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.
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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
Madness of DUP’s veto on public health
Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has accused the DUP of exploiting Covid-19 as an ‘orange versus green’ issue in a week she described as ‘shameful and depressing’.
Published November 14, 2020
Tories wary as Biden elected US President
The new US President-elect Joe Biden could make a visit to Ireland’s border area as part of an intervention on Brexit, according to reports.
Published November 7, 2020
Clashes as anger mounts over policing
There has been sporadic unrest in Derry over three days as a provocative
Crown Force operation took place in the area of Racecourse Road,
Greenhaw Road, Glengalliagh Road and Fern Road.
Published October 31, 2020
An adoption rights activist born in one of Ireland’s notorious ‘mother
and baby’ homes has described a move to seal records about the
institutions for thirty years as a denial of justice.
Published October 23, 2020
Post-Brexit Europe will see a border between Scotland and England if the
result of the latest poll, which found 58% of Scots now support
independence, is borne out in a referendum.
Published October 16, 2020
Tories back death squads, condemn human rights lawyers
An attack on human rights lawyers by the British Prime Minister has been described as “appalling” and “ shameful”.
Published October 9, 2020
The house of the O’Rahilly, a famous historical landmark once home to the 1916 Easter Rising leader Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, was tragically and deliberately demolished in the early hours of Tuesday morning, September 29.
Published October 2, 2020
Solidarity camp at Maghaberry gates
Protests in support of hunger striking prisoners are due to take place
in Belfast and outside Maghaberry Prison on Saturday, where a
solidarity camp is to be established.
Published September 25, 2020
Solidarity hunger strike at Maghaberry
The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association have said they are
gravely concerned at the “medieval” behaviour of the Maghaberry prison
regime towards Palestinian prisoner Dr Issam Hijjawi.
Published September 19, 2020
The political clock has been turned sharply back as the world grapples
once again with a British government acting in bad faith on Ireland and
blithely reneging on peace deals.
Published September 11, 2020
The latest proposals for dual Irish and English language street signs in Belfast were voted down this week as the leader of the supposedly cross-community Alliance Party claimed that the sight of the Irish language in public is “contentious”.
Published September 4, 2020
A Palestinian doctor and political activist has been charged under the
“Terrorism Act”, alongside nine Irish republicans as part of a major Crown Forces
operation to imprison leading members of the Saoradh political party.
Published August 28, 2020
Raids have taken place over four days across three jurisdictions in one of the largest actions in recent years by state forces against a legal political party.
Published August 21, 2020
Fiona Donohoe, the mother of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe, has begun a
justice campaign and is seeking public assistance for an investigation
into the unexplained death of her son in June of this year.
Published August 14, 2020
Rioting follows PSNI raids in Derry
Vehicles were hijacked and burned and the PSNI were attacked with petrol
and paint bombs in three nights of disturbances in Derry this week following
brutal police raids in the city.
Published August 7, 2020
The culmination of weeks of outrage over the new Dublin government’s
attempts to seize new powers and perks, while stripping benefits from
newly unemployed citizens, saw this session of parliament culminate in
an angry walk-out by several parties.
Published July 31, 2020
Sinn Féin MP questions Good Friday Agreement
A veteran Sinn Féin politician has created a storm after he expressed
his personal concern that the public had been cheated by the Good Friday
Agreement.
Published July 24, 2020
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