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‘Stop the horror’

Ireland’s president has said it is “time to stop this horror of history” after fresh Israeli outrages in Palestine and Lebanon and after Israeli legislators passed laws to block the work of the main aid agency in Gaza.

Published October 31, 2024

Support for British rule falls below 50%

Support for the North of Ireland remaining in a Union with Britain has dropped below the key 50% level for the first time in a state-funded survey of the Six Counties, adding to pressure for an end to partition and the complete decolonisation of the island of Ireland.

Published October 24, 2024

Death of British Army’s massacre general

Mike Jackson, the former head of the British Army and the adjutant of the Parachute Regiment during the Bloody Sunday massacre, has died aged 80.

Published October 17, 2024

Sun sets on the British empire

Britain is to return its last African colony to Mauritius, ending decades of abuses of the Chagos island and its residents, whom it forcibly expelled from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s.

Published October 10, 2024

New loyalist threat to Irish language class

Days after a group of loyalist paramilitary figures met the North’s Minister for Education to make sectarian demands for curbs on the Irish language, the threat of paramilitary violence has forced the cancellation of an Irish language event.

Published October 3, 2024

Investigation into state funding of UDA/UVF violence

The so-called ‘International Fund for Ireland’ is to be called to account over allegations it has been supporting loyalist violence in the Six Counties.

Published September 26, 2024

Fury as new British government reneges on deals

Relationships between the nationalist community and the British government are at their lowest in years after a ‘blitzkrieg’ of backsliding by London on promises to tackle inequality in the north of Ireland.

Published September 19, 2024

Britain must face the truth

The Finucane family have been praised for their determination through 35 years of stonewalling by successive British administrations to finally force the current government to hold an independent public inquiry into the murder of their husband and father.

Published September 12, 2024

Moves to defend UDA, UVF over racist violence

The PSNI has effectively backed unionist paramilitary gangs accused of orchestrating racist attacks and is now refusing to blame them for recent violence and intimidation across the Six Counties.

Published September 5, 2024

Extradition bid on 30th anniversary of ceasefire

The arrest and detention without bail of 61-year-old veteran republican Martin McCauley on foot of a British extradition warrant has been strongly condemned by republicans.

Published August 29, 2024

Huge crowds send a message to RTÉ

A campaign by Ireland’s state-run broadcaster to demonise republicans backfired spectacularly this week after events it tried to smear drew record-breaking attendances.

Published August 22, 2024

Public rallies against loyalist violence

Thousands have been demonstrating against efforts to stir up race hate against immigrants in Belfast.

Published August 15, 2024

The mask comes off

The shadowy links between far-right instigators of racist violence in Dublin and loyalist paramilitaries in the north of Ireland was on display in Belfast city centre last Saturday when a fascist mob marched through the city and carried out a wave of attacks on Muslim-owned businesses.