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.
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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
The North’s five main parties have asked British prime minister David
Cameron for 2 billion pounds (€2.55 billion or $3.15 billion) financial
package over ten years as talks continue on issues such as parades,
flags and the past.
Published December 20, 2014
The shambolic nature of the talks process at Stormont was exposed this
week when British Prime Minister David Cameron suddenly abandoned the
negotiations with no plans to return.
Published December 13, 2014
The death of Kilkenny native Jonathan Corrie, a 43-year-old who had
suffered mental ill-health and addiction problems, on a freezing night
within feet of the seat of power, has shocked the public may have killed
off the Dublin government’s chances of re-election.
Published December 6, 2014
Fine Gael has drawn the opening lines of attack for the next election,
targeting Sinn Fein on economic policy and setting the scene for a new
left/right alignment in Irish politics.
Published November 29, 2014
The PSNI have withdrawn from an area in republican north Belfast
following a grenade attack by the ‘new IRA’.
Published November 22, 2014
The Dublin government has been accused of attempting to erase the 1916
Easter Rising from the history books following a disastrous and deeply
conflicted launch of commemorative events for the anniversary.
Published November 15, 2014
PSNI retaliate after IRA attack
There were clashes in the Creggan area of Derry this week following an
attack by the ‘new IRA’ in which an armoured police patrol was struck by
a mortar rocket.
Published November 8, 2014
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