YOUNG pretender Colum Eastwood brought the fight for the SDLP leadership to his opponent’s door last night, launching his campaign on the boundary of Alasdair McDonnell’s South Belfast constituency. The Foyle MLA was backed by a host of leading party figures at a gathering in The Hive, a social enterprise on the Grosvenor Road near […]
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Eastwood in Belfast to launch challenge to McDonnell SDLP leadership
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Victims’ group gives cautious welcome to DPP’s request for massive ‘Stakeknife’ probe
VICTIMS’ group Relatives For Justice have cautiously welcomed an announcement that allegations of security force collusion in 24 murders in the north by an army intelligence agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ are to be investigated by police. Yesterday, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Barra McGrory QC, announced that he has requested that the Chief Constable investigate […]
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Business as usual at Stormont despite troubling claims in new report for DUP
Unionists will file into inter-party talks at Stormont today despite a claim in yesterday’s report on paramilitary groups that the IRA Army Council still exists and that its members believe they exercise control over Sinn Féin. And the DUP has come under withering criticism over its decision to reappoint its ministers and go back into […]
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Paramilitary report today expected to signal the end of DUP ‘in-out’ Stormont strategy
Just hours before a report on paramilitary activity in the north that’s widely expected to clear the way for unionist ministers to return to the Stormont Executive, police have arrested a man in West Belfast in connection with the murder of Kevin McGuigan. The 47-year-old was arrested on Monday evening and taken for questioning to […]
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Police accused of inaction as large crowd goes on the rampage in Twinbrook
Police have been criticised for the way they handled weekend disturbances in Twinbrook. A crowd began gathering in Aspen and Summerhill near the former Brooke Lodge public house around 8pm on Saturday evening. Numbers quickly rose and by the time police arrived after receiving reports of anti-social behaviour, there were around 300 youths present. Local […]
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‘Kill my son and you’ll have to kill me’ – mother’s defiant response to ‘INLA’ death threat
A West Belfast man says his life is “on hold” after a death threat was made against him by a group calling itself the West Belfast INLA. Now his mum has defiantly declared: “They’ll have to shoot me as well!” Speaking from his mum’s O’Neill Street home in the Clonard area, 28-year-old father-of-two Stephen Carson […]
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