Documents presented to a judicial review this week have confirmed that
the British government staged a fake ‘review’ three years ago before
announcing its predetermined decision to rule out a public inquiry into
the killing of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
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Documents presented to a judicial review this week have confirmed that
the British government staged a fake ‘review’ three years ago before
announcing its predetermined decision to rule out a public inquiry into
the killing of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published May 16, 2015
Election nightmare as Tories triumph
The result of the British general election is a setback for Irish
republicans with the loss of a key seat to unionists in the North while
the Tories under David Cameron secured a slim overall majority in
London.
Published May 9, 2015
With just days to go before a potentially historic Westminster general
election, a further rise in support for the Scottish National Party is
already creating a crisis in British politics which will likely have
implications for Ireland.
Published May 2, 2015
Internment fears for residents’ spokesperson
A republican activist who has campaigned against sectarian parades in
north Belfast has been arrested and charged in connection with a speech
he made at Easter.
Published April 25, 2015
Loyalists escalate race violence
There has been a new spate of racist attacks across Belfast, with the
Polish community being particularly targeted by loyalists.
Published April 18, 2015
Adams shifts stance on ‘border poll’
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams made a call for a “referendum on Irish
unity” on Easter Sunday as he spoke at a 1916 commemoration in Roslea,
County Fermanagh. He did not specify if the referendum should be a
national one or the ‘border poll’ within the Six Counties, as Sinn Fein
has previously argued for.
Published April 11, 2015
There has been a broad welcome for news that the site of the last stand
of the 1916 rebels during the Easter Rising is to be bought by the 26
County State for 4 million euro.
Published April 4, 2015
Water protests continue amid corruption questions
Just under 90,000 people marched in Dublin on Saturday in the latest
anti-austerity protest against the 26 County government’s new water
charges as a scandal over the operation of Irish Water, the new national
water board, has expanded.
Published March 28, 2015
Political activity in the north of Ireland was unexpectedly set back
this week when the US State Department cancelled a meeting with Sinn
Fein President Gerry Adams in Washington DC.
Published March 21, 2015
Hope abides for ‘crucified’ Stormont
Almost a hundred thousand people took the streets in the North’s biggest
protest against austerity cuts on Friday as Sinn Fein battled
accusations that it has let down working class voters and the poor in
the negotiation of the Stormont House Agreement.
Published March 14, 2015
Sinn Fein has categorically ruled out joining a coalition government in
Dublin as junior partner after elections due early next year. The party
is holding its Ard Fheis (annual conference) in Derry this weekend.
Published March 7, 2015
‘Criminals’ and ‘touts’ in south Armagh
Sinn Fein has warned that a lack of confidence in the PSNI police is
encouraging illegal activity in border areas.
Published February 28, 2015
An abuse victim is hopeful after winning the first stage in a battle to have a
Westminster parliamentary inquiry look into allegations that senior
unionist politicians, businessmen and high-level British state agents
connived in a paedophile ring at the notorious Kincora care home in
Belfast.
Published February 21, 2015
A number of children have been arrested in Dublin after being caught up
in a shocking crackdown by the 26 County state against anti-austerity
protests in the capital.
Published February 14, 2015
A republican political prisoner was badly beaten by warders at
Maghaberry jail last week following confrontations over new changes to
the prison regime.
Published February 7, 2015
In a night of drama for north Belfast, Martin Og Meehan, a prominent
republican spokesperson in the area, has been dramatically expelled by
two organisations for allegedly ‘collaborating with loyalists’.
Published January 31, 2015
A newly-released British military file has finally admitted that a
British Army helicopter, said to have crashed in a 1978 air accident,
came down trying to avoid IRA gunfire.
Published January 24, 2015
The coalition government has indicated it has abandoned efforts to
recover 30 billion euro pumped into Ireland’s banking system following
its collapse in 2008.
Published January 17, 2015
The Dublin government issued a number of statements to claim the
successes of its economic policy this week, even as thousands of recent
emigrants bade tearful farewell to their loved ones following a
Christmas break in Ireland.
Published January 10, 2015
FitzGerald fuelled Thatcher’s intransigence
Declassified papers have revealed Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “out,
out, out” speech on nationalist aspirations in Ireland may have been
motivated by a summit in which the Dublin government admitted it was
working towards a “lowering of expectations” rather than Irish
reunification.
Published January 3, 2015
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