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News for 4 February, 2004
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Britain won't publish report into murders
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has said that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ''no intention'' of publishing an anxiously awaited report on four of the North's most controversial killings. Retired Canadian judge Peter Cory has probed the killings of solicitors Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson, Portadown Catholic father of two Robert Hamill and LVF leader Billy Wright. View more |
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Collusion families protest in London
Families whose loved ones were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in collusion with security forces protested today outside the headquarters of MI5 and the British Conservative Party's head office. Over 100 people travelled to central London to demand that the government reveal the truth about what happened to their relatives in the Six Counties. View more |
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Concern at delay in Colombia verdict
The EU and the Dublin Government need to make strong representations on behalf of the Colombia Three. This was the message of a delegation of Irish parliamentarians who have returned from a visit to Bogota last week. There, they visited with the three Irishmen who are awaiting a verdict on charges of training FARC guerillas, and held meetings with Colombian officials, international diplomats and human rights groups. Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and Jim Monaghan have now been held in jail for 987 days. View more |
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Coming home but when?
Séan Crowe Sinn Féin TD SEÁN CROWE was among a delegation that travelled to Colombia last week to highlight the case of the Irishmen known as the Colombia Three, Jim Monaghan, Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley. Here, he writes about that visit. View more |
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Ahern defends British refusal to assist Barron
Bertie Ahern "I do not think the British Prime Minister is knowingly withholding information or files which he believes we need." These were the words from Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in the Dáil on Tuesday, when asked by Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin whether there would be any further information from the British government on the Dublin/Monaghan bombings. View more |
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Hume steps down
Former SDLP leader John Hume has declared his intention to step down as an MEP, vacating a position he has held since 1979. Hume had previously announced that he would not stand in the next Westminister election. Citing health reasons, Hume said that while he regretted his decision, he had been "very strongly advised medically" to resign due to the "large workload and travel" that the post requires. View more |
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Bloody Sunday latest
A former IRA member today described how he saw a soldier fire twice, possibly hitting a young man in the stomach on Bloody Sunday. The man, known to the Inquiry as PIRA 14, said in his statement he had gone on the civil rights march with his brother and another IRA man. View more |
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Thousands defy weather to mark Bloody Sunday - BY FERN LANE
It is a measure of the impact of Bloody Sunday on both a local and global scale that on a windy, rain-lashed February afternoon, 32 years after the event, thousands of people were still willing to turn out to remember the massacre of 14 innocent people by the British Army. View more |
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