A decision by the Ulster Unionist Party to stand aside in North Belfast
following loyalist threats of violence has been condemned, despite the
insistence of the party’s new leader Steve Aiken that the move was not
connected to the threats.
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UDA threat alters election contest
A decision by the Ulster Unionist Party to stand aside in North Belfast
following loyalist threats of violence has been condemned, despite the
insistence of the party’s new leader Steve Aiken that the move was not
connected to the threats.
Published November 9, 2019
UDA’s election coercion for DUP
Loyalist paramilitaries have issued threats against the Ulster Unionist
Party (UUP) in a bid to force it to withdraw from the Westminster
election in north Belfast against Nigel Dodds, the Deputy leader of the
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Published November 2, 2019
The leaders of a number of loyalist paramilitary factions have held
talks to discuss how to force the British government into a u-turn over
a draft Brexit deal agreed this month between British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson and the European Union.
Published October 26, 2019
Nationalists told they are British, not Irish
The British government has been accused of deliberately failing to
implement the provisions of Good Friday Agreement in its domestic law
following an appeals court ruling which found that an Irish woman from
County Derry is legally British and not Irish.
Published October 18, 2019
The British government and the European Union are being urged to seize
the moment to prepare for peaceful Irish unification after Brexit
negotiators shied away from a disastrous agenda to reinforce partition.
Published October 12, 2019
Preparations are underway for a crash Brexit after British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson revealed a barely believable set of proposals for the
border through Ireland which appeared designed to be instantly rejected
by Dublin and the European Union.
Published October 5, 2019
Chaos deepens as Fascist Tories incite Brexit violence
Warlike rhetoric and subtle threats of violence against MPs by British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson drew a furious response and threatened to
overwhelm the return of Westminster this week.
Published September 28, 2019
First hearing in Bloody Sunday trial
After almost 48 years, the case of a British soldier accused of murder
during the Bloody Sunday massacre, the first and only prosecution for
the 1972 killing spree, finally began at Derry’s courthouse on
Wednesday. However, proceedings were adjourned until December.
Published September 21, 2019
There were extraordinary scenes in the London parliament this week as
opposition MPs staged an angry protest against the suspension of
Westminster and accused the British Prime Minister of lying to the
English queen in order to secure the Crown’s authority for the shutdown.
Published September 14, 2019
The chief of the PSNI police is under pressure to resign after proposing
one of the most inhumane public control strategies of any Crown Force
leader in the past 50 years, the removal and detention of innocent
nationalist children.
Published September 7, 2019
Tories dispense with democracy
The far-right Brexit ‘war cabinet’ under unelected Prime
Minister Boris Johnson has edged closer to outright fascism after it
secured a royal order to shut down the Westminster parliament in London
for over a month.
Published August 30, 2019
Border bomb is Brexit statement
A bomb which exploded less than a mile from the border on Monday has
delivered an IRA message about Britain’s plans to reinforce partition as
a result of Brexit. The blast was heard on both sides of the border.
Published August 23, 2019
There have been calls for sectarian parades to be banned from Derry
after an inflammatory display by a loyalist flute band led to three
nights of serious disorder this week.
Published August 17, 2019
Sinn Féin’s message of defiance to Johnson
At the annual hunger strike commemoration organised by Sinn Féin, party
MEP Martina Anderson told the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that
his government’s “days in Ireland are numbered”.
Published August 9, 2019
Tory ‘War Cabinet’ sets scene for violence
A so-called War Cabinet has been formed by the new British prime
minister, Boris Johnson to aggressively force Ireland to accept a
hardening and reinforcement of Britain’s century-old border across the
island.
Published August 2, 2019
New Direct Ruler arrives in Ireland
The new British Direct Ruler, Julian Smith, has received a mixed
response from Sinn Féin ahead of his arrival in Belfast to take control
of British government operations in the north of Ireland.
Published July 26, 2019
A savage sectarian attack in County Down has left a man fighting for his
life.
Published July 19, 2019
UVF's gun law at hate bonfires
The UVF’s reign of terror in east Belfast appears intact after it forced
a humiliating climbdown by Belfast City Council over an illegal bonfire
which had forced the closure of a leisure centre.
Published July 12, 2019
Inquiry ordered into state collusion in murder campaign
Following a damning judgement at the Court of Appeal in Belfast earlier
today [Friday], the PSNI has been forced into establishing an
independent investigation into the British state’s role in a killing
machine that left more than a hundred people dead.
Published July 5, 2019
SF pays tribute to PIRA ceasefire leader
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams delivered the graveside
oration at the funeral of the former chief of staff of the Provisional
IRA, Kevin McKenna, who passed away earlier in the week at the age of
74. In his address, Mr Adams hailed the pivotal figure as “a
republican soldier who had the politics to know when to fight, and the
political vision to know when to talk”.
Published June 28, 2019
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