As the end of the Adams and McGuinness leadership of Sinn Féin looms on the horizon Gerard Howlin reviews a book that wonders if violent dissidents might succeed them

GARDAÍ are investigating if the latest gangland killing is linked to a row between dissident republicans.

A NUMBER of protests passed off without incident just over 100 metres from the English Market during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Cork.

ON opposite corners of Parnell Square, the protestors were making their voices heard.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said it is time to "stand up and be counted" against what he called "tiny, unrepresentative factions" who continue to engage in armed actions.

Republican Sinn Féin is holding its annual Theobald Wolfe Tone commemoration in Kildare today.

A plan being put forward by the Limerick City Council Housing Committee to re-locate troublesome families in special clusters of ten to 20 houses has been described as creating 'a ghetto mentality' by a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin.

A number of polling stations traditionally used for voting in Limerick have disappeared from the list of places for The Lisbon Treaty poll, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said today.

AS a GAA member I must protest at the presence of Stormont minister Edwin Poots at the recent Dr McKenna Cup football match between Donegal and Down in Newry.

A unionist umbrella group for victims of the Troubles plans to march 3,000 people through Dublin in a second attempt at a so-called "Love Ulster" rally, it was revealed today.

THE Taoiseach was expecting a triumphant tour of Cork city but instead he was left running for cover from heckling protesters.

Gardaí have arrested six people after minor scuffles near O’Connell Street in connection with the protest that took place outside Croke Park earlier in the day.

Tens of thousands of Ireland and England rugby fans today stood shoulder to shoulder as their historic clash at the home of Gaelic games began without incident today.

Republican Sinn Féin said it is going ahead with plans to protest outside the Croke Park before the Ireland - England rugby international.

THERE are no plans by the Irish or British governments for a ceremonial gesture to mark Bloody Sunday before the Six Nations rugby international between Ireland and England on February 24, it was confirmed yesterday.

Republicans who broke away from Sinn Féin 20 years ago are to challenge Gerry Adams' party in at least 11 constituencies in the forthcoming Stormont Assembly Election.

Gerry Adams today denied Sinn Féin was dancing to the Democratic Unionist Party’s tune on policing.

Republicans opposed to the Police Force in Northern Ireland may run ex-prisoners as candidates in this March’s elections to restore government.

AN overwhelming majority of the 2,000 Sinn Féin supporters attending the party’s extraordinary árd fheis tomorrow will, most likely, back support for policing in the North.

A prominent member of Republican Sinn Féin in Donegal has stated he has no sympathy for Denis Donaldson who was murdered last week.

The organisers of last Saturday's contentious loyalist march in Dublin have said they want to restage the event at a future date.

GARDAÍ were given an anonymous letter stating that the Continuity IRA was going to target last Saturday's Love Ulster rally in Dublin, according to the garda report into the riots.

Republican Sinn Féin is refusing to condemn the riots that accompanied Saturday's abandoned loyalist march in Dublin city centre.

LET there be no equivocation: those who orchestrated the rabid intolerance witnessed in the centre of Dublin on Saturday can only be considered as implacable enemies of this State.

THE garda chief in charge of policing the loyalist parade in Dublin insisted the riot was the work of drunken teenagers, most of whom did not belong to any political grouping.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating a shooting incident at the grave of a Continuity IRA member in a city cemetery.

A SUSPECTED republican dissident, arrested by armed detectives, was carrying a loaded handgun when he was picked up on a Cork street.

Gardaí discovered four guns, a makeshift firing range and targets when they raided a suspected Continuity IRA training camp at a clearing in the Comeragh mountains, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Sinn Féin will use centenary celebrations next year to embark on a major recruitment drive on both sides of the border, it emerged today.

Three men were jailed by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today after a major garda operation against the Continuity IRA led to the discovery of a bomb making operation near the border last year.

Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

RUAIRÍ Ó BRÁDAIGH of Republican Sinn Féin (president, no less) should get it through his head that 98% of the people of this island want nothing to do with his mock-republicanism, or with his party's flying the Real and Continuity IRA's flags of convenience.

IN his speech to the Sinn Féin Árd Fheis last weekend, Gerry Adams was reported as saying: "No matter how daunting, tedious and frustrating this process may be for the governments and the rest of us, there is no alternative way forward."

SO puffed up and silly was the letter from Des Dalton of Republican Sinn Féin (Irish Examiner, Dec 13) that, at first glance, I thought it an Après Match skit on gombeen nationalism.

One of Ireland’s most hard-line republican politicians today claimed the current suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly marked “the chronic instability of English rule in Ireland“.

One of Ireland’s most hard-line republican organisations, Republican Sinn Féin, staged their annual conference in Dublin today.

Republican Sinn Féin has described the IRA statement on decommissioning as "treacherous".

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today that he used to fax a daily digest of news reports from Irish newspapers and republican websites to his FBI handler.

The Red Hand Defenders, a cover name for the Ulster Defence Association and the Loyalist Volunteer Force, has claimed responsibility for a bomb planted outside the offices of Republican Sinn Fein on the Falls Road in west Belfast yesterday.

A Limerick man convicted yesterday of membership of the Continuity IRA worked in Templemore garda training college, Dublin Castle and banks throughout Munster, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The case against seven men accused of Continuity IRA membership was a "garda driven prosecution" inspired by a political agenda, a defence counsel told the Special Criminal Court today.

A Limerick man told the Special Criminal Court today that he was at a Republican Sinn Fein meeting discussing a forthcoming republican commemoration when gardaí raided a house in the city.