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July 31, 2005

Table of Contents - 07/05

Table of Contents - 07/05

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Monthly Table of Contents (by Subject Line):
07/31/05 - Police Attacked During Search On Loyalists
07/31/05 – SF Welcomes Security Scale Down
07/31/05 - Man Survived Previous Murder Bid
07/31/05 - IRA Begins Destruction Of Weapons
07/30/05 - Hain Will Not Influence IMC Paper
07/29/05 - De Chastelain On Standby For Arms Destruction
07/29/05 - Adams Urges Loyalists To Follow IRA Pledge
07/28/05 - US Leaders Welcome IRA Move
07/28/05 – Reactions To IRA Statement
07/28/05 - IAUC Action Alert – URGENT
07/28/05 - IAUC: US Urged To Respond To IRA Statement
07/28/05 – IRA Statement: Armed Struggle Over
07/27/05 - Nine Arrested In LVF Murder Inquiry
07/27/05 - 'Feud' Link To Overnight Attacks
07/26/05 - Loyalists Behind Church Attacks
07/25/05 - Loyalist Death Threats Against SF Rep
07/25/05 - UVF Patrolling As Loyalist Feud Deepens
07/24/05 - IRA Now Expected To Issue Statement This Week
07/24/05 - Rabbitte Calls On Shell To Free ‘Rossport Five’
07/24/05 – Hain: IRA Statement 'Would Be Welcomed'
07/23/05 - Ervine Loyalist Feud Comments Condemned
07/23/05 - Feud Will Get Worse Says Ervine
07/23/05 – Holy Cross Church Is Fire Bombed
07/22/05 - Castlereagh:No Charges
07/22/05 - Sinn Fein Week in Review
07/22/05 - Relatives In London For Ciaran's Funeral
07/21/05 - Gardaí Protest Over Fears Of Loyalist Attacks
07/21/05 - Plea For Mediators In Loyalist Feud
07/21/05 - Human Rights Commission To Probe CIA Agreement
07/20/05 - Hain Gives PUP Deadline To Justify Allowances
07/20/05 - Unionists Threaten Violence Over Nationalist March
07/19/05 - RTÉ Head Nominated To Lead Equality Commission
07/19/05 - UVF Linked To Gun Attack On House
07/18/05 - SF Urges Hain To Release Sean Kelly
07/18/05 – Fr. Troy Calls For Sean Kelly’s Release
07/17/05 - Police Must Be Held To Account - O'Loan
07/17/05 - UVF Plan To Wipe-Out LVF
07/16/05 - Blast Bombers Meant To Kill Me, Says Mother
07/16/05 – Loyalist Bomber Injures N Belfast Woman
07/15/05 - Adams Urges Dialogue Over Parades
07/15/05 - Loyalists Condemned Over Ardoyne Suicides Slogan
07/14/05 - IAUC Encourages Positive Response to Anticipated IRA Statement
07/14/05 - Sad Days In Ardoyne By Father Troy
07/14/05 - Ireland, US Agree Policing Co-Operation
07/14/05 - CIRA Admit Bomb Attack On Police
07/13/05 - 'UVF Gun Show' Threatens Funding
07/13/05 - Orange Parade Rioting Leaves 88 Injured
07/12/05 – Police in Row After Parade
07/12/05 - Ardoyne Parade Peaceful
07/11/05 - Security Concern High Over Ardoyne Parade
07/11/05 - Loyalists Blamed For Murder
07/10/05 - Arson Attack On Home 'Sectarian'
07/10/05 - Sinn Fein Week In Review
07/10/05 - US Deportation Reprieve Hope For McAllister
07/09/05 – Colombia 3 May Be In Cuba
07/09/05 – McAllister’s Hopes Raised By Trump’s Sister
07/08/05 - Parades To Proceed, Says Order
07/08/05 – George Morrissey, RIP
07/08/05 - Loyalist Killer McClean Fails To Secure Early Release
07/07/05 - Double Killer Loses Release Fight
07/07/05 - Police Accused Of Strong-Arm Tactics In Derry
07/07/05 – Explosions in London
07/06/05 - Adams States Sinn Féin Opposition To North Belfast Parades
07/06/05 - McAllister Waits As Judge Ponders
07/06/05 - Order For Finucane Notes Thrown Out
07/05/05 - Adams Slams Decision On NI Parades
07/05/05 - Ardoyne Parade Gets Go-Ahead To Pass Shops
07/04/05 - Finucane Probe Seek Journalists' Notes
07/02/05 – Loyalist Shot To Death In Feud
07/02/05 - Hain Praises Adams & McGuinness As 'Courageous'

