2002-10-14 05:40:00 EST
REID ANNOUNCES SUSPENSION OF ASSEMBLY
Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid has announced the suspension of the power-sharing Assembly in Northern Ireland and the return to direct rule by London. Speaking in Belfast this morning, the Northern Secretary said the British government thought it would be "a shortlived impasse."
2002-10-13 18:56:00 EST
BRITAIN TO SUSPEND ASSEMBLY TOMORROW
Northern Ireland Secretary of State John Reid has tonight confirmed his intention to suspend the powersharing Assembly set up under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. Dr Reid contacted the leaders of the North's political parties this evening to tell him he was going to suspend the political institutions tomorrow morning at 1000 GMT.
2002-10-11 12:15:00 EST
AHERN AND ADAMS SPEAK BY PHONE
Irish premier Bertie Ahern and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams discussed the Northern Ireland peace process crisis in a telephone conversation today. Afterwards, Mr Adams - in Galway, campaigning for a No vote in next week`s Irish referendum on the European Union`s Nice Treaty - said he had been given an assurance that the Dublin government was determined to press ahead with all the outstanding elements of the Good Friday agreement.
2002-10-10 14:05:00 EST
DEVOLUTION TO END ON MONDAY
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to suspend the Northern Ireland Assembly power-sharing executive early next week in a bid to avoid the resignations of Ulster Unionist Party ministers, it emerged today. British Government sources indicated suspension of devolution was likely to occur next Monday. Extra direct rule ministers from Westminster would be appointed to the Northern Ireland Office to take over the running of the Northern Ireland Executive`s 10 government departments.
2002-10-09 03:33:00 EST
AHERN AND BLAIR TO MEET IN LONDON
The Irish premier and British Prime Minister will hold a crisis meeting in London later today to map a way through the political crisis amid fears that the peace process is at the point of collapse. Mr Ahern will travel to Downing Street tonight to discuss with Mr Tony Blair how to continue operating the Belfast Agreement after the expected withdrawal of the Ulster Unionist Party's ministers from the powersharing Assembly, possibly as soon as this weekend.
2002-10-07 13:18:00 EST
ORDE APOLOGISES OVER SINN FEIN OFFICES RAID
The Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, has apologised for the way officers raided Sinn Fein offices at Parliament Buildings, Belfast on Friday.
2002-10-05 17:52:00 EST
PROTESTS MOUNTED AGAINST PSNI'S STORMONT RAID
Protests were mounted outside a number of Northern Ireland police stations this afternoon as four people continue to be questioned after yesterday's police raids on Belfast locations including Sinn Fein's Stormont offices at Government Buildings.
2002-10-04 05:35:00 EST
PSNI RAID SINN FEIN OFFICES AT STORMONT
Police in Northern Ireland have made a number of arrests and raided Sinn Fein's Stormont offices outside Belfast. The raids started at about 0500 GMT this morning and the operation is continuing. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said they were investigating "the activities of republican terrorists in Belfast".
2002-10-03 12:20:00 EST
ORDE ANNOUNCES RETENTION OF POLICE RESERVE
Full-time reservists with the Police Service of Northern Ireland will remain in place until at least April 2005. The decision was announced following a meeting of the Policing Board and the Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, in Belfast this afternoon.
2002-10-01 13:31:00 EST
UUP THREATEN TO WITHDRAW FROM POLICE BOARD
A leading Ulster Unionist MP said today that Unionists will leave Northern Ireland's Policing Board if the British government introduces more police reforms in the North to bring the PSNI into line with the Patten Report's recommendations.
2002-09-30 18:28:00 EST
SINN FEIN: NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRIMBLE AND DONALDSON
There is now "no substantial difference" between Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and Jeffrey Donaldson, a Sinn Fein MP claimed tonight. Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew told a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool Mr Trimble was "no more or no less a front for the rejectionists who now control the policy and the direction of the UUP".
2002-09-25 09:11:00 EST
MEETINGS IN DUBLIN OVER PEACE CRISIS
British and Irish government ministers were today holding emergency talks in Dublin in a bid to save the Northern Ireland peace process from collapse following Saturday's decision of the Ulster Unionist Council to immediately withdraw from North-South council ministerial meetings and to effectively set a deadline to bring down the powersharing Assembly on January 18th.
2002-09-23 11:44:00 EST
NATIONALISTS CONDEMN UUP THREAT
The nationalist SDLP and Sinn Fein have condemned a threat by the Ulster Unionist Party to collapse the Northern Ireland Executive unless the IRA disband by January 18. SDLP leader Mark Durkan said the political process was now in crisis following the decision taken at the Ulster Unionist Council meeting on Saturday. He is seeking a meeting with David Trimble and the other party leaders to discuss the future.
2002-09-22 15:38:00 EST
IRA MUST DISAPPEAR SAYS DONALDSON
The anti-Agreement Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson has said the IRA must 'disappear' before his party will consider sharing power with Sinn Féin after the 18 January deadline adopted yesterday.
2002-09-21 17:48:00 EST
TRIMBLE ADOPTS HARDLINERS STANCE ON AGREEMENT
The future of the Belfast Agreement is in doubt following David Trimble's concessions to hardliners in his party. Agreeing to an immediate end to co-operation with the joint North-South administrative body, David Trimble has moved closer to his rival Jeffrey Donaldson's hardline position on government with Sinn Fein.
