Sinn Fein leader's brother to resist extradition

2010-03-10T06:30:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Sinn Fein leader's brother to fight Northern Ireland extradition on charges of raping daughter</div><div><p>Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, will resist extradition to Northern Ireland where he faces 18 charges of sexually abusing his daughter, his lawyers told a

N.Ireland backs transfer of key powers despite row

2010-03-09T19:15:48Z

<div><p>Northern Ireland's lawmakers have approved a landmark deal transferring key powers from London to Belfast, in what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed as the "final end" to decades of conflict.</p><p>The vote in the BELFAST (Reuters) - The Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to take control of its own police and justice powers, cementing the latest hard-won agreement between the province's divided communities.</p><p>The issue had risked scuppering Northern Ireland lawmakers vote to support next step in Catholic-Protestant cooperation</div><div><p>Northern Ireland lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a new Justice Department, the next key step in making their Catholic-Protestant government work.</p><p>Three of the four parties i...

N.Ireland parties row ahead of crunch vote

2010-03-09T10:16:16Z

<div><p>Northern Ireland's MPs clashed Tuesday ahead of a crunch vote on the long-troubled province's self-rule powers, after a rare intervention from former US president George W. Bush.</p><p>Leaders of the two main power-sharing parties urged the Northern Ireland faced a crunch vote on policing and justice Tuesday, prompting a rare intervention from former US president George W. Bush as leaders scrambled to keep devolution on track.</p><p>Bush called the leader of the Conservatives, Northern Ireland's joint government faced fresh pressure after a unionist party said it would reject a key political deal in a vote Tuesday, despite a reported intervention from George W. Bush.</p><p>The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) said it would not endorse a hard-fough...

Brother of Sinn Fein leader surrenders to police

2010-03-04T07:00:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Brother of Sinn Fein leader surrenders to Irish police over charges of molesting daughter</div><div><p>Police say the brother of Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams has surrendered to Irish authorities to face 23 charges of sexually abusing his daughter.</p><p>Liam Adams walked in to a central Northern Ireland's slow journey to disarmament detailed in new report</div><div><p>The governments of Ireland and Britain praised their disarmament commission Wednesday and published its final achievements in removing weapons from Northern Ireland's underground armies.<...

Britain NIreland Paisley

2010-03-02T09:31:57Z

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept., 1, 2004 file photo of Democratic Unionist Party leader Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley as he speaks to the media at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ian Paisley to quit British Parliament after 40 years</div><div><p>Ian Paisley, the hard-line Northern Ireland evangelist who led Protestants into power-sharing with Catholics, announced Tuesday he will r...

Explosive device fired at N.Ireland police station

2010-02-27T15:15:44Z

<div><p>An explosive device was fired at a police station in Northern Ireland on Saturday, but it did not hit the building and there were no reports of injuries, police said.</p><p>The incident took place in Craigavon, County Armagh, near to where dissident republicans shot dead a policeman in March las...

Politicians condemn N. Ireland killing

2010-02-25T17:15:58Z

<div><p>Politicians condemned the murder of a man in Northern Ireland who was shot in the head and left half-naked on a roadside by dissident republicans as "a throwback to the very worst of our past".</p><p>Ciaran Doherty, 31, was found late Wednesday with his wrists bound and wearing only his underwear on the outskirts of Londonderry, near the border wit...

Politicians condemn gruesome N.Ireland murder

2010-02-25T17:15:56Z

<div><p>Politicians condemned Thursday the murder of a man in Northern Ireland who was shot in the head and left half-naked by the side of a road as "a throwback to the very worst of our past".</p><p>The unidentified man, believed to be between 35 and 40, was found late Wednesday with his wrists bound and wearing only his underwear on the outskirts of Londonde...

Real IRA faction says it `executed' NIreland man

2010-02-25T15:15:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Real IRA splinter group says it killed Northern Ireland man; body found semi-naked by roadside</div><div><p>The Real IRA splinter group says it killed a Catholic civilian whose semi-naked body was found handcuffed and dumped near the Irish border.</p><p>The leaders of Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant government united Thursda...

Man convicted of Omagh bomb acquitted in retrial

2010-02-24T11:30:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Only Irishman convicted of Real IRA's 1998 Omagh car-bomb massacre acquitted in Dublin retrial</div><div><p>The only man ever convicted of involvement in the 1998 car-bomb slaughter in Omagh was acquitted Wednesday in a retrial judgment that angered the survivors of Northern Ireland's worst-ever sectarian atrocity, the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people, was cleared Wednesday.</p><p>Colm Murphy, 57, was originally convicted over the Real IRA bombing in 2002 and jailed for 14 years for conspiracy to cause an explosion but won an appeal ag...

NIreland police decry bombers' 17-minute warning

2010-02-23T12:00:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Northern Ireland police chief says IRA dissidents gave too little warning of car-bomb strike</div><div><p>Northern Ireland's police commander denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday for giving his officers just 17 minutes to evacuate the center of a border town before a car bomb detonated.</p><p>...

N.Ireland car bomb 'will not derail peace'

2010-02-23T09:16:23Z

<div><p>Political leaders insisted Northern Ireland's peace process would not be derailed Tuesday following a huge car bombing, just weeks after they clinched a deal on devolving sensitive policing powers.</p><p>Police said it was a "sheer miracle" that no one was killed or hurt by the bomb near a courthouse in Newry, south of

N.Ireland car bomb will not derail peace: politicians

2010-02-23T08:16:25Z

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