Irish Republicans on Friday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army, who died in jail after a 66-day hunger strike. Sands has come to be considered a martyr by the Republican movement, whose quest for Irish reunification divided the Northern Irish community.
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/ 28 September 2005
Participants at the World Toilet Summit, taking place this week in Northern Ireland, are shrugging off the sniggers to insist everyone must pay attention to the ”last taboo” of proper sanitation. ”We have been conditioned not to talk about it,” said Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organisation.
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/ 26 September 2005
Northern Ireland took a potentially historic step on Monday towards a lasting peace with the formal announcement that the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) has destroyed all its weapons. While long-awaited, the report marks a potential watershed in Northern Ireland’s long trek towards a lasting peace, which began more than a decade ago with an IRA ceasefire.
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/ 15 September 2005
One of the Protestant paramilitary groups implicated in three nights of rioting in Belfast called on Tuesday for an end to the violence, the worst Northern Ireland has seen in years. Sixty police officers and at least 10 civilians have been hurt in the clashes, which erupted over a ban on a Protestant parade through Roman Catholic areas of Belfast.
Leaders of the Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) political wing head to St Patrick’s Day events in the United States this week battered by a furore over IRA crime, shut out of talks in Washington and banned from its annual fund-raising drive among Irish-Americans. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been omitted from official events hosted by US President George Bush.
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/ 28 January 2003
In a threadbare Paris theatre, on January 5, 1953, several years after the playwright Samuel Beckett had fled the sharp censors in his native Ireland, the groundbreaking ”Waiting for Godot”, first graced the stage.