhoblachtFour more join Hunger StrikePhoto: Joe McDonnell, Kieran Doherty, Kevin Lynch and Martin Hurson During the month of May 1981 four more republican prisoners joined the historic H-Block Hunger Strike as replacements for Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara. During the course of the strike, each of the four men were to stand as anti H-Block candidates in the 26

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An PhoblachtMurder bid aimed to silence British agentFollowing the shooting of leading loyalist and suspected British agent Mark Haddock, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Justice issues Gerry Kelly said that many would be suspicious of the motivation behind the shooting given the fact that the Six County Ombudsman's inquiry into Haddock, the Mount Vernon UVF and their collusion with the Special Branch

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Irish IndependentTHE controversial €1bn Corrib gas project has been dealt a major planning blow.Bord Pleanala has ruled that a private road from the Atlantic was built illegally.Shell now faces having to tear up the road it built though a special conservation area in Co Mayo without planning permission.Yesterday's landmark Bord Pleanala ruling could delay the project for at least a year.In a

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BBCPat McCarthy said he wanted to develop a vision for BelfastThe SDLP's Pat McCarthy has been elected as the fourth ever nationalist lord mayor of Belfast City Council.Mr McCarthy, who was first elected in 2001 and represents the Laganbank ward, will replace the DUP's Wallace Browne.DUP councillor Ruth Patterson has been elected as his deputy for what will be Belfast City Hall's centenary

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BBCTwo men have been remanded in custody on charges of Real IRA membership and smuggling cigarettes worth £1m.Aidan Grew, 50, from Benburb Street, Blackwatertown, and Noel Abernathy, 37, of Glebe Mews, Dungannon, appeared at Banbridge Magistrates Court.Mr Abernathy was also charged with having articles for use in terrorism.Defence solicitors claimed evidence from MI5 agent David Rupert formed the

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Irish ExaminerThe Special Criminal Court has reserved its judgment in the trial of a 21-year-old Dublin man who denies being a member of the IRA.The three-judge court will deliver its judgement on June 16 following the four-day trial of Vincent Kelly of Empress Place, Ballybough, Dublin, who was arrested after gardaí found a gun inside a van in north Dublin.He has pleaded not guilty to membership

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Belfast TodayPosted by Artybhoy (Saoirse na hÉireann) 01 June 2006Martin McGuinness has said the allegation that he was a British spy is nonsense. Political Editor Stephen Dempster talks to Martin Ingram, the man who said Freddie Scappaticci was Stakeknife and is now saying that the Sinn Fein MP and chief negotiator was a double agent FORMER Army intelligence officer Martin Ingram said last night

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Irish ExaminerBy Shaun Connolly, Political Correspondent01 June 2006OVERWHELMING public outrage at the looming early release of up to six child rapists rocked the Government to its core last night and left Justice Minister Michael McDowell fighting for his political survival.His honesty was called into question by Labour leader Pat Rabbitte after 24 hours of apparent Government confusion over

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Daily Ireland There is a theory doing the rounds that the future caighdean oifigiuil in Irish will be determined in Belfast. Two generations ago people used to learn Munster Irish.The centre of gravity switched to Connacht sometime in the 1950s when nobody was looking, and was firmly implanted there with the establishment of TG4, while Donegal seized the stage in Irish language song.The fervour

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