Northern Ireland
Political Process Takes the Heat
The following stories are assembled by the Northern Ireland Information
Service, The Irish American Information Service and Irish American Post
staffers. [More]
Cory Report
Issue Flares Again
The following is courtesy of the Northern Ireland Information Service
and the Irish American Information Service. [More]
Collusion
Found in Dublin/Monaghan Report Findings
Irish American Information Service
The long-awaited Barron report into the 1974 Dublin- Monaghan bombings
has found evidence of collusion between some elements of the British security
forces and the loyalists paramilitaries which carried out the atrocities.
[More]
Don’t Let
Blair Get Away with
“Cover-Up” Over Collusion
By Mark Durkan, MLA
"Collusion is a cancer that eats into public confidence in the justice
system. It is only when governments face it head on that confidence can
be restored. "Judge Cory’s conclusion that there may have been collusion
by elements in the Gardaí in the murder of RUC officers Breen and
Buchanan will startle many. That is why it is so important that the Irish
government has quickly agreed to establish a public inquiry. [More]
Jeffrey Donaldson
Quits UUP
Rebel Ulster Unionist Jeffrey Donaldson has quit the party along with
two newly elected assembly members.[More]
Kucinich Calls
for Full Implementation
of Good Friday Agreement
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, (D) Ohio, has called for the speedy return
of devolution to Northern Ireland. Kucinich, who is a candidate for the
presidency of the United States in 2004, said achieving peace and justice
in Ireland was "an important step towards the resolution of the regional
conflicts which persist in today's world community." [More]
Joint Statement
from Irish American Organizations
Against the Deportation of Irish
Immigrants
We ask that our government representatives act immediately to suspend
deportation proceedings against Irish immigrants. During the Clinton Administration,
the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now an agency of the Department
of Homeland Security) suspended deportation for a small number of individuals
who had served time in prison for political offenses in the north of Ireland.[More]
Easter
Rising Veteran Dies in Galway
Irish American Information Service
Ireland's second-oldest person, 109-year-old Brigid Derrane, who was
jailed after Dublin's 1916 Easter Rising against British rule, died in
Galway on Dec. 31, 2003.[More]
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