Former paramilitary sparks mayhem at Northern Ireland Assembly
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A former paramilitary has sparked chaos in Northern Ireland's Assembly by storming the building with a gun and throwing a device, protesting efforts to restore power-sharing in the province.
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Northern Ireland's largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Sunday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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Violence continued to flare across the country as hundreds of thousands joined a chaotic funeral procession for the former prime minister.
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Security experts in Belfast estimate that paramilitary groups reap millions each year with a mix of smuggling and counterfeiting, extortion and racketeering and drug trafficking in the British-ruled province.
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Moves to re-start Northern Ireland's moribund peace process shifted up a gear as Prime Minister Tony Blair held unprecedented talks with the chief of the province's once-Protestant dominated police and leaders of the Catholic Sinn Fein party.
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The day's violence underscored the rise in ethnic and sectarian tensions as the embattled nation heads toward elections in January.
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A south Belfast DUP assembly member has filed travel expenses of more than Â£18,000, it has been revealed.
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One of Northern Ireland's most notorious paramilitary killers forced the evacuation of its parliament building on Friday after throwing a package he said was a bomb near where politicians were discussing self-rule.
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An inquest is told that a west Belfast man was killed because he stood up to dissident republicans.
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The Northern Ireland Assembly missed another deadline for forming a government Friday, then politicians fled the building as one of the province's most infamous Protestant militants burst in, claiming to have a ...Comment
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The first minister describes violence in County Antrim in which a police officer was shot as "extremely worrying".
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Sinn Fein, political ally of the IRA, has accused British security forces in Northern Ireland of bugging the home of a peripheral member of party leader Gerry Adams&#39; staff.
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A former driver for senior members of Sinn Fein is revealed to be an informer for the security services.
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A house in Ballymena, County Antrim comes under attack twice within a five-hour period.
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A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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The police blamed the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for a major bank robbery last month in Northern Ireland, triggering concerns about efforts to revive the peace process in the British province.
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Ulster Defence Association leaders from across NI gather to present a united front against criminality.