CWNN NEWS (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
November 17 Lincoln Engine Shed with The Enemy 19 London Forum with The Enemy 20 Norwich UEA with The Enemy 21 Folkestone Lees Cliff Hall with The Enemy 24 Portsmouth Guildhall with The Enemy 25 Manchester Manchester Academy 2 with The Answer 26 Birmingham O2 Academy with The Enemy 27 Leamington Assembly with The Enemy 28 Newcastle Academy with The Answer 29 Manchester Apollo with The Enemy 30 Sheffield...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Irish soccer stories would appear to be like buses at the moment. First, Derry City implode then the Irish Football Association is taken to the cleaners by its former Chief Executive. But undoubtedly the main footballing story this week is the impending contest between the Republic of Ireland and France . The first leg of the play-off is tomorrow night at Croke Park, and anything other than an Irish...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
As Ian Parsley noted at OurKingdom last year, the wall may be down in Berlin, but there are still plenty of them in Belfast. The BBC this week highlighted the work of some of the people who are trying to change that. Among them is Tony Macaulay, who outlined the scale of the problem at a recent talk in London. There are 88 barriers, they arent all walls. There are 88 what we would call interface barriers...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
By Simon Doyle, Education Correspondent Irish News 09/11/09 Almost 2,000 children in schools in counties Derry and Antrim are to benefit from sharing in education. The Primary Integrating/Enriching Education (PIEE) project is being financed by the International Fund for Ireland and The Atlantic Philanthropies and delivered by the North Eastern Education and Library Board (NEELB). A three-year cross-community...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Times November 9, 2009 **Archive links onsite Judges in Northern Ireland have had to make new security arrangements for themselves and their families at levels not seen since the height of the Provisional IRA campaign . Police have restored 24-hour security for dozens of judges, some of whom live in isolated rural houses where they moved when the terrorist campaigns ended. Republicans intent on...
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...
Tell the Sky (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Further to my previous article of a highly serious nature on the subject of possibly building motorways on the Isle of Wight, I can't help but notice (from looking at this very map right here ) that there are far too many motorways in the north of England, particularly around the Manchester/Liverpool area. Some of them seem to just randomly criss-cross in random directions, not really going very far....
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Derry Journal 28 October 2009 Image of Derry's Bogside in 1960 found at Phil Mack The unique history of Derry's Bogside is to be explored and recorded in a new project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund . The Gasyard Development Trust has been awarded a grant of £24,700 for the project which will trace the roots of the area back to the days of St Columba, the Plantation of Ulster and the Siege...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Derry Journal 27 October 2009 The family of a Derry teenager shot dead by British soldiers in July 1972 have urged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to co-operate fully with a new inquest into the killing. Daniel Hegarty was shot dead by a soldier in Creggan during Operation Motorman. After today's preliminary hearing at Derry Courthouse, a statement on behalf of the Hegarty family was read out to the...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Belfast Telegraph Wednesday, 28 October 2009 Loyalist killer Torrens Knight was last night arrested and his release from prison suspended, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has said. Knight was detained in Coleraine and sent back to jail to serve 12 life sentences for murders in 1993. He was convicted earlier this month of assaulting two women at a bar in Coleraine but is appealing against the verdict....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A multiple loyalist paramilitary killer has been sent back to prison to serve the rest of his 12 life sentences. Torrens Knight was back in jail tonight after Shaun Woodward, the Northern Ireland secretary, decided the UDA terrorist had broken the terms of his early release licence. Knight was freed early from his sentences under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement after serving only seven years....
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Derry Journal 26 October 2009 Northern Ireland's senior coroner Mr John Lecky plans to visit the street in Derry's Creggan Estate next week where 15 year old Daniel Hegarty was shot dead by British soldiers in July 1972 . The visit will follow a preliminary hearing at Derry courthouse to deal with some of the issues surrounding the decision by the British Attorney General to order a new inquest into...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Derry Journal 26 October 2009 The family of Bernard McGuigan, one of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday, this week refused to meet with Northern Ireland Secretary of State Shaun Woodward when he was in Derry to meet with relatives and legal representatives of the Bloody Sunday families. The McGuigan family say they are deeply concerned about meetings the Secretary of State held with some of the soldiers...
yourfriendinthenorth (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
An interesting little development here on the footballing front. Liam Coyle, former Derry City star and (briefly) Northern Ireland international, has said that now is the time for his hometown club to rejoin the Irish League nearly forty years after their bitter exit. Derry City withdrew from the league back in 1972 following the outbreak of violence in the province made it unsafe both for away fans...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The BBC report on the Northern Bank’s Consumer Confidence Index notes that “People in Northern Ireland remain cautious about spending in the run-up to Christmas”. So it’s probably just as well that consumers in Ireland are picking up the slack here . From the Irish Times SOME 250,000 households in the Republic are now regularly doing their grocery shopping in the North, up 25...
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