OVERDOSE FOR UDA’S ‘BLINGADIER’
The funeral has taken place of UDA ‘brigadier’ Ihab Shoukri, who died
this week after taking a fit brought on by a night of heavy drug use
in Newtonabbey, outside Belfast.
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The funeral has taken place of UDA ‘brigadier’ Ihab Shoukri, who died
this week after taking a fit brought on by a night of heavy drug use
in Newtonabbey, outside Belfast.
CIRA raid gunshop, drugs factory
The Continuity IRA is being linked to a raid in the premises of a gun
dealer in the border village of Garrison, County Fermanagh, on Saturday
night.
Outrage at Dublin’s ‘Disneyworld government’
There have been calls for 26-County health minister Mary Harney to
resign after it emerged she used the state jet and expense accounts
as part of a thinly-disguised six-figure vacation in Florida.
Ahern refuses to release border killing report
A call by Sinn Féin for the publication of a report of Deputy Garda
Commissioner Eugene Crowley on the shooting of Aidan McAnespie has been
rejected by the Dublin government.
Republican movement ‘being rebuilt’
Republicans gathered in the Tower Hotel in Derry last week to form a
new coalition bringing together several republican groups to oppose
Sinn Féin’s political strategy.
President visits Orange hall
President Mary McAleese has made the first official visit by an Irish
head of state to an Orange Order hall.
Republican Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
The Presidential Address delivered
by Republican Sinn Féin President Ruairi O Bradaigh in Dublin to RSF's annual conference earlier
this month.
Another corner turned on road to new Ireland
A Six-County Department of Justice could be functioning by the early months of the new year.
