IRA linked to Castlereagh breakin
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Ananova reports Police believe they have evidence of a link. There’s more detail from UTV. Police deny this was connected to a raid on Sinn Fein’s Stormont office this morning. But the heat is being turned up on both Sinn …
Weblogs captured by the Right
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Interesting article by James Crabtree of Vox Politics on the phenomenon of blogging which suggests that commentators of the right have cornered the market in the US, creating large networks of compelling knowledge, which by and large goes poltically unchallenged. …
Colombia coming to a head
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Three men, believed to be intimately connected with the IRA, face the judge today in Colombia charged with giving aid to the leftist guerilla organisation FARC. Apparent inconsistencies in two separate forensic tests will be at the heart of the …
Adair
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David Gordon has been running a series of articles this week, focused on the Loyalist paramilitaries. On Wednesday he focused on the charismatic figure of Johnny Adair. Newshound reproduces an article from last Sunday’s People newspaper suggesting that Adair is …
Political compass
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This may have nothing much to do with Northern Ireland politics but it’s an interesting exercise, even if you have done it before.
Real IRA Split over ceasefire
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The Real IRA may be preparing to declare a ceasefire, though it’s not likely to happen without some serious internal dissention. Tom Brady reports: “The ceasefire option is being strongly mooted by Michael McKevitt, who is due to face trial …
Policing drama
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Duncan Shipley Dalton is not happy with the UUP’s threat to withdraw from the Policing Board: “Unionists do not have sole political autonomy and our influence is constrained by political reality. If we continue down this self-obsessed path of boycott, …
British Labour and NI
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The Newsletter makes a passionate plea for Blair’s Labour Party to organise in Ulster: “We cannot vote for the Labour Party and we cannot vote against it. Instead, we have to accept the jurisdiction of a party which promotes political …
Bizarre headline of the month
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Has got to be Tory quits for Paisley’s party in today’s Daily Telegraph (thanks to Newshound). Whatever you make of his political viewpoint, there is no doubt that Mr Hunter has a passion for Northern Ireland politics. It may be …
Secret Life of the IRA
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Steven King asks how some of the revelations in the Moloney book will go down with Sinn Fein’s wealthy backers in the US, highlighting in particular the emotive issue of human bombs and the leftward swing in Republican poltics immediately …