Monthly Table of Contents (with Story Titles):
07/31/05 - Police Attacked During Search On Loyalists
IO 07/31/05 Police Attacked During Search On Loyalists
IO 07/31/05 Man Injured In Loyalist Punishment Shooting
IT 08/01/05 New Security Measures Likely Within 24 Hours
EX 08/01/05 DUP Under Pressure To Deal With Sinn Féin
TH 07/31/05 SF Demand Ban Lifted On £500,000 In Allowances
DH 07/31/05 IRA Will Deliver, Pledges McGuinness
IT 08/01/05 IRA Must Change Before Ban Is Lifted- Ahern
IO 08/01/05 Ahern Welcomes Pope’s Comments On IRA Statement
GU 07/31/05 A United Ireland Is Inevitable
TO 07/31/05 IRA Disarms, SF Sweeps Polls & Adams Is A Loser
IT 08/01/05 Memorial For Miami Showband Killed By UVF
IT 08/01/05 Sunniest July In 30 Yrs’ Heatwave Not To Return
IT 08/01/05 Reek Sunday On Croagh Patrick Draws 20,000
UT 07/31/05 Niall Quinn Arrested On Drink Drive Charge
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07/31/05 – SF Welcomes Security Scale Down
BB 07/31/05 SF Welcomes Security Scale Down
RE 07/31/05 Pope Welcomes End Of IRA Armed Campaign
SL 07/31/05 IRA's 'On The Runs' To Become 'The Forgiven'
TO 07/31/05 Retired RUC Officer Dies In Basra Bomb Blast
SH 07/31/05 Public Reaction
TI 07/31/05 A Farewell To Arms
CC 07/31/05 IRA Took New Tack After 9/11
NH 07/31/05 Adams Succeeded Where Dev Failed
BS 07/31/05 Opin: The One Road
MS 07/31/05 The Last Word: Gerry Adams
GU 07/31/05 Looking For Lisa
TO 07/31/05 SAS Link: Could 'Police Officer' Be A Soldier?
RJ 07/31/05 When The Melting Pot Melts
CA 07/31/05 Grosse Ile: Island Of Tragedy And Hope
IO 07/31/05 Thousands Climb Croagh Patrick In Pilgrimage
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07/31/05 - Man Survived Previous Murder Bid
BB 07/31/05 Loyalist Man Survived Previous Murder Bid
SL 07/31/05 Loyalist Is Shot Dead
SL 07/31/05 UVF To Push Terror Rivals Into Antrim Estate
SL 07/31/05 LVF Smoked Out After Barbecue
SL 07/31/05 Accused Was Pal Of Slain LVF Boss
SB 07/31/05 The Mystery Of The Miami Murders
SL 07/31/05 Face To Face
BB 07/31/05 Church Attacks 'Were Desecration'
UT 07/31/05 Unionists Warn Against 'All-Ireland Parliament'
IO 07/31/05 DUP: Test Period IRA Could Be Extended
SB 07/31/05 Loyalists Are Still Not Convinced
SL 07/31/05 DUP May Challenge Kelly's Jail Release
SL 07/31/05 Straight Talking: A Sour Reaction
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07/31/05 - IRA Begins Destruction Of Weapons
SB 07/31/05 IRA Begins Destruction Of Weapons
SF 07/31/05 Irish America Won Over By Adams
BB 07/31/05 Man Is Shot Dead In 'Feud' Attack
BB 07/31/05 Thumbscrews To Turn On Politicians
TO 07/31/05 DUP To Wait Two Years Before Sharing Power
BB 07/31/05 'Security Response' To IRA Move
BB 07/31/05 Military Response To IRA Move Expected
NY 07/31/05 IRA Backs Off; Loyalist Battle One Another
SB 07/31/05 Now The Real Dealmaking Begins
SB 07/31/05 Who Will Fill IRA Vacuum?
ST 07/31/05 A Farewell To Arms: Why Adams Blinked
ST 07/31/05 Bandit Country Has Lost Enthusiasm For Peace
SM 07/31/05 Commission Plan To Heal Wounds Of Irish Terror
SB 07/31/05 IRA Move Puts SF In Coalition Firing Line
SB 07/31/05 Opin: Provos Always Killers Without A Cause
SB 07/31/05 Opin: IRA Was Fighting The Wrong War
SB 07/31/05 IRA Q&A: What Next For The North?
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07/30/05 - Hain Will Not Influence IMC Paper
BB 07/30/05 Hain Will Not Influence IMC Paper
BB 07/30/05 St. Coleman’s Primary School Fire 'Deliberate'
BT 07/30/05 Loyalists To Hold Internal Meetings
BT 07/30/05 Harryville: The Flowers Of Peace...
BT 07/30/05 Michael Stone's Sick Gun Gimmick
BT 07/30/05 News Analysis: Garnerville Five Days On
IO 07/30/05 Miami Showband Murders 30th Marked With Prayer
BT 07/30/05 Waterside: Sinn Fein Plans Talks Over Marches
JN 07/30/05 IRA's Action Applauded In Rockland
UT 07/30/05 Empey: Statement 'Leaves Questions Unanswered'
BT 07/30/05 Real IRA Is 'Still In Business'
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07/29/05 - De Chastelain On Standby For Arms Destruction
EX 07/29/05 De Chastelain On Standby For Arms Destruction
IT 07/30/05 Adams Urges Paisley To Meet SF For Talks
EX 07/30/05 SDLP Urges Resumption Of Devolution Talks
UT 07/30/05 IMC Statement On IRA Move
IT 07/30/05 Policing: 'It Is What We Fought A War Against'
IT 07/30/05 Britain To Continue 'Normalisation' Process
IT 07/30/05 'It'll Be A Nice Wee Town Without Soldiers'
IT 07/30/05 Order Banning IRA May Be Lifted In Time
IT 07/30/05 Employment Barrier For Former Volunteers
US 07/30/05 US Praises Historic Disarmament Pledge
BB 07/29/05 'Deal Of All Deals' Could Follow IRA Move
NY 07/29/05 IRA Pledge Seen As Model For Other Conflicts
BB 07/29/05 Loyalism Is Urged To 'Step Back'
EX 07/29/05 Peace Process - Unionists Can’t Keep Stalling
EX 07/29/05 Anger As Demolition Begins At Armagh Watchtower
TE 07/29/05 Opin: Provos - Their War Is Not Over
IT 07/30/05 SF Now Free To Go Places South Of Border
MS 07/29/05 IRA Vow Lends Hope, But Violence Hard To Forget
IT 07/30/05 Durkan Warns Of Privatising Criminality
IT 07/30/05 Equality Appeal Against Golf Club
IO 07/30/05 Gay Community Welcomes McDowell’s Promise
SF 07/29/05 H-Block Memories: By Arthur Morgan TD
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07/29/05 - Adams Urges Loyalists To Follow IRA Pledge
UT 07/29/05 Adams Urges Loyalists To Follow IRA Pledge
IO 07/29/05 Adams Expresses Regret For Grief Caused
BB 07/29/05 Army Begins Dismantling Its Posts
BT 07/29/05 'Wait And See' Attitude In South Armagh
BT 07/29/05 Fugitives On The Run Can Return To Ulster
BT 07/29/05 Freed Kelly Likely To Stay Out Of Jail
BB 07/29/05 Next Steps In Dance Toward Devolution
BT 07/29/05 Sinn Fein Urged To Take Up Policing Body Roles
NJ 07/29/05 Billy Briggs: `This Was The Only Way Left'
BT 07/29/05 Not A Loud 'No' From Mr Paisley
BT 07/29/05 Mixed Views In Derry
BT 07/29/05 A Betrayal, Says RSF's O'Bradaigh
BT 07/29/05 Family's Appeal To The IRA
BT 07/29/05 Mitchell Says IRA Actions Must Match Words
DJ 07/29/05 Provos Must Deliver On Promises – Durkan
DJ 07/29/05 Opin: Momentous And Historic
BT 07/29/05 IRA Statement Tripped Up By Technology
BT 07/29/05 How CNN Brought The Message To States
BB 07/29/05 'Solidarity' Over Church Attacks
BT 07/29/05 Key Events Since IRA Ceasefire
BB 07/29/05 Analysis: Sinn Fein's Political Journey
LA 07/29/05 The Men Who Tamed The IRA
DJ 07/29/05 Derry Parade Flashpoint Protest Scrapped
BT 07/29/05 Flight Of The Earls Under Scrutiny
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07/28/05 - US Leaders Welcome IRA Move
BB 07/28/05 US Leaders Welcome IRA Move
UT 07/29/05 Adams Calls For United Front From Republicans
SF 07/28/05 McGuinness Speaking To IRA Statement.
IT 07/29/05 Ex-Prisoner For Whom Deal Was 'Only Way'
IT 07/29/05 US Welcome For 'Historic Statement'
IT 07/29/05 Bush's Role In Peace Process Singled Out
IT 07/29/05 SF-DUP Talks Could Begin In New Year
IT 07/29/05 Arms Are Likely Stockpiled, Ready For Disposal
NY 07/28/05 IRA Renounces Use Of Violence; Vows To Disarm
IT 07/29/05 Hume Says Loyalist Must End Their Activities
TH 07/28/05 What Happens Next?
IT 07/29/05 SF's Credibility Rests On Future Conduct Of IRA
TE 07/28/05 Only Time Will Tell If This Is The Last Act
TJ 07/28/05 Opin: Another Test For IRA
IT 07/29/05 Northerners Get To Grips With New Reality
IO 07/28/05 Hain Defends Release Of Shankill Bomber Kelly
IT 07/29/05 Chronology
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07/28/05 – Reactions To IRA Statement
SF 07/28/05 - British Prime Minster Tony Blair's Response
SF 07/28/05 - Bertie Ahern Speaking Following IRA Statement
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07/28/05 - IAUC Action Alert – URGENT
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07/28/05 - IAUC: US Urged To Respond To IRA Statement
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07/28/05 – IRA Statement: Armed Struggle Over
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07/27/05 - Nine Arrested In LVF Murder Inquiry
IT 07/28/05 Nine Arrested In LVF Murder Inquiry
IT 07/28/05 Statement From IRA On Arms Expected Today
IT 07/28/05 Kelly Freed On Eve Of IRA Statement
UT 07/27/05 Ahern Confident Over IRA Statement
IT 07/28/05 IRA Faces Path It Refused To Take Last December
BB 07/27/05 PSNI Operation 'Linked To Feud'
CW 07/27/05 Wave Of Attacks On Catholics In N Ireland
IT 07/28/05 Three Cork Towns In 'Atlantic Ports' Booklet
IT 07/28/05 B&Bs Lose Out To Self-Catering & Rented Homes
BB 07/27/05 Reporting The Last IRA 'Stand Down' (1962)
IE 07/27/05 IAUC For Pittsburgh
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07/27/05 - 'Feud' Link To Overnight Attacks
BB 07/27/05 'Feud' Link To Overnight Attacks
BT 07/27/05 Feud Fears Rise After Attack
UT 07/27/05 UDA May Step Into Loyalist Paramilitary Feud
BT 07/27/05 Searches In Bid To Catch GAA Killers
BT 07/27/05 Blair To Help In Hunt For Lisa's Body
BT 07/27/05 Cleric Condemns 'Tragic' Situation
BT 07/27/05 Garnerville: The Police Must Uphold The Law
BT 07/27/05 Viewpoint: This Mafia Culture Must Be Checked
UT 07/27/05 McGuinness: Peace 'Facing Challenging Time'
BT 07/27/05 Sinn Fein Now Calling The Tune Before IRA
BT 07/27/05 IRA Statement 'In The Next 48 Hours'
BT 07/27/05 We'll Still Search For IRA's €200m, McDowell
BT 07/27/05 Blair Attacked On Terror Commentsv
BT 07/27/05 Sinn Fein Calls For GM Debate
BT 07/27/05 SF Denies Planning To Scupper Town Parade
BT 07/27/05 Remember The McCartney Sisters?
UT 07/27/05 Adams: Cross-Border Suicide Prevention Plan
BG 07/27/05 Irish Tragedy 'Skull' Stays In Your Head
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07/26/05 - Loyalists Behind Church Attacks
BB 07/26/05 Loyalists Behind Church Attacks
SF 07/26/05 Kelly Attacks PSNI Over Garnerville Collusion
BT 07/26/05 PSNI 'Not In Control': Police Federation
BB 07/26/05 Police Presence At 'Feud' Estate
BT 07/26/05 Pair Escape Death In Loyalist Pub Bombing
SF 07/26/05 DUP Helped Create Environment For Attacks
BT 07/26/05 Feuding Loyalists Bring Fear Back To Belfast
BT 07/26/05 Just What Is Going On At Garnerville?
DJ 07/26/05 Police Patrols As Loyalist Tensions Mount
DJ 07/26/05 Provos Hold Key Meeting In Derry
BT 07/26/05 High Level Talks On Way Forward
DJ 07/26/05 Continued Political Inertia Not An Option
UT 07/26/05 IRA Disarmament Must Be Complete: McDowell
DJ 07/26/05 End Culture Of Cover-Up And Control
BT 07/26/05 Don't Let IRA Off The Hook, Urges Empey
IO 07/26/05 Ervine: Loyalists Want Clear IRA Statement
BT 07/26/05 Dundrum A No-Fly Zone For Army Choppers
DJ 07/26/05 SF Want All-Ireland Growth Reports Published
BT 07/26/05 Building Boom Is Wiping Out History
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07/25/05 - Loyalist Death Threats Against SF Rep
SF 07/25/05 Loyalist Threats Against SF Rep
BB 07/25/05 Loyalist Row Drives Out Residents
SF 07/25/05 Tolerance Of Unionist Violence Challenged
DI 07/25/05 UVF At Crisis Point As Loyalist Feud Continues
BB 07/25/05 Sinn Fein In Number 10 Discussion
IT 07/26/05 Empey Leads UUP In Discussions With Blair
BB 07/25/05 Final Pieces Prepared For 'IRA Jigsaw'
IO 07/25/05 Adams: Republicans Working To IRA Conclusion
SF 07/25/05 Keeping Rossport 5 In Jail Totally Unacceptable
SF 07/25/05 DUP Opposition To Equality Commission Sectarian
DI 07/25/05 ‘Major Concerns’ Over MI5 Role
SF 07/25/05 Adams Welcomes Plans For Suicide Taskforce
BT 07/25/05 Orange Order Accepts Burrows Resignation
NY 07/25/05 A Woman Who Found A Way To Write
IT 07/26/05 Guinness's Contributions Highlighted In Book
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07/25/05 - UVF Patrolling As Loyalist Feud Deepens
