Pressure is growing for other internees at Maghaberry jail to be
released following the decision to free critically ill Brendan Lillis
last week.
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Pressure is growing for other internees at Maghaberry jail to be
released following the decision to free critically ill Brendan Lillis
last week.
Published August 24, 2011
There was shock, disbelief and tears of joy for the friends, family and
supporters of critically ill prisoner Brendan Lillis on Thursday when
news emerged that their campaign had succeeded in securing his freedom
-- and a rare victory against state brutality in the North of Ireland.
Published August 19, 2011
The truth about Billy McKavanagh
An unarmed Catholic man shot dead by the British army 40 years ago was
innocent of any wrongdoing, an inquiry has found.
Published August 13, 2011
Following last week’s refusal by the Stormont authorities to release
him, the partner of Brendan Lillis has said their campaign is no longer
working to free the ailing prisoner, but to save his life.
Published August 8, 2011
British Army protected UVF ‘Butcher’
The British Army withheld evidence for more than three decades which
confirms that some of its locally recruited units were used to finance
and support UVF paramilitary death squads.
Published August 3, 2011
Policing in ‘cloud-cuckoo-land’
A heavy-handed series of arrest operations against families of prominent
republicans backfired significantly on the PSNI this week as public
opinion turned against them.
Published July 29, 2011
The Six-County administration is still resisting intense pressure to
release dying prisoner Brendan Lillis, who remains critically ill at
Maghaberry prison despite having the charges which put him there
withdrawn.
Published July 24, 2011
Supporters of critically ill Maghaberry prisoner Brendan Lillis are to
stage a hunger protest in a last-ditch attempt to convince the Stormont
and British authorities to release him from prison before he dies.
Published July 19, 2011
The PSNI attacked a peaceful protest in the republican Ardoyne area of
north Belfast to facilitate a sectarian march, triggering hours of
rioting on Tuesday evening.
Published July 14, 2011
More than a thousand people have protested outside the Dublin parliament
as the coalition government begins to wield the axe against frontline
health services around the country in order to serve European/IMF
demands for spending cuts.
Published July 8, 2011
The homes of nationalists in the Short Strand were again attacked by
loyalists on Friday night as both unionist paramilitaries and the
Protestant Orange Order combined to create a living hell for the
beleaguered community.
Published July 3, 2011
Nationalists have united behind calls for the Police Ombudsman to quit
amid outrage over a report in which he denied that the PSNI (then RUC)
police had not colluded in the Loughinisland massacre.
Published June 27, 2011
A sudden, unilateral and large-scale loyalist terror attack on the tiny
nationalist community of the Short Strand was bravely fended off this
week in an act of courage reminiscent of previous generations of the
nationalist struggle.
Published June 22, 2011
Faced with intense criticism over their failure to deal with the deep economic crisis in their first 100 days of office, the 26-County coalition leaders this week renewed promises to ‘burn the bondholders’ of two of the state’s nationalised banks, while vowing to maintain social welfare and income tax at current levels.
Published June 17, 2011
A founder member of a Sinn Fein breakaway group was assassinated on
Thursday in an attack which has shocked the broader republican community
in Dublin.
Published June 12, 2011
Stormont faces appointment test
Sinn Fein is under heavy pressure to sack one of their Stormont advisors
as a controversy continued over her appointment this week.
Published June 6, 2011
Prison protest ‘could spill over’
Prison authorities at Maghaberry prison have confirmed that a lockdown
is being imposed on the republican wings amid a mounting crisis at the
jail.
Published May 30, 2011
The British government have been condemned for attempting to protect the
PSNI from the fallout of the Rosemary Nelson inquiry.
Published May 24, 2011
The state visit of Elizabeth Windsor to the 26-County state came to an
absurd anti-climax on Wednesday night when the British monarch admitted
England’s relations with Ireland have “not been entirely benign”.
Published May 20, 2011
An unprecedented security lockdown has been put in place in several
locations across Dublin, in Cork and in other sites across Ireland in
preparation for the first visit to the 26-County state by the
'Queen of England', Elizabeth Windsor.
Published May 17, 2011
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