Martin McGuinness

McGuinness sends condolences to Hermon family: Derry Journal -

Published Date: 11 November 2008 Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has sent his condolences to the family of former RUC chief constable John Hermon who died on Friday. Mr. Hermon led the RUC from 1980 to 1989 and was the...

Headteachers back Sharon Shoesmith

Ministers on defensive | Statement from Baby P's father HEADTEACHERS are backing Haringey's Director of Children and Young People's services, despite fresh calls for her to resign over Baby P's death. More than 60 headteachers...

Guilty: loyalist hitman who said it was art

The loyalist killer Michael Stone was sent back to prison yesterday after a judge found him guilty of attempting to kill the Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.His attack at Stormont in November 2006 was the...

Clinton could be mixed blessing as No. 1 diplomat

WASHINGTON -- During the Democrats' quarrelsome nominating contest, Hillary Rodham Clinton argued that she, and not upstart rival Barack Obama, had more impressive credentials as a statesman: familiarity with world leaders and...

UUP motion to put pressure on Executive: Belfast Telegraph - Noel McAdam

The Assembly is to be urged to instruct ministers to hold their first Executive meeting in almost five months, it emerged last night. Leader Sir Reg Empey, himself an Executive minister, warned: “If it is passed and they defy...

Did Sinn Fein leaders betray party faithful?: Belfast Telegraph - Lindy McDowell

In a weekend interview Cherie Blair revealed how during a visit to 10 Downing Street, Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had shown off their skateboarding skills to her sons Euan and Nicholas. Cherie says she’d...

Are dissident republicans a real threat to peace in Northern Ireland?: Belfast Telegraph - David...

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 They shot Constable Jim Doherty just after 8.30am on November 8 2007, as he sat in his car in slow-moving traffic in Londonderry, after dropping off his son at his Catholic school in the city. Those...

Stormont stand-off

The stand off at Stormont has lasted for 147 days The Stormont Executive last met on 19 June - it is now 147 days, that's 21 weeks or nearly five months, since the stand-off between Sinn Fein and the DUP began. But at Stormont,...

£27million bill for Bloody Sunday inquiry... since it ended in 2005

The Bloody Sunday inquiry has cost the taxpayer more than £27million since it heard its last witness, MPs were told yesterday. The hearings closed in January 2005, but since then three judges and their staff have been preparing...

feeds a need to understand past: (from the Sunday Times) - Liam Clarke

Bloody Sunday, election, Irish, Ireland, British, Ulster, Unionist, Sinn Féin, SDLP, Ahern, Blair, Irish America Hunger feeds a need to understand past (by Liam Clarke, Sunday Times) The release of Hunger, Steve McQueen's...