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To bomb or not to bomb, asks the IRA.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Northern Ireland

Sinn Fein may lose last excuse not to condemn violence. The word in west Belfast's republican strongholds is that several "volunteers" have not been seen for days.

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Minding Your Own Business - Two companies struggling from the Belfast ruins.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Northern Ireland

Jimmy Burns visits a business park on the dividing line between catholic and protestant. THE FARSET Enterprise business park in West Belfast backs off against an 18ft high fence separating two communities: protestant and catholic. Its front gate gives on to the Springfield Road, a notorious killing ground for the terrorists on both sides.

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Time to test the changing attitudes in Northern Ireland.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Northern Ireland

Jimmy Burns looks at a candidate for the Northern Ireland assembly trying to get away from the politics of orange and green.

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Prisoners of the past at Ulster's Orange weekend
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Northern Ireland

IT SAYS something about Northern Ireland today that the focus of popular attention this weekend was not bombs and assassinations but a small group of Mohawk Indians at the parade in Belfast to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne, at which the forces of the Roman Catholic king James II were defeated.

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No smoking gun.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Northern Ireland

For three straight nights, Colin Powell huddled with officials piecing together a presentation he hoped would swing the divided United Nations behind the US and Britain in support of military action against Iraq.

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