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.
One of the Ulster Defence Association's most high-profile and notorious leaders was arrested on Tuesday 8 November in a major police investigation into serious crime in the greater Belfast area.
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.
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.
Jonty Brown, one of the most senior CID (Criminal Investigations Department) detectives in the RUC until his retirement in 2001, is expecting his former police colleagues to smash in his front door this week.
Policing – the most contentious issue facing Northern Ireland – has been put back in the spotlight this week after claims by the SDLP that Sinn Féin wants an "alternative policing system outside the boundaries of the PSNI".
The meeting between Bertie Ahern and Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine on Wednesday (26 October) signals a forward, and potentially significant, step towards achieving the disbandment of loyalist paramilitary groups.
The 250 properties allegedly connected to 'Slab' Murphy has become just seven, and the reputation of the Assets Recovery Agency now hangs in the balance. By Colm Heatley
The DUP rose to power by exploiting the crisis of confidence in unionism. But their critics are now questioning how effective they have been in leading the unionist cause, and whether their political agenda is outdated, writes Colm Heatley
The murder of Jim Gray was part of the internal power struggle within the UDA, and not connected to the ongoing UDA/LVF feud