Michael McKevitt, the head of dissident republican group the Real IRA, and three accomplices were convicted of plotting the 1998 Omagh bombing in a landmark Belfast civil court ruling. Twenty-nine people were killed in the attack.
Police in Northern Ireland charged a man, reportedly leading republican Colin Duffy, with the murder of two British soldiers earlier this month, the deadliest attack in the province in more than a decade.
Just days after two soldiers and a policeman were killed by IRA dissidents, both Catholic and Protestant peacemakers are worried that the time of Northern Ireland's 'troubles' is still floating in the air.
In this edition: a spate of murders leaves Northern Ireland mulling how much things have changed; the beginning of the end for tax havens and the EU passes tough new rules to stop oil spills despite opposition from the shipping industry.
A policeman was shot dead late on Monday in County Armagh in an attack claimed by the dissident republican group Continuity IRA. The shooting came just two days after another dissident splinter group, the Real IRA, killed two British soldiers.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has visited the barracks in Belfast where two British soldiers were killed by gunmen in a shooting later claimed by the Real IRA, a dissident republican group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process.
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