IO 07/25/05 UVF Patrolling As Loyalist Feud Deepens
BB 07/25/05 Attacks 'Linked' To Loyalist Feud
BT 07/25/05 Shankill Road Shooting
BT 07/25/05 Empey: Loyalist Feud Out Of Control
BB 07/25/05 Police 'Must Disperse UVF Group'
BT 07/25/05 Protestant Group Plan Protest On Marching
BB 07/25/05 Images Of Riot Suspects Released
BT 07/25/05 Caution Urged On IRA Statement
BT 07/25/05 Boycott These Inadequate School Funds
BT 07/25/05 London Bomber Had Been Thrown Out Of Home
IO 07/25/05 Rossport Five Returned To Jail
BT 07/25/05 Commitments Finally Taking Soul To Ulster
BT 07/25/05 Orange March At Croke Park
BT 07/25/05 Ireland’s Oldest Living Person Is 110 Today
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07/24/05 - IRA Now Expected To Issue Statement This Week
IT 07/25/05 IRA Now Expected To Issue Statement This Week
IE 07/24/05 No Lessons Learned From IRA Campaign
IT 07/25/05 O'Connell Street Locked In Legal Wrangles
IT 07/25/05 Galway Gears Up For Its Racing Festival
IT 07/25/05 Over Month's Rainfall For Rosslare In 24 Hours
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07/24/05 - Rabbitte Calls On Shell To Free ‘Rossport Five’
IO 07/24/05 Rabbitte Calls On Shell To Free ‘Rossport Five’
SL 07/24/05 LVF Warn Pirate Taxi Drivers To Steer Clear
SL 07/24/05 Police Probe Sinister Race Hate Business Cards
SL 07/24/05 Probe Call Into Special Branch 'Murder Set-Up'
SL 07/24/05 Donaldson Fears Secret Deal With Bomber
SL 07/24/05 New Low Hits Nuala's Officers
SL 07/24/05 How Criminals Make A Killing On Fake DVDs
SL 07/24/05 Heist Pensioner Could Be Irish-American Mobster
SL 07/24/05 Ex-Ulster Unionist Rising Star Goes West
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07/24/05 – Hain: IRA Statement 'Would Be Welcomed'
BB 07/24/05 Hain: IRA Statement 'Would Be Welcomed'
BB 07/24/05 The Police Marksman's Dilemma
BG 07/24/05 Sounds Of Ireland's 'Celtic Woman'
ST 07/24/05 The Importance Of Being Oscar Wilde
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07/23/05 - Ervine Loyalist Feud Comments Condemned
IO 07/23/05 Ervine Loyalist Feud Comments Condemned
ST 07/24/05 De Chastelain Extends Stay To Await IRA Move
SB 07/24/05 Shell Works ‘Without Consent’: Inspectors
SB 07/24/05 Party Loyalties Split In Battle Over Pipeline
ST 07/24/05 Shell ‘Breached’ Pipeline Consent
ST 07/24/05 Shoot To Kill Error Echoes Irish Dirty War
SB 07/24/05 Al-Qaeda Man Recruited In Belfast Jailed
ST 07/24/05 Ex-INLA Man May Face Trial In Greece
ST 07/24/05 Emmet Convicted By ‘Show Trial’, Says Top Judge
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07/23/05 - Feud Will Get Worse Says Ervine
BB 07/23/05 Feud Will Get Worse Says Ervine
BT 07/23/05 Border Gardai In Walk-Out Threat
BB 07/23/05 IRA Statement 'Could Emerge Soon'
BB 07/23/05 Dublin Pledges Peace Fund Support
BB 07/23/05 DUP 'Needs Time To Trust In SF'
BT 07/23/05 Opin: Kelly Top Exhibit As New Window Opens
IE 07/23/05 Opin: Heath Ignored Lessons Of History
BT 07/23/05 Bakery: New Slice Of Life For Ormeau
BT 07/23/05 Family Falls Foul Of US Passport Rules
BT 07/23/05 Ballymena Gets Bum Rap As It's Mocked Online
IO 07/23/05 Shell Breaches Terms Of Corrib Construction
BT 07/23/05 Books: Lack Of Understanding Is Evident
NH 07/23/05 Books: History Of Catholic Belfast 1850-1950
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07/23/05 – Holy Cross Church Is Fire Bombed
BB 07/23/05 Attack On City Church 'Sectarian'
IO 07/23/05 Petrol Bombs Thrown At Church
YN 07/23/05 IRA Opting For Democracy Is Major Peace Boost
II 07/23/05 Adams And Ferris Quit IRA Council
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07/22/05 - Castlereagh:No Charges
DI 07/22/05 Castlereagh:No Charges
BT 07/22/05 Hain Rejects Call For Bomber Evidence
BB 07/22/05 Parties Clash Over Kelly Release
BB 07/22/05 Bail Is Refused Over 'Feud Fears'
IO 07/22/05 Murder Attempt May Be Part Of Loyalist Feud
EP 07/22/05 McGuinness Urges IRA To Give Up Violence
BT 07/22/05 SF Clash With Dup On 'Myths'
IO 07/22/05 UUP Warns Unionist Trust Must Be Rebuilt
DI 07/22/05 Rights Group Blasts Irish/US Treaty
BB 07/22/05 Ice-Bound Rescue Mission Recalled
DI 07/22/05 Heading For Caffeine Nirvana?
DI 07/22/05 Irish Coffee Festival Celebrates Ntnl Beverage
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07/22/05 - Sinn Fein Week in Review
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07/22/05 - Relatives In London For Ciaran's Funeral
BT 07/22/05 Relatives In London For Ciaran's Funeral
BB 07/22/05 Loyalist Arrests Follow Lengthy Operation
IP 07/22/05 Orange Order Inextricably Linked To Violence
BT 07/22/05 Empey Calls For Help To End Killings
IO 07/22/05 Two Held Over Parade Riot
BT 07/22/05 Fans' Buses Stoned In Dundalk
BB 07/22/05 Sinn Fein Pressing For Peace III
SF 07/22/05 Donations Legislation Needs To Be Changed
BT 07/22/05 Parties In Feud Over Blast Book
BT 07/22/05 Language Bodies Criticised
BB 07/22/05 Everest Climber Suffers K2 Setback
IO 07/22/05 Local Climber Airlifted After West Cork Fall
IP 07/22/05 Joe Cahill: The Claudia
IP 07/22/05 Jude Collins In San Diego
IP 07/22/05 Edward Heath - The Best Friend We Never Had
IP 07/22/05 Remembering The Past - The Asgard
BB 07/22/05 Island Set For Puffin Spectacular
ST 07/22/05 Irish Heritage Singers To Give Free Concert
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07/21/05 - Gardaí Protest Over Fears Of Loyalist Attacks
IT 07/22/05 Gardaí To Protest Over Safety Fears
IT 07/22/05 Sinn Féin Proposal On Freeing Kelly Defeated
IT 07/22/05 Call For Overhaul Of Ethics Guidelines
IT 07/22/05 €17m Bridge To Be Built In Donegal
IT 07/22/05 Abbey Theatre: Consultants Unravel Cash Crisis
IT 07/22/05 Abbey Theatre: Exit Directors; Show Must Go On
IT 07/22/05 Abbey Theatre: The Centenary Year
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07/21/05 - Plea For Mediators In Loyalist Feud
UT 07/21/05 Plea For Mediators In Loyalist Feud
BB 07/21/05 PUP 'Has No Influence Over UVF'
IO 07/21/05 McDowell Plays Down US Powers In New Treaty
BT 07/21/05 'Morons' Blamed For KKK Figure On Wall
IO 07/21/05 PSNI Complaints Slide Despite Racism Claims
UT 07/21/05 Robinson: 'Be Ready To Leave Sinn Fein Behind'
DI 07/21/05 Veteran Nun Veteran Battles On Against Shell
ES 07/21/05 Riding In Ireland: What To Wear
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07/21/05 - Human Rights Commission To Probe CIA Agreement
IO 07/21/05 Human Rights Commission To Probe CIA Agreement
SF 07/21/05 McDowell Deal With US Alarming And Sinister
IO 07/21/05 Murder Attempt May Be Part Of Loyalist Feud
BT 07/21/05 Man Held Over Loyalist Charges
BB 07/21/05 Ceasefire Watchdog (IMC) To Probe Loyalist Feud
BT 07/21/05 Bomb Group In Legal Aid Funds Snub
BT 07/21/05 Call To Examine Evidence Against Kelly
IO 07/21/05 Unionists Condemn Republican Internment March
BT 07/21/05 Parades Chief Gets £55k In Expenses
IO 07/21/05 DUP Criticises Three Irish-Language Schools
BT 07/21/05 DUP Robinson Hits Out At Rise In Violence
BT 07/21/05 Spanish Fury At Twelfth Parade
BB 07/21/05 Army Watchdog Denied File Access
BT 07/21/05 Riot Accused Is Refused Bail
IO 07/21/05 Ireland Falling Behind In Broadband Race
IO 07/21/05 Galway Chamber Anger At Eyre Square Delay
BB 07/21/05 'Incidents' Spark Tube Evacuation
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07/20/05 - Hain Gives PUP Deadline To Justify Allowances
IO 07/20/05 Hain Gives PUP Deadline To Justify Allowances
BB 07/20/05 PUP 'Being Pushed From Politics'
IE 07/20/05 U.S. Senators Want Provos To Quit
UT 07/20/05 Blair - 'No Progress Unless Violence Stops'
IO 07/20/05 Arrest Me Now, Challenges Politician
IO 07/20/05 Protest Against US General’s Irish Visit
IO 07/20/05 Stephen’s Green Celebrates 125 Years
IT 07/21/05 B&Bs And Guesthouses Losing To Hotels
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07/20/05 - Unionists Threaten Violence Over Nationalist March
BT 07/20/05 Fears Of Violence At Republican March
SF 07/20/05 DUP’s Attitude To Nationalists In Ballymena
BT 07/20/05 SF Calls On Order To Abandon Village March
UT 07/20/05 Concern Over IRA Statement
UT 07/20/05 PUP Given Week To Justify Allowances
SF 07/20/05 DUP Need To Stop Peddling The 'Big Lie'
SF 07/20/05 Investigation Of Brits Army Activities Required
BT 07/20/05 Please Turn In Craig's Killers
BT 07/20/05 Antrim Slams Intimidation Of Protestants
BT 07/20/05 Funeral For RUC Widows Crusader
BT 07/20/05 SDLP Tight-Lipped On Council's Kelly Motion
BT 07/20/05 London Bombers Stick A Spanner In Spin Machine
BT 07/20/05 Dealing With My Sexual Brokenness
BT 07/20/05 Horror As Shot Seal Is Found On Beachv
UT 07/20/05 Irish Guesthouses And B&Bs Struggling
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07/19/05 - RTÉ Head Nominated To Lead Equality Commission
IT 07/20/05 RTÉ Head Nominated To Lead Equality Commission
BB 07/19/05 Unionist Anger Over Equality Role
UT 07/19/05 Collins Responds To Unionist Concerns
SF 07/19/05 Adams - Equality Commission Must Deliver
IT 07/20/05 Sean Kelly 'Cannot Explain' Rearrest
IT 07/20/05 Bomber Loyalists Will Find Difficult To Forgive
SF 07/19/05 Anger At Attacks On Homes In Newtownabbey
UT 07/19/05 Govt Makes End Of Racism A Priority
BT 07/19/05 Council Backs Call For Fullerton Murder Inquiry
BB 07/19/05 Party Is Urged To Sever UVF Link
BT 07/19/05 De Brun Presses Case For Peace III Funding
PJ 07/19/05 Cell Phones Rescue Irish Peace Process
IT 07/20/05 Concern Over Grafton Street Retailers
IT 07/20/05 Eyre Square Green Park Option To Be Debated
IT 07/20/05 Connemara Pony Prices Soar
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07/19/05 - UVF Linked To Gun Attack On House
BB 07/19/05 UVF Linked To Gun Attack On House
BL 07/19/05 Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Loyalist Terror
BT 07/19/05 2 Protestant Peace Workers Fined After Rioting
DJ 07/19/05 Council In Re-Route Bonfires Bid
BT 07/19/05 DUP Attacks IRSP For Bomb Remarks
DJ 07/19/05 No Tears Will Be Shed For Heath'
BT 07/19/05 Opin: The Twelfth - Repackaged . . .
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07/18/05 - SF Urges Hain To Release Sean Kelly
IT 07/19/05 SF Urges Hain To Release Shankill Bomber
BB 07/18/05 Tory Spokesman Meets Loyalists
DI 07/18/05 UVF Looks To Follow Peace Lead
SF 07/18/05 Short Strand Area Comes Under Attack At Weekend
IO 07/18/05 McCartney Sisters Meet Hain
BB 07/18/05 Heath Was Direct Rule Architect
BB 07/19/05 IRA Declares Ceasefire (07/19/1997)
AP 07/18/05 Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald Dies At 91
GU 07/18/05 Synge For Your Supper...
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07/18/05 – Fr. Troy Calls For Sean Kelly’s Release
BB 07/18/05 Priest Calls For Bomber's Release
SF 07/18/05 SF Slams Petrol Bomb Attack On Brookfield Mill
BT 07/18/05 UVF Debates Future As LVF Feud Goes On
BT 07/18/05 Parades Issue 'Must Be On Talks Agenda'
IO 07/18/05 Tory Meets SF & Loyalists Over Peace Process
BT 07/18/05 Heath:Too Little Too Late Or Too Much Too Soon?
BT 07/18/05 Bomber's Wife Is From Ulster
TH 07/18/05 OO: It’s Time To Make Sectarianism History
IO 07/18/05 Haughey ‘Very Ill’ As Cancer Worsens
CS 07/18/05 Students Record Belfast's Strides Toward Peace
TO 07/18/05 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley' Set Visit
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07/17/05 - Police Must Be Held To Account - O'Loan
IT 07/18/05 Police Must Be Held To Account - O'Loan
IA 07/17/05 Former British PM Ted Heath Dies
IT 07/18/05 Hain Calls For IRA To Move 'Soon'
EX 07/18/05 Death Threats To Shell Workers In Dispute
IT 07/17/05 Village In Shock At Death Of Local Teenager
IT 07/18/05 Nuns Open New Monastery To Public View
