Armagh

Armagh republican has assets seized

ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

A senior republican has had his assets in Northern Ireland seized for suspected money laundering.

Top republican has assets frozen

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has frozen the assets of a leading republican in South Armagh. It has been granted a court order to take control of properties and bank accounts belonging to Sean Gerard Hughes of Aghadavoyle Road, Dromintee. The agency claimed the assets came from laundering the proceeds of mortgage fraud, tax evasion and benefit fraud. In 2002, Mr Hughes was named in parliament...

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PSNI stall on shoot-to-kill files

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday

BBC 10 November 2009 The police have asked for more time to hand over secret reports into so-called shoot-to-kill incidents in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. Coroner John Leckey, who set a November deadline for the material to be handed over, has received a letter from the PSNI asking for a delay until February. The request will be considered at a court hearing at the end of this month. Six people,...

Digging resumes in search for 'disappeared' victim

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Gerry Evans thought to have been kidnapped, killed and buried by Provisional IRA in 1970s Digging to recover the body of one of Northern Ireland's "disappeared" was resuming today in south Armagh. The search was to centre on an area at Hackballscross, close to the Irish border, as attempts to find the body of Gerry Evans, who was last seen hitchhiking in Co Monaghan in March 1979, restart....

Archbishop calls for political confidence building in Northern Ireland

Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

The Anglican Archbishop of Armagh has said that further confidence building measures are needed to ensure that the political process in Northern Ireland can continue to work.

Archbishop concerned over rising tensions in Northern Ireland

Christian Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

The Archbishop of Armagh says confidence building measures are needed to show that devolution in Northern Ireland works

SWEDEN: Anglicans snub Swedish lesbian bishop

VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

SWEDEN: Anglicans snub Swedish lesbian bishop http://www.thelocal.se/23074/20091104/ November 4, 2009 Anglican bishops from England and Northern Ireland have rebuffed invitations to attend the ordination of the openly gay Eva Brunne to be the next Bishop of Stockholm. Five bishops from various levels within the Anglican Church, including Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, have decided not to...

Northern Ireland dissidents 'committed to launching mainland attacks'

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Report by International Monitoring Commission warns dissident threat has reached six-year high Henry McDonald Guardian 4 November 2009 Republican dissidents will shift their attacks across the Irish Sea to mainland Britain if they get the opportunity, the body overseeing paramilitary ceasefires warned today. The International Monitoring Commission also said former Provisional IRA members were helping...

Whatever Happened To Easy Rail Travel?

Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

Next September, I plan to be in Armagh for an astronomy conference- not that I ever need much of an excuse to go to Northern Ireland. Now, these days we are encouraged to go green, and to use the train for short ( i.e. domestic travel) rather than flying. And it has to be said that the Channel Tunnel has improved rail links to the rest of Europe- apparently, by train, the nearest capital city to London...

Ex-IRA men 'helping dissidents'

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

BBC Some former Provisional IRA members are helping dissident republican efforts to wreck the peace process, the paramilitary watchdog has said . The Independent Monitoring Commission said the dissident republican threat was the highest for almost six years. It said most new recruits were "inexperienced young males" but the involvement of former IRA members "significantly added to the...

Northern Ireland dissident terror threat hits six-year high

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

Report by International Monitoring Commission published hours after two men injured in paramilitary 'punishment shootings' The dissident terrorist threat in Northern Ireland is at its highest for nearly six years, the body overseeing the paramilitary ceasefires said today. The International Monitoring Commission's latest report on terror groups in Northern Ireland was published hours after two men...

Blasphemy law saved in Northern Ireland…

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

NEARLY no-one noticed, but an “arcane, archaic, unenforceable and outdated law” in Northern Ireland could have been heading down the path to abolition last Wednesday in the House of Lords. Instead, any change to the law on blasphemous libel here is starting out on a new route to Stormont, where it will end up in the hands of the first Minister for Policing and Justice. And so it came to...

The man with the cross-border knowledge in his head

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

[This is taken from A Note from the Next Door Neighbours, the monthly e-bulletin of Andy Pollak, Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh and Dublin] Gary McIntyre is a solicitor who works as an advice worker with Citizens Advice Northern Ireland in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. For the past six years he has been employed by Borderwise, a cross-border partnership between Citizens Advice...

The freedom of religion

The Daily Rant (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

The House of Lords is set to give its blessing to the repeal of libel laws first passed over 700 years ago. The changes repeal laws - dating to 1275 - which allow libel and sedition to be prosecuted in criminal courts. The laws have long been regarded as something of an undesirable and anachronistic anomaly in UK law and open to abuse; Geoffrey Robertson QC - who successfully defended Salman Rushdie...

MI5 agents to testify in Real IRA trial

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

MI5 officers called to give evidence against three men accused of involvement in dissident republican terrorism Thirty-five MI5 officers are to be called to court to give evidence against three Northern Irish men accused of dissident republican terrorism. The spies will be allowed to give their evidence behind screens to protect their identities, Belfast crown court heard today. The court heard that...