Sunday World

The Sunday World is an Irish newspaper published by Sunday Newspapers Limited, a division of Independent News and Media. It is the largest selling "popular" newspaper in Ireland and is also sold in Northern Ireland.

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Irish - Newspaper - Independent News and Media - Ireland - Northern Ireland

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The paper is well known for the controversy it provokes, it was the first newspaper to name Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness as members of the Army Council of the IRA for which legal action was never pursued. It named individuals which assisted in laundering £12m from the Northern Bank robbery and those it believed killed Robert McCartney. http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1819492005

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Gerry Adams - Martin McGuinness - IRA - Northern Bank robbery - Robert McCartney

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Following an August 2005 Sunday World article that poked fun at the gambling losses of one of its leaders, the UDA banned the sale of the Sunday World newspaper from shops in areas it controls. Shops that defy the ban have suffered arson attacks, and at least one newsagent was threatened with death. The PSNI have recently begun accompanying the paper's delivery vans.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1507-1743605-1187,00.html http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2005/aug16_Loyalists_dont_want_to_face_up__SMcKay.php

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UDA - Sunday World - PSNI

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On May 1 2005 a unionist politician, Paul Berry, appeared on the front page of the Sunday World. The paper claimed that Berry had been caught in a sting operation by the newspaper when he met a male masseur in a room booked under a false name in a Belfast hotel. According to the paper, Berry asked the man upon meeting him: "I hope you're a Prod?" Berry denied the allegations, claiming that he was seeking treatment for a sports injury, and is considering legal action. In the 2005 general election five days later Berry was the DUP candidate for Newry and Armagh but was one of the only DUP candidates to experience a fall in their share of the vote in favour of the Ulster Unionist Party while everywhere else in the region the DUP gained at the expense of its main rival. The DUP were to the forefront in the campaign of the 1970s and 1980s to stop the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the region. On July 4 2005 it was announced that Berry had been suspended from the DUP following an internal disciplinary panel meeting.

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May 1 - 2005 - Unionist - Paul Berry - Sting operation - Belfast - Prod - 2005 general election - Newry and Armagh - Ulster Unionist Party - 1970s - 1980s - Homosexuality - July 4

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