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News for 19 April, 2004
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Sinn Féin will resist 'ridiculous' IMC sanctions
Alex Maskey Sinn Fein will resist any move to impose sanctions on members over IRA activity, a senior figure in the party said today. Alex Maskey described as ``ridiculous`` suggestions that the British government should deduct Assembly salaries from Sinn Fein and the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party over IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force activity. View more |
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IMC - British tool to undermine Sinn Féin
Mitchel McLaughlin Sinn Féin Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin has said that media speculation concerning the content of the IMC Report 'vindicated entirely his party's position that the Body is little more than a tool to be used by the British government to undermine the electoral mandate of Sinn Féin'. View more |
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PSNI Chief welcomes inaccurate report
Hugh Orde PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde has claimed that the soon to be published Independent Monitoring Commission report will pile intense pressure on paramilitaries to halt alleged violence. Specualtion is mounting that the report contains heavy financial fines, unfairly directly at Sinn Féin. Today Hugh Orde claimed the study could be a force for good. View more |
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Legal attempt made to stop IMC reportA legal attempt is being made at the High Court in Belfast this morning to prevent publication of the report of the Independent Monitoring Commission in Parliament tomorrow. Lawyers for Thomas Tolan, one of four west Belfast men charged with the attempted kidnapping of republican dissident Bobby Tohill from a city centre pub in February, are claiming that the report will prejudice his trial. View more |
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Ruane slams PSNI involvement in human rights conference
Caitríona Ruane Sinn Fein human rights spokesperson Caitriona Ruane has criticised the PSNI`s involvement in a conference about human rights practices, which was also used by Hugh Orde to discuss tomorrow's IMC report. The South Down Assembly member said people were ``amazed at the brass neck of the PSNI organising a conference about human rights practices`` when police had been accused of colluding with loyalist paramilitaries. View more |
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McDonald welcomes Garda Commissioner's report
Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin in the forthcoming EU Elections Mary Lou McDonald has welcomed remarks by the Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy, which suggest the force is committed to providing a service to all areas, particularly marginalised parts of the city. View more |
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Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle anounces campaign against June referendum
Aengus Ó Snodaigh Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh speaking following a meeting of the party's Ard Chomhairle in Dublin this weekend announced that Sinn Féin will be campaigning against the citizenship referendum and is calling on the government not to go ahead with it on June 11th. Deputy Ó Snodaigh said: "There was an extensive discussion at the Ard Chomhairle this weekend on the government's proposed citizenship referendum and the negative impact that their proposals would have across Irish society View more |
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Ahern and McDowell claim referendum no harm to GFA
Bertie Ahern Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, have rejected concerns expressed about the June citizenship referendum. The referendum is in direct contravention with constitutional articles changed as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. View more |
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Irish government must demand access to Dublin/Monaghan British files
Arthur Morgan Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan will call on the Irish government to demand access to British files on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings at a meeting of the British Irish Parliamentary Body in Cork tomorrow. Deputy Morgan said: "The failure of the British government to co-operate with the Barron Inquiry and with the Justice sub-Committee on the Barron Report is deeply insulting to the survivors and bereaved of those killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. View more |
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Bairbre de Brun to meet NI Select Affairs Committee
Bairbre de Brun Sinn Féin Assembly member Bairbre de Brún has announced that the party will meet tomorrow with the NI Select Affairs Committee and make both oral and written submissions into the operation of the current legislation under which elections in the six counties are fought. View more |
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Electoral Commission misses voting age opportunity
Michelle Gildernew Sinn Féin MP for Fermanagh & South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew has said that the Electoral Commission report into voting age released today was 'a missed opportunity to address the issue of young people's alienation from the wider political process'. View more |
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McBride family to return to Belfast High Court
The family of murdered Belfast teenager Peter Mc Bride, will return to Belfast High Court tomorrow morning to judicially review the refusal of the Ministry of Defence to dismiss two soldiers, Mark Wright and James Fisher, who were convicted of the 1992 murder. In June 2003 the Court of Appeal ruled that there were no exceptional circumstances justifying retention of the two. View more |
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