TH 07/17/05 Tommy Sands: Sands Stormer
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07/17/05 - UVF Plan To Wipe-Out LVF
SL 07/17/05 UVF Plan To Wipe-Out LVF
SL 07/17/05 Murder Victim's Family Shocked By 'Bribe' Claim
SL 07/17/05 Family Is Pulling Down Shutters On The Shankill
SL 07/17/05 Miami Massacre 30th Anniv Celebration Of Band
SL 07/17/05 Milestone To Infamy On Road Of Atrocity
SL 07/17/05 The Spy Left Out In The Cold
UT 07/17/05 Carrickfergus Blast Bomb
SB 07/17/05 Clashes Hamper IRA Statement
SB 07/17/05 Riots Fuel Fears Of IRA Breakaway
SL 07/17/05 Ardoyne Riot Blast-Bomber Is Known Robber
SL 07/17/05 Dissidents In Drive For New Recruits
SL 07/17/05 Sean Kelly: Locked Up!
SL 07/17/05 'How Did RUC Not Know?'
SL 07/17/05 Views Sought On Victims' Fund
SL 07/17/05 Cards Flag Up Our Identity Dilemma
SB 07/17/05 Garda Probe Into Islamic Militants Here
BB 07/17/05 McCullough Must Now Call A Halt
MC 07/17/05 Spirit Of The Mollies
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07/16/05 - Blast Bombers Meant To Kill Me, Says Mother
IO 07/16/05 Blast Bombers Meant To Kill Me, Says Mother
BB 07/16/05 Pair Held For 'Sectarian' Attacks
ST 07/16/05 Mixed Signals On Timing Of IRA Move
GU 07/16/05 Comment: Make The Morons Pay
BT 07/16/05 DUP Slams Police Over Derry Parade Violence
AR 07/16/05 Northern Ireland Ponders Truth Commission
ST 07/16/05 Scotland: Allow Us To Ban Orange Marches
BB 07/16/05 Irish Woman Dies In Turkish Blast
IO 07/16/05 > 1,000 Gather To Protest 'Rossport Five'
ST 07/16/05 'Army Limos' Party On The Falls Road
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07/16/05 – Loyalist Bomber Injures N Belfast Woman
UT 07/16/05 Loyalist Bomber Injures N Belfast Woman
IO 07/16/05 Parades Forum Rules Out Talks With Nationalists
BB 07/16/05 'Scary Twelfth' Throws Up Challenges
BT 07/16/05 Another Bonfire . . . Another Rape
BT 07/16/05 OAP Attacked By Nationalist Youths
BT 07/16/05 This Loyalist Feud Goes On, But Why?
SF 07/16/05 SF Will Vigorously Oppose Compulsory ID Cards
SF 07/16/05 Castlebar Town Council Backs Fullerton Motion
IO 07/16/05 De Chastelain's Sparks Talk Of IRA Statement
BT 07/16/05 Viewpoint: Waiting For The IRA's Answers
NL 07/16/05 Film Traces Mystery Of King William Banner
BT 07/16/05 Bigger, Better- Why Cant We Just Enjoy The 12th
UT 07/16/05 US Military Keeping Shannon Airport Profitable
LS 07/16/05 Blarney In Billerica: It's Irish Fest Weekend
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07/15/05 - Adams Urges Dialogue Over Parades
BB 07/15/05 Adams Urges Dialogue Over Parades
DI 07/15/05 Kelly Jailing ‘Inflames Situation’
DI 07/15/05 Concerns As ‘Terror War’ Treaty Signed
BB 07/15/05 Nationalists Warned Of Loyalist Threat
SF 07/15/05 Annual Report Highlight Investment Imbalance
IO 07/15/05 UUP Says Funding Imbalance Hits All Communities
BB 07/15/05 Teenager Raped While At Bonfire
DJ 07/15/05 Residents Slam 'Disgraceful Sight'
BT 07/15/05 Orange Leaders 'Knew About Talks'
BT 07/15/05 Derry Sets Model For Parades, Says Hain
UT 07/15/05 Plea For Justice For Loyalist Feud Victim
DJ 07/15/05 Drunken Thugs Spoiling Inishowen Beauty Spots
IT 07/16/05 SF Candidate Spent Most In March Elections
BD 07/15/05 Commentary: Bobby Sands And Akbar Ganji
BB 07/15/05 Surprises Lie Around Coastline
IT 07/16/05 Galway Arts Festival Engulfs City Of The Tribes
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07/15/05 - Loyalists Condemned Over Ardoyne Suicides Slogan
IO 07/15/05 Loyalists Condemned Over Suicides Slogan
BT 07/15/05 'UVF Men Were Part Of March'
BT 07/15/05 Plastic Bullets Used In Response To Bombs- PSNI
BT 07/15/05 Hain Urged To Act On UVF Ceasefirev
BT 07/15/05 Injured Man Not A Loyalist: Family
BT 07/15/05 Speculation Mounting Over Provo Statement
UT 07/15/05 IRA 'Must Cut Ties With Organised Crime'
UT 07/15/05 Shell Sells Irish Operations
GR 07/15/05 Bombers Might Have Been Right-Wing Britons
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07/14/05 - IAUC Encourages Positive Response to Anticipated IRA Statement
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07/14/05 - Sad Days In Ardoyne By Father Troy
IA 07/14/05 Sad Days In Ardoyne
DI 07/14/05 Ombudsman Investigates Into Plastic Bullet Use
SF 07/14/05 Kelly Anger Over Plastic Bullet Figures
DI 07/14/05 Ardoyne Faces The Fallout
DI 07/14/05 Opin: CIRA Throws Lifeline To The Orange Bigots
UT 07/14/05 Police Made 8 Requests To Use Plastic Bullets
UT 07/14/05 Government Urged To Review UVF Ceasefire
BB 07/14/05 Residents Attacked With Missiles
BT 07/14/05 Protest To Call For Release Of Kelly
RT 07/14/05 Adams To Meet Ahern In Dublin Tomorrow
ET 07/14/05 Police Slam Hangers-On After 20 People Arrested
BB 07/14/05 Hosiery Firm Announces Job Losses
DI 07/14/05 BS: Scenes From Saville Inquiry To Hit Belfast
DI 07/14/05 Dancing With Lunasa Welcomes Andy Irvine
IT 07/15/05 Green Emmys
IT 07/15/05 Streaker At All-Ireland Hurling Match
YN 07/14/05 Top 50 Irish-American Business Executives
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07/14/05 - Ireland, US Agree Policing Co-Operation
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07/14/05 - CIRA Admit Bomb Attack On Police
UT 07/14/05 CIRA Admit Bomb Attack On Police
BT 07/14/05 Feud Victim's House Remains Empty
BB 07/14/05 Family Devastated By Paramilitary Murders
BT 07/14/05 Loyalist Murder Victim 'Not In The LVF'
BT 07/14/05 Father's Plea For 'Peace Fence' Rejected
BT 07/14/05 Sinn Fein Message To London
BT 07/14/05 PSNI Riot Tactics Are 'Ineffective'
BT 07/14/05 My Terror At Blast Bombs
BT 07/14/05 Pensioners Tell Of Bingo Bus Terror
BT 07/14/05 Europe Speeds Up Plan To Clamp Down On Suspects
BT 07/14/05 Concert Marks 30th Anniversary Miami Massacre
BT 07/14/05 Shock Over Deaths Of Mother And Daughter
UT 07/14/05 Rossport Five Fail In High Court Bid
SF 07/14/05 Swedish MEP Condemns Imprisonment Of Rossport 5
BT 07/14/05 Filipino Nuns To Help Save Poor Clare Monastery
BT 07/14/05 Muscles As Celtic Giants Clash In Glenarm
TB 07/14/05 This Weekend, Everyone's Invited To Be Irish
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07/13/05 - 'UVF Gun Show' Threatens Funding
BB 07/13/05 'UVF Gun Show' Threatens Funding
BB 07/13/05 Dissidents 'Tried To Kill Police'
IT 07/14/05 Riots Ugly, Raw & Bitter As Possible To Imagine
IT 07/14/05 Riots In The Ardoyne: How Events Unfolded
IO 07/13/05 Executed Man 'Not Linked To The LVF'
BB 07/13/05 Bomb Is Discovered Inside Vehicle
IT 07/14/05 Tories Expect 'Fudge' In IRA's Statement
IT 07/14/05 State Watches About 24 Islamic Suspects
EX 07/14/05 State Got Rotten Deal On Gas Field
IT 07/14/05 Review Of Gas Pipeline Plan To End Jail Impasse
IT 07/14/05 Lawyers For Men Say Safety Review 'Significant'
IT 07/14/05 Boy (6) Killed In Accident On Holiday From US
IT 07/14/05 One Third Of Births In State Outside Marriage
IT 07/14/05 Number Of Suicides Continues To Increase
IT 07/14/05 Ministers & Top Officials To Get 7.5% Pay Rise
IT 07/14/05 Locals Cry 'Bingo' As Bridge Opens
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07/13/05 - Orange Parade Rioting Leaves 88 Injured
IO 07/13/05 Orange Parade Rioting Leaves 88 Injured
IO 07/13/05 SF Condemns Blast Bomb Attacks On Police
SF 07/13/05 Ardoyne Situation Created By Orange Demands To Dominate
EX 07/13/05 Opin: Applause For Supporters Keeping Cool
BB 07/13/05 House Attacked 'By Republicans'
BB 07/13/05 What The Papers Say
BT 07/13/05 Opin: Democracy Cannot Co-Exist With Terrorism
BT 07/13/05 Opin: An Underclass Who Are Loyal Only To Terrorism
EX 07/13/05 Opin: Free Them And Stop Hiding Behind The Law
BT 07/13/05 Alternative Ulster On The Twelfth
SF 07/13/05 Dublin City Manager Treats Public With Contempt
UT 07/13/05 London Bombing: Death Of Ciaran Cassidy Confirmed
BB 07/13/05 Giants Clash In The Antrim Glens
UT 07/13/05 Major Restoration Project On Adare Castle Underway
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07/12/05 – Police in Row After Parade
BB 07/12/05 Belfast: Police Attacked As Parade Passes
BB 07/12/05 Dunloy: Village Standoff Ends After Talks
SF 07/12/05 PSNI Breach Parades Commission Ruling In Lurgan
IT 07/13/05 Derry: Nationalist Youths Riot After Parade
IT 07/13/05 Portadown: Holiday Feeling As Parade Passes Off Peacefully
SF 07/12/05 Orange Hangers-On Raising Tensions In Carrickhill
DJ 07/12/05 Derry's Twelfth Peace Hopes
IT 07/13/05 Waterford Praise For King William
IO 07/12/05 President Hosts Unionists At Twelfth Reception
BB 07/12/05 Orange Twelfth Parades Take Place
BB 07/12/05 Bomb Discovered On Railway Line
IO 07/12/05 Loyalist Feud: Victim Of 'Ruthless Execution' Named
IT 07/13/05 Trees Fell on O’Connell Street
SF 07/12/05 Carrickmacross Council Supports Eddie Fullerton Inquiry Demand
IT 07/13/05 Increase In US Troop Traffic At Shannon
IT 07/13/05 Blue-Green Algae Killed Two Dogs At Lough Derg
IO 07/13/05 Yeats Literary Album Fetches £72,000
PM 07/12/05 Green Suede Shoes By Larry Kirwan
SW 07/12/05 Irish-American Fiddler Loving The Sligo Style
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07/12/05 - Ardoyne Parade Peaceful
BT 07/12/05 Ardoyne Parade Peaceful
UT 07/12/05 Police Clear Dunloy Stand-Off
SF 07/12/05 PSNI Forcing March In Breach Of Parades Commission
BT 07/12/05 Use Derry Parade Deal As Blueprint
BT 07/12/05 Lurgan Orangemen Angry Over Train Ban
BT 07/12/05 Unionists Called On To Condemn Latest Attack
BT 07/12/05 'Step Back From Brink'
BT 07/12/05 Loyalist Feud Escalates With Teen's Murder
BT 07/12/05 Fear In North Belfast
BT 07/12/05 New Attack Launched On Harryville Church
BT 07/12/05 Orange Arch Set On Fire In Early Morning Attack
BT 07/12/05 Gun Stolen As Mob Attacks Police Team
BT 07/12/05 Dodds Insists IRA Must 'Go Away'
IS 07/12/05 Interpol Says IRA Rebels May Be Hiding In Cuba
BT 07/12/05 Orangemen Step Out For The Twelfth
BT 07/12/05 Lord Laird To Be A 'Soldier' At Twelfth
BT 07/12/05 South Antrim Lodges And Bands Flock To Glenavy
BT 07/12/05 Sisters Who Treasure The Traditions Of The Twelfth
BT 07/12/05 Welcome For Grant Decision
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07/11/05 - Security Concern High Over Ardoyne Parade
IT 07/12/05 Security Concern High Over Ardoyne Parade
BT 07/11/05 Reroute Parade, Urge Ardoyne Residents
IT 07/12/05 Teenage Father Killed As Loyalist Feud Deepens
IO 07/11/05 UVF Boss Under Guard After NI Murder
BB 07/11/05 Woman Flees After Intimidation
BB 07/11/05 Police Working To Counter Feuding
IT 07/12/05 Anti-Pope Graffiti Scrawled On Church
IT 07/12/05 IRA Deal On Arms Must Be Demanded – Rabbitte
SF 07/11/05 Rabbitte Completely Out Of Touch With Peace Process
IO 07/11/05 Sinn Féin Denies Republican Link To Murder
BB 07/11/05 Paisley And Blair Talk About IRA
IT 07/12/05 New Attempt To Be Made To Have Five Men Freed
BB 07/11/05 On July 12, 1998: Children Die In Drumcree Protests
IO 07/11/05 Terrorists May Be Plotting Attacks From Ireland – McDowell
NF 07/11/05 Bush Terror War Devastates London
IO 07/11/05 NI: Most Would Back Truth Commission
IT 07/12/05 100 Trapped In Heat In Broken Down Dart
IT 07/12/05 Ferry Access To Great Blasket In Dispute
TO 07/11/05 Jim Sheridan To Enter The 'Emerald City'
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07/11/05 - Loyalists Blamed For Teen's Murder
BT 07/11/05 Loyalists Blamed For Teen's Murder
BT 07/11/05 Loyalists Arsonists Attack Couple's Home
BT 07/11/05 Loyalists Drive Out Catholics
BT 07/11/05 Portadown Residents Save Man From Beating
BT 07/11/05 Ballymoney Massgoers 'Are Delayed By Parades'
SF 07/11/05 Anti Catholic Slogans Daubed On Harryville Chapel
SF 07/11/05 Attacks & Shootings Significantly Raise Tensions
BB 07/11/05 Escaped Prisoner Is Re-Arrested
