Month March 2009

Policeman shot dead in northern Ireland

“We are tonight staring into the abyss and I would appeal to people to pull back,” said Dolores Kelly, a member of Northern Ireland’s policing board, and a member of the nationalist SDLP party.

The Real IRA announce that the war is not over

(first published on Marxmail listserv) A political crisis has been created in the space of 48 hours in the North of Ireland. First two British soldiers were shot dead outside their base just outside Belfast on Saturday night, with a…