Ireland
Northern Ireland: Eyewitness accounts of 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre indict British army
By Robert Stevens, January 31, 2001
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry has begun to take statements from eyewitnesses involved in the events in Derry on January 30, 1972. On that day, British army paratroopers fired upon a peaceful civil rights ...
Northern Ireland Sentence Review Commission agrees to continue detaining Loyalist leader
By Julie Hyland, January 17, 2001
The British and Irish media welcomed last week's announcement by the Northern Ireland Sentence Review Commission that Loyalist terror leader Johnny Adair will remain in detention.
President Clinton pledges clampdown on terrorism in Ireland
By Julie Hyland, December 15, 2000
Bill Clinton made his third and final visit as US President to Ireland earlier this week. The two-day tour had all the makings of a farewell celebration. Accompanied by his wife, daughter and mother-i...
Row continues over police reform in Northern Ireland
By Julie Hyland, December 6, 2000
In Northern Ireland the row is continuing over the implementation of police reforms. Both the main Catholic and nationalist parties, the Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) and Sinn Fein, are re...
New Northern Ireland Police Bill set to become law in weeks
By Julie Hyland, November 22, 2000
Last week, the Northern Ireland Police Bill completed its passage through the House of Lords, Britain's parliamentary upper chamber. But although the Bill is due to become law in weeks, political divi...
Sinn Fein seeks judicial review against Ulster Unionist leader's exclusion order
By Julie Hyland, November 18, 2000
Northern Ireland's health minister, Bairbre de Brun, has begun legal proceedings against Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble's decision to exclude Sinn Feins ministers from cross-border bodies.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Trimble adapts to hardline anti-Agreement Unionists
By Julie Hyland, November 2, 2000
Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble survived another challenge to his leadership at a meeting of the Ulster Unionist Party's ruling council on October 28, but only by conceding ground to o...
Row over policing reform in Northern Ireland continues
By Julie Hyland, October 16, 2000
Talks are continuing between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Irish Premier Bertie Ahern, and the Unionist and Republican parties to try and resolve the row over policing reform in Northern Ireland.
Irish blood bank "knowingly" risked using contaminated products, Dublin tribunal told
By Julie Hyland, October 10, 2000
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (BTS) knowingly risked treating haemophiliacs with contaminated blood products during the early 1980s, the official Lindsay Tribunal sitting in Dublin has heard. Mo...
Ulster Defence Association leader arrested after intra-Loyalist violence in Belfast
By Julie Hyland, August 24, 2000
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson has returned Ulster Defence Association leader Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair to prison after an internecine feud between rival Loyalist gangs claimed tw...
Widespread disturbances in Northern Ireland sparked by hardline Unionists
By Julie Hyland, July 13, 2000
Violent disturbances in Northern Ireland continued yesterday for the eleventh consecutive day as the Protestant Orange Order held July 12 celebrations marking the victory of King William of Orange ove...
Ulster Unionist Party resumes power-sharing with Sinn Fein
By Chris Marsden, May 31, 2000
The power sharing Executive of the Northern Ireland Assembly met Tuesday for the first time since Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson suspended the body on February 11. The meeting wa...
