As he hands over the reins to Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
president Gerry Adams has been giving interviews and facing a welter of
last-minute criticism from his political opponents.
Published February 10, 2018
There was widespread shock this week after it was confirmed that
loyalist Special Branch double agent Gary Haggarty could be freed
within weeks despite pleading guilty to five murders, five attempted
murders and hundreds of other crimes.
Published February 3, 2018
Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) have confirmed no immediate plans to
decommission their weapons following the breakaway IRA group’s
announcement that it is to “suspend all armed actions against the
British State”.
Published January 27, 2018
Mary Lou McDonald will succeed Gerry Adams as Sinn Fein leader, the
party has confirmed, and will formally ascend to the leadership at a
special Ard Fheis [conference] next month.
Published January 20, 2018
Tributes have been paid to Rosaleen Sands, the mother of hunger striker
and MP Bobby Sands, who passed away on Friday.
Published January 13, 2018
The DUP has been accused of not facing reality after the hardline
unionist party called for a return of full Direct Rule of the north of
Ireland from London, and condemned comments by the 26 County Taoiseach
that he supports a united Ireland.
Published January 6, 2018
The Dublin government’s first intelligence on Sinn Fein’s peace
initiative of 1987 claimed that Gerry Adams disapproved of some IRA
actions and that the Sinn Fein leader saw the armed struggle as a
“political liability”.
Published December 30, 2017
There was outrage in Ireland this week as British negotiators backed
away from commitments on the Irish border reached in a deal with the
European Union on the terms of its departure.
Published December 16, 2017
A tsunami of spin in regards to the Irish border has scraped the
British government into a second round of negotiations with the European
Union over its departure, but at the expense of any confidence in the
negotiations process.
Published December 9, 2017
The failure of the British body politic to understand the implications of
reinforcing the border through Ireland has dominated news coverage at a
critical juncture in the negotiations over Britain’s departure from the
EU.
Published December 2, 2017
The 26 County minority government could collapse on Tuesday after Fine
Gael leader Leo Varadkar refused to back down over a motion of no
confidence in the deputy prime minister, Tanaiste Frances Fitzgerald.
Published November 25, 2017
Rulings that the murder of 11-year-old British Army victim Francis
Rowntree was ‘not justified’ and that the rubber bullets fired at him
were lethal have been widely welcomed, although 45 years late and
following the recent death of his mother.
Published November 18, 2017
A prominent Armagh republican, Gabriel Mackle, has been interned on the
orders of the British Direct Ruler James Brokenshire.
Published November 11, 2017
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
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
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
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