The family of Sam Marshall are to seek a full inquest into his death
after it was revealed this week that he was under observation by at
least nine British soldiers when he was killed in 1990.
Published March 9, 2012
Fine Gael leader and 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny provoked the wrath
of a large swathe of Irish public opinion this morning when he signed
the EU’s Fiscal Compact Treaty, without waiting for a referendum of the
people of the State.
Published March 2, 2012
The end of a loyalist ‘supergrass’ trial, which saw twelve alleged
unionist paramilitaries cleared of the murder of UDA leader Tommy
English in 2000, has again raised fresh question marks over the
credibility of the so-called ‘justice system’ in the North of Ireland.
Published February 24, 2012
More than 500 bullets were fired at four IRA Volunteers who were killed
in an undercover British army ambush 20 years ago this week, it has
emerged.
Published February 17, 2012
A well-known County Derry pub-owner has had a gun held to his head by a
member ofthe British Crown forces who threatened to have him killed if
he did not become an informer.
Published February 10, 2012
Amid outrage over the government’s intensive efforts to avoid a
referendum, the leader of the main opposition groups in the 26 Counties
have issued separate calls for the people to have a say on Europe’s
draconian new finance plan.
Published February 3, 2012
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is the focus of mounting anger in the 26 Counties
after criticising the Irish people for their “greed” and “mad” borrowing-- just days after he paid one and a quarter billion euros of public
funds to international bond speculators.
Published January 27, 2012
Former RUC Special Branch police who were forced to retire as part of
the policing reform process have been rehired as civilian contractors
for the PSNI, it has emerged.
Published January 20, 2012
A vicious attempt to murder Catholic teenagers last Friday was covered
up by the North’s police for over three days before details finally
emerged.
Published January 13, 2012
Participants in Boston College’s ‘Troubles Archive’ project have
demanded the return or destruction of all of its taped interviews after
parts of the archive were delivered to the British Crown forces.
Published January 6, 2012
The publication of declassified papers from thirty years ago has
brought new controversy over the British view of the 1981 hunger
strike, in which ten men, including Bobby Sands, died.
Published December 30, 2011
Pressure is growing for the immediate release form jail of former
republican spokeswoman Marian Price after it was admitted that a royal
pardon central to her case has been shredded by the British government.
Published December 23, 2011
There have been new calls for a truth commission in the north of Ireland
following confirmation that one of the North’s deadliest terrorists was
a police agent.
Published December 16, 2011
A historic Franco-German drive for a new superstate has seen the
Eurocrats of Brussels demand political and fiscal powers to rival those
of the US federal government in Washington.
Published December 9, 2011
A total of 49 cases in which members of the RUC/PSNI police were
responsible for extra-judicial killings have been consigned to a “legal
limbo”, according to reports.
Published December 2, 2011
There is growing concern that the trial of two men for the Real IRA
attack on Massareene British Army base two years ago, currently
underway, could result in a major miscarriage of justice.
Published November 25, 2011
It was revealed today that members of the German parliament have already
discussed details of the forthcoming 26-County Budget, including a
planned 2% hike in VAT (sales tax).
Published November 17, 2011
Over a hundred former government ministers are sharing an annual cash
pot of almost nine million euro, it has been revealed. The figures were
supplied in response to a Sinn Fein parliamentary question.
Published November 10, 2011
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams led a walk-out from the Dublin
parliament this week in protest over the coalition government’s
decision to hand over more than 700 million euro (more than 1 billion
dollars) to an unknown private investor in the failed Anglo Irish Bank.
Published November 3, 2011
The 26-County presidential election campaign erupted in a major
controversy in its final days as so-called independent candidate Sean
Gallagher admitted he secured substantial Fianna Fail ‘donations’ in
exchange for dinner in the company of then Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
Published October 26, 2011
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