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
The family of interned political dissident Marian Price have hit out at
the North’s prison authorities after warders refused to leave the room
while the veteran republican underwent an invasive medical procedure.
Published August 24, 2012
A Catholic pub was attacked by loyalists during a ‘feeder’ Apprentice
Boys parade in County Down last week -- but the DUP has said there would
have been no violence if nationalists had stayed indoors.
Published August 17, 2012
A 13-year-old girl was among those arrested after the PSNI attacked
nationalist anti-internment bonfires this week.
Published August 10, 2012
Interned political dissident Marian Price has contracted pneumonia, it has
emerged.
Published August 3, 2012
A regrouping of previously distinct breakaway IRA groups is being
described as the most significant development within physical-force
republicanism since the Provisional IRA split in 1997.
Published July 27, 2012
A member of Sinn Fein has described how he was set upon as he videoed a
loyalist ‘kick the Pope’ band deliberately circling and playing
sectarian tunes outside a Catholic church during the Orange Order’s
main Belfast ‘Twelfth’ parade.
Published July 20, 2012
The sound of gunfire echoed across north Belfast on Thursday night
following disturbances over an incendiary and bitterly opposed sectarian
parade.
Published July 13, 2012
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