Straw halts release of IRA men

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UK Home Secretary Jack Straw has obtained an interim order overruling the decision by the Northern Ireland Sentence Review Commission to permit the release of IRA prisoners under the terms of the Good Friday agreement. A hearing will now take place to decide whether the planned early release of four IRA prisoners will go ahead. Straw sought a review of the prisoners' early release on the basis that the commission had been misguided in assessing the sentences as if the prisoners had been jailed in Northern Ireland.

Government domestic functions, Northern Ireland, Prisoners, Officials and employees, Laws, regulations and rules, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Irish Republican Army

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Mr Mandelson arrives in Ulster to find a land of opportunities

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New Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson attracts much attention from journalists. This will ensure that Northern Ireland will remain a priority for the government and will place politicians in Northern Ireland under strong pressure to reach an agreement. Mandelson's immediate challenge will be to revive the peace process and bring it through the last few hurdles. He enters a situation in which there are both difficulties and opportunities.

Political activity, Column, Political aspects, Mandelson, Peter

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In remembrance of lives past

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A book giving a brief account of the lives of the victims of the terrorist attacks in the US may assist the relatives of the victims as they cope with their sudden loss. A venture of this kind was undertaken in Northern Ireland to commemorate the more than 3,600 people killed in the conflicts there.

Disaster victims

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