Efforts by the right in Ireland to counter and undermine Sinn Féin’s
advance in the recent 26 County general election have reached
extraordinary levels of desperation following an intervention by the
Garda police Commissioner, Drew Harris.
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Smears fly as reaction carnival continues
Efforts by the right in Ireland to counter and undermine Sinn Féin’s
advance in the recent 26 County general election have reached
extraordinary levels of desperation following an intervention by the
Garda police Commissioner, Drew Harris.
Published February 21, 2020
Establishment circles the wagon
A sense of crisis has gripped the Irish ruling classes after Sinn Féin nearly tripled its vote in last weekend’s election to Leinster House and took the first steps in the formation of a new government in Dublin.
Published February 14, 2020
Sinn Féin at the threshold of Cabinet power
With Sinn Fein topping opinion polls in the 26 Counties for the first
time, an ambush of party leader Mary Lou McDonald by state broadcaster
RTE over a comment by a party colleague 13 years ago has jeopardised
what is still widely expected to be a good election for the party.
Published February 7, 2020
Published January 31, 2020
British Army was behind Miami Showband massacre
Shocking new documents have disclosed that British Army intelligence officer Robert Nairac was responsible for the planning and execution of the Miami Showband Massacre, in which three innocent band-members were killed.
Published January 24, 2020
Varadkar’s election plan unravels
The 26 County election campaign has had the most shocking start
imaginable after body parts of a murdered 17-year-old boy were found in
a bag in north Dublin.
Published January 17, 2020
Sinn Féin agree to return to Stormont
Three years after they collapsed, Sinn Féin has made a decision to
return to the partitionist institutions at Stormont, with party leader
Mary Lou McDonald stating that it is the “responsibility of every
party to ensure the Executive meets”.
Published January 10, 2020
A century of cover-up for miscarriages of justice
More than 1,000 files on the Guildford Four, Maguire Seven and
Birmingham Six, notorious miscarriage of justice cases involving
innocent Irish civilians living in England, are to remain secret almost
a century longer than they were supposed.
Published January 3, 2020
The DUP have come under pressure to relinquish their veto over political
change at Stormont following round-table talks over the future of the
Belfast Assembly this week. Both the London and Dublin governments
accused the party of blocking a pre-Christmas deal on restoring the
North’s suspended political institutions.
Published December 21, 2019
The north of Ireland has voted for more nationalists than unionists in a
Westminster parliamentary election for the first time after two hardline
unionists were voted out.
Published December 14, 2019
The north of Ireland appears set for an extended period of unionist
protest after an event took place on Friday night at the Ulster Hall,
the latest in a series of meetings organised by loyalists which have
echoed with the word ‘betrayal’.
Published December 7, 2019
Republicans come together for unity
Thousands of people took to the streets of County Donegal and County
Tyrone last weekend to demand a united Ireland.
Published November 30, 2019
Sinister UDA figures behind hate banners
Unionist banners have been erected by the UDA targeting the family of
Pat Finucane, the Belfast defence lawyer who in 1989 was assassinated by
a UDA paramilitary death squad in collusion with British military
intelligence.
Published November 23, 2019
Sinn Féin has accused the DUP of forming electoral alliances with active
paramilitaries and demonising republicans and nationalists in an attempt
to provide itself with cover.
Published November 16, 2019
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
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