Ireland
Northern Ireland: Catholic girls school becomes focus for sectarian violence
By Julie Hyland, September 5, 2001
Sectarian bigotry and violence over access to the Holy Cross Catholic girls’ school in north Belfast is continuing. The first day of the new school term on Monday witnessed ugly scenes, as Prote...
Northern Ireland: Allegations of British collusion in Omagh bombing
By Robert Stevens, September 4, 2001
Information has emerged that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) may have been informed 48 hours prior to the event that the Real IRA was to plant the bomb in the town of Omagh on August 15, 1998 that...
Unionist opposition threatens collapse of Northern Ireland Assembly
By Mike Ingram, August 18, 2001
The British government suspended the Northern Ireland Assembly last weekend, the second time it has done so since the formation of the Assembly in January of 2000.
IRA offers plan to put its weapons "beyond use"
By Mike Ingram, August 8, 2001
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has made its most forthright statement to-date regarding the decommissioning of arms. It did so only hours before the parties that signed up to the 1998 Good Friday Agr...
Riots hit Northern Ireland
By Richard Tyler, July 14, 2001
Loyalist marches in Northern Ireland have sparked some of the worst rioting in recent years. Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) units used water canon and plastic bullets, after being attacked with petro...
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Trimble resigns
By Julie Hyland, July 5, 2001
A series of intensive meetings between the major political parties in Northern Ireland and the Irish and British governments are underway, following the resignation of Northern Ireland First Minister ...
Sectarian riots in Northern Ireland
By Chris Talbot, June 26, 2001
A Protestant loyalist gang attacked Catholic homes in Belfast, Northern Ireland with paint bombs and stones on Sunday night. Elsewhere in the city, fireworks were thrown at a house and a petrol bomb w...
Record low turnout in Irish referendum returns "No" vote for European Union expansion
By Richard Tyler, June 14, 2001
By the narrowest of margins, in a record low turnout, Ireland has voted against endorsing the Nice treaty that opens up European Union membership to many Eastern European counties.
Fresh revelations on secret British terror organisation in Northern Ireland
By Robert Stevens, May 15, 2001
During the past three weeks, the Guardian newspaper has run several articles on the Force Research Unit (FRU), an undercover security operation financed and run by the British state in Northern Irelan...
Arms decommissioning central to election in Northern Ireland
By Mike Ingram, May 12, 2001
With all the talk of a Labour landslide in the June 7 general election, it would be easy to miss the fact that in Northern Ireland the result is much less certain—with potentially serious conseq...
European Court finds Britain guilty of human rights violations in Ireland
By Julie Hyland, May 11, 2001
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld complaints that British security forces in Northern Ireland were guilty of breaching the human rights of 12 people shot dead—mainly in the 1980s&mda...
Northern Ireland: High Court overturns ban on Sinn Fein ministers attending cross-border talks
By Julie Hyland, February 2, 2001
The Belfast High Court ruled Tuesday that Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble acted unlawfully last October when he barred Sinn Fein ministers from participating in official cross-border f...