SF 07/11/05 Adams Appeals For Calm In Advance Of Parades
BT 07/11/05 Parade Fears Over Ardoyne Shops Flashpoint
BT 07/11/05 Change This Year In Way 11th Night Is Celebrated
BT 07/11/05 Visitors From Deep South For Tobermore
BT 07/11/05 Independents Orangeman Host Scots Brethren
BT 07/11/05 Riots Billed In Advance Like Country Ceilidhs
BT 07/11/05 'Happy Twelfth' Cards Launched
BT 07/11/05 Resolutions Are Critical Of Parades Commissionv
BT 07/11/05 Fury As Killyleagh Thugs Cause Havoc
BT 07/11/05 Mosques Attacked By Arsonists As Asians Fear Surge
IT 07/11/05 Republican Leaders Consider Possible 'New Mode' For IRA
BT 07/11/05 Big Game The First Priority For Residents
BT 07/11/05 Positive Day For Our Town: Police
BB 07/11/05 Remembrance Event Held In Donegal
UT 07/11/05 Father Gives Up Hope Of Finding Son Alive
BT 07/11/05 Actor Liam Slimming Down For Latest Role
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07/10/05 - Arson Attack On Home 'Sectarian'
BB 07/10/05 Arson Attack On Home 'Sectarian'
DI 07/10/05 Loyalists Force Woman To Flee Home Of 50 Years
BB 07/10/05 Drumcree Parade Passes Peacefully
DI 07/10/05 Orangemen Merely Go Through The Motions
UT 07/10/05 Rector In Drumcree Talks Call
DI 07/10/05 Ex-Shell Worker Speaks Out In Support Of Jailed Men
IO 07/10/05 Policewoman Dies After Car Crash
IO 07/10/05 Leaders Honour Ireland's Military Heroes
SL 07/10/05 Orange Sash To Porn Stash
IT 07/11/05 Kilkenny The Republic's Hot Spot
IT 07/11/05 'Peace Boat' Arrives In Dublin Port
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07/10/05 - Sinn Fein Week In Review
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07/10/05 - US Deportation Reprieve Hope For McAllister
SL 07/10/05 US Deportation Reprieve Hope For McAllister
BB 07/10/05 Tutu Lauds NI Truth Process Plan
SL 07/10/05 Loughinisland DNA Breakthrough Hope
SB 07/10/05 Irish ID Cards Planned After London Atrocity
SB 07/10/05 Shannon Tightens Security
ST 07/10/05 Tories Hope London Bombs Will Put Pressure On IRA
ST 07/10/05 Opin: Scots Must Not Forget They Hate Us Too
SB 07/10/05 Opin: Bombings Unleash The Politics Of Hypocrisy
SB 07/10/05 Opin: Through A Lens Darkly: Reality Terror
SL 07/10/05 Key Billy Wright Probe Witness Mogg Dies
SL 07/10/05 UDA Jim Spence Recoving From Heart Attack
SL 07/10/05 UDA To Sever Links With Neo-Nazi Groups
SL 07/10/05 UDA Shoukri’s Pub Application Turned Down
BB 07/10/05 Opin: The Mountain Before Them
SL 07/10/05 IRA Hardmen Sniff Out Cocaine Cash
SM 07/10/05 Interview: Ian Paisley Jr
ST 07/10/05 Opin: Nobody Votes For A Loser
ST 07/10/05 Probe Into Radio Station With ‘Orange Playlist’
IO 07/10/05 Irish Doctors Over-Prescribing Antibiotics
WP 07/10/05 Irish American Astronaut Collins Ready For Her Moment
IO 07/10/05 Yeats Collection Goes Up For Auction
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07/09/05 – Colombia 3 May Be In Cuba
RE 07/09/05 Colombians Suspect Irishmen May Be Hiding In Cuba
BB 07/09/05 Relaxed Mood During Orange Parade
IO 07/09/05 Tall Ships Start Postponed As Calm Weather Prevails
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07/09/05 – McAllister’s Hopes Raised By Trump’s Sister
BT 07/09/05 McAllister’s Hopes Raised By Trump’s Sister
BT 07/09/05 Bombing Reminder For Drumcree
BT 07/09/05 This Life: Drumcree Revisited
SF 07/09/05 Sinn Féin Steps Up Campaign In Support Of Rossport 5
SF 07/09/05 British Parachute Regiment Manouvres In North Louth
DI 07/08/05 Belfast Man On The Spot
TT 07/09/05 Stiff Little Fingers Raucous, Reissued
IO 07/09/05 Thousands To See Off Tall Ships
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07/08/05 - Parades To Proceed, Says Order
IT 07/09/05 Parades To Proceed, Says Order
IO 07/08/05 Irish Architect Recovering After London Bombings
BB 07/08/05 Concern For Missing Irish Citizen
IO 07/08/05 Thousand Join Protest Over 'Shell Five'
IE 07/08/05 Ferris Accused Of Hypocrisy In Criticism Of London Blasts
BT 07/08/05 Books Of Condolence Opened In Province
UT 07/08/05 Blunkett Condemns Kelly Protest
IT 07/09/05 State To Purchase Great Blasket
IT 07/09/05 Bray Head Cliff Walk Reopens After Path Moved Back From Coast
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07/08/05 – George Morrissey, RIP
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07/08/05 - Loyalist Killer McClean Fails To Secure Early Release
IO 07/08/05 Loyalist Killer McClean Fails To Secure Early Release
IO 07/08/05 Belfast Loyalist Has Attempted Murder Charge Dropped
DJ 07/08/05 Loyalist 'Hardmen' Blamed For Limavady Road Flags
DJ 07/08/05 UDA-Linked Group To Distribute 'Anti-Police' Leaflets
DJ 07/08/05 Bury Deep Roots To Prevent 'Ethnic Cleansing'
UT 07/08/05 Republicans Accused Over Bomber Protest
SA 07/08/05 Terrorist's Orange Day Talk Is 'An Outrage'
IO 07/08/05 PSNI To Scale Down Physical Security For Drumcree March
IO 07/08/05 Govt Urges Restraint Ahead Of Contentious Orange Parades
UT 07/08/05 More Than 50 Dead In London Terror Attack
UT 07/08/05 Anxious Irish Citizens Phone London Bombs Helpline
BT 07/08/05 Ulster's Messages Of Support
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07/07/05 - Double Killer Loses Release Fight
BB 07/07/05 Double Killer Loses Release Fight
IT 07/08/05 Bombings Prompt Rethink On Marches
IO 07/07/05 Ardoyne Residents Offer Compromise In Parades Dispute
BB 07/07/05 Politicians Condemn London Attack
IT 07/08/05 Taoiseach And Pope Discuss North Process
PR 07/07/05 Mindless Violence
IT 07/08/05 Eyre Square Builder Also Left Welsh Project
IT 07/08/05 50,000 Turn Out To See Tall Ships
BB 07/07/05 Poet's Writings To Go Under Hammer
CB 07/07/05 Chicago: 1 Thing To Do This Weekend
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07/07/05 - Police Accused Of Strong-Arm Tactics In Derry
BT 07/07/05 Police Accused Of Strong-Arm Tactics In Derry
UH 07/07/05 Parades Commission Rules Against Route For Pomeroy Twelfth
IO 07/07/05 Taoiseach Offers Condolences To Victims Of London Blasts
BT 07/07/05 Chapel Attack Thugs 'Are The Lowest Of Low'
IO 07/07/05 SF Urges Orangemen To Open Talks With Ardoyne Residents
BT 07/07/05 Omagh Bombing Probe 'Not Appropriate'
BT 07/07/05 Empey: Working For A Province United
BT 07/07/05 Beauty Spot Hit As Tearaways Burn 'Rally' Cars
BB 07/07/05 Ahern To Brief Pope On NI Process
BT 07/06/05 Northern Ireland Sport To Benefit From London Winv
IO 07/07/05 Leas Cross Nursing Home To Close Next Month
DN 07/07/05 Gaelic Guitars
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07/07/05 – Explosions in London
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07/06/05 - Adams States Sinn Féin Opposition To North Belfast Parades
SF 07/06/05 Adams States Sinn Féin Opposition To Belfast Parades
DI 07/06/05 IRA Talks Held
IO 07/06/05 Maze Prison 'A Site For Olympic Soccer'
SM 07/06/05 From Ireland, Republicans Pay Final Respects
4R 07/06/05 Belfast Based Soap Airs Community Television Service
IO 07/06/05 Yeats Letters And Essay To Be Auctioned
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07/06/05 - McAllister Waits As Judge Ponders
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07/06/05 - Order For Finucane Notes Thrown Out
UT 07/06/05 Order To Hand Over Finucane Notes Thrown Out
BB 07/06/05 Loyalist Flags Meeting 'Positive'
DJ 07/06/05 BRG Annoyed At Parade Talks Criticism
BT 07/06/05 Call For Cross-Border Inquiry Into Omagh
BT 07/06/05 Ahern And Hain Meet As Talks Efforts Go On
IO 07/06/05 McCartney Sister To Leave Home Of 40 Years
BT 07/06/05 Man In Court After CCTV Movev
IO 07/06/05 Empey To Meet Orange Order
UT 07/06/05 Freedom Setback For Jailed Shell Pipeline Protesters
UL 07/06/05 Denis Bradley To Receive Honorary Degree
BT 07/06/05 Council To Fund St Pat's Day Event
UT 07/06/05 Crowds Gather For Tall Ships Race
WT 07/06/05 Editorial - Welcome Tall Ships
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07/05/05 - Adams Slams Decision On NI Parades
RT 07/05/05 Adams Slams Decision On NI Parades
IO 07/05/05 DUP Suspends Member Over Newspaper Claims
IO 07/05/05 Parades Commission Re-Routes Drumcree March Again
EP 07/05/05 Stormont Needs More Power, Say UUP
UI 07/05/05 McCartney Fiancée's Belfast Home Attacked
BB 07/05/05 Council Agrees St Pat's Funding
IO 07/05/05 Focus Turns To Fuel Poverty Deaths
BB 07/05/05 U2 Win Memorabilia Court Battle
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07/05/05 - Ardoyne Parade Gets Go-Ahead To Pass Shops
BT 07/05/05 Ardoyne Parade Gets Go-Ahead To Pass Shops
BB 07/05/05 City Parade Decision Criticised
BT 07/05/05 Security Headache Over Ardoyne March Fears
IO 07/05/05 UUP: Sort Stormont Out During The Long Wait
UT 07/05/05 Rossport 5 Raised In Europe
UL 07/05/05 Policies To Tackle Poverty Need To Address Conflict
IO 07/05/05 PSNI Investigating Motive For Belfast Petrol Bomb Attacks
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07/04/05 - Finucane Probe Seek Journalists' Notes
SL 07/04/05 Finucane Probe Cops Seek Journalists' Notes
BT 07/04/05 Drumcree D-Day: Appeals For Calm
SL 07/04/05 Fears Of A Renewed Picket At Harryville
IO 07/04/05 Two Held In Loyalist Murder Probe
SL 07/04/05 Stone Quizzed On Kielty Death Plot
SL 07/04/05 UDA 'Paid Witness To Drop Statement'
SL 07/04/05 LVF Plot Revenge
SL 07/04/05 Nazi Flags Given Order Of The Boot
BT 07/04/05 Mayor Vows To Fight Racism After City Attack
SF 07/04/05 Hermon Challenged Over Sinn Féin Assembly Demands
BT 07/04/05 Sinn Fein Bid To Amend Motion Fails
IT 07/04/05 Sinn Féin Pair Pressed Over McCartney Case
IY 07/04/05 Police Seek Help On March Violence
IT 07/04/05 Ahern To Meet Pope In Vatican This Week
TH 06/20/05 Donald Findlay: Has It All Gone Up In Smoke?
DF 07/04/05 Opin: Bigotry In Fife Bigotry In Fife
IT 07/04/05 Wicklow Landowner To Appeal Right-Of-Way
SL 07/04/05 Gaelic Games Struggle In Big Apple
IT 07/04/05 New Map Archive Reveals Lie Of The Land
IT 07/04/05 First Transatlantic Flight Is Re-Enacted
ZA 07/04/05 Irish Firm Aims To Turn Ash To Cash
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07/02/05 - Hain Praises Adams & McGuinness As 'Courageous'
TE 07/03/05 Hain Praises Adams & McGuinness As 'Courageous'
SB 07/03/05 IRA Man's Re-Arrest Blamed On Punishment Attacks
TO 07/02/05 Paisley Asked Orange Order Chief Not To Halt Parade Talks
TO 07/02/05 Comment: Shame Morrison Didn't Get Hippie Ideals Earlier
DJ 07/01/05 Drunks And Thugs Damaging City Image
DJ 07/01/05 Derry Protestants Not Being Victimised - PSNI
DJ 07/01/05 McCartney Planning To Sue Hain
GU 07/03/05 Ireland Comment: A Blight At The Opera
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07/02/05 – Loyalist Shot To Death In Feud
GU 07/02/05 Man Shot To Death In N. Ireland Attack
BT 07/02/05 Rival Groups Square Up Over Murder
BT 07/02/05 Tensions Never Far From The Surface In Militant Loyalism
SF 07/01/05 Fears Over Loyalist Feud Ending In Attacks On Catholics
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IO 07/31/05 Police Attacked During Search On Loyalists
IO 07/31/05 Man Injured In Loyalist Punishment Shooting
IT 08/01/05 New Security Measures Likely Within 24 Hours
EX 08/01/05 DUP Under Pressure To Deal With Sinn Féin
TH 07/31/05 SF Demand Ban Lifted On £500,000 In Allowances
DH 07/31/05 IRA Will Deliver, Pledges McGuinness
IT 08/01/05 IRA Must Change Before Ban Is Lifted- Ahern
IO 08/01/05 Ahern Welcomes Pope's Comments On IRA Statement
GU 07/31/05 A United Ireland Is Inevitable
TO 07/31/05 IRA Disarms, SF Sweeps Polls & Adams Is A Loser
IT 08/01/05 Memorial For Miami Showband Killed By UVF
IT 08/01/05 Sunniest July In 30 Yrs' Heatwave Not To Return
IT 08/01/05 Reek Sunday On Croagh Patrick Draws 20,000
UT 07/31/05 Niall Quinn Arrested On Drink Drive Charge

