Catherine Connolly’s election last week by the biggest ever vote for an
Irish President has brought hope for a new, united Ireland and for a
generational shift in the island’s political history.
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A vision for change after record election
Catherine Connolly’s election last week by the biggest ever vote for an
Irish President has brought hope for a new, united Ireland and for a
generational shift in the island’s political history.
Published October 30, 2025
A President for the Common Good
Depending on turnout and the final result, Friday’s election could
deliver a crippling blow to the reactionary politics which has governed
Ireland since partition.
Published October 23, 2025
British injustice behind new legacy plan
Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has condemned the British
government’s proposed legacy legislation which is set to deny the right
of internees to compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
Published October 16, 2025
Reported threats from unionist paramilitaries to carry out a campaign of
violence against Belfast City Council property displaying Irish language
signage have provoked fears that policing failures could facilitate a
dramatic increase in sectarian violence.
Published October 9, 2025
Aid flotilla attacked by Israel, hundreds detained
Israeli naval forces stormed ships from the Global Sumud Flotilla on
Wednesday night, detaining participants and hijacking the convoy seeking
to bring humanitarian aid to the besieged and starving people of Gaza.
Published October 2, 2025
A review into the extent of illegal PSNI surveillance has revealed that
the force’s actions may have subverted justice in high profile cases
such as the Craigavon 2 miscarriage of justice appeal and the Noah
Donohoe inquest.
Published September 25, 2025
The start of the trial of a former British Army paratrooper for his role
in the infamous Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 has been described as a
“momentous day” in a five-decade campaign for justice.
Published September 18, 2025
Irish activists bombed by Israel
Irish peace activists taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla for Gaza have
narrowly avoided being struck by murderous Israeli drone attacks
launched against their ships while in port in Tunisia.
Published September 11, 2025
UDA gang ‘orders Catholics out’
A secret deal between a Housing Association and loyalist
paramilitaries to allow expelled Catholic residents be quietly
rehoused out of a north Belfast estate has collapsed, with death
threats issued to the families.
Published September 4, 2025
Farage vows to ‘renegotiate’ Irish peace deal
The current favourite to be the next British Prime Minister, far-right
‘Reform’ leader Nigel Farage, has said he will seek to renegotiate the
Good Friday Agreement as part of a plan to quit the European Convention
on Human Rights (ECHR).
Published August 28, 2025
Pushback for Starmer as crowds back Kneecap
The latest court hearing in the ‘terrorism’ case against singer Liam Óg
Ó hAnnaidh of Irish rap band Kneecap has once again thrown the spotlight
on the British government’s efforts to smear and imprison the
politically active.
Published August 21, 2025
Irish-speaking activist arrested as UDA marches on
A pensioner arrested for wearing a ‘Palestine Action’ t-shirt at an
anti-racism protest was ordered by the PSNI to provide an English
language version of her name and address or face arrest.
Published August 14, 2025
President calls for UN military action
Irish President Michael D. Higgins has called on the UN to use force if
necessary to break Israel’s siege and end its deliberate starvation of the
people of Gaza.
Published August 7, 2025
The brother of a man shot dead by loyalists acting in collusion with the
Crown Forces, and who made the pursuit of truth his lifelong mission,
has passed away just days after receiving a deathbed apology from PSNI
police chief Jon Boutcher.
Published July 31, 2025
Escalating protests are taking place across the world as international
leaders allow Israel to deliberately starve millions of Palestinians.
Published July 24, 2025
Loyalists still call the shots
Proof that unionist paramilitaries control policing in the north of
Ireland has been seen in a decision by the PSNI to back down in the
face of a UDA/UVF threat over a bonfire constructed at an asbestos
dump.
Published July 17, 2025
Bonfire threats find new level
A giant loyalist bonfire is set to burn a boatful of asylum seekers in
effigy in what may go down as the world’s most public hate crime –
without any intervention from the authorities in the north of Ireland.
Published July 10, 2025
PSNI protect inflammatory Orange parades
A 400-metre-long steel barrier was required to protect local nationalist
homes prior to an annual sectarian parade by the anti-Catholic Orange
Order through East Belfast, which is supposedly held to mark the Battle
of the Somme of World War One.
Published July 3, 2025
The annual scourge of sectarian unionist bonfires has once again emerged
in the Six Counties, with Ballybeen in east Belfast setting a shocking
precedent this year.
Published June 26, 2025
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