News Chronology
The following news items are complied by Irish American Post staffers,
the Irish American Information Service and other news outlets.
Hillsborough
Blair,
Ahern in Belfast for Talks
SINN
Féin OUTSIDE HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE BEFORE MEETING,
MARK
DEVENPORT - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE
ALLIANCE
PARTY - AFTER TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
SINN
Féin LEAVING HILLSBOROUGH
MARTINA
PURDY - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
KEN
REID - UTV LIVE
KEN
REID - UTV LIVE
SECRETARY
OF STATE - TALKS - NEWSNIGHT
DAVID
TRIMBLE AFTER MEETING AT HILLSBOROUGH
PRESS
CONFERENCE, HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE
MARTHA
KEARNEY, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Feb. 13, 2003
Feb. 13, 2003
MARTIN
McGUINNESS - TALKS - GMU
DAVID
ERVINE, GMU
TOMMIE
GORMAN - TALKS - RTE NEWS
SIR
REG EMPEY, GMU
GERRY
ADAMS - TALKS BETWEEN SINN Féin AND IRISH GOVERNMENT
EAMON
MALLIE - POLITICAL TALKS - DTR 8 O'CLOCK NEWS
MARK
DEVENPORT, GMU
BILL
FLYNN, NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US FOREIGN POLICY
Leaders
Re-convene in Belfast
IAN
PAISLEY JUNIOR - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
SINN
Féin AFTER MEETING AT HILLSBOROUGH
ULSTER
UNIONIST PARTY LEAVING HILLSBOROUGH
MARK
DURKAN - TV3
TONY
BLAIR AND BERTIE AHERN - HILLSBOROUGH
MARK
SIMPSON - TALKS - BBC NEWS 24
MARK
DEVENPORT - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
DAVID
TRIMBLE OUTSIDE HILLSBOROUGH
GARRET
FITZGERALD - GMU
BRID
RODGERS AT HILLSBOROUGH SDLP
DAVID
FORD, ALLIANCE - HILLSBOROUGH
MARK
SIMPSON REPORTS - GERRY MORIARTY, IRISH TIMES
GARETH
GORDON - POLITICAL EDITOR
MARK
DURKAN, SDLP - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
DAVID
McCLARITY, UUP - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
MITCHEL
McLAUGHLIN - SINN Féin - GMU
PAT
DOHERTY, SINN Féin - HILLSBOROUGH
MARK
DEVENPORT AND BRIAN ROWAN - TALKS AT HILLSBOROUGH
March 5, 2003
DERMOT
NESBITT, GMU
MARK
DEVENPORT - GMU
SECRETARY
OF STATE, TODAY RADIO 4 |
News
Shorts
Prime
Ministers Ahern, Blair Hold Political Talks in Belfast
The Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mr. Blair and
Mr. Ahern met at Hillsborough Northern Ireland yesterday. Speaking after
their meetings with the main political parties. Mr. Blair said, "The purpose
of the discussions we have been having is to see how we move the process
forward again on the basis of the full and faithful implementation of the
Belfast or Good Friday Agreement, that is what everyone wants to see.[More]
Force and
Determination Needed for Breakthrough
By SDLP Leader Mark Durkan
This is a time of crisis. The origins of that crisis are clear. It
originates with the actions of the UUP and republicans. The UUP when they
decided for their own electoral reasons in September to threaten to pull
the institutions down. The truth is that their stance was more about dumping
government before a difficult election than it was about getting guns dumped.
[More]
Ireland Supports
UN on Iraq
Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Brian Cowen TD, on Iraq
Dáil Éireann
[More]
Derry, What's
in a Name?
By Breda Heffernan
What is in a name? Apparently quite a lot. Derry City Council's decision
in January to change the official name of the city from Londonderry to
Derry has been met with anger from Unionists -- some of whom propose the
setting up of their own rival local authority. [More]
Working the
Agreement
Speech by Mark Durkan MLA, SDLP leader
Association of SDLP Councillors Conference
We meet at an important time in the political process. Following on
from Wednesday's round of meetings with an Taoiseach and the British Prime
Minister, my belief is undiminished that genuine progress towards the full
implementation of the Good Friday Agreement can be made over the coming
weeks and months. [More]
SDLP: Delivering
the New Beginning to Criminal Justice
The SDLP wishes to see the devolution of justice and policing functions.
We believe that it is only when such functions have been devolved that
the Agreement can be said to be fully implemented. [More]
SDLP Position
Paper on an Unarmed Police Service
Proposals: "Towards an Unarmed Police Service" outlines a series of
measures to accelerate normalization of policing and security in Northern
Ireland.
"The SDLP are the party that has pursued most vigorously the
new beginning to policing. These measures demonstrate that it is the SDLP
who are driving forward the policing agenda. [More]
UUP Supports
Strong Stand on Iraq
In a statement released Feb. 27, the Ulster Unionist Party has given
its strong backing to the Government's current position on Iraq. Speaking
in last night's House of Commons debate on a motion endorsing the Prime
Minister's approach to the continuing crisis, UUP Leader David Trimble
said: "We are under no illusion about the fact that it is a further step
along a route that might end in war. [More]
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