SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
BBC 25 Sept 2008 One of Derry's best-known solicitors, Claude Wilton, has died. The 89-year-old died in Altnagelvin hospital on Wednesday after a short illness. Claude Wilton, far right, in white, on the 1968 Duke Street march. (Pic courtesy Derry Journal) He was a prominent member of the civil rights movement in the city, and was well-known in sporting circles, especially football...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Derry Journal 5 September 2008 The Derry man killed in a car crash in Muff while being pursued by gardai earlier today had received a death threat from the Real IRA . The 22 year-old victim, named locally as Paul McMonagle from the Galliagh area, died after his vehicle went out of control at high speed in the border village at around 1am. Another man who was in the car was taken...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Derry Journal **Via Newshound 09 October 2008 Donegal Dail Deputy Niall Blaney has launched a stinging attack on Sinn Fein Councillor Padraig MacLochlainn, suggesting the Buncrana politician has done little more than add lip service to the campaign for an enquiry into the death of former Sinn Fein councillor Eddie Fullerton. Deputy Blaney said the Fullerton campaign has died since the...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Derry Journal 06 October 2008 The mother of the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has died. Peggy McGuinness passed away peacefully earlier today at her home in Elmwood Street in Derry's Bogside. Mr McGuinness, MP for Mid-Ulster, and his mother were exceptionally close and were often pictured together. Earlier this year photos of the pair taken on Derry's Walls featured...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
By Bernie Mullen Derry Journal 03 October 2008 A veteran Sinn Fein member of Strabane District Council has died unexpectedly this evening. Charlie McHugh was one of the longest serving members of the council, having been first elected in 1985 . It is understood Councillor McHugh died at his home in Castlederg. Former colleagues are currently at his home comforting family members. Party members in West...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
A second Catholic grammar school has said it intends to run an independent entrance exam. St Michael’s Boys College , Enniskillen, joins Lumen Christi in Londonderry in apparently rejecting advice from Catholic bishops - as the Derry Journal reported - although the bishops have previously expressed concern at the lack of clarity from the Department and the Minister. From the BBC report...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Derry Journal 03 October 2008 A BBC documentary detailing the historic October 5, 1968, titled 'The Day the Troubles Began', will be aired on Monday night . The programme looks at what happened in Derry that day from a range of different perspectives. It describes local events within the context of protests and demonstrations around the world and looks at how social and other...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Derry Journal 30 September 2008 A Sinn Féin councillor has hit out at those responsible for daubing graffiti on the Derry Walls and warned that it could jeopardise plans to have the historic ramparts designated as a world heritage site. Councillor Peter Anderson made the comments after slogans supporting four republicans currently held on remand in Portlaoise prison were painted...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Derry Journal 16 September 2008 Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has offered a lifeline to low income families trying to cope with the rising cost of fuel, electricity and gas . In a letter to the First Minister, Peter Robinson, Mr. McGuinness outlines a series of proposals, including a one-off payment of £200 to low income households, the indefinite deferral of water charges,...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Derry Journal 16 Sept 2008 Graffiti targeting the INLA has appeared on walls in the Brookdale Park area of Galliagh over the weekend. Slogans reading ‘INLA scumbags’ and ‘F**k the INLA’ were daubed on gable ends in the area and are thought to be connected with a threat made last week by republican paramlitaries to shoot criminals. On Friday, the ‘Journal’ reported that republican...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Derry Journal 12 September 2008 Dissident republicans have made a chilling threat to execute a Derry career criminal and his cross-border gang. Hardliners have told the ‘Journal’ that the time for talking is over as Derry hoods continue to terrorise businesses and communities in Inishowen, escaping back across the border to avoid the clutches of Gardai. The statement...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Derry Journal 10 Sept 2008 A new scheme to take down almost 700 loyalist flags in Derry has been completed. The UPRG and PUP completed the new Flags Management Protocol with the assistance of Roads Service, REACT North West and the Conflict Transformation Initiative. The flags have been handed back to the community for re-use during next year’s loyalist marching season. In a joint statement,...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Derry Journal 09 September 2008 Hardline republicans who took part in a protest in Derry on Saturday were told they are "living in a dangerous age" where they face arrest and imprisonment . Ciaran Cunningham, from the Republican Network for Unity, made the comment at a protest calling for the release of four Derry republicans currently facing IRA membership charges in the...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Derry Journal 5 Sept 2008 There are growing fears that criminal elements in Derry are arming themselves for a crime wave - and possible bloody clashes with republican dissidents . It's thought that gangs in the city are trying to put together an arsenal of stolen legally-held firearms. They may also be helped by the flood of cheap weapons onto the black market in Ireland and Britain....
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
He was quoted in Friday's Derry Journal as saying he had been threatened by the dissident republican group after being wrongly accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Galliagh.
