The IRA admitted to killing someone today. They killed a 14 year old schoolgirl, blamed the army and then proceeded to retaliate against their own heinous crime by killing a soldier. They apologised today, 30 years later - so I guess that's all OK then.… more »

(Did you see what I did there? ;)) UNHAPPY with the increasing levels of anti-social behaviour in Belfast, traders have clubbed together to pay for 2 extra police officers to patrol the streets around the city centre. Obviously the traders think th… more »

It really is time the IFA sorted this out. At the minute, IFA clubs aren't allowed to play their competitive matches on a Sunday. It's the kind of thing you'd expect in 1950 but is more than a little outdated in 2005. The vote was recently put to dele… more »

According to the BBC, police officers came in for multiple attacks in west Belfast on Tuesday night. Landrovers had stones thrown at them at about 10:50 pm in the Springfield Road area, while police were attacked with a petrol bomb, bricks and bottles at… more »

A north Belfast primary school has become the BELB's first 'green' school. Cavehill Primary School has solar panels which power, among other things, lights which automatically switch off when nobody's in the room. Rain water is also collected from the ro… more »

The PSNI have removed LVF flags from an estate in Holywood, Co. Down. Officers recovered paramilitary flags from a gang of men in the Loughview area at about 10PM on Friday night (although details were only released last night). 5 men were questioned… more »

Sinn Fein today continued their "Outside the tent pissing in" policy to policing as spokesman Gerry Kelly used the launch of a new, supposedly safer, plastic bullet as an opportunity to have a dig at the SDLP under the headline "SDLP policing failures ex… more »

The BBC reports that the number of troops in Northern Ireland is to fall further next August. John Reid today confirmed that the King's Own Scottish Borderers, currently based at Lisanelly Barracks in Omagh, due to end their tour in August 2006, will not… more »

Again, courtesy of my Value Cabs calendar on my desk. "There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site." Perhaps this suggestion should be made to those responsible for the proposed Hunger Strikers' Memorial at… more »

This is how the Daily Ireland, that bastion of impartial reporting, chose to describe a group of people who attacked marchers with missiles at the Ardoyne shops on Friday night. The followers of the march who were attacked included women and children.… more »