Sinister efforts to involve nationalists in the current wave of loyalist violence are continuing after a week of some of the worst disturbances seen in the north of Ireland in over eight years.
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Nationalists urged to remain calm
Sinister efforts to involve nationalists in the current wave of loyalist violence are continuing after a week of some of the worst disturbances seen in the north of Ireland in over eight years.
Published April 10, 2021
An attempt by unionists to weaponise Covid-19 regulations to demand
prosecutions of leading members of Sinn Féin over the funeral last June
of party colleague and IRA veteran Bobby Storey appear to have failed.
Published April 2, 2021
London made to pay for brutality of Paras
A north Belfast man has received a five-figure compensation pay out from
the British Ministry of Defence over serious assault and torture almost
50 years ago.
Published March 27, 2021
A policing operation in Derry in which two Creggan women were assaulted by the PSNI as part of a day of state violence has drawn intense criticism.
Published March 20, 2021
Tories aim for maximum provocation
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid a galling visit to the north of Ireland on Friday as part of a Tory onslaught to preserve the union. Rubbing elbows with occupying British soldiers at a helicopter base, Johnson’s visit appeared designed to deliberately infuriate nationalists.
Published March 13, 2021
Loyalist threat to wreck peace deal
Loyalists paramilitaries are acting in concert with hardline Brexiteers to try to intimidate the European Union with the potential of violence in the north of Ireland.
Published March 6, 2021
DUP openly working with loyalist gangs
The DUP has “given cover” to the ongoing crimes of the loyalist paramilitary UVF and UDA after a high-level meeting took place between the party and representatives of the two organisations.
Published February 27, 2021
Irish soccer international James McClean has welcomed widespread support after speaking out about anti-Irish abuse directed towards him and his family in England.
Published February 20, 2021
Nationalists turn against PSNI
An egregiously insensitive example of PSNI harassment has led to a surge in nationalist support for disbandment of the hated police force.
Published February 13, 2021
A weak response to the controversial inclusion of a reference to Brexit’s Irish Protocol in preliminary EU legislation for vaccine exports has encouraged unionist extremists to believe they can force a renegotiation of Brexit’s protocol on Ireland.
Published February 6, 2021
Britain signals readiness for debate on Irish Unity
An acknowledgement by the head of Britain’s government in Ireland that there should be a ‘conversation’ about Ireland’s constitutional future has been welcomed.
Published January 30, 2021
Pressure on govts to facilitate Irish Unity poll
A clamour for a realignment of borders in the aftermath of Brexit has seen the most senior figure in David Cameron’s former Tory Cabinet join increasing numbers of unionists in admitting that Ireland could soon be reunited.
Published January 23, 2021
Helicopter attacked as armed groups remain active
A high powered gun attack took place against a Crown Forces helicopter on Thursday near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. The attack took place in the border area near where the Continuity IRA launched a booby-trap attack in 2019.
Published January 16, 2021
Brexit advances Irish economic unity
The Dublin government is being urged to help facilitate the increasing reality of Irish unity following the end of the Brexit transition period and the creation of an Irish Sea border.
Published January 9, 2021
UDA order mother of murder victim to flee
Drug-dealing loyalist paramilitaries have ordered a grandmother and her family out of their homes over Christmas for daring to speak out against them over the murder of her son.
Published December 30, 2020
Stormont exposed by Covid failure
The inability of the Six-County Executive at Stormont to govern effectively has been highlighted by the announcement on Friday of a hard ‘lockdown’ for six weeks as well as a week-long 8pm curfew to begin on St Stephen’s Day.
Published December 19, 2020
Britain bows to pressure on border
Concessions by the British government have boosted hopes that a remilitarised border through Ireland can be avoided after Brexit, although overall negotiations on a trade deal with the EU could still fail.
Published December 11, 2020
Loyalist leaders were British agents, court hears
Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) founder Billy Wright was a state-sponsored agent, Belfast Crown Court has heard. It was alleged that the man known as ‘King Rat’ was just one of a number of unionist paramilitary bosses on the British payroll.
Published December 4, 2020
Decision day for Finucane inquiry
Monday has become a day of reckoning as the date a court was told Britain will finally make a decision known on a public inquiry into the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published November 27, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the biggest expansion of the British military since the Cold War, calling for Britain to go on the offensive and end an “era of retreat” in the aftermath of Brexit.
Published November 20, 2020
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