Categories: News, Business & Economy, Education, Environment, Journalism, Law & Order, PSNI
Loyalists Supply Republican Guns
I'm loathed to reference a story from the Irish News when it's not clear for how long it will remain freely available online [edit: it's gone], but this one's quite revealing. I earlier mentioned that the cowards of the Real IRA shot two off-duty police… more »
RIRA Aim For Army on NI Streets
The republican splinter-group the Real IRA has an objective to get soldiers re-deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland.
With more attacks on the RUC/PSNI we believe we can reach the stage where British soldiers are brought back onto the streets to… more »
Yesterday's Men and How Times Change
by beano 
on 01 Feb 2008 at 15:08. Categories: Northern Ireland, Irish Republic, Business & Economy, Politics, Devolved Government A heart-warming act of friendship in Ballymena today as Northern Ireland's First Minister Ian Paisley and the prime minister of the Republic Bertie Ahern got all cozy and loved-up during a visit by the latter to the former's constituency.
Paisley desc… more »
More Police Officers Drink Driving
Over Christmas the PSNI caught 600 people drink-driving. 2 of those were off-duty PSNI officers.
Unlike Officer Geraldine Donnelly , who was caught before new policy came into effect, these 2 officers "if prosecuted", are likely to lose their jobs. I… more »
Calling Ruane's Bluff
by beano on 23 Jan 2008 at 15:38. Categories: Northern Ireland, Irish Republic, Sinn Fein, Education, Devolved Government It's a busy day on the Caitriona Ruane front today. I'd just like to issue a quick thank you to Jim Allister for confirming that I was right when I said that Ms Ruane was talking out her arse when she said she wanted to change the law to prevent Northern… more »
Ruane Has No Answers on Post-Primary Education Reform
by beano on 23 Jan 2008 at 13:21. Categories: Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, Education, Devolved Government Minister for Education Caitriona Ruane has refused to answer a list of questions submitted to her by the Assembly's education committee. These questions were agreed by the committee and included how much her plans would cost, what provision would be made… more »
50,000 Empty Houses
by beano on 23 Jan 2008 at 10:37. Categories: Northern Ireland, Business & Economy, Devolved Government Just stumbled across this: apparently house prices in Northern Ireland have fallen by 10% recently and there are thought to be nearly 50,000 Ulster dwellings lying empty.
Plans are now being made to charge rates on empty dwellings (long overdue if you… more »
Fundamental Failure to Understand Unionists
by beano on 10 Jan 2008 at 11:49. Categories: Local Wackos, Republicans, Law & Order, Devolved Government Actually, Brian Feeney's fundamental failure might be understanding anything, but I was feeling charitable when I wrote that title. The Irish News is generally the best of a bad bunch when it comes to local news papers, which makes the fact that they giv… more »
Who Will Police the Police-Police?
Slugger today highlighted a story from Friday when it was reported that a Resident Magistrate delivered a damning verdict on an investigation by the Police Ombudsman's office bringing into question the integrity of the body in charge of investigating com… more »
Local Businessman Fears For Family After Threats
I was really saddened to find out that the owner of a carwash/valet service near Stormont had his business attacked, with racist/xenophobic slogans smeared on the tarmac outside, warning he had 3 days to "get out".
I've a message for whoever did this.… more »
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