09/01/2013
Other News In Brief
Man Hands Pipe Bomb Into Community Centre
Army bomb disposal teams were called to the offices of a Belfast-based community group after a man handed in a pipe bomb.
The incident happened at the Jasmine End office of Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI) in Twinbrook on Tuesday.
The device was later confirmed as 'viable'.
Harry Maguire of CRJI said the man who found the bomb had been concerned about the danger it posed to children.
Limavady Flag Proposal Defeated
Nationalists on Limavady Borough Council have voted down a motion to fly the union flag from council offices on designated days.
The flying of the union flag was banned in 2004 after SDLP councillor Dessie Lowry proposed the motion.
But Ulster Unionist Party councillor Edwin Stevenson proposed a new motion calling for the flag to be flown on designated days.
About 30 people protested outside council offices during the meeting.
Sinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey said the timing of the motion was reckless.
Man Dies In Road Crash
An 88-year-old man has died following a crash in County Down.
A van is thought to have been involved in the collision, which happened in Downpatrick Street in Crossgar at about 10:00 on Wednesday.
Two ambulances and a rapid response emergency vehicle were sent to the scene.
Guildford Four Man Calls For Price Release
Gerry Conlon has called for the release of prominent republican Marian Price.
Mr Conlon, one of a group of people now known as the 'Guildford Four', spent 15 years in prison after police forced confessions for the IRA bombing of the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford in 1974.
He has called for the release of 58-year-old Price outside the courthouse in L’Derry.
Ms Price is awaiting trial after she appeared at a dissident republican Easter rally in the city last year.
She was moved from Hydebank Prison after her lawyers successfully campaigned to have her moved due to ill health.
She is currently being treated in hospital.
Mr Conlon claims Ms Price is being held on secretly-obtained evidence and describes her situation as an abuse of her human rights.
(IT)
Army bomb disposal teams were called to the offices of a Belfast-based community group after a man handed in a pipe bomb.
The incident happened at the Jasmine End office of Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI) in Twinbrook on Tuesday.
The device was later confirmed as 'viable'.
Harry Maguire of CRJI said the man who found the bomb had been concerned about the danger it posed to children.
Limavady Flag Proposal Defeated
Nationalists on Limavady Borough Council have voted down a motion to fly the union flag from council offices on designated days.
The flying of the union flag was banned in 2004 after SDLP councillor Dessie Lowry proposed the motion.
But Ulster Unionist Party councillor Edwin Stevenson proposed a new motion calling for the flag to be flown on designated days.
About 30 people protested outside council offices during the meeting.
Sinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey said the timing of the motion was reckless.
Man Dies In Road Crash
An 88-year-old man has died following a crash in County Down.
A van is thought to have been involved in the collision, which happened in Downpatrick Street in Crossgar at about 10:00 on Wednesday.
Two ambulances and a rapid response emergency vehicle were sent to the scene.
Guildford Four Man Calls For Price Release
Gerry Conlon has called for the release of prominent republican Marian Price.
Mr Conlon, one of a group of people now known as the 'Guildford Four', spent 15 years in prison after police forced confessions for the IRA bombing of the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford in 1974.
He has called for the release of 58-year-old Price outside the courthouse in L’Derry.
Ms Price is awaiting trial after she appeared at a dissident republican Easter rally in the city last year.
She was moved from Hydebank Prison after her lawyers successfully campaigned to have her moved due to ill health.
She is currently being treated in hospital.
Mr Conlon claims Ms Price is being held on secretly-obtained evidence and describes her situation as an abuse of her human rights.
(IT)
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