The main unionist parties may be planning for serious disturbances in
north Belfast next weekend after the Parades Commission rerouted a
hugely contentious anti-Catholic march away from nationalist estates in
north Belfast.
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Pan-unionism raises the stakes
The main unionist parties may be planning for serious disturbances in
north Belfast next weekend after the Parades Commission rerouted a
hugely contentious anti-Catholic march away from nationalist estates in
north Belfast.
Published July 5, 2014
The Drumcree marching dispute in Portadown could be reignited after the
Parades Commission this week stunned nationalist residents by initially
permitting an Orange march on the lower end of the Garvaghy Road, the
scene of some of the North’s most intense parades violence, before
changing its mind.
Published June 28, 2014
Efforts by British and unionist politicians to to overturn a side-deal
concession given to Sinn Fein during peace negotiations could backfire after it was revealed that controversial ‘letters of
comfort’ given to Sinn Fein supporters may also have been given to
members of the British Crown forces.
Published June 21, 2014
A local election candidate has suffered a heart attack after a PSNI raid
in which his 11-year-old daughter was subjected to psychological terror.
Published June 14, 2014
Demands for inquiry into mass graves
The international media descended this week on a town in the west of
Ireland following shocking claims that an order of nuns may have buried
hundreds of infant children in an unmarked mass grave between the 1920s
and the 1960s.
Published June 7, 2014
Public outrage at racist remarks
The DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson sparked widespread
public outrage this week when he made derogatory comments about Muslims.
He was speaking in defence of a north Belfast Pastor, who described
Islam as “heathen” and “satanic”.
Published May 31, 2014
‘Change is coming’ - Sinn Féin
Local and European elections are taking place today and tomorrow
[Thursday and Friday] in the Six and 26 Counties respectively. The
elections are likely to confirm that Sinn Fein is the dominant political
force on the island of Ireland and for the first time, is now equally
strong in both the 26 Counties and the Six Counties.
Published May 22, 2014
The trial of a loyalist gang involved in the death of Catholic community
worker Kevin McDaid has ended with all of the charges against them being
dropped or reduced to minor ones.
Published May 17, 2014
Jubilation and recrimination as Adams is freed
A high stakes game in the North’s unfinished peace process played out
before the world’s media last week. But almost twenty years after the
Provisional IRA’s ceasefire, the shock detention of Gerry Adams on
allegations of past IRA activity ended in a dramatic triumph for the
Sinn Fein leader.
Published May 10, 2014
Political chaos as Adams is arrested, interrogated
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams is facing a fourth night in jail at a
notorious British Crown force interrogation centre in Antrim as a crisis
over the failure to deal with the past conflict in the north of Ireland
begins to threaten delicate policing agreements.
Published May 3, 2014
In its Easter statement, the ‘new IRA’ has declared that it has built a
“sustainable military campaign”, but that responsibility for further
conflict “rests with the British government”.
Published April 26, 2014
The disgraced chairman of Anglo Irish Bank has been cleared this week
of hatching a highly illegal loans-for-shares plot months before the
bank’s collapse. Two of his colleagues were found guilty.
Published April 19, 2014
Banquet gesture draws Tory hate
Efforts to boost reconciliation between the 26 County state and Britain
during the formal visit to London by 26-County President Michael D
Higgins were undermined by a leading Tory’s call this week for the
murder of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness.
Published April 11, 2014
No charges over UDA mob terror
Between 100 and 200 armed loyalist paramilitaries ransacked houses and
assaulted residents in Larne in a mob attack carried out with apparent
impunity by the south Antrim UDA.
Published April 5, 2014
Humiliated Minister clings to post
After ricocheting from one scandal to the next since his appointment,
disgraced 26-County Minister Alan Shatter is to finally face a
parliamentary motion of no confidence.
Published March 29, 2014
‘Vindictive’ policing as 77-year-old is charged
Veteran republican Ivor Bell has been charged this Friday night with
IRA membership and “aiding and abetting” the execution of informer Jean
McConville in 1972.
Published March 22, 2014
In a sudden turnaround, an ad-hoc campaign by Irish Americans has
succeeded in preventing the inclusion of a delegation of PSNI police
(formerly RUC) in this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in New York.
Published March 15, 2014
Devices intercepted amid prison tensions
Two letter bombs addressed to Maghaberry Prison were intercepted this
week following a violent confrontation inside the jail.
Published March 8, 2014
Stormont off the rails over OTRs
The past has once again come back to haunt the north of Ireland when it
emerged in an Old Bailey trial this week that some republicans ‘on the
run’ (OTR) from conflict-related prosecutions have privately received
assurances that no prosecutions are due.
Published March 1, 2014
The 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny is resisting intense pressure to
sack his Minister for Justice Alan Shatter amid a tsunamic scandal over
his handling of police corruption and misconduct.
Published February 21, 2014
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