Northern Ireland News for July 2001 : Page 13

Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2001
MALLON LEADS ON DESPITE GOOD FRIDAY CRISIS
FOLLOWING the formal announcement of David Trimble’s resignation in the Assembly on Monday, July 2, Seamus Mallon stressed his commitment to making the Agreement work despite a lack of progress on dec...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2001
REID TELLS COMMONS ‘NI SITUATION IS SERIOUS’
THE British Government have said they are disappointed with results from General de Chastelain’s decommissioning report. Speaking in response to questions on Northern Ireland in the House of Commons ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2001
EMPEY TAKES OVER FIRST MINISTER DUTIES
DAVID Trimble, who resigned as first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly at the weekend, has appointed fellow Ulster Unionist party member and Assembly Member Sir Reg Empey, to fulfil the functi...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2001
ALLOWANCE INCREASE FOR LOCAL COUNCILLORS
DISTRICT Councils are to be permitted to increase the allowances paid to their councillors by approximately 30 per cent with effect from 1 July 2001. Minister of the Environment Sam Foster made the a...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2001
BOMB ATTACKS BLAMED ON LOYALISTS
LOYALISTS have been blamed for bomb attacks on houses in Belfast over the weekend. In the first attack, a man and woman and her children aged four and five escaped injury when a blast bomb was thrown...