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A seven-year police investigation into the role of the British
state’s deadliest spy within the Provisional IRA has uncovered little
new information, defended his handlers and failed to deliver a single
prosecution against those who operated the serial-killing double-agent.
Published March 14, 2024
Orders by British state agencies to suppress information about their
role in the 1997 murder of Gaelic sports official Sean Brown have led a
coroner to abandon his inquest and call for a public inquiry instead.
Published March 7, 2024
Republican prisoner Dermot Burke is currently engaged in a dirty protest
in Maghaberry jail after the prison regime there refused to transfer him
to the republican wing at Roe House.
Published February 29, 2024
A clear majority of those living in the north of Ireland now support
Irish reunification, according to the results of a new opinion poll,
while most people under the age of 50 say they are ready to vote for
unity in a referendum.
Published February 22, 2024
A former British soldier is to be prosecuted for one of the first
‘shoot-to-kill’ targeted murders to be carried out by the British Army
in the North.
Published February 15, 2024
History was made on Saturday when Michelle O’Neill became the first
nationalist First Minister for the Six Counties and banished forever the
concept of Stormont being ‘a Protestant parliament for a Protestant
people’.
Published February 8, 2024
The DUP has secured significant concessions on Brexit and “safeguards”
for the Union in return for agreeing to a return of the Stormont Assembly
and Executive.
Published February 1, 2024
A bid to revive power-sharing in the North of Ireland hangs in the
balance following attempts by loyalists and their supporters in the
media to sabotage a potential deal between the British government and
the DUP.
Published January 25, 2024
Ahead of a huge one-day general strike over the failure to deliver
backdated pay increases and funding for services, the North’s first
minister designate, Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill, has told the Stormont
Assembly she fears the democratic institutions of the Good Friday
Agreement are in “free fall”.
Published January 18, 2024
The death of a homeless man of suspected hypothermia near one of
Dublin’s main tourist attractions has refocused attention on the
profound failure of the coalition government to tackle the homelessness
and housing crises.
Published January 11, 2024
One of the most senior British army officers to operate during the
conflict in Ireland and who is most identified with the deliberate
killings of Irish civilians has died aged 97, according to reports
Published January 4, 2024
A decision by the Dublin government to take an inter-state case against
Britain over new cover-up legislation has been widely welcomed in
Ireland but has drawn a bitter response from London who have vowed to
defend their soldiers regardless.
Published December 21, 2023
The DUP is under renewed pressure to end its boycott of power-sharing in
the North and accept a multi-billion pound British financial package which would
deliver substantial funding across the North’s public sector.
Published December 14, 2023
A huge funeral is expected for the legendary singer and proud Irish
patriot Shane MacGowan following his death aged 65. The former Pogues
frontman died last Thursday with his wife and family by his side.
Published December 7, 2023
The dysfunctional nature of policing in Ireland has been dramatically
exposed by some of the worst street violence seen in living memory.
Published November 30, 2023
An official visit to Israel by the 26 County Tanaiste Micheal Martin at a
time when it is conducting a genocide of the Palestinian people has been
received with anger and disbelief in Ireland.
Published November 23, 2023
Factions of the unionist paramilitary UVF could turn on each other after
an order was issued to disband one huge gang in east Belfast which had
become notorious for serious crime and intimidation of the local
community.
Published November 16, 2023
The British government has been accused of deliberately withholding
evidence from the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that shows their senior military
officers were demanding to shoot ‘rioters’ and ‘mobs’ before and after
the massacre.
Published November 9, 2023
An Irish citizen in Gaza City has made an emotional plea for help from
Irish politicians and world leaders as he and his Dublin-born family
face death in the continuing Israeli annihilation of Gaza.
Published November 2, 2023
Masked loyalist paramilitaries were allowed to sit in the public gallery
of Belfast Crown Court with the connivance of the PSNI in a shocking act
of public intimidation.
Published October 26, 2023