The Protestant marching orders have said they can simply bypass the
Parades Commission in the future after loyalist flags protestors held
scores of parades last month without any approval.
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The Protestant marching orders have said they can simply bypass the
Parades Commission in the future after loyalist flags protestors held
scores of parades last month without any approval.
Published February 22, 2013
Two senior figures have quit the Ulster Unionist Party and are set to
form a rival political organisation after a row with party leader and
former television presenter Mike Nesbitt suddenly erupted into a full
party split.
Published February 15, 2013
Public demonstrations are to be held around the 26 Counties tomorrow
(Saturday) to demand a fairer deal on the state’s banking crisis, which
will now leave taxpayers paying €60 billion for one bank alone.
Published February 8, 2013
The funeral of Dolours Price on Monday was a seminal event for Irish
republicans as they paid their last respects to an IRA heroine.
Published February 1, 2013
The passing of Dolours Price, a republican legend, has come as a deep
shock to the entire community, regardless of politics or allegiance.
Published January 25, 2013
The Short Strand, a small working class nationalist and republican enclave
of less than 3,000 men, women and children, has come under a renewed
siege in the past week by violent loyalists.
Published January 18, 2013
Garda pact with loyalist ‘idiot’
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
British sought hunger strike 'capitulation'
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
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