Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has accused the British Direct Ruler
Theresa Villiers of an “unacceptable intervention” ahead of talks about
dealing with the past as well as the issues of parades and flags.
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Tense exchanges ahead of talks
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has accused the British Direct Ruler
Theresa Villiers of an “unacceptable intervention” ahead of talks about
dealing with the past as well as the issues of parades and flags.
Published September 13, 2013
Strip-search ‘had impact of sexual assault’
Details have emerged this week about the brutal strip-searching of a
female republican prisoner at Hydebank Wood Prison.
Published September 6, 2013
There are fears that loyalist paramilitaries may be rearming after one
of the largest weapons caches found in the North in two decades was
uncovered entirely by accident this week.
Published August 30, 2013
A conviction against former internee Marian Price has been rescinded by
a court the day after it was imposed in the latest twist to the saga of
harassment and oppression of the former republican prisoner.
Published August 23, 2013
The Stormont administration has suffered another blow to its
credibility after the DUP ended its support for a plan to develop a
peace centre at the site of the former Long Kesh H-Blocks.
Published August 17, 2013
Up to ten thousand republicans, socialists and concerned citizens took
part in a civil rights march against internment through Belfast this
evening despite heavy rioting by loyalists and a political campaign to
demonise those taking part.
Published August 9, 2013
Castlederg massacre ‘would be a great service’
A unionist councillor was charged by the PSNI this evening over her
public support for the idea of a loyalist massacre at next week’s
republican commemoration in Castlederg.
Published August 2, 2013
After warning that the July 12 conflict was “only a wee taster” of
future protests, the anti-Catholic Orange Order and its loyalist
supporters have said they will make weekly bids to march through the
nationalist Ardoyne community in north Belfast.
Published July 26, 2013
After a week of the most intense loyalist violence, a decision by the
Parades Commission to reroute another planned march by the anti-Catholic
Orange Order has been welcomed as good news.
Published July 19, 2013
Loyalists ‘planning new Drumcree’
A total of eighteen mass sectarian rallies are being held today across
the Six Counties, marking the height of the Protestant marching season
and the most difficult and dangerous period of the year for Catholics.
Published July 12, 2013
G8 security used against Short Strand
A giant steel wall was erected around the Short Strand enclave in east
Belfast this week in an unprecedented military operation to seal off the
nationalist enclave ahead of one of a number of sectarian Orange Order
parades.
Published July 5, 2013
Telephone conversations recorded five years ago between top bankers at
Anglo Irish Bank at the heart of the bank’s collapse have enraged the
Irish public and confirmed that a culture of delinquency and deception
lay behind its failure and nationalisation by the 26-County state.
Published June 28, 2013
The sycophantic feting of the world’s most powerful leaders in the
British-occupied north of Ireland this week has disgraced politicians
in both parts of the island.
Published June 21, 2013
Oppressive G8 policing underway
A member of eirigi has become the first person to be arrested ahead of
a giant security clampdown on political protests in advance of the G8
summit in the Irish border county of Fermanagh gets under way within
the next few days.
Published June 14, 2013
Ruairi O Bradaigh was “a towering figure” of Irish republicanism who
came to embody the “very essence” of the Republican tradition, his
successor as leader of Republican Sinn Fein, Des Dalton, has said.
Published June 7, 2013
The release of Irish prisoner of conscience Marian Price is being
celebrated as a significant victory for justice campaigners and a key
step in securing the freedom of other prisoners currently interned in
the north of Ireland.
Published May 31, 2013
‘Bad faith’ highlighted by new arrest
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has accused the British government of
breaching commitments given during peace talks over a decade ago
following the arrest of leading Donegal Sinn Fein member John Downey.
Published May 24, 2013
‘High level’ collusion admitted
Senior British government officials permitted a campaign of state-backed
killings by unionist paramilitaries and the RUC (now PSNI) police to be
conducted at the height of the conflict, a senior security adviser for
the British government has finally admitted.
Published May 17, 2013
A decision to allow the anti-Catholic Orange Order to gather in a
public park surrounded by Catholic homes in Portadown has been
described as ‘an act of unionist political madness’ by the Garvaghy
Road Residents Coalition (GRRC).
Published May 10, 2013
Craigavon Two appeal ‘sabotaged’
An appeal by two men convicted of a Continuity IRA attack in 2009 was
dramatically derailed this week after the PSNI arrested and
interrogated a key witness in an apparent attempt to pressure him into
withdrawing his evidence.
Published May 3, 2013
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