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Police Attacked During Search On Loyalists

31/07/2005 - 22:54:57

Police came under attack in North Belfast tonight as they
carried out searches in a loyalist area in connection with
an investigation into serious crime.

Four officers received minor injuries from stones thrown by
youths in Palmer Street in the Woodvale area.

Following the intervention of community representatives the
situation was quickly brought under control.

During the searches, a man was arrested and a number of
items were removed in Ambleside Street.

It is understood the raids are connected with a wider
investigation into loyalism.

Police would not be drawn on whether they were specifically
connected to the paramilitary feud between the Ulster
Volunteer Force and its rival the Loyalist Volunteer Force.

Stephen Paul became the third victim of the dispute last
night when he was gunned down in a red van outside a house
in Wheatfield Crescent.

Another man who was with him was injured.

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Man Injured In Loyalist Punishment Shooting

31/07/2005 - 16:19:39

A man was recovering today after he was wounded in a so-
called loyalist punishment shooting in north Belfast.

The 38-year-old was treated for his injuries in hospital
after the shooting which was linked to the loyalist Ulster
Defence Association.

Detectives do not believe the incident was connected to the
on-going feud between the Ulster Volunteer Force and the
rival Loyalist Volunteer Force which last night claimed a
third victim.

The victim was shot shortly after noon today in the
Westland area.

He sustained a gunshot wound to the right leg and his
injury is not believed to be life-threatening.

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New Measures To Scale Back Security Likely Within 24 Hours

Dan Keenan, Northern News Editor

British government, army and PSNI figures are expected to
confirm within 24 hours new measures to redraw the security
presence following last week's IRA declaration that its
campaign was over.

Sinn Féin chief negotiator Martin McGuinness said yesterday
he was encouraged by the changes undertaken so far in south
Armagh.

These are expected to be followed soon by further
"normalisation" or demilitarisation in Derry city and in
the Divis area of west Belfast where a British army lookout
post scans Gerry Adams's constituency.

The expected British announcements should be in line with
stated objectives agreed with the Irish Government at
summits but which have been on hold because of political
uncertainty.

The IRA is also expected to put the first of substantial
amounts of its arsenal beyond use in the near future.

Sources differ as to when this will happen, but there is a
general expectation that a move will be made before many
senior political figures go on holidays later this month.

Mr McGuinness said yesterday he welcomed the dismantling of
the British army presence in south Armagh within 24 hours
of Thursday's IRA statement.

Speaking after his three-day trip to the US to brief
political figures on the IRA statement, Mr McGuinness said:
"That clearly shows that, if you like, the soldiers,
whether it be soldiers of the IRA or the soldiers of the
British army, are prepared, to some degree, to trust one
another.

"I think that if soldiers can do that then it is incumbent
on the politicians and on the people to support that
effort.

"This means that the Irish and British governments need to
push forward with the implementation of the Good Friday
agreement and the restoration of the political
institutions.

"It also means that the days when the DUP were allowed to
prevent progress have come to an end.

"It is time for the DUP to step up to the plate and
represent the interests of those who vote for them. It is
time that they sit down face-to-face with Irish
republicans."

DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said his party was mandated not to
press ahead with anything until unionist confidence had
been created by concrete decommissioning moves by the IRA.

"The evidence is crucial. We have made clear that we will
not move into government unless the unionist community can
be confident that the IRA has ended its campaign of
violence and decommissioned its weapons."

Further political initiatives are expected in the autumn,
including moves to allow Northern elected representatives
speaking rights in the Dáil.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain has also told The Irish Times
that there will be an announcement concerning moves to set
up some form of truth and reconciliation commission.

He said this would not be along the lines of the model that
operated in South Africa, but confirmed that consideration
of a policy to address the legacy of the Troubles,
announced by his predecessor Paul Murphy, would continue.

Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey has signalled strong
opposition to any moves to permit Northern representatives
to address the Dáil.

"I'm hearing talks will start in Dublin in September about
the mechanics of bringing speaking rights about," he said.

"There will be a consultation process with parties in
Dublin by the Taoiseach. When the deal with Sinn Féin was
not completed last December, I said this was outside the
terms of the Good Friday agreement and it was a breach of
the principle that the consent of the majority of the
people of Northern Ireland would be required before there
is any change to our constitutional status."

In a warning to Mr Ahern not to proceed with any "embryonic
all-Ireland parliament", he said: "When the idea was first
mooted two years ago, the UUP opposed it. We told the two
governments then, and have repeatedly since, that if it is
pursued by Dublin we will no longer be obligated to our
support for North-South institutions."

Dr Seán Farren of the SDLP criticised Sir Reg's remarks as
"intolerable madness". Accusing the former industry
minister of undoing the good cross-Border work he had done
while at Stormont, Dr Farren said: "Again and again David
Trimble threatened the North-South agenda.

"Again and again he undermined work which had the ability
to transform the lives of everyone on this island. It is a
serious mistake for Reg Empey to attempt to do the same."

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DUP Under Pressure To Deal With Sinn Féin

By Harry McGee, Political Editor

NEGOTIATIONS involving all Northern parties will begin next
month amid clear signs that Ian Paisley's Democratic
Unionist Party will come under intense pressure to engage
with Sinn Féin.

Northern secretary Peter Hain yesterday confirmed that he
will commence discussions with the parties in September, to
restore devolved government as quickly as possible.

While Mr Hain would not be drawn on a timescale, he did say
that the IRA statement had created a context that would
allow dramatic progress.

Specifically referring to the upcoming talks, he told RTÉ:
"That is going to be a crunch point, a make-your-mind-up
time."

In an indication of the pressure that will be exerted on
the DUP, he said that all parties would have "to live up to
their responsibilities".

While DUP sources insisted over the weekend that it may be
18 months to two years before the party is willing to enter
negotiations with Sinn Féin, it was clear that both
governments strongly believe the IRA statement has paved
the way for a rapid return of devolution. All the
indications point to a target date between March and May
next year.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, also speaking on RTÉ, said that if
the IRA was given the all-clear by the independent
monitoring commission and by the international
decommissioning body, it would mean that could qualify it
as a legal organisation in the South.

The IRA is currently classified as an illegal organisation
under the Offences Against the State Act 1939, but the act
provides for that status to be reversed.

"I am ready to believe that this week's events, if followed
by particular actions, do offer a clear sign that the IRA
has come around to this peaceful analysis," said Mr Ahern.

Significantly, Mr Ahern also said that once the IRA
statement had been borne out by action, it would also mean
that Sinn Féin would have its electoral 'stigma' removed.

He said that this could leave the party open to seek
potential coalition partners. However, he ruled out any
such agreement with Fianna Fáil in the near future: "It
would be very difficult to do it with my own party because
we disagree with them on most policies."

Mr Ahern also revealed that he had held seven or eight
private meetings with SF leader Gerry Adams since March,
and not the three previously confirmed by Government.

"I was not going to get into a glare of publicity and all
of the activities around these meetings if they were going
nowhere. They were very much meetings to explore whether we
were actually able to get the process to move on," he said,
adding that he never favoured a policy of isolationism
against SF.

Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday praised the IRA's
decision to end its armed campaign as "beautiful news".

He added that the IRA statement had brought "satisfaction
and hope".

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Sinn Fein Demand Ban Is Lifted On £500,000 In Mps'
Allowances

MICHAEL SETTLE, Chief UK Political Correspondent August 01
2005

SINN Fein last night demanded that the year-long ban on its
five MPs receiving taxpayers' money, worth up to an
estimated £500,000 in parliamentary allowances and
expenses, be lifted in light of the IRA's historic decision
last week to give up the gun.

The Irish republican party is also looking to receive
another "peace dividend" windfall with the lifting of the
suspension of a further annual £120,000 political
development grant.

Following a vote by MPs, the allowances and expenses ban
was implemented in April by Paul Murphy, the-then Northern
Ireland secretary, after the Independent Monitoring
Commission's (IMC) report into the £26.5m Northern Bank
robbery in Belfast last December, Britain's biggest, which
was attributed to the IRA.

After the murder of Robert McCartney outside a bar in the
city in January, again attributed to members of the IRA,
Sinn Fein's political stock fell further at Westminster and
in the Commons the government succumbed to opposition calls
for the party to be punished.

When the party had four MPs, before May's general election,
including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, it claimed
more than £100,000-a-year each. With five, that bill would
have been expected to top £500,000 this year.

Last night, a spokesman for Mr Adams said: "We will be
demanding the government recognises our democratic mandate
in the same way it does with other parties."

An IMC report is due later in the year.

The Pope yesterday hailed the IRA disarmament decision as
"beautiful news" and urged all to work for a lasting peace
in Northern Ireland.

Pope Benedict, addressing pilgrims at his summer palace
outside Rome, expressed "satisfaction and hope" after the
IRA on Thursday met international demands to declare its
1997 ceasefire permanent and to renounce violence.

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IRA Will Deliver, Pledges McGuinness

01/08/2005

The IRA will hold true to its word and end its armed
conflict in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator
Martin McGuinness said yesterday.

Just back from his trip to Washington where he debriefed US
officials on the status of the peace process, Mr McGuinness
heralded the IRA's commitment, set out in a statement on
Thursday, as "momentous and historic".

He said the IRA's pledge was sincere and described it as a
"genuine attempt to move the process forward", adding he
was hopeful the Good Friday Agreement would deliver a
united Ireland through "exclusively peaceful and democratic
means".

The MP said he welcomed the British army's
"demilitarisation" of parts of the province. On Friday, the
Army began to dismantle security bases in south Armagh.

Mr McGuinness said: "That clearly shows that, if you like,
the soldiers, whether it be soldiers of the IRA or the
soldiers of the British army are prepared, to some degree,
to trust one another.

"I think that if soldiers can do that, then it is incumbent
on the politicians and on the people to support that
effort."

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IRA Must Change Before Ban Is Lifted, Says Taoiseach

Liam Reid, Political Reporter

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that lifting the ban on
the IRA would not require legislation and could be done by
a Government order.

However, the IRA would have to change its rule book for
this to occur, and he believed such a move by the
Government was "for the longer haul".

He said the Offences Against the State Act, which outlawed
the IRA in 1939, envisaged a situation where a banned group
could have changed itself sufficiently that it was no
longer an illegal group.

Under the legislation a group that promotes, organises or
advocates the use of force to change the Constitution or
for other means is illegal, and the Government can issue a
prohibition order against specific organisations as a
result.

"It's all set out. In 1939 the government of the day
anticipated that an unlawful organisation might transform
itself into a new mode and become exclusively political,
and it's why the 1939 Act allows the Government to revoke
an order providing that an organisation is unlawful," Mr
Ahern said.

"They never have to drop the name IRA, the Provisional IRA;
that isn't the issue," Mr Ahern told RTÉ radio yesterday.

"It is the conditions about their rule book and their
conspiracy against the State and the armed campaign and all
of the other things.

