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...Suzanne Breen - a journalist in Northern Ireland who refused to co-operate with police after they demanded she hand over notes and other materials relating to a terrorist attack in March that killed two soldiers. Over a month after the high-profile case was first heard in a Belfast court, a judge ruled in the journalist's favor on June 18. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
...Speaking outside Belfast's Laganside Courts after Thursday's judgment, Breen's editor, Noirin Hegarty, described a journalist's protection of his or her sources as "an absolute value, not a convenient principle." But what swayed the Belfast Recorder Tom Burgess was the risk to Breen's life. In his ruling, Judge Burgess said complying with the police request could lead to "a breach of [Breen's] right to life under the European Convention [on Human Rights]" "The Real IRA have killed, and attempted to kill, for much less. During the attack on the soldiers at Massereene barracks, the gunmen...
...attack that killed 29 and injured 250 when a bomb hidden in a stolen car parked on the busy High Street exploded. But the accused, Sean Hoey, was found not guilty of 29 counts of murder and other charges relating to the attack. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
...Outside Belfast's High Court, Gallagher's father Michael, the chief spokesman for the Omagh families, vowed that their campaign for justice would continue. Michael Gallagher and others are calling for an independent inquiry to be set up by the British and Irish governments to further investigate the Omagh atrocity. Other killings carried out during Northern Ireland's 25-year sectarian conflict have been the subjects of similar investigations, and not without controversy. The Saville Inquiry into the 1972 shooting of 27 civil-rights marchers in Derry by British army soldiers is already in its 10th year and, despite having...
...pictures of new hope for Belfast...