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.
![]() | |
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
A provocative sectarian parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order has
again been given permission to march past the nationalist Ardoyne shops
area of north Belfast.
Published July 6, 2012
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness put clear blue water between himself and
mainstream Irish republicanism when he shook the hand of English queen
Elizabeth Windsor on Wednesday in a historic but hugely divisive act of
political theatre.
Published June 29, 2012
Ballymurphy inquiry ‘not in public interest’
The families of 11 people murdered by British paratroopers in west
Belfast 40 years ago have said they are “deeply disappointed” by the
decision to refuse an independent investigation into their deaths.
Published June 22, 2012
Royal rally hits handshake plan
Sinn Fein has said it was caught off guard by the announcement last
Friday that the visit of British royal Elizabeth Windsor to Stormont
later this month will involve a giant celebration by tens of thousands
of unionists.
Published June 15, 2012
Vigilante group RAAD have claimed responsibility for a grenade-style attack on a
PSNI patrol in Derry during aggressive Crown
force raids in the nationalist Creggan area last weekend.
Published June 8, 2012
At this time, the people of the 26 County state have already begun
voting in the EU fiscal treaty referendum. They are facing another
crucial decision on the future governance of their state, and rarely
have they been so misinformed or deceived.
Published May 31, 2012
Morning raids terrorise communities
The PSNI police have been accused of the outright repression of
republicans following a wave of dramatic heavy-handed raids across the
North.
Published May 25, 2012
Taoiseach Enda Kenny told an unemployed man protesting against budget cuts to get a job, while his Employment Minister Richard Bruton revealed that a referendum re-run has already been considered, in a series of embarrassing campaign gaffes by Fine Gael's leadership this week.
Published May 18, 2012
The campaign for the release of Marian Price has taken a dramatic turn
after a judge dismissed charges against her and three other
republicans. Despite the decision, British officials have said the
interned former spokesperson for the 32 County Sovereignty Committee
will remain behind bars.
Published May 11, 2012
A large bomb left on the border last week appears to have signalled an
escalation of the armed campaign by the breakaway IRA groups.
Published May 4, 2012
British intelligence agents operate across the 32 counties of Ireland
and have received information from politicians, members of An Garda
police, Revenue tax officials and the 26-County Army, the Smithwick
Tribunal has heard.
Published April 27, 2012
The coalition government’s plans for the introduction of new water
taxes has generated a new wave of resentment at the financial pressures
being imposed on people in the 26 Counties.
Published April 20, 2012
A member of the breakaway ‘Real IRA’ has told a public Easter commemoration in Derry that the group will continue its armed struggle against British rule in the north of Ireland.
Published April 13, 2012
The former news anchorman of ‘Ulster Television’, Mike Nesbitt, who was
elected new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party last weekend, has said
“there has never been a better time” for unionism and said he wants to
address Sinn Fein’s Ard Fheis.
Published April 6, 2012
Over a million households have boycotted the 100 euro household charge
in an extraordinary act of public defiance against an austerity flat tax
imposed by the Dublin government.
Published March 30, 2012
Corruption affected every level of government from cabinet ministers to
local councillors during two decades of political dominance by Fianna
Fáil, according to the final report of the Mahon planning tribunal.
Published March 23, 2012
Adams rejects British statements
A referendum within the Six Counties on the future of the border in
Ireland is “inevitable”, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said.
Published March 16, 2012
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
By default, this search engine looks for all words in any order. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes:
"gerry adams"
The search engine also supports AND, OR, and NOT keywords to specify boolean expressions:
sinn OR fein
sinn NOT fein
Note that only twenty search results are displayed, in chronological order.