![[Irish Republican News]](http://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/rn.gif) June 19, 2013 | ![[Irish Republican News]](http://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/harp.gif) |
A member of eirigi has become the first person to be arrested ahead of
a giant security clampdown on political protests in advance of the G8
summit in the Irish border county of Fermanagh gets under way within
the next few days.
There has been widespread condemnation of the intimidatory and deeply
provocative behaviour of 26-County police at the funeral of former Sinn
Fein President Ruairi O Bradaigh last Saturday.
The use of rubber bullets in the North of Ireland was sanctioned by the
British government despite its own tests showing they were potentially
lethal, new documents have revealed.
Inflammatory flags displaying the winged insignia of the British Army’s
murderous Parachute Regiment have appeared at several flashpoints in
Belfast and Derry.
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has said he will vote against new abortion
legislation when it comes before parliament next week, making it likely
he will be expelled from Sinn Fein’s parliamentary party.
The oration by Des Dalton, President, Republican Sinn Féin at the grave of
Patron Ruairí O Brádaigh, St Coman’s Cemetery, Roscommon.
Ruairi O Bradaigh was “a towering figure” of Irish republicanism who
came to embody the “very essence” of the Republican tradition, his
successor as leader of Republican Sinn Fein, Des Dalton, has said.
PSNI Chief Matt Baggott has attended a Sinn Fein event for the first
time this [Friday] afternoon, marking a new level of co-operation
between the main nationalist party in the North and the British Crown
police.
A new law stopping many former PoWs from becoming ‘special advisers’ at
Stormont is expected to be in place within weeks, after the nationalist
SDLP failed to oppose it.
The partners in the Dublin coalition government, Fine Gael and Labour,
are said to have “diverged sharply” in their attitude to the
confirmation this week that a referendum is to be held to scrap the
upper chamber of the Dublin parliament.
A new unionist party has styled itself as the ‘Northern Ireland party
for the 21st century’.
A ‘Sundae Bloody Sundae’ cocktail has been removed from a bar menu in
London after provoking outrage among relatives of those killed.
An account of the battle which ended the United Irish Rebellion in
Ulster, 215 years ago this week, by Marcas Mac Ruairi.
By hosting the G8 summit
in occupied Ireland, the British government are attempting to portray
our country as a peaceful colony – a success story for modern day
capitalism and imperialism.
After six months detention in Maghaberry jail as a result of his
republican beliefs, prominent eirigi activist Stephen Murney calls for
the end of internment.
What you’ve watched in the last fortnight is the political equivalent of
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in physics.
