Northern Ireland

Pontifical Requiem Mass on All Souls in New York City - and a Note from Belfast, Northern Ireland

The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday

News came from one of our New York readers of a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the Dead offered in New York City this past All Souls Day at Holy Innocents Church. The celebrant will be familiar to many of you, Bishop James Timlin, formerly ordinary of Scranton, Pennsylvania -- a bishop who supported the FSSP in North America a great deal in their earliest days. Pictures were provided by the Society of...

Lasting Peace for Northern Ireland?

Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | yesterday

by Nicola Branagh US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton met with First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Belfast’s Stormont Castle on the 12th October 2009 in light of the ongoing talks of the devolution of policing and justice in Northern Ireland. Mrs Clinton held private talks with the First Minister and Sinn [...]

IRA suspect charged with '77 murder of British spy

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

DUBLIN - An Irish Republican Army suspect was charged Wednesday with murdering a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago, a surprising...

Man charged with '77 murder of British spy

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

An IRA suspect has charged with murdering a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago in one of the conflict's most mysterious unsolved killings.

IRA suspect charged with '77 murder of British spy

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

An Irish Republican Army suspect has been charged with murdering a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago, one of the conflict's most mysterious unsolved killings.

IRA suspect charged with '77 murder of British spy

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

An Irish Republican Army suspect has been charged with murdering a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago, one of the conflict's most mysterious unsolved killings.

IRA suspect charged with '77 murder of British spy

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

DUBLIN -- An Irish Republican Army suspect has been charged with murdering a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago, one of the conflict's most mysterious unsolved killings.

Man charged with Nairac murder

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

New accusation against Kevin Crilly at Newry magistrates court A man has been charged with the murder of undercover British army officer Robert Nairac, 32 years after he went missing in South Armagh. Kevin Crilly, 59, from Jonesborough, County Armagh, appeared in a Northern Ireland court today charged with killing the 29-year-old Grenadier Guardsman close to the Irish border in 1977. Nairac is one...

Roll of honour postponed

This is Jersey (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

JERSEY’S war heroes – including two soldiers who died during the troubles in Northern Ireland – are to be remembered through a special memorial.

Man charged with Nairac murder

The Observer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Kevin Crilly accused of killing kidnapped Grenadier Guards captain Robert Nairac, whose body has never been found A man was charged today with the murder of the undercover British army officer Robert Nairac in Northern Ireland more than 30 years ago. Kevin Crilly, 59, from Lower Foughill Road, Jonesborough, County Armagh, is already facing charges of kidnapping and falsely imprisoning the 29-year-old...

Israeli Jews and the one-state solution

Planet Fear (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

By Ali Abunimah in The Electronic Intifada Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won't bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end. -- Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009. One of the most commonly voiced objections to a one-state solution for Palestine/Israel stems from the accurate observation that the vast majority of Israeli...

• Israeli Jews and the one-state solution - Palestinian Pundit

Airport battle takes off

BBC News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

A claim by the boss of Aer Lingus that Northern Ireland needs only one major airport has been dismissed as "ill-informed and arrogant" by the rival George Best Belfast City Airport.

Man charged with Nairic murder

ireland.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

A man was charged today with the murder of undercover British Army officer Captain Robert Nairac in Northern Ireland more than 30 years ago.

“If and when charges are laid, then her position really would be untenable.”

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

The BBC reports a further wrinkle following SOCA’s seizure of assets belonging to Sean Hughes - Northern Ireland Regional Development Minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy’s “good friend”. Sean Hughes wife, Annette, who was named in the court order as co-owner of the properties seized, is an independent member of the local District Policing Partnership. From the BBC...

• Serious Organised Crime Agency Seizes Assets of Leading South Armagh Republican - Politics.ie

'Sound republicans' - exempt from justice?

Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

I don’t suppose that I was the only one reminded of Stuart Neville’s novel ‘The Twelve’ , when I read newspaper reports detailing SOCA’s seizure of a South Armagh republican’s assets, which took place yesterday. Newsline featured pictures of Sean Gerard Hughes’ farm, and I almost expected to hear the whine of an injured bull terrier. Sinn Féin’s...

Northern Ireland’s new Integrated Services for Children and Young People

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 >...

Use Car Hire Belfast Airport for the Most Convenient Holiday

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,...

No end in sight to economic crisis for developing world, reveals UN report

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...