A former paratrooper being investigated for his part in the Bloody
Sunday massacre has said he believes it was a “job well done”.
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Former Para says Bloody Sunday massacre was justified
A former paratrooper being investigated for his part in the Bloody
Sunday massacre has said he believes it was a “job well done”.
Published December 15, 2018
Death of former OIRA leader Sean Garland
There have been tributes to Sean Garland, a former IRA leader who helped
to bring about the 1972 ceasefire by the Official IRA. He died on
Thursday at his home in County Meath after a long illness.
Published December 15, 2018
‘Guilty’ of remembering fallen INLA Volunteers
In what is said to be is the first case of its kind, a Belfast court has
found a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party guilty of
carrying an Irish National Liberation Army flag during an Easter Sunday
commemoration.
Published December 15, 2018
Ballymurphy inquest continues amid disclosure concerns
The Ballymurphy massacre inquest has heard details of the murder of John
McKerr, a 49-year-old joiner from nearby Andersonstown who had been
working at Corpus Christi Church in west Belfast on August 11 1971 when
he was shot.
Published December 15, 2018
Royal scandal over city hall knobs
Cork City Council has been humiliated after it emerged that it spent
almost 6,000 euros on polishing door handles at city hall to prepare for
a one-day stop by British royals Charles and his wife, Camilla.
Published December 15, 2018
May wins confidence vote as Brexit chaos continues
British Prime Minister Theresa May has tonight defeated a challenge to
her leadership of the Tory Party, winning a confidence vote by 200 MPs
to 117.
Published December 12, 2018
Fury as top Tory warns: ‘We can starve the Irish’
Anglo-Irish relations are at their worst in decades after a senior
British Tory MP suggested using the possibility of food shortages in
Ireland to coerce negotiators into dropping their opposition to the
remilitarisation of the border area after Brexit.
Published December 8, 2018
‘I saw soldier spray crowd with bullets’
A witness to one of the killings of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre, who
has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since, has given his
first-ever statement on the atrocity to the coroner of the current
inquest.
Published December 8, 2018
Gem Bar was collusion target, papers indicate
It has emerged that the British Army raided the pub which was the
original target of the McGurk’s Bar bombers, two nights before the
massacre in which collusion is strongly suspected.
Published December 8, 2018
Foster admits making ‘wrong’ statements under oath
DUP leader Arlene Foster is under renewed pressure to quit politics
after acknowledging that some of her sworn evidence to a public
corruption inquiry is likely false.
Published December 8, 2018
Bloody Sunday commemoration to focus on military top brass
The 47th Bloody Sunday march has been launched with the focus returned
to the issue to making those ultimately responsible for the slaughter of
13 innocent civilians accountable for their actions.
Published December 8, 2018
Unionist bid to steal Christmas from prisoners’ families
A row has broken out after council staff attempted to remove the names
of political prisoners from a public Christmas tree in Strabane, County
Tyrone.
Published December 8, 2018
Emotions run high as new group holds meetings
A debate on abortion legislation in the Dublin parliament has seen a
bitter attack by Sinn Fein TDs against former comrades as a potentially
damaging split in the party continues to grow.
Published December 1, 2018
Loughinisland at the heart of battle over policing
Families of those killed in a notorious loyalist/Crown force massacre
have welcomed a judge’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge against
the Police Ombudsman’s finding that the police colluded with the
killers.
Published December 1, 2018
Loyalist violence ignored as gangs issue Brexit warning
Loyalist paramilitaries “have the run of the town” in County Antrim,
according to the owner of a repair business in Carrickfergus whose cars
have repeatedly been torched.
Published December 1, 2018
Breakthrough for equality of symbolism in Derry
Derry City and Strabane council is set to be the first council in the
north of Ireland to allow staff members to honour Ireland’s war dead by
wearing an Easter Lily, a symbol with its roots in the 1916 Easter
Rising.
Published December 1, 2018
Early shoot-to-kill incidents recalled
Relatives for Justice have launched a report into the killings of Jim
Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna amid outstanding questions about the
shoot-to-kill policy of targeted state assassinations which was
responsible for their deaths.
Published December 1, 2018
Thousands march over housing crisis
Campaigners have taken to the streets of Dublin this Saturday afternoon
to voice their anger over the ongoing housing and homelessness crisis.
Published December 1, 2018
Tony Taylor freed, banned from political statements
Derry republican Tony Taylor, released as his internment by the British
approached a significant one thousand days, was released this evening
after a day of tense last-minute negotiations around the details of his
release.
Published November 28, 2018
Tony Taylor to be released after almost 1,000 days
Republican political prisoner Tony Taylor is set to be freed tomorrow
after spending 994 days interned at Maghaberry Jail without charge.
Published November 27, 2018
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