New Northern police force 'needed face-saving name' for Trimble, records show
It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.
Source: breakingnews.ie
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SF should move away from violent links to stop attracting 'head bangers', Adams agreed in 2001
At the time, efforts were ongoing to get the IRA and other groups to decommission their weapons.
Source: thejournal.ie
British feared McAleese attendance at Omagh memorial service would make queen look bad
Department of Foreign Affairs official told his British counterpart that as far as he was aware the prime minister and the royal family had ‘received nothing but praise for their gestures of sympathy’
Source: irishtimes.com
Sinn Féin complained about 'painfully slow' availability of TG4 in the North – The Irish Times
State papers: Gerry Adams wrote to Irish and British governments about the TG4 issue in 2000, citing commitments in the Belfast Agreement
Source: irishtimes.com
State Papers: Collusion of double agent 'Stakeknife' in two murders to save his own skin is alleged in confidential files
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) chiefs admitted as early as 2001 that there was a high-placed British agent within the IRA codenamed “Stakeknife”.
Source: independent.ie
State papers reveal British government concern over President McAleese attending Omagh Service
President Mary McAleese risked embarrassing the Queen, Gerry Adams admitted Sinn Fein needed to stop attracting 'headbangers', and Mother Theresa
Source: oceanfm.ie
Laois Nationalist — British government tried to stop Mary McAleese attending Omagh event without Queen
A British diplomat said then-prime minister and Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II could face ’embarrassment’ by not attending the memorial.
Source: laois-nationalist.ie
Finucane family 'appalled by Blair's ignorance' of case details in 2000 meeting | East London and West Essex Guardian Series
The meeting was set up after a pledge from taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
Source: guardian-series.co.uk
Kildare Nationalist — New Northern police force 'needed face-saving name' for Trimble, records show
It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.
Source: kildare-nationalist.ie
The political A to Z of Northern Ireland in 2023
From Alderdice to Zombie via Ice Age, Gareth Gordon takes a look at the year that was in NI politics.
Source: bbc.co.uk