intensive campaign of harassment and intimidation against
nationalists in Armagh by the RUC over the past number of weeks
finally exploded into the wider public consciousness on Tuesday,
18 November. more
McAliskey - one year imprisoned
It is exactly one year today since Roisin McAliskey was arrested
at her Coalisland home and imprisoned on foot of an extradition
warrant from Germany.
Shoot-to-kill - 15 years on
Peadar Whelan looks back at the shoot to kill incidents in County
Armagh 15 years ago
South Armagh POW regularly brutalised
Seamus McArdle from South Armagh, savagely beaten
when arrested by British soldiers near Crossmaglen on 10 April this year,
is now on 22 hour lockup in a Special Secure Unit (SSU) in
Belmarsh prison outside London.
Clegg set to be cleared
From killing and cover-up, the case of paratrooper Lee Clegg
continues to wind its way towards his judicial exoneration for
the slaying of Irish teenager Karen Reilly.
North Belfast sectarian attacks continue
Loyalists were again on the rampage last Sunday when
a gang from the Tigers Bay area of North Belfast invaded the
grounds of the Holy Family Church on the Limestone Road during
mass.
Springfield residents form action group
Residents of the Springfield Road in Belfast are set to oppose
unwanted Orange marches that go through their predominatly
nationalist neighbourhood each year.
Conspiracy to silence dissent
Robert Allen reports on a British court case aimed at suppressing
the radical press
Lavery snowbound in USA
After years of talking about it, months of procrastination, and
weeks of toing and froing at the US consulate, North Belfast
Councillor Bobby Lavery finally landed in the USA - in the middle
of a snow storm.
Newry confronts drug dealers
A new campaign against Newry drug dealers got off to an angry and
emotional start in the centre of the town last Saturday.
The wartime agenda
It is said that a good gauge of society is how it treats its
prisoners. Laurence McKeown looks at the sorry record of
the British government in the Six Counties.
Parties combine to exclude Sinn Féin TD
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin has said that the voters of
Cavan and Monaghan are being disenfranchised by his exclusion from the
group structure in Leinster House.
Garda Special Branch continue to harass young republicans
Sinn Féin Youth has strongly criticised what it calls ``the
unnecessary harassment and intimidation'' of its members. Over the
last number of weeks Garda Special Branch detectives have stopped
and questioned several Sinn Féin Youth members.
Marcella flies the flag
An Phoblacht reader Marcella Curran has succeeded in her campaign
to force the GPO in Dublin's O'Connell Street to continue flying
the tricolour seven days a week.
Repeal the PTA
A co-ordinated campaign for the `Repeal of the PTA' will be
launched next Thursday (7 pm) 27 November at Islington Central
Library on the Holloway Road in London.