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Sinn Fein hold onto N. Ireland seat

March 7, 2013 23:32
Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein on Friday retained their British parliamentary seat of mid-Ulster in a by-election called when deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness stood down as an MP last year. Francis Molloy won the Northern Ireland seat with a reduced majority for the party after winning 47 percent of the vote. Molloy had been deputy speaker at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Joint unionist candidate Nigel Lutton was second on 12,781 votes. Lutton's father was killed by the IRA, and Molloy has been accused of being a suspect in his murder.

N.Ireland's McGuinness gets death threat from dissidents

March 7, 2013 13:30
BELFAST, March 7 (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's deputy prime minister - a former commander in the rebel Irish Republican Army - said on Thursday he was under a death threat from militant nationalists after he condemned a mortar bomb plot. Martin McGuinness said a senior police officer had visited him on Wednesday night and warned him dissidents had made a "real and active" threat against his life.

CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-N.Ireland police foil IRA-style mortar attack

March 4, 2013 13:02
(Corrects day, time of police interception) * Police say attack on police station was minutes away * Four mortars could have caused "mass murder" * First attempt at multiple mortar attack since IRA ceasefire * 100 homes evacuated after bombs seized in van By Ian Graham

IRA Old Bailey bomber dies in Dublin

January 24, 2013 13:45
* Convicted IRA bomber Delours Price dies at home Dublin * Death may clear way for release of secret interviews * Tapes may offer details of Gerry Adams role in conflict By Conor Humphries DUBLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Dolours Price, one of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombers convicted of the 1973 attack on London's Old Bailey and later a vocal critic of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, died in her home in Dublin overnight, a family friend said.

FACTBOX-Northern Ireland suffers worst violence in years

January 10, 2013 06:30
Jan 10 (Reuters) - Riots broke out in Northern Ireland last month after a vote by mostly pro-Irish councillors to end the century-old tradition of flying the British flag daily from Belfast City Hall. Here is a look the background to Northern Ireland's continuing sectarian divide: * At least 3,600 people were killed over three decades as Catholic nationalists seeking union with Ireland fought British security forces and mainly Protestant loyalists determined to remain part of the United Kingdom.
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