2002-09-11 13:46:00 EST
SINN FEIN PROTEST OVER SPEAKING TIME IN PARLIAMENT
Sinn Féin's five Irish parliamentarians (TD's) walked out of the Dáil this afternoon in protest at not being allocated more time to debate their opposition to the Nice Treaty. Sinn Féin's Louth representative, Mr Arthur Morgan TD, was asked to leave the Dáil during the debate after he protested that he and his colleague Mr Seán Crowe had not been given time to speak.
2002-08-22 13:22:00 EST
TROUBLE AGAIN IN NORTH BELFAST
There are reports of a fresh wave of sectarian violence in a flashpoint area of north Belfast tonight. Nationalists claimed shots were fired from the loyalist Glenbryn area into the nationalist Ardoyne at around 3.30pm local time this afternoon.
2002-08-19 11:12:00 EST
PIPE BOMB ATTACK ON ANTRIM HOME
A Catholic couple and their two teenage sons narrowly avoided injury today in what police believe was a sectarian attack in Co Antrim. A pipe bomb was thrown into their Pearse Park home in Carrickfergus at about 0100 GMT on Sunday while the family was sleeping.
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Friday, May 17, 2002:
FINAL RESULTS
| Party | Seats | Seats last election |
| Fianna Fáil | 81 |
77 |
| Fine Gael | 31 |
54 |
| Labour | 21 |
21 |
| Progressive Democrats | 8 |
4 |
| Green Party | 6 |
2 |
| Sinn Féin | 5 |
1 |
| Socialist Party | 1 |
1 |
| Others | 13 |
6 |
May 16, 2002
April 8, 2002
March 7, 2002
...with the ballot, the results and David Trimble's reaction
Irish Proclamation of Freedom Read by Patrick Pearse from the Steps of the General Post Office, Dublin, Ireland on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916
The Irish Government, June 1997:
Bloody Sunday and the Report of the Widgery Tribunal
Full text of the Good Friday Agreement, April 10, 1998.
Investigation into the human rights in Northern Ireland, September 29, 1998
Statement by Rosemary Nelson, solicitor for Garvaghy Road residents
Nobel Peace Price Award, December 11, 1998:
Nobel Address by David Trimble, First Minister and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Nobel Address by John Hume, leader of the catholic SDLP
George Mitchell's Peace Principles, November 1999:
Statements of November 16 and 17, 1999, by Ulster Unionist Party, Sinn Féin, Progressive Unionist Party and IRA
George Mitchell's statement, November 18, 1999
Suspension of Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive. February 2000:
Decommissioning reports, Mandelson in House of Commons, IRA statements
Peace process resumed. May 2000
British-Irish joint statement and IRA statement.
Inspection of IRA weapons dumps, June 2000
Arms inspector's report
Abortion Referendum March 7, 2002
An Irish bookshop: Read Ireland
Wesley Johnston's History of Ireland
The CAIN Project (The Northern Ireland Conflict)
Danish Irish Society
Sinn Féin Homepage
The Irish Times
I started reading about Ireland and about its history in order to understand just a bit of the Irish paradoxes. Although I started from the very beginning the matter was still incomprehensible. I therefore began to write down the headlines in Danish.
In 1998 when I got my own website I wondered what to put there. My family, my career or my garden could not attract much attention. But my Danish survey of the history of Ireland would be different from most other websites, so I uploaded the whole story.
I considered my web-project to be complete by then. However the beginning of 1998 was to become a turning point in the history of Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement created optimism and a new hope of lasting peace. I therefore added new chapters on the peace agreement and on the ups and downs since then. Obviously there is still a way to go before a real peace has been achieved and right now I can't see the end of my project.
A lot of people wrote to me asking for details or references. This has proved the need for a brief Danish version of the history of Ireland. In 2001 more than 50 persons on the average have been visiting my website every day.
However about 10 % of the visitors on my website are non-Scandinavians. I have added this page in order to serve these people with some information about my project and with some of the important references.
I considered reference documents and speeches most interesting in the original English language. I also have to admit that a proper translation of the documents to Danish is not that simple. On the other hand the number of visitors to the reference pages in English has been very limited. Therefore all information in English will be concentrated in this English section of my website together with selected news.
I have no intention of making an English version of the whole story. I have neither the ability nor the capacity to write in English and several excellent sites already offer that sort of information.
E-mail me your comments and questions
Ireland History in Maps
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The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland
Ulster Unionist Party
The Irish Republican Socialist Party
Fine Gael
Ulster Democratic Unionist Party, DUP
Fianna Fáil
Ulster Democratic Party
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Progressive Unionist Party
Ulster Nation
The Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Wild Geese (USA) Irish soldiers in exile
Visit Danish Irish Society
December 16, 2001 Top
Since my first visit to Ireland the history of Ireland was a puzzle to me. Why has this beautiful country with its charming and hospitable population become the arena of a never-ending conflict? Differences in religion, language, race or culture gave no reasonable explanation. Which coincidence has caused so much suffering in Ireland while other countries such as Denmark had nothing but trifles to quarrel about?