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Omagh Failures

Posted By: August 10, 2013

O’Loan backs calls for cross-border inquiry over ‘massive failures’ ADRIAN RUTHERFORD .Belfast Teleraph. Saturday,  AUGUST10, 2013 A former Police Ombudsman who criticised the police investigation into the Omagh bombing has backed calls for a cross-border inquiry. ALSO IN THIS SECTION Nuala O’Loan said new information which has emerged was “cause for enormous concern”. In 2001 […]

Dublin and London must not lose focus on North

Posted By: August 09, 2013

Andy Pollak. Irish Times.( Dublin). Thursday, August 8, 2013, 20:03 The mischievous streak in me likes the word “collaboration”: it is a subversive word. I believe in the obvious – that the road to peace out of any conflict, short of outright military victory by one side or the other, lies in eventually collaborating with the old enemy. […]

Intelligence on Omagh bomb ‘withheld from police’

Posted By: August 08, 2013

Security forces had two agents in the Real IRA but did not share that information with Northern Ireland officers, report claims Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent.  The Guardian( London). Wednesday 7 August 2013 The Omagh Support and Self Help Group report focuses on the role of two state agents who infiltrated the Real IRA. Photograph: Mike Mahoney/Reuters MI5, the FBI and Garda special branch […]

New York mayor backs Ó Muilleoir

Posted By: August 08, 2013

Ulster TV. Thursday, 08 August 2013 New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has sent a personal message of support to Belfast lord mayor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, who was targeted by loyalist protestors at a civic opening in the city earlier this week. The Sinn Féin’s representative was forced to flee the ceremony at a children’s playpark in Woodvale Park […]

Belfast’s Lord Mayor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir ‘jostled by loyalists’

Posted By: August 08, 2013

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND.  Tuesday, August 6, 2013 The lord mayor of Belfast, Sinn Fein’s Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, has been jostled and heckled by loyalist protesters at the re-opening of a park in the Woodvale district of north Belfast. He was escorted away from the trouble by the police and the ceremony was cancelled. The police say […]

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