IRA dissidents threaten top Sinn Fein politician

Irish Republican Army dissidents threatened Sunday to kill top Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness and resume attacks in England as part of their efforts to wreck the IRA cease-fire and Northern Ireland power-sharing.

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IRA dissidents burn cars, block Belfast roads

Suspected IRA dissidents and their supporters hijacked cars Monday in working-class Catholic areas of Northern Ireland in a coordinated effort to block roads and threaten police stations, police said.

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Sinn Fein, IRA dissidents vie for Catholic support

Graffiti on the Catholic side of town condemn Sinn Fein politicians as British stooges. Alongside black-stenciled images of masked gunmen, slogans proclaim allegiance to IRA dissidents who fatally shot a policeman a few miles away.

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Ex-politician's son charged with N.Ireland terror

The son of a one-time local leader in the Sinn Fein party was charged in Northern Ireland on Friday with possessing explosives, ammunition and other illegal equipment while allegedly planning dissident Irish Republican Army attacks.

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Senior IRA figure Brian Keenan dies of cancer in Belfast

Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's long march from war to peace, died of cancer Wednesday, the Sinn Fein party announced. He was 66.

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Official: IRA Driver Was British Spy

A man who served as a driver for Sinn Fein leader and former IRA commander Gerry Adams secretly worked as a British spy, a party official said Saturday.

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IRA Veteran Martin Meehan Dies at 62

Martin Meehan, a one-time Irish Republican Army commander who spurred IRA members toward compromise, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack in his Belfast home, the Sinn Fein party said. He was 62.

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N. Ireland Protestants Denounce Sinn Fein

Protestants will share power with the Catholics of Sinn Fein "over our dead bodies," Ian Paisley thundered Wednesday as tens of thousands of Protestant marchers celebrated the most divisive day on Northern Ireland's calendar.

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Sinn Fein Wants Leader Off U.S. Watch List

Sinn Fein accused the Bush administration Monday of needlessly harassing officials of the IRA-linked party at airports in the United States, where party leader Gerry Adams was detained last week because he is on the U.S. "watch list."

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With a number of states reporting huge seizures of fake Indian currency notes (FICNs), India will soon take up the issue at global fora, like Interpol, in a big way and will also ask some European countries to keep a watch on importers of currency-standard printing paper and i …

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Northern Ireland was plunged into a deeper security crisis last night when a police officer was shot dead in Craigavon, Co Armagh, the third member of the security forces to die in as many days.

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The British soldiers who were killed in Northern Ireland over the weekend had already packed their bags for Afghanistan and changed into desert uniforms when they were shot, a top British military officer said Monday.

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The recent attack on a British army base in Antrim by, it appears, so-called republican dissidents, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with politics in the six counties of Ireland or who's spent even a small amount of time there.

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The IRA's ruling Army Council is no longer operational and the group does not pose a threat to peace in Northern Ireland, an independent watchdog said on Wednesday.

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The IRA has effectively disbanded as an underground army and no longer meets for any terrorist purposes, the group charged with overseeing paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland said today.

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Fact number one about guerrilla wars: They're not over until the guerrillas win.

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Attacks on Orange Halls are motivated by sectarianism and must end, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said. He was speaking following three weekend attacks on halls used by the Protestant loyal order, which it described as part of an "organised campaign".

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A community group has objected to a Sinn Fein deputy mayor turning on Armagh city's Christmas tree lights. The party's leader on the council said she was shocked to hear that the group has refused to allow councillor Noel Sheridan to carry out the function.

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Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said sorry to the parents of a boy killed when the IRA bombed Warrington. Mr Adams made the apology to Colin and Wendy Parry whose 12-year-old son Tim was one of two children who died in the blast in 1993.

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A new internet tool shows how a Vatican computer was used to edit a web entry about Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, American researchers have claimed. Wikipedia Scanner developers said they can trace where changes to the popular online encyclopedia have been made.

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The 43-year-old fled from Nigeria in 2000 because of religious persecution. After a few weeks, he and his family settled in the County Laois town. In 2004, he was elected in the local elections as an independent councillor and on Thursday he became mayor.

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Irish PM Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail party has won the country's general election, but narrowly failed to gain an overall majority in parliament.

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A row over whether Sinn Féin is politically acceptable as a potential partner in a new coalition government has dominated the closing stages of Ireland's general election campaign.

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The prospect of a Fianna Fáil government dependent on Sinn Féin moved to the centre of political debate yesterday.

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Nine years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998, the Northern Irish peace process successfully concluded last Tuesday with the formation of a power-sharing government comprised of once implacable foes, each the most hardline party in its respective camp: the Democra …

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The latest round of bitter, heavily-politicised infighting among the wiki-fanciers centres around the involvement or non-involvement of Northern Irish politico Gerry Adams in armed violence during the recent/present Ulster troubles.

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The small print in the recent agreement is that power-sharing will begin only after two months. That gives Paisley and his allies time to discover that the Catholics are still violating some of the conditions for power-sharing -- new conditions that they will have dreamed up.

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IT was the moment Ian Paisley finally signalled he was ready to complete the transformation from former chief bigot to future First Minister.

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Northern Irelands biggest Protestant party, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, balked today at joining a government with the provinces Roman Catholics only two days before a deadline to restore a power-sharing local government in Belfast.

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Peter Mandelson has accused the prime minister of "unreasonable and irresponsible" behaviour in the way he granted concessions to Sinn Féin during Downing Street's attempts to broker a peace deal in Northern Ireland.

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The Democratic Unionists, the hard-line Protestant party led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, and Sinn Fein, the mainly Catholic republican party, emerged yesterday as the main winners in elections held on Wednesday for a new provincial government in Northern Ireland.

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Fear and Loathing in Northern Ireland: Crank up the machine

The late night, early morning hum of printing presses can be heard across the land. There are trucks full of campaign posters driving all over the towns and cities. Batteries for the TV cameras are charged, sound gear is ready to roll. LIGHTS! CAMERA! POLITICS!

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Fear and Loathing in Northern Ireland: Here we go again

Here it is again: another treaty, another agreement, and another bite at the peace cherry. Sinn Fein have agreed to support policing in Northern Ireland and the wheels of devolution are now in motion (1. )

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