Omagh, Northern Ireland News

Alliance party leader David Ford says lessons must be learned from Omagh bombing A Northern Ireland justice minister must insist that MI5 share all intelligence on republican dissidents with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, according to the man widely tipped to take over that department.

A FORMER boyband singer who was severely injured in a car smash is to receive 3million in compensation.

This time it's Brian Lenihan 's turn to do his patriotic duty. When he tried to discourage us from cross-border shopping last year, on the grounds that we'd be paying "her majesty's taxes" rather than contributing to the Republic's economy, his reproach fell on deaf ears.

Irish terrorism will return to the top of the security agenda today after co-ordinated gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland confirmed the determination by so-called dissident republicans to strike hard against the Province's fragile peace before Christmas.

The first person to be convicted in connection with the 1998 Omagh bombing was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

Kim McLaughlin, Transition Project Manager FDC and ODC. Work continues towards the amalgamation of Fermanagh and Omagh Councils this week in spite of warnings from the Stormont Minister in charge of Council reform that plans to reduce Council numbers could collapse.

Back in May, I wrote this post about the murders of two British Army sappers,A Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and fretted that dissident Republicans were getting bolder in their attacks on the police, army, and those it considered traitors to the Feinian cause.

Theatre of Witness presents 'We Carried Your Secrets': By Eamon Baker 'We Carried Your Secrets' is a multimedia production which unites a group of fathers who are ex-combatants and who were on the front lines during the Troubles.

Cross border development group the Irish Central Border Area Network has announced two new appointments following its recent AGM.

The BBC reports on comments by Norman Baxter, former Head of Serious Crime Branch of the PSNI, appearing in front of the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee as part of their continuing investigation into the handling of intelligence relating to the Omagh bombing.

Another attack like the Omagh bomb could happen because a blind eye is being turned to dissident republicans, a former senior policeman has claimed .

A senior policeman who investigated the Omagh bomb has said intelligence information about suspects should have been shared with detectives at an early stage.

PUBLIC sector workers in Ballymena rallied on Friday in protest at planned further job cuts and to call for further employment creation policies.

The Health Minister has attended a rally held in Belfast to protest against cuts to the health service.

Health officials in Derry have said there has been a 'positive' uptake of the swine flu vaccination, following the beginning of clinics last week.

While most people are well aware of the years of civil unrest which led to the demise of Apartheid in 1994, not as many know about the secret talks that simultaneously transpired for almost a decade between the South African government and the African National Congress , the political party spearheading the independence movement.

THE family of an Ulster woman ill in a London hospital with swine flu have revealed they hope to have her newborn son home with them by the end of the week.

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The Omagh community is rallying around a new mum who is battling for her life in a London hospital, after contracting swine flu.

A confidential file of terror incidents reveals that the police in Northern Ireland are facing their greatest threat for a decade.