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News for 3 February, 2004
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Good Friday Agreement review kicks off
The long-awaited Good Friday Agreement review finally got underway today. The British and Irish governments will jointly chair the discussions in Belfast which will involve all the parties elected to the Stormont Assembly last November. View more |
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Sinn Féin president addresses review
Opening Remarks By Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP MLA to the Review of the Good Friday Agreement. "Failte (welcome). The review as set out in the Good Friday Agreement is about improving the delivery of the Agreement. View more |
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Paisley wants new Agreement
Ian Paisley Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley today renewed his demand for a ''new'' Good Friday Agreement as a review of the deal was getting under way. Speaking on BBC Radio 4`s Today programme, Mr Paisley said he was prepared to sit in the Assembly with Sinn Féin but could not envisage joining the party in an executive. View more |
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Barron defends report
Justice Henry Barron today defended his criticism of the way the Irish government handled the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which killed 34 people. He stuck firmly to his conclusion that the government of the day had lacked concern about the bombings and had not investigated the atrocities as fully as it could have done. View more |
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30 years on and still in denial
"I want to express the revulsion and condemnation felt by every decent person on this island at these unforgivable acts." These were the words of Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave in the aftermath of the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings, atrocities that left 33 people dead. They were shallow words of consolation from a government which promptly turned the brutal butchering of its own people by outside forces into an excuse to further demonise republicans. View more |
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Victims group to picket in London
An Fírínne (the victims group campaigning for the truth about collusion between British state agents and agencies and Unionist Death Squads in the killing of citizens) will tomorrow hold a mass picket at the headquarters of MI5 and at Tory Party Offices in central London. View more |
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EU candidate slams government's "passive indifference"
Sinn Fein's EU Candidate for Dublin, Marylou McDonald today accused the Government of "passive indifference and inaction on the emergence of a two-speed EU." Referring to the coming February 18 "Big 3 Summit" between Britain, Germany, and France at which they will discuss a range of EU issues including economic growth, immigration and the proposed EU Constitution, McDonald said: View more |
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Kelly says police research findings not unusual
Gerry Kelly A survey of police officers in the North has suggested that only 13% believed that Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan had acted impartially in her duties. Of the respondents, 44% said she had acted partially and 43% did not express a view either way. View more |
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Investigation into Catholics' deaths a "burden" - Lord Goldsmith
A fresh inquiry into the murder of three Catholics during the RUC's 1982 Shoot-to-kill period, would be a "burden" on the government, the Attorney General has said. Lord Goldsmith QC was challenging a Six Counties Court of Appeal ruling won by the families of Gervaise McKerr, Eugene Toman and Sean Burns. He told five Law Lords on Monday that the families were demanding an inquiry similar to the Bloody Sunday probe. View more |
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New Video Clip on IRM
A new video has been posted in the IRM Audio-Video section. The clip shows Sinn Féin's EU Election Candidate for Dublin, Mary Lou McDonald speaking at the annual Bloody Sunday Rally in Derry. In it she calls on the British Government to tell the truth about its policy of collusion with unionist paramilitaries. View more |
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