Signs honouring deceased republicans including Maire Drumm, Bobby Sands and 1916 Rising leader James Connolly were erected around Belfast this week as part of what organisers Lasair Dhearg say is a campaign to highlight British State colonialism, and historic figures associated with it, in Ireland.
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Republicans everywhere have expressed their shock and sadness at the death of legendary Belfast republican, Bobby Storey, at the age of 64.
Nationalists and republicans have been left disappointed by the
Programme for Government presented by the leaders of three potential
coalition partners in Dublin.
There are calls for the Dublin government to provide “push back” against
the increasingly perfidious actions of London over the Brexit Withdrawal
Agreement and its protocol for the north of Ireland.
A sectarian banner was erected in a Belfast public park to denounce the
GAA as “anti-British” and proclaimed the Gaelic Athletics Association is
“not welcome”. The sign was later removed by council workers.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said said it would not be right
to remove the statue of Oliver Cromwell despite the fact he “killed so
many thousands of people in Ireland”.
A Belfast republican has said the US government has “thrown a wrench”
into the Good Friday Agreement after he was deported after more than
twenty years.
One of the organisers of the original Bloody Sunday march has said the
report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry did not get to the full truth of the
massacre.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has urged voters to “not give in”
following a decision by the parliamentary parties of Fine Gael, Fianna
Fáil and the Green Party to support the formation of a coalition
government in Dublin which would see FF leader Micheál Martin become the
next Taoiseach.
There has been a surge of pressure for an end to Britain’s trade in plastic and rubber bullets following disturbing scenes of serious injuries to Black Lives Matter protestors in the US.
The chairperson of Saoradh in Derry has called on those protesting against racism and oppression around the world to address the issues of discrimination and repression in Ireland.
An attempt by the Boundary Commission in the north of Ireland to drastically reshape constituencies has been declared unlawful by the Court of Appeal in Belfast.
The family of a young west Belfast woman shot dead almost 50 years ago have appealed for members of the public who may have information to contact them, including former IRA Volunteers or former members of the British Crown Forces.
The daughter of a loyalist murder victim has called for a Belfast soccer club to withdraw a new kit which has the same colours and a similar design to the flag used by the paramilitary group which killed her father
Irish republican prisoners at Portaoise have this Friday, June 12, begun a 72 hour fast in support of Basque prisoners and political prisoners around the world. They have issued the following statement.
A former Irish political prisoner who fought deportation for over two
decades after fleeing loyalist death threats with his family is believed
to have been put on a plane back to Ireland by US authorities.
The British government once again stands accused of reneging on its commitments after it insisted on a legal definition of a victim which would exclude thousands of nationalists and republicans.
More than 5,000 people gathered on the streets of Dublin on Monday afternoon as demonstrations too place around the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign.
A woman who wasn’t even born when her big brother was killed by a plastic bullet in Derry says she wants to know why a secret file into his death has to remain closed until she is nearly 80 years old.