Ireland
Northern Ireland: Discussions aimed at rescuing Good Friday Agreement
By Steve James and Chris Marsden, February 20, 2004
Discussions have begun between all the major political parties in Northern Ireland and the British and Irish governments on a review of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The review will centre on the ex...
Northern Ireland loyalists turn to race violence
By Steve James, February 6, 2004
A series of racial attacks in Northern Ireland point to organised efforts by Ulster loyalist paramilitaries to purge Protestant areas of non-whites.
Ireland: Barron report confirms British collusion in 1974 Dublin bombings
By Steve James, December 23, 2003
The Irish government has approved the publication of a report into the origins of bomb attacks in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974. Thirty-three people were killed in the atrocity, the single most bloody e...
Irish budget hands millions of euros to business
By Niall Green, December 11, 2003
In his seventh budget as Minister of Finance, Charlie McCreevy continued the Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrat coalition government’s policy of offering tax breaks to big business while starving ...
Northern Ireland: Unions derail opposition to Bombardier job cuts
By Steve James, December 11, 2003
A weeklong strike by workers at Bombardier’s Belfast aerospace plant, part of a months-long dispute, has been derailed by the combined efforts of the trade union bureaucracy and the Northern Ire...
Northern Ireland elections: Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein gain support
By Steve James, December 3, 2003
Elections for the suspended Northern Ireland Assembly resulted in predicted gains in support for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein.
Northern Ireland election: An attempt to rescue the Good Friday Agreement
By Steve James, November 26, 2003
Today’s second election for the Northern Ireland Assembly is another desperate effort to resuscitate the constitutional arrangements established under the power-sharing Good Friday Agreement of ...
Northern Ireland: Adams offers to disband IRA as new elections are called
By Steve James and Chris Marsden, November 7, 2003
More than a year after the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly and six months after scheduled elections were cancelled, new elections have finally been called by the British government for Nov...
Deepening poverty and inequality in Northern Ireland
By Steve James, October 24, 2003
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which incorporated republican Sinn Fein and the IRA into the structure of British rule in Northern Ireland, was supposed to create a framework within which an era of &l...
Northern Ireland: Human rights redefined on sectarian lines
By Steve James, August 20, 2003
Underlying the tensions in and around the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), are two conflicting conceptions of human rights. These in turn reflect the gulf between the hopes of working...
The “Steak Knife” affair and Britain’s dirty war in Northern Ireland
By Steve James, August 9, 2003
After months of claims, counterclaims, denials and fresh accusations, it now seems highly likely that the one-time second in command of the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (IRA’s) inte...
Irish government prepares airport and transport privatisation
By Steve James, July 30, 2003
Ireland’s state-owned airport company, Aer Rianta, is to be broken up and eventually privatised.
