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Your parents were hippies who left northern California to be closer to nature in rural Idaho. It seems like you've embraced the "nature" component of their mission, but not the "rural" part...
...Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are under increasing pressure to clamp down on terrorist splinter groups such as the Real IRA. But so far, only one person has been charged with the murders at Massereene barracks. Just over a month after Breen's article describing the call she received from the Real IRA appeared in the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, of which she is Northern Editor, Breen received a letter from the PSNI, requesting she hand over notes, photographs, her cell phone and other records relating to the attack, in order to advance their investigation. Breen refused...
...Breen's case was not the first time that a reporter in Northern Ireland had locked horns with the police over their sources. In 1971, as the province entered the bloodiest period of its 25-year sectarian conflict, BBC reporter Bernard Falk was jailed for refusing to provide the police with details of an interview he carried out with an IRA spokesman. Over twenty years later, journalist Ed Moloney published a controversial interview with a member of a Protestant paramilitary group (and police informer) who had been accused of the murder of a Catholic solicitor. The paramilitary-turned-informer told...
...questions may now be asked in Northern Ireland why public money was spent on attempting to force a journalist to breach the confidentiality of her sources, not least by the journalist herself. "I am perplexed as to why the police wasted time and resources in taking this case", said Breen outside court after the judgment. That's a line of enquiry Breen and other reporters may be keen to follow...
...Read "In Northern Ireland, a Civil Action...