Sinn Fein News Archives

A telegram from Eamon de Valera to his wife confirming his election win as MP a year after the Easter Rising has gone on public display.

The Northern Ireland Assembly is scheduled to debate proposals for a pay rise of up to 7,000 for its politicians.

The Democratic Unionist Party is pursuing policies that will create a political train wreck in the North, Sinn Fein claimed today.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to meet Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in Tullamore tomorrow for discussions on the situation in the North.

Two former IRA prisoners used threats in a bid to pocket a 150,000 pay-off from millions allegedly raised using the group's name, a court has heard.

The Government will come under pressure to end the deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

In yesterday's Irish Times, the Republic of Ireland's President, Mary McAleese, was telling anyone who would listen that "Ireland's young people have the sort of can-do mentality , combined with education and confidence, that is needed to lift the country out of its gloom." Elaine Byrne chipped in on the opinion pages - "Rising generation will ...

Three of the five men arrested after an attack on a police officer in County Fermanagh at the weekend have been released without charge.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has united to condemn the latest attempts by dissident republicans to derail the peace process.

UNIONISTS have their hand on the Stormont steering wheel, DUP leader Peter Robinson told his party's conference on Saturday.

THE Ogra Shinn Fein Comhdhail Naisiunta , 'A Century of Republican Youth in Struggle', attracted more than 100 delegates and young political activists to the Felons' Club in west Belfast at the weekend.

Three people have been arrested after police exchanged fire with suspected dissident republicans in Co Fermanagh.

Collapsing power-sharing and returning to direct rule from London would consign unionists to second class citizenship, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party said.

A new single education body is unlikely to be in place in Northern Ireland by the start of next year because of political deadlock, Caitriona Ruane has admitted.

A former Northern Ireland police officer, who was once also a member of the Orange Order, has been selected to join Sinn Fein's team in the Assembly.

The DUP has launched a pre-election offensive in a bid to persuade unionist doubters it was right to enter government with Sinn Fein.

Marian Price, a leading republican who was once jailed for bombing the Old Bailey in London, has been arrested for questioning by police investigating the murder of sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey in Co Antrim enlarge For decades she has stood as a symbol of hardline Irish republican militancy.

OLD BAILEY bomber Marian Price was arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in Northern Ireland.

Forget Sinn Fein or the DUP, the only party that matters in the Northern Ireland Assembly is the Peace Process Party.

Marion Price, o ne of two sisters who bombed the Old Bailey in 1973 is in custody today being questioned about the murders of two soldiers in Northern Ireland last March.

Anthony McIntyre is in pensive mood after returning from Canada as a guest speaker at Sinn Fein organised conference on Irish unity .

Education Minister Caitriona Ruane has written to schools to make sure they are keeping pace with a major shake-up of the courses available to teenagers.

On Tuesday last, Stormont united to receive Yvonne McEwen 's list of some 9,000 Irish dead serving with British forces during the Second World War.

Public And In yesterday's Irish News Sean Hughes , describing himself as "a member of Sinn Fein", ran with the "politically motivated" line on the seizure of his and his extended families' assets which SOCA has claimed came from laundering the proceeds of mortgage fraud, tax evasion and benefit fraud - a line generously gifted him by his "good ...

I grew up with Gerry Adams. Not literally of course because I'm English and he's from Belfast.

Cllr Peadar Toibin...."move will help development of language in the town". All new residential housing estates being built in the Navan urban area for the next five years will have to have an Irish name, following a decision taken at a meeting of the local town council last week.

The GAA put down roots at Stormont for the first time as the sporting body marked its 125th anniversary with an historic tree planting ceremony.

An elderly Irish priest released after 32 days in captivity in the Philippines today told how he hiked through jungles, survived raging seas and slept in a swamp under a tarpaulin before his release.

The BBC reports on comments by Norman Baxter, former Head of Serious Crime Branch of the PSNI, appearing in front of the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee as part of their continuing investigation into the handling of intelligence relating to the Omagh bombing.

Policing and justice powers must be devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly before Christmas, it was claimed.

Further political progress in Northern Ireland could undermine violent groups which have stepped up efforts to wreck the peace process, it has been claimed.

The DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson has said he does not believe policing and justice will be devolved if the full time police reserve is phased out.

Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Ministers are to hold talks with the British Prime Minister today on the devolution of policing and justice powers.

Sinn Fein has allowed the Democratic Unionists to undermine the interests of the nationalist community, the SDLP claimed today.

"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.

Jason Walsh spoke to some of those who claim to be the legitimate heirs of 1916 and found their legitimism geeky and unconvincing.

The Police Federation for Northern Ireland lashed out after the new chief constable confirmed plans to phase out the Full Time Reserve.

A hard-line unionist party has been accused of an embarrassing climbdown after it apologised for branding Irish a "leprechaun language". The Traditional Unionist Voice led by former MEP Jim Allister is to hold its annual conference on Saturday as it tries to build-on efforts to draw support from the Democratic Unionist Party .

Ok, I've just spent the last couple of days in meetings in London. One of the things I noticed was the amount of people wearing poppies this year.

'We have buried our loved ones but we will not bury the truth' RAYMOND McCORD SNR, whose son was murdered by the notorious Mount Vernon UVF unit led by RUC Special Branch agent Mark Haddock, took his campaign for the truth to Capitol Hill last Thursday when he addressed a US House of Representatives sub-committee. The hearing, 'Concerns Regarding ...

Sinn Fein will crank up the pressure on the North's power-sharing government if there is no deal to devolve policing and justice powers, a senior republican signalled tonight.

Irish Republican Army dissidents are posing their greatest security threat in Northern Ireland since the province's peace accord 11 years ago _ and are receiving help from a handful of IRA veterans in plotting gun and bomb attacks, an expert panel found Wednesday.

A 23-year-old man was shot in Londonderry's Creggan Estate last night . The man was taken to hospital from treatment after five men entered the home at Iniscarn Crescent around 8pm and attacked him.

There were angry clashes in the Assembly after a leading loyalist accused unionist parties of 'lacking honesty' in their opposition to a strong Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.

NEARLY no-one noticed, but an "arcane, archaic, unenforceable and outdated law" in Northern Ireland could have been heading down the path to abolition last Wednesday in the House of Lords.

Campaigners against child abuse will hand the Northern Ireland Assembly a petition on Monday demanding a full inquiry into their treatment in institutions run by the Catholic Church and the State.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - " Philippine gunmen holding captive an elderly Irish missioner have released a video of their hostage and demanded two million dollars for his freedom.

" Manila has rejected a $2 million ransom demanded by kidnappers of an elderly Irish Catholic priest being held in the troubled region of Mindanao.