The PSNI have been accused of playing down a loyalist campaign of terror
in the Coleraine area after a series of petrol bomb attacks were blamed
on UDA paramilitaries.
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Questions mount over loyalist violence
The PSNI have been accused of playing down a loyalist campaign of terror
in the Coleraine area after a series of petrol bomb attacks were blamed
on UDA paramilitaries.
Published September 1, 2022
Support abides for armed struggle
Seven in ten nationalists in the north of Ireland accept there was no
alternative to the “violent resistance” of republican armed groups to
British rule, according to an opinion poll.
Published August 25, 2022
Several thousand people protested in Belfast city centre last weekend
against a secrecy order placed on investigations into the death of Noah
Donohoe.
Published August 18, 2022
Judge demands political statement from internee
One of ten republican activists interned by remand following a
large-scale arrest operation in 2020 has been told by a judge he must
make a statement supporting a ‘shared island’ in order to be considered
for bail.
Published August 11, 2022
Britain accused of condoning Noah’s murder
A wave of outrage has followed the decision by the new British Direct
Ruler to sign a secrecy order covering files on the death in 2020 of
14-year-old Catholic boy Noah Donohoe.
Published August 4, 2022
Majority in North now back immediate reunification
The latest poll results in the Six Counties point to a sharp decline in
support for unionism and the emergence of a clear majority in favour of
Irish reunification.
Published July 28, 2022
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has predicted a referendum on the
reunification of Ireland would take place “in this decade” and that
Ireland is “in the end days of partition”.
Published July 21, 2022
The edging out of Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister this week has
raised hopes that his successor will end the multiple attacks of his
government on the Good Friday Agreement.
Published July 14, 2022
After one of the most bizarre days in British politics, Boris Johnson is
still clinging to power in London despite no fewer than 42 resignations
from his government, including a record 14 Ministers in one day.
Published July 6, 2022
McGurk’s Bar report quashed after seven year fight
A deceptive police report into the McGurk’s Bar bomb atrocity is to be
quashed in its entirety, concluding a titanic legal battle between
victims of the atrocity and the PSNI.
Published June 30, 2022
With plans well advanced in London for a hard border through Ireland and
a blanket amnesty for British war crimes, there is a consensus among
nationalists that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is under unprecedented
attack.
Published June 23, 2022
Irvine arrest highlights new collusion fears
A notorious UVF paramilitary figure was on a peace scholarship backed by
the Dublin government when it is alleged he was involved in a dramatic
hoax car bomb attack on its Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney.
Published June 16, 2022
A wave of revulsion at chanting about the murder of a young Catholic
bride on her honeymoon has brought pressure for the Orange Order to be
treated alongside other racist and supremacist groups.
Published June 9, 2022
Unionists object to reminder of colonial past
Unionist indignation at the public use of the word ‘planter’ by visiting
US politician Richard Neal has highlighted their denial of the history
of settler colonisation in the north of Ireland.
Published June 1, 2022
Red letter day for the Irish language
A new sense of empowerment was evident in the largest ever demonstration
for Irish language rights in Belfast last weekend, as up to 20,000
people demanded overdue legislation to protect the rights of Irish
speakers under British rule.
Published May 26, 2022
Britain lurches from ‘law, law’ to ‘war, war’
Fears of a trade war and renewed conflict in the north of Ireland have
increased dramatically after the British government this week tore up
the Irish Protocol of Brexit in a flagrant breach of international law.
Published May 19, 2022
Old order fails to grasp seismic change
Rejectionist unionism continues to be indulged by the British
government, despite Sinn Féin winning the Stormont Assembly election and
nationalist parties outpolling unionist parties in a Six County election
for the first time.
Published May 12, 2022
The increasing confidence of Irish nationalism and the declining power
of unionism has become clear in an election campaign marked by signs of
incremental but irreversible change.
Published May 5, 2022
Noah’s face slashed from posters
Posters seeking justice for schoolboy Noah Donohoe have been attacked in
a predominately unionist area of north Belfast.
Published April 28, 2022
Easter events overshadowed by violent PSNI operation
A PSNI arrest operation at a major Easter commemoration in Derry
resulted in scenes of violence and renewed a controversy over the
force’s handling of traditional republican parades in the north of
Ireland.
Published April 21, 2022
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