Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BELFAST: Did the IRA end its cease-fire and not tell anyone? The Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland?s police force, says yes. Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan has fingered the terrorist group in two recent murders in the province -- of a drug dealer and a Protestant militant. That could lead to the ejection of Sinn Fein, the IRA?s political wing, from ongoing peace talks -- and a return to the so-called troubles, now nearly 30 years...
...Mowlam, Britain?s secretary of state for Northern Ireland, wasn?t yet saying whether she?d ask for Sinn Fein to be kicked out of the Stormont talks. The Protestant terrorist group UDA was shown the door two weeks ago when it gunned down three Catholic civilians -- violating the all-important pledge of nonviolence. Sinn Fein spent Thursday protesting its innocence, perhaps a little too loudly. ?We do not speak for any armed group,? said leader Gerry Adams, denying what he?d always tacitly admitted -- regular contact with the Republican Army council. In a short statement, the IRA said...
...When Irish Peace Is Waning Northern Ireland's Protestant UDA has already been ejected from peace talks for shooting civilians. Now the IRA is accused of two murders. Will it be next...
...said a few years. I never said 15 years," laughs Counter, who has been at the Foundation for 17 years now. Over the years, he has helped student groups bring notables such as Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, Secretaries General of the United Nations Javier Perez-DeCullar and Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Nobel laureate and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to promote peace and intercultural understanding...
REAL LIFE: Scandal distracts nation from events in Cuba, Ireland and Iraq...