The annual Drumcree Parade has passed off peacefully today, amid what the BBC called 'low-key' security. As I mentioned in my Friday post, this is now the third year in a row the Drumcree Parade has passed off without any major incident. Hundreds of O… more »

The PSNI have said that Drumcree will see scaled down physical security measures when the annual Drumcree Parade takes place this Sunday. While the Parade's Commission have again banned Orangemen from walking home along the Garvaghy Road (a ban they have… more »

A 50 year-old woman collapsed in her home last night in the republican Glenalina area of west Belfast. Ambulance crews alerted the PSNI, whose officers then found her in her kitchen, unconscious. They began to resuscitate her with a defibrillator and CTR… more »

In an attempt to capitalise (a bit belatedly in my opinion) on the wristband craze that seems to be all the rage amoung "young people these days," the PSNI have launched their own multicoloured "Respect Difference" wristbands. The police hope the scheme… more »

Following on from my earlier post, 'Shankill Bomber Re-Jailing "Reprehensible"' on Tuesday, I'd like to draw attention to some of the writings of Newton Emerson, which were drawn to my attention by a post at Slugger O'Toole. In his piece in the Irish… 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 »

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 »

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 »