A deal between the 26 County Garda police and arch-loyalist Willie
Frazer for a secret protest in Dublin has been revealed -- just hours
after Frazer said he would not condemn an assassination attempt on the
life of Six County Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Published January 11, 2013
Unionists and loyalists angered by the removal of the British Union Jack
flag above Belfast City Hall are increasingly turning to violence and
threats as their protests fail to deliver any progress.
Published January 4, 2013
Official records have revealed that the British government had a plan to
‘brainwash’ Long Kesh hunger strikers to end their protest individually.
Published December 28, 2012
The report of the former police ombudsman into the murder of six men in
the Loughinisland massacre has been scrapped after a court hearing on
their judicial review.
Published December 21, 2012
Most of the 500-page review of the 1989 murder of Belfast defence lawyer
Pat Finucane released this week has been heavily censored “in the
interests of state security”, the Finucane family has been told.
Published December 14, 2012
A wave of unionist violence and intimidation has followed a vote in the
Belfast City Council on Monday to sharply reduce the number of days the
British Union Jack flag flies over the City Hall.
Published December 7, 2012
Republican socialist group éirigí is being subjected to a concerted
smear campaign following the arrest of one of its members this week.
Published November 30, 2012
A decision by a group of 22 prisoners on Maghaberry’s Roe 4 landing to
call off their ‘dirty’ [no-wash] protest to facilitate talks on a
solution to the prison crisis has been welcomed by politicians in the
North.
Published November 23, 2012
Israel is feared to be planning a scorched-earth invasion of the
besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza after days of heavy bombardment
reduced large areas of the territory to rubble and killed dozens of men,
women and children.
Published November 16, 2012
Padraic Wilson, a former leader of IRA prisoners at Long Kesh jail and
now a senior Sinn Féin figure, was released on bail on Tuesday after the
party strongly protested a court decision to remand him on IRA
membership charges.
Published November 9, 2012
The shooting of a senior British prison official has drawn attention to
the conflict in the north of Ireland and the increasingly bitter dispute
over the treatment of republican prisoners at Maghaberry jail.
Published November 2, 2012
A County Tyrone republican has lashed out at the justice system in the
North of Ireland after charges against him and four others were quietly
dropped by Crown prosecutors this week -- after more than 14 months
held without bail at Maghaberry prison.
Published October 26, 2012
The 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny has ruled out any political moves
towards a united Ireland by 2016, the centenary of the Easter Rising,
despite a historic step towards Scottish independence this week.
Published October 19, 2012
A Catholic mother and her three children narrowly escaped being burned
to death today following a loyalist attack.
Published October 12, 2012
A number of protests took place in Dublin this week as the 26-County
government faced a mounting corruption scandal and a wave of anger over
policies which favour the wealthy over the poor.
Published October 5, 2012
Nationalist residents of north Belfast have said they are “bewildered”
by a decision of the Parades Commission to permit a giant unionist
parade to march past St Patrick’s Church in Belfast and the Carrick
Hill interface on Saturday, with only the lightest of restrictions.
Published September 28, 2012
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has condemned so-called ‘dissidents’ in
Dublin despite a rally in the city last weekend which saw hundreds of
republicans of all hues unite to march in support of interned political
activist Marian Price.
Published September 21, 2012
The 26 County police have carried out a wave of raids and arrests
following a large IRA funeral in Dublin for Alan Ryan.
Published September 14, 2012
The most senior of the Protestant marching organisations has taken the
unprecedented step of apologising to the clergy and parishioners of the
Catholic St Patrick’s Church after three nights of march-related
violence in north Belfast.
Published September 7, 2012
A row has developed between Protestant church leaders and the
anti-Catholic loyal orders following Saturday’s Royal Black Institution
march in Belfast.
Published August 31, 2012
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