"So before it can ever change they have to comply with all
of those issues, and I think that is the challenge and I'm
not saying they have to do that in the next week."

Asked whether he thought the Government might lift the
order banning the IRA in the future, he said: "Yes, and it
can actually be done quite simply. It can be revoked or
amended."

However, it could "only happen after a period of time" when
an assessment was made that the Provisional IRA was no
longer involved in activity that constituted a breach of
the legislation. He said the views of the Independent
International Commission on Decommissioning and the
International Monitoring Commission could be "taken account
of when making that decision".

If the IRA did not "change in that fundamental way it will
remain unlawful and the sanctions of the law fully apply to
it".

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell also said yesterday
that the IRA would have to change its "constitution" before
the Government would lift the prohibition order, and that
this would require a full IRA army convention.

Mr Ahern reiterated his belief that last Thursday's IRA
statement meant a complete end to criminal activities by
the organisation even though it did not mention the word
"criminal".

"Well, time will tell, but I think that as of now I'm ready
to believe that this week's events, if followed by
necessary actions, do offer a clear sign that the
Provisional IRA have come round to this peaceful analysis."

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Taoiseach Welcomes Pope's Comments On IRA Statement

31/07/2005 - 17:46:25

The Taoiseach has welcomed the Pope's good wishes for the
Northern peace process following Thursday's IRA statement
that its armed struggle is over.

Bertie Ahern said that Pope Benedict's comments are a
reminder of the major contribution made by clergy of all
traditions to the peace process.

Mr Ahern recalled the words of the Pope's predecessor to
the IRA during his visit to Drogheda.

He said it was a matter of regret that John Paul II did not
live to see, what he called "this potentially historic
response to his appeal".

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A United Ireland Is Inevitable

The inexorable pressure of economic reality will end
partition

Roy Hattersley
Monday August 1, 2005
The Guardian

Tony Blair was right to rejoice. There is a real prospect
of permanent peace in Northern Ireland. But he was wrong to
imply that the world, at least as seen from Belfast,
changed last Thursday afternoon. History moves on
gradually, not in sudden leaps. The IRA's announcement that
the "armed struggle" is over did not create a new era in
the province. It was one of the new era's consequences.

At last, Sinn Féin has realised that, far from promoting
Irish unity, the violence of its military wing has held
back the achievement of an honourable aspiration. Partition
will be ended by forces wholly unconnected with the IRA.
Its gunmen - if they are anything other than gangsters -
will promote what they claim to be their only objective by
stepping aside. They can console themselves with the
thought that the border, which they hope to obliterate, is
already blurred and will soon be effectively abolished.

The hopes of Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera will be
realised courtesy of the global market and the European
Union. The inexorable pressure of economic reality is
dragging the six counties closer and closer to the
republic. Where economics leads, politics is bound to
follow. Industry and commerce grow closer day by day and
the institutions of government will soon reflect that shift
from partnership to integration.

The pressure to combine has been increased by the growth of
the republic's economy. Gross domestic product per head is
now higher in Ireland than in the United Kingdom. Northern
farmers do not enjoy the "regime" that has made their
southern competitors prosperous. The old jokes about Irish
devotion to antique inefficiency are contradicted by signs
of progress that mock the north. Miles were changed to
kilometres overnight. A smoking ban in public places was
peacefully accepted by the allegedly self-destructive
peasantry. Thanks to tax breaks, picturesque hovels have
been replaced by holiday homes.

There were always more obstacles to Irish unity than the
intransigence of the so called "loyalists" - men and women
so loyal to the crown that they contemplated open
rebellion. The republic was reluctant to integrate with the
hardline (and sometimes homicidal) unionists of the six
counties. More recently there have developed understandable
anxieties about amalgamation with a province in which taxi
drivers run extortion rackets and drug rings and innocent
men have their throats cut for failing to show proper
respect to self-appointed ghetto bosses.

Gerry Adams has at last realised that the tactics of 1921
do more harm than good. He knows too that he can afford to
express lofty views about the need "to reach out and put
the past behind us". The republicans have won the argument.
He is right. "The time to confront the enemy" is past and
Sinn Féin has the strongest possible interest in preserving
the peace.

Conversely, the Rev Ian Paisley has everything to lose from
the decommissioning of IRA arms and the acceptance that,
from now on, the republican campaign must be political
rather than military. If the peace holds, Stormont will be
revived and progress to unity will go irresistibly on. No
wonder that he announced his scepticism within minutes of
the IRA issuing its peace statement.

Adams still has a problem. He has to ensure that his
followers accept the reality of the 21st century. The "Real
IRA" will almost certainly battle mindlessly on. But they
may not be the only dissidents who play into Paisley's
hands. Some of the republican "volunteers" have a financial
interest in the war continuing. The old methods of
preserving discipline - beatings and shootings - can no
longer be employed to keep them in line without the
provoking the plausible accusation that the IRA has still
not changed its ways.

Long ago, during a clandestine meeting in a disused
factory, Adams lost his temper with me when I suggested
that, by acting as pall-bearer to the notorious fish-and-
chip-shop bomber, he had sacrificed all hope of forgiveness
from the Protestants of the Shankill Road. After all, the
bomber had killed two of their children. The driver
nominated by Adams to ferry me to and from the secret
location did his best to justify Adams's conduct: "If he
hadn't carried the coffin, they would have killed him." For
the peace to hold, Adams has to keep the savages under
control.

The chances are that he will manage it. Guerrillas need a
hinterland into which to disappear after operations. For 50
years the republican hinterland has been sympathetic
civilians. Now their sympathy is running out. They realise
that the war is won because time and logic are on the side
of Irish unity. All they have to do is wait. That is why
there is now a real prospect of Northern Ireland enjoying
the tranquillity its peoples deserve.

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The IRA Disarms, Sinn Fein Sweeps The Polls. And Gerry
Adams Is A Loser

Tim Hames

ON FRIDAY NIGHT Dolores McNamara, a mother of six from
Limerick, discovered that she had won £77 million in the
European lottery. About 30 hours earlier two Irishmen from
further north, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, had
reason to believe that in another context — that of the the
peace process — they would be hitting a political jackpot.

The Euromillions draw came after nine rollovers. Northern
Ireland has had a similar experience since the Good Friday
Agreement, culminating in the dramatic announcement last
Thursday that the IRA would cease all military activity.
Does this mean that the lives of Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness
are now likely to be transformed, as no doubt they hope?
Unfortunately a study of the past form of lottery winners
is not encouraging. And while I wish the McNamara family
nothing but good fortune, I suspect the two republican
leaders might not fare so well.

At almost any other time the IRA statement would have
dominated the news agenda for weeks. In the present
atmosphere, however, it has been treated almost as an
historical afterthought, not a development with profound
significance. In so far as its implications have been
considered at all, it has been along the lines of "Do they
(the IRA) mean it?" The real question should be: "What does
it mean?" The "Do they mean it?" question is
straightforward.

This is not, unlike other IRA offers to "place beyond arms
beyond use", a declaration that is reversible. After this
the IRA can hardly at some future time issue a video of its
public face, Sean Walsh, instructing volunteers to
"retrieve guns" that have been dumped or engage in
activities that would be "incompatible with peaceful,
democratic methods". Nor would there be any point in the
IRA making this move if the Independent International
Commission on Decommissioning and the Independent
Monitoring Commission could not assign it a clean bill of
health afterwards. To the irritation of some Unionists,
perhaps, the IRA will almost certainly deliver on its word.

It will do so because the relationship between Sinn Fein
and the IRA has changed fundamentally. Sinn Fein was once
the political wing of the IRA; in the course of the past
decade, the IRA has become the paramilitary branch of Sinn
Fein. A paramilitary organisation can choose whether or not
it has a political manifestation. A political organisation
in a Western democracy cannot, ultimately, choose whether
or not it has a paramilitary offshoot. Much of the painful
rollercoaster that Northern Ireland has endured since the
Good Friday Agreement has been about republicans testing
how much of the IRA they could keep intact while still
persuading London, Dublin, Washington and a portion of
Unionists to do business with them. That process has now
been settled on terms that a large enough number of people
can accept.

"What does it mean?" is far more challenging. It will take
time to be confident of an answer. Sinn Fein is now
destined to be as much a paradoxical as a political
organisation, combining electoral success with ideological
failure.

The bonus at the ballot box for Sinn Fein is obvious. It
outperformed the SDLP in the general election despite the
damning publicity that came from the murder of Robert
McCartney and the Northern Bank robbery. It will do even
better once it can campaign without the stigma of the
balaclava.

It is the only authentic working- class nationalist
political party in the Province (not least because the IRA
kneecapped — or worse — anyone attempting to build up an
alternative) and it will romp home once IRA disarmament
renders it fully "respectable". Sinn Fein will decommission
the SDLP even faster than General John de Chastelain and
his team can dismantle the IRA's arsenal. That success will
be duplicated south of the border as well. It would be
astonishing now if Sinn Fein did not win one vote in ten at
the next election in the Republic — a result that would
leave it knocking at the door of office.

That voting strength will leave Sinn Fein, politically, in
a win-win situation. If the Democratic Unionist Party
agrees to enter government with it in the north, then men
such as Mr McGuinness and his like will be ministers again
with departmental fiefdoms. If, on the other hand, the
Unionists will not share power even after the IRA has wound
down, there will be a Secretary of State in Ulster in
effect implementing Sinn Fein's positions on "equality and
justice" and " demilitarisation".

But therein in lies the rub. The more effective that Sinn
Fein is as an electoral force, the more impotent it becomes
as an ideological one. Every deal it strikes with Tony
Blair legitimises the British presence in Northern Ireland.
Every concession it secures that advances the economic and
social standing of ordinary Roman Catholics in Ulster
weakens the argument that it is only through Irish
unification that those material interests can be realised.
With every step that Ulster takes towards becoming a
"normal society", so what Sinn Fein officially regards as
an "interim settlement" becomes more deeply entrenched.

This is the outlook for republicanism. A larger and larger
number of nationalists in both the North and the South will
vote for Sinn Fein — but more because they regard it as the
best vehicle for representing them in a divided Ireland
than out of support for a united one. Nor will it make much
difference if Catholics finally outbreed Protestants in
Ulster. Even at the height of the Troubles a substantial
percentage of nationalists preferred the status quo to the
upheaval of unification.

That sentiment will only swell if politics is perceived to
be working in Northern Ireland. One winner of the national
lottery in Britain recently mused sadly that: "I have never
been richer and I have never been poorer." That is also the
irony that awaits Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness.

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Among IRA Veterans, Quiet Acceptance Of Peace Declaration

Little celebration over formal end to N. Ireland war

By Kevin Cullen, Globe Staff July 31, 2005

BELFAST -- A few hours after he became the human face of
the Irish Republican Army on Thursday, Seanna Walsh walked
into the bar at the Felons Club in West Belfast and ordered
a pint.

There were no cheers, no rounds for the house. Walsh said
he was asked to do a job, and he did it. His job was to
read a recorded statement announcing an end to the IRA's
35-year armed campaign against British rule in Northern
Ireland.

Walsh is what his former comrades-in-arms call ''sound," an
IRA veteran who did his ''whack," or prison term. In fact,
Walsh did several of them, beginning when he was 16, when
he robbed a bank to help ''the cause." Walsh has spent 21
of his 48 years in Her Majesty's prisons, some in the same
cell with his good friend Bobby Sands, who led the 1981
hunger strikes in which Sands and nine other republican
prisoners starved themselves to death demanding political
status.

It was because of his impeccable republican credentials,
and his credibility among former and current IRA members
that Walsh was chosen to be the first IRA man since 1972 to
represent the organization without wearing a black mask.
Like many IRA veterans who killed without remorse and spent
much of their lives in prison without complaint, Walsh is
ready to step aside and let a movement always led by gunmen
now be led by politicians.

Since the IRA called a cease-fire in 1994, IRA veterans
like Walsh have played a large role in dictating just how
much ground the IRA would give in negotiations to end the
conflict. They gave Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn
Fein, the IRA's political wing, the backing he needed to
sign the compromise in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
that accepts that Northern Ireland will remain part of the
United Kingdom until a majority living there votes
otherwise, dashing the republican tenet that it was an
illegitimate state that had to be overthrown.

