The Scotch-Irish: Or, the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America (V.1 ) (1902)
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Ulster priest and former hospital chaplain who recorded a schoolboy he sexually abused on his mobile phone has been jailed for five years.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
A burnt-out car is examined in Belfast after co-ordinated gun and bomb attacks Dissident Republicans Blamed For 400lb Bomb After Christmas 'Spectacular' Threat -- Times Online Irish terrorism will return to the top of the security agenda today after co-ordinated gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland confirmed the determination by so-called dissident republicans to strike hard against the Province’s...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Northern Ireland Assembly today united to condemn the latest attempts by dissident republicans to derail the peace process.
Will and Testament (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new group on the social networking site Facebook is providing a platform for hatred and racism. The group has some 300 members already and its "fans" are celebrating the racist abuse of Romanians, and other ethnic minority groups, in Belfast. It's one of the worst examples I have seen of racism online. One contributor says he stole the coat of a Belfast rose seller, another says his friend...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | yesterday
This weekend, amidst tough and sensitive negotiations over the devolution of police and justice powers to Stormont, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has told the Democratic Unionist Party that: “I cannot guarantee the future of the Assembly but I can guarantee that it will not be the DUP that will ...
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...
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 Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Northern Ireland Assembly is today expected to condemn the latest attempts to derail the peace process after a car bomb attack and gun battle involving suspected dissident republicans.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Police and suspected dissident Irish republicans exchanged gunfire in Northern Ireland at the weekend leading to four arrests. In a separate attack, two men drove through security gates at the police board's headquarters in Belfast abandoning a 400lb bomb
Infamy or Praise (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Máiréad Enright hosts a no-nonsense Blawg Review #239 at the group blog Human Rights in Ireland . For decades, Ireland and Britain were at odds over the status of Northern Ireland and atrocities committed against Britons by Irish terrorists. This week, as Enright notes, Ireland finds itself as one with England after suffering a grievous handball-caused injustice in a World Cup-related...
Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Channel 4's 4iP fund is continuing its pattern of investing in projects that "keep an eye on money and power" by funding Northern Ireland's best-known political blog, Slugger O'Toole , paidContent:UK has learned. It is 4iP's first joint investment with media agency Northern Ireland Screen . The investment size is unknown, along with whether 4iP has taken equity, and the deal will be announced...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Hordes of people surged across the Border into Northern Ireland as they used today’s national public sector strike to stock up on Christmas shopping.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
I previously asked, on Sinn Féin’s selection (unopposed) of Northern Ireland Executive Junior Minister, Gerry Kelly, MLA, as their candidate for north Belfast in the next general election, whether the party thinks the new restrictions on multiple mandates won't apply to them? So reports of yesterday’s debate in the Assembly on ending “double-jobbing” led me to scan Hansard...
I DREAM OF HAGGIS (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Foreign and Home Affairs Analysis with my Nanny My recently widowed Grandmother (a.k.a. "Nanny") called me last night around 11.00pm. I think she still gets confused by the time difference. Obviously I love her but she does offer loads of (unintentional) comic relief. She was sent me a letter addressed to "Scotchland" - which summed it up, really. - Hello? - Hi, Jennsy ( Note:...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
BELFAST: 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 intelligence report by Irish police, sources have revealed.
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wellbeingnewseditor | 11/08/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Northern Ireland > Edited by Nick Adams: A major programme designed to tackle disadvantage among young people and children in the West Belfast and Greater Shankill area of Northern Ireland, was recently unveiled by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness MP... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland >...
elina_ | 10/27/2009
Situated 32 km to the northwest of Belfast city and adjacent to Aldergrove, Crumlin and Killead is the Belfast International Airport. The airport is considered as one of the premier airports of Northern Ireland and serves nearly 5.5 million passengers annually. Belfast Airport is well connected to the rest of Northern Ireland situated adjacent to A26 – Tully Road and A57 – Ballyrobin Road. As of 2009,...
wellbeingnewseditor | 10/10/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: World > Edited by Jane Hill: The global economic crisis continues to push millions of the world’s most vulnerable people into poverty, hunger and early death, a recent United Nations [UN] report warns... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland > Wales > Greater London > Norfolk > Suffolk > Essex > Cambridgeshire...
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