An attempt to inject urgency into the Stormont talks process this week
failed to resolve a stand-off over the Democratic Unionist Party’s
refusal to implement past agreements on equality and respect for
nationalists, leading to speculation that the process has reached an
endpoint.
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An end to the Good Friday Agreement?
An attempt to inject urgency into the Stormont talks process this week
failed to resolve a stand-off over the Democratic Unionist Party’s
refusal to implement past agreements on equality and respect for
nationalists, leading to speculation that the process has reached an
endpoint.
Published November 4, 2017
Saoradh has protested against the detention of its chairperson, national
organiser and two Belfast activists, after they were seized in early
morning raids on Thursday.
Published October 28, 2017
Britain ready for border conflict
The British government has said it is ready to send British soldiers
into Irish border areas if Britain leaves the EU without a Brexit deal.
Published October 21, 2017
Another loyalist ‘supergrass’ case has collapsed with the news that not
one of the loyalists or Special Branch police named in court by informer
Gary Haggarty will face prosecution.
Published October 14, 2017
Irish nationalists have united in solidarity with Catalonia and in
condemnation of the attempted suppression of this week’s independence
poll.
Published October 7, 2017
Catholics free ‘shared community’
Catholic families in a cross-community housing development in Belfast
have been ordered to leave their homes in a sectarian threat from the
unionist paramilitary UVF.
Published September 30, 2017
A sudden and violent attempt to suppress the Catalan independence
movement by the Madrid government has shocked those struggling for
self-determination across the world.
Published September 23, 2017
Injustice upon injustice in supergrass ‘trial’
There have been protests against the planned use of a paid informer in
the non-jury trial of republican political activist Kevin Braney, the
chairperson of Saoradh in Dublin.
Published September 16, 2017
Coalition closer as Adams to step back
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams has made the first step in his gradual
withdrawal from front-line politics in a historic shift which he
believes will help pave the way for a new generation of party leaders.
Published September 9, 2017
Glenanne plot ‘went to the top’
A former RUC police officer this week said he believed the British
government was aware of the activities of the Glenanne Gang’s death
squads at the very highest level.
Published September 2, 2017
Loyalist bid to ‘cleanse’ Derry’s Waterside
Five Catholic and mixed families have been forced out of their homes in
Derry amid a pogrom by loyalist paramilitaries in the predominately
Protestant Waterside area of the city.
Published August 26, 2017
Claims by the British government that they wish to impose no additional
border reinforcements in Ireland following their departure from the
European Union are being treated with scepticism.
Published August 19, 2017
Youths riot over bonfire raids
A one-sided approach by council authorities to bonfires has
been blamed for a riotous conflagration in nationalist areas of Belfast
city centre this week which threatened to reignite conflict at sectarian
interfaces in the city.
Published August 12, 2017
Historic Dáil document on peaceful unification
An Irish parliamentary report on achieving Irish unity has placed the
republican goal of a united Ireland in the context of 26 County
constitutional parliamentary politics for the first time.
Published August 5, 2017
PSNI’s Glenanne cover-up fails
In a dramatic vindication for the grieving families, the High Court in
Belfast has accepted that the PSNI wrecked an investigation into
collusion by Britain in the notorious Glenanne Gang, which was
responsible for killing 130 Catholics.
Published July 29, 2017
Orange Order not shamed by hate fiesta
The Orange Order has refused to apologise after photographs emerged of
supporters in Scotland wearing bizarre and shocking costumes expressing
racist and sectarian hate.
Published July 22, 2017
The Democratic Unionist Party has caused a furore by issuing
conflicting statements about the burning of a coffin effigy of the late
Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness on a loyalist bonfire in east
Belfast on Tuesday.
Published July 15, 2017
Stung by criticism that it has conspired in loyalist paramilitary crime,
Belfast city councillors have now attempted to limit the size of four
‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires, despite having previously funded and
supported the infamously sectarian displays.
Published July 8, 2017
DUP triumphant as peace deal is shredded
A deal between the Tories and the Democratic Unionist Party could allow
the unionist hardliners to control British policy in the north of
Ireland for the lifetime of the current Westminster parliament.
Published July 1, 2017
English royals Elizabeth and Charles Windsor have delivered the
legislative agenda of the presumptive minority government in London for
the next two years which revolves around its uncertain plans to
withdraw from the European Union.
Published June 24, 2017
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