Brewed for you by the Boston Globe:
"Police arrest 7 IRA dissidents over attacks" by Associated Press | May 6, 2010
DUBLIN — Police arrested seven suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents yesterday on suspicion of involvement in a wave of bomb attacks in the British territory of Northern Ireland....
Hours earlier a pipe bomb had exploded — the latest of the attacks — outside the police base in the religiously polarized town of Lurgan. The overnight blast damaged a building across the street but injured nobody.
Northern Ireland police have been on high alert amid fears that IRA splinter groups could mount a major bombing during the United Kingdom’s parliamentary elections today. Northern Ireland elects 18 members to the House of Commons in London.
Security analysts said the arrests could be designed to keep key dissidents behind bars during the weekend. Under British antiterror laws, suspects can be held without charge for weeks.
Last month, dissidents detonated two car bombs outside the Northern Ireland office of the British spy agency MI5 and a police station in the border village of Newtownhamilton. Neither blast caused damage.
No damage?
STINKOLA!!!!
The dissidents seek to wreck the IRA’s 1997 cease-fire and the Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland, the cornerstone of the US-brokered Good Friday peace accord.
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And that other obsession of the AmeriKan MSM:
"N. Ireland leader dealt surprise loss in UK vote" by Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press | May 8, 2010
DUBLIN — The leader of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government emerged yesterday as one of the biggest losers in the British election, casting doubt over his ability to stay at the helm of the core peacemaking institution in the province.
Not a single political commentator had forecast that Democratic Unionist Party chief Peter Robinson would lose in Protestant east Belfast, his British parliamentary seat and power base since 1979. But his reputation had been hurt by scandals involving his wife.
See: Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson!
She's what we call a COUGAR over here -- and there are a lot of them, especially 40-something teachers (or so it seems according to my AmeriKan newspaper and mass media).
Analysts warned that any leadership fight atop the Democratic Unionists could weaken their uneasy partnership with former Irish Republican Army commanders in Sinn Fein. The two former foes have jointly governed Northern Ireland since 2007 and weathered occasional attacks by IRA dissidents opposed to their partnership.
Robinson, 61, appeared ashen-faced as yesterday’s results showed him finishing second in a stunning upset victory for Belfast Mayor Naomi Long, deputy leader of the Alliance Party.
Alliance was founded in 1970 with the aim of uniting Irish Catholic and British Protestant voters on a platform of compromise. It more commonly finishes fifth than first in elections, and had never before won a British parliamentary seat....
ONCE AGAIN voters have GONE FOR PEACE and CHANGE!!
Good luck, Irish!
Robinson spent decades waiting patiently by the wing of Democratic Unionist founder Ian Paisley to retire. When that happened in 2008, Robinson’s day had finally come.
But his two years overseeing Northern Ireland’s regional government have been overshadowed by scandals involving his wife, Iris.
Earlier this year she resigned from her own posts in British Parliament, the Assembly, and a suburban Belfast council after declaring she had suffered a nervous breakdown, tried to commit suicide — then admitted, under pressure from a BBC investigation, to having an affair with a teenage Belfast boy.
Scandalous -- unless its a homosexual relationship.
Then the paper portrays it as true love.
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