ANTI-QUEEN protests planned by republican and anti-war groups will be allowed to go ahead, gardaí have confirmed.

A “SUFFOCATING” security operation in Dublin city centre for the visit of the British monarch has disabled potential flashpoints with republicans.

GERRY Adams dismissed republican dissidents as “anti-peace” activists but offered to mediate with them to try and halt the upsurge of violence in the North.

Dublin City Councillor Louise Minihan is refusing to pay a fine of €1,500 she received in court last Friday, for splattering red paint on the former Health Minister Mary Harney.

A DUBLIN city councillor showed no remorse yesterday when she was found guilty of assaulting former health minister Mary Harney who was splattered with red paint at a hospital last November.

Garda ombudsman has received 12 complaints arising out of the policing of the midweek student demonstration in Dublin.

THE rain fell and the tears flowed as the week started in tragedy.

A GROUP OF protesters intend to “tour” the most expensive streets in Dublin today as part of a campaign they claim highlights the discrepancy of wealth in Irish society.

THE growing internal crisis within Sinn Féin resurfaced at the weekend with the resignation of another Dublin city councillor.

DNA evidence from a disposable latex glove links prominent republican Colin Duffy to the murder of two soldiers by the Real IRA outside a Northern Ireland Army base earlier this month, the Larne Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has warned of the “very difficult years ahead” when economic turmoil will touch the lives of almost all Irish people.

THE Campaign Against the EU Constitution — formed in 2005 — is a broad coalition of progressive and left-wing political parties, organisations, trade unionists and individuals committed to democracy, peace, justice, Irish neutrality and equality.

Sinn Féin’s decision to endorse the police service in the North is a major step forward in the IRA’s move away from paramilitarism, a report said today.