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Northern Ireland
'A hard man not to like'
- 22 December 2005
Had it been almost anyone else other than Denis Donaldson revealed as an undercover British agent at the heart of Gerry Adams's inner sanctum, I doubt that the sense of shock and disappointment amongst republicans would have been quite so numbing.
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Paranoia unconfined
- 22 December 2005
- Matt Cooper
In the spirit of the pantomime season, here's a warning for the most senior members of Sinn Féin: "Look out, he's behind you".
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- 08 December 2005
Although Gerry Adams expects the January report of the Independent Monitoring Commission to declare the IRA has kept its commitments to decommission, he believes the IMC's time is up, as it is inherently undemocratic, unaccountable and incompetent
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An 'all-Ireland economy'
- 08 December 2005
Nearly 70 per cent of economic activity in the North revolves around the public sector, compared to 37 per cent in the South. Finance Minister Brian Cowen recently announced 75 billion in cross-border investment, while Peter Hain has declared that the North's economy can only be seen as part of an 'all-Ireland economy'. Surprisingly, this has received cross-party support. Colm Heatley reports
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Claiming what is rightfully hers
- 24 November 2005
A vegetarian, born-again Christian who doesn't drink, Rhonda Paisley would really like to be a painter. Her action against the DUP is not about 'Paisley versus Paisley', but about women's struggle for positions within the DUP. By Susan McKay
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Field Day - The Belfast Agreement
- 17 November 2005
- Christine Bell
Last year someone in Derry started painting the post-boxes green. All year they alternated from green to red and back again. It started me thinking about what a reunited Ireland would look like. Arafat reputedly returned to Gaza after the Oslo Accords saying he wouldn't stop until Palestine had its own direct dialling code. Sovereignty can come down to direct dialling codes and the colour of post-boxes; it should, however, involve much more.
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Largest paramilitary group, UDA, awaits London response
- 17 November 2005
The British government has yet to respond to the call by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) on 13 November to begin talks with the group over its future, according to a senior figure within the organisation.
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Adams ban highlights police issue
- 10 November 2005
The US government's decision to ban Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams from attending a fundraising event in New York, over the party's refusal to support the PSNI, is an illustration of the increasingly central role policing is playing in the endgame of Northern Ireland's peace process.
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Unionists lead opposition to 'on-the-run' legislation
- 10 November 2005
Unionists will have to accept they are powerless to stop the British Government introducing legislation allowing IRA 'On-The-Runs' (OTRs) to return to Northern Ireland, David McNarry has said.
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