Good Friday News

One of Northern Ireland's most ruthless loyalist paramilitary assassins, who was freed from jail under the terms of the Good Friday peace agreement , was sentenced to four months today for beating up two sisters.

Frank Reyes has lived in the shadow of a cross for 20 years and says he would fight to keep it that way.

Some years ago, when I was minister of St Magnus Cathedral, I was invited to give a series of Holy Week Late Calls on Grampian Television.

The vehicle was driven late Saturday night through barriers outside the Belfast headquarters of the supervisory Northern Ireland Policing Board, but the bomb inside failed to detonate properly, Northern Ireland police chief Matt Baggott said.

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"I commend Canadians for their work for peace and justice in Ireland. We wouldn't be where we are without that support," Adams told the Sunday Sun yesterday at his hotel room at the Toronto Hilton.

A LOYALIST political group in Coleraine has accused SDLP councillor John Dallat of carrying out a personal vendetta against loyalist killer Torrens Knight.

Notorious loyalist killer Torrens Knight was tonight arrested in the North and his release from prison suspended, Northern Ireland Prison Service said.

The announcement last week that Pope Benedict XVI had approved a new procedure to allow entire congregations of Anglicans to return to the Catholic Church took the Christian world by storm.

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Notorious loyalist killer Torrens Knight has been found guilty of assaulting two sisters in a vicious bar room attack in Northern Ireland.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made an emotional appeal to Northern Ireland's lawmakers Monday, urging them to overcome the final hurdles in the peace process that has transformed their blood-soaked land.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is meeting the rival leaders of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government and urging them to take the next steps in making Catholic-Protestant cooperation work.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged investment and political support for Northern Ireland, as its leaders battle to resolve a political standoff threatening the peace process.

IT is a tale of two cities this week, Dublin and Belfast , Yang and Yin, 'Yes' and 'No,' as two political systems face up to a bleak future -- or fail to do so.

Mahon tribunal lawyers investigating Bertie Ahern's financial affairs were confronted with a bizarre tangled web of ambiguity and confusion.

The Equality Commission has appointed former BBC Northern Ireland controller Anna Carragher as one of four new commissioners.

A LEADING Muslim spokesman has criticised new NSW laws that enshrine the rights of staff to refuse to work on Christian-orientated public holidays.

Triple J radio host John Safran takes a forensic approach to the study of religion.