IRA veterans like Walsh sold the idea of scrapping weapons
to skeptical IRA members for whom guns hold a mythical
allure. More recently, Walsh and a cadre of senior,
influential IRA veterans backed the idea of formally ending
the IRA's war against the British, the IRA's use of
violence and intimidation to control its own neighborhoods,
and even the bank robberies for the cause that first made
Walsh eligible for membership at the Felons Club.

Still, as Walsh and other IRA men stood in the front bar at
the club, watching Adams on television describe the IRA's
''standing down" as an act of courage and confidence, there
were no whoops or cheers.

''Celebration is not the right word. Milestone is more like
it," said Liam Shannon, 57, a former IRA prisoner, looking
around the club. ''There's a quiet emotion here, emotion
tinged with sadness. It's the end of an era."Continued...

A few hours after he became the human face of the Irish
Republican Army on Thursday, Seanna Walsh walked into the
bar at the Felons Club in West Belfast and ordered a pint.

There were no cheers, no rounds for the house. Walsh said
he was asked to do a job, and he did it. His job was to
read a recorded statement announcing an end to the IRA's
35-year armed campaign against British rule in Northern
Ireland.

Walsh is what his former comrades-in-arms call ''sound," an
IRA veteran who did his ''whack," or prison term. In fact,
Walsh did several of them, beginning when he was 16, when
he robbed a bank to help ''the cause." Walsh has spent 21
of his 48 years in Her Majesty's prisons, some in the same
cell with his good friend Bobby Sands, who led the 1981
hunger strikes in which Sands and nine other republican
prisoners starved themselves to death demanding political
status.

It was because of his impeccable republican credentials,
and his credibility among former and current IRA members
that Walsh was chosen to be the first IRA man since 1972 to
represent the organization without wearing a black mask.
Like many IRA veterans who killed without remorse and spent
much of their lives in prison without complaint, Walsh is
ready to step aside and let a movement always led by gunmen
now be led by politicians.

Since the IRA called a cease-fire in 1994, IRA veterans
like Walsh have played a large role in dictating just how
much ground the IRA would give in negotiations to end the
conflict. They gave Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn
Fein, the IRA's political wing, the backing he needed to
sign the compromise in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
that accepts that Northern Ireland will remain part of the
United Kingdom until a majority living there votes
otherwise, dashing the republican tenet that it was an
illegitimate state that had to be overthrown.

IRA veterans like Walsh sold the idea of scrapping weapons
to skeptical IRA members for whom guns hold a mythical
allure. More recently, Walsh and a cadre of senior,
influential IRA veterans backed the idea of formally ending
the IRA's war against the British, the IRA's use of
violence and intimidation to control its own neighborhoods,
and even the bank robberies for the cause that first made
Walsh eligible for membership at the Felons Club.

Still, as Walsh and other IRA men stood in the front bar at
the club, watching Adams on television describe the IRA's
''standing down" as an act of courage and confidence, there
were no whoops or cheers.

''Celebration is not the right word. Milestone is more like
it," said Liam Shannon, 57, a former IRA prisoner, looking
around the club. ''There's a quiet emotion here, emotion
tinged with sadness. It's the end of an era."

Page 2 of 2 --There seems to be an acceptance, grudging or
not, that the fighters have had their day. The only cheer
that went up in the Felons Club on the day the IRA called
it quits was when the Irish premier, Bertie Ahern, appeared
on the television and said that the prospect of Sinn Fein
one day being a coalition partner in an Irish government
was now possible.

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Despite the skepticism that greeted the IRA's announcement,
especially from the loved ones of some of the 1,700 people
killed by the IRA since 1969, Shannon said most IRA members
accept that their goal of a united Ireland must be achieved
through politics. They make no excuses for waging war, he
says, but they realize Irish unity is only possible after a
sustained period of peace.

''Look around this place," he said. ''There's a lot of
realists."

And yet idealism is literally on the walls. The club is
lined with the images of those who have killed and died for
Ireland. The portraits include Padraig Pearse, who was
executed after leading the 1916 Easter Rising.

In the lounge, two men belted out rebel songs accompanied
by a guitar and banjo, standing beside portraits of Sean
Savage, Dan McCann, and Mairead Farrell, IRA operatives who
were killed by British commandos in Gibraltar in 1988,
during a wave of violence on all sides that led Adams to
begin secret talks that many trace as the start of the
modern peace process.

Mythology and memory run deep here. But Shannon and other
IRA veterans say they are ready to move on.

Danny Morrison already has. Morrison was the IRA activist
and Sinn Fein strategist who famously coined the republican
movement's credo of seizing power with a rifle in one hand
and a ballot box in the other. He spent much of the 1990s
in prison, after being caught by police in the process of
interrogating a suspected IRA informant.

''Danny was the last face you saw before they put the hood
over your head," said Sean O'Callaghan, a disgruntled IRA
leader who turned against his former comrades.

But since his release from prison, Morrison has become a
successful columnist, novelist, and, most recently,
playwright. On Friday night, Morrison's play, ''The Wrong
Man," had its local premier before an invitation-only
audience at the Conway Mill complex in West Belfast. There
were several senior IRA figures in the audience, including
Bobby Storey.

The play, about two IRA men balancing duties to their
families and the cause, contains a gripping scene of IRA
men interrogating one of their own who is suspected of
informing. It is hauntingly realistic and lyrical at the
same time. The IRA members and their police interrogators
are made to seem similar in their heavy-handed quest for
information -- a parallel that seemed shockingly honest in
this particular setting.

Storey politely declined to talk about the play. But even
some of the IRA's most dedicated fighters seem prepared to
debate their violent past even as they launch what they
describe as a peaceful ''new mode" of their struggle.

As Morrison and a group of IRA veterans waited for a taxi,
Seanna Walsh, who had watched the play, joined them.

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Memorial Service For Members Of Miami Showband Killed By
UVF

Christine Newman

Three members of the Miami Showband, who were killed by
the UVF 30 years ago, were remembered at a special prayer
service in Dublin on Saturday.

Families of Fran O'Toole, Tony Geraghty and Brian McCoy
gathered with friends at the Pro-Cathedral for a
remembrance service which celebrated their work, on the
30th anniversary of the atrocity.

Dana Rosemary Scallon, the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest
winner and former MEP, performed at the service and was
accompanied by the Pro-Cathedral folk group. She sang hymns
chosen by the families, Abide with Me, Here I Am and Make
Me a Channel of Your Peace.

Dickie Rock, the band's former lead singer, also paid a
musical tribute at the service.

Relatives participated in the prayers and readings at the
inter-denominational service, which was conducted by Fr
Brian D'Arcy and the Rev Robert Dean.

Two members of the band survived the attack, Stephen
Travers and Des Lee.

Mr Travers, who organised the commemoration with the
Justice for the Forgotten Group, attended the Pro-Cathedral
with his daughter.

Mr Lee had travelled from South Africa to attend but had to
leave on receiving news that his wife had been taken ill.
Other members of his family attended.

Tonight a memorial concert will be held in Vicar Street.
Artists appearing will include Brendan Bowyer, Tony Kenny,
Red Hurley, Johnny Fean of Horslips and Paul Ashford.

Margaret Urwin of the Justice for the Forgotten Group, who
attended the service, said one of the ideas mooted for the
proceeds of the concert was a permanent memorial to the
three musicians in Dublin.

The service was attended by many past and present showband
musicians. Philomena Lynott, mother of the late Phil Lynott
of Thin Lizzy, also attended.

Ms Scallon described the service. "It was really beautiful
and very emotional. It was organised to ensure that the
boys are not forgotten."

The Miami Showband was one of the most popular bands in the
1970s. The three musicians were killed as they returned
home from a performance at a dance in Banbridge, Co Down.

Their minibus was flagged down by men dressed in army
uniforms on the road to Newry.

The UVF gang loaded a bomb on to the minibus but it
exploded prematurely, killing two UVF members. The rest of
the gang then opened fire on the musicians, killing the
three band members.

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Sunniest July In 30 Years But Heatwave Unlikely To Return

Paul Cullen

Ireland has just enjoyed its sunniest July in 30 years,
according to the Met Office.

Notwithstanding the leaden skies and torrential downpours
suffered in the east in recent days, sunshine levels were
the highest since the glorious summer of 1975.

Prospects for a return of the heatwave look dim, however,
with the meteorologists predicting more cloud and some rain
for the coming week.

Sarah O'Reilly of the Met Office said that during July
"close to record temperatures" were measured at a number of
stations on several days.

The highest temperature of 29.2 degrees was recorded in
Kilkenny on July 11th and 12th. This was the highest seen
in the county since 1989.

However, for many, the gloss was taken off the month's
weather by the rain that fell on the east coast from
Wednesday evening to Saturday morning. The equivalent of a
month's rain in July fell on Rosslare in 48 hours, and
almost as much was recorded in Dublin. The downpour caused
the roofs of Dublin Airport and the new Dundrum town centre
to spring leaks. Up to then, this July was the driest for
23 years.

Ms O'Reilly pointed out that the west continued to enjoy
good weather while Dublin was deluged. She described the
Bank Holiday weather as "disappointing" but said the
situation was improving. "There was a lot of cloud over the
weekend and the rain continued in the east through much of
Saturday."

Today's forecast is for brighter conditions, although
temperatures will remain pegged at a mediocre 20-21
degrees.

More cloud and some rain is predicted tomorrow, although it
may brighten up later in the week. With the winds coming
from the northwest, temperatures are not expected to rise
significantly.

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Reek Sunday On Croagh Patrick Draws 20,000

Tom Shiel

Lines of gleaming SUVs in car parks at the base of Croagh
Patrick, Co Mayo yesterday was testament to the increasing
affluence of the modern pilgrim or what the Archbishop of
Tuam, Dr Michael Neary referred to as "an Ireland of
growing prosperity".

Stout hazel rods, the traditional "sticks for the Reek",
were on sale in abundance as were items such as mugs and
"miraculous medals", but the cloth-capped, barefoot
penitents seemed less evident than in previous years and
there were definitely more mobile phones than rosary beads.

Still, the numbers doing the annual pilgrimage are
constant. Up to 20,000 pilgrims, some barefoot as is
traditional, made the climb in good weather conditions.

There were no serious injuries, fewer than 20 "walking
wounded", according to Lt David Fahy, of Westport Order of
Malta. An Air Corps helicopter assisted in evacuating
casualties from the mountain and a small number were
transferred by road to Mayo General Hospital.

Stick seller John Cruise, from Galway, was doing a brisk
trade but bemoaned the fact that he was unable this year to
get St Patrick medals to sell to pilgrims. "It's impossible
for love or money to get a medal of St Patrick," he said.
"They don't seem to be making them anymore."

Mary McLoughlin from Ballylinan, Co Laois was perhaps one
of few climbers who would admit not making it to the
summit. "I went three- quarters of the way up," she said,
"then the knees gave in on me. Sure it doesn't matter. I
can pray as well at the side of a mountain as at the top."

A group from the Rossport area of north Mayo, supporting
the five men jailed because of their opposition to the
onshore Corrib gas pipeline, collected signatures at the
base of the mountain.

One of them, Bríd McGarry, said they were getting a good
response. "Even though pilgrims were concentrating on the
tough climb ahead of them, they still took time out to get
informed about the reality of what is happening in north
Mayo," she said.

Archbishop Neary celebrated Mass to mark the centenary of
the building of St Patrick's Oratory on the summit. "Since
that day hundreds of thousands of people have carried their
pain, their hopes, their loneliness, their doubts and their
faith to a listening and caring God."

He said that despite "the seeming weakness of faith in an
Ireland of growing prosperity" there was "still a vibrant
church calling men and women to seek God with the strength
and companionship of others".

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Niall Quinn Arrested On Drink Drive Charge

The soccer legend, Niall Quinn, was arrested for drink
driving on Friday night.

The former Irish soccer international hero has admitted the
wrongdoing, and now faces a driving ban.

Mr Quinn says he`s gutted by his actions and is `deeply
sorry` for what he has done.

He was returning from a charity golf outing in Ardee, Co
Louth when he was stopped at a garda checkpoint in north Co
Dublin.

Mr Quinn told Ireland on Sunday that he wishes he could
turn back the clock.
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