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Pat Finucane's widow calls de Silva report 'a whitewash'

Source: Guardian Unlimited, Dec 12 2012, 1:44pm CST

On the evening of Sunday 12 February 1989, the Finucane family were sat together for dinner in their north Belfast home when loyalist gunmen sledge-hammered their way into the house and shot Patrick Finucane dead. On Wednesday afternoon, th ...

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Explosive device removed by Northern Ireland police investigating attempted murders

Source: The Telegraph UK  |   May 18 2013, 2:40am CDT

What is believed to be a bomb found by police investigating the attempt to murder three officers in West Belfast has been taken away, police said. The device was found in Dunmurry as the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PS ...

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NUJ condemns loyalist threats against Northern Ireland journalists

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 16 2013, 4:08am CDT

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off And the union's president, Barry McCall, called on the people "responsible for the threats to withdraw them immediately and to issue a public statement ...

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Britain urged to investigate murder of Irish human rights champion

Source: Catholic News Agency  |   May 16 2013, 3:43am CDT

Rep Chris Smith listens during an October 4 Helsinki Commission hearing. Washington D.C., May 16, 2013 / 02:13 am (CNA).- Witnesses and congressmen at a U.S. hearing renewed a call to the British government to launch a public inquiry into the 1989 mur ...

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Michael Finucane testifies on Capitol Hill

Source: Irish Times  |   May 15 2013, 7:11pm CDT

Michael Finucane told a subcommittee of the House of Representatives committee on foreign affairs that security force collusion in his father’s murder was the “last great historical issue” for the British government in the Northern Ireland conflict. ...

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Officials 'turned blind eye' to Pat Finucane killing

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 15 2013, 6:04pm CDT

The admission in advice to David Cameron comes after the Downing Street continues to block a judicial inquiry into the 1989 murder of the Belfast lawyer, Pat Finucane, who was a victim of the campaign, a US congr ...

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US Congress critical of UK inquiry into 1989 killing of Pat Finucane

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 15 2013, 12:02pm CDT

The British government was heavily criticised at a US congressional committee on Wednesday for reneging on a pledge to hold an inquiry into one of the most controversial incidents of the Northern Ireland Troubles, the killing of Belfast ...

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Northern Ireland warning: Paramilitaries are back on the march

Source: The Independent  |   May 13 2013, 1:31pm CDT

Matt Baggott, Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, was this week in confident mood, and seemed to have recovered following the ordeal of the Belfast loyalist flag protests which lasted for months ...

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80% of homophobic attacks in Northern Ireland not reported – study

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 13 2013, 5:34am CDT

Anti-gay violence in Northern Ireland is massively underplayed, with eight out of 10 attacks not reported to the police, according to research. As the lord mayor of Belfast prepared to launch Anti-Homophobia Week at the city hall on Monday, a repo ...

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