Sinn Fein faces difficult decisions today at the party’s annual
conference as a row over the the party’s attitude to abortion threatens
to overshadow the launch of its bid to enter government following the
next 26 County general election.
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Sinn Fein conference polarised by abortion stance
Sinn Fein faces difficult decisions today at the party’s annual
conference as a row over the the party’s attitude to abortion threatens
to overshadow the launch of its bid to enter government following the
next 26 County general election.
Published June 16, 2018
Fascists on the march in Belfast
A rally by far-right unionists and neo-Nazis at Belfast City hall last
weekend has raised concerns over the increased visibility of fringe
loyalist groups ahead of the sectarian marching season.
Published June 16, 2018
Hooded men praise move to appeal European ruling
The Dublin government is to appeal the European Court of Human Right’s
finding that 14 Irishmen were not tortured by the British Army in 1971.
Published June 16, 2018
Housing failures ‘could collapse government’
With the 26 County housing crisis threatening to spiral out of control,
Sinn Fein have begun a new campaign against the man most hold
responsible for the scandal, Fine Gael Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy.
Published June 16, 2018
GAA urged to ‘show solidarity with the oppressed’
Nationalists and republicans are being urged to unite to support the
Palestinian cause amid signs that the Irish establishment is seeking to
protect Israel from the fallout over recent atrocities.
Published June 16, 2018
Robinson backs ‘fixed’ border polls
Peter Robinson, the former leader of the hardline unionist DUP, has
suggested agreement on a strategy for phased reunification could allow
him to support a Six County referendum on unity.
Published June 9, 2018
Flags and banners ‘designed to spread fear’
Loyalists have begun hoisting flags and banners and painting kerbstones
in locations across the North in advance of the summer sectarian parades
by the Protestant marching organisations.
Published June 9, 2018
British injustice pursues dying republican to the grave
One of the oldest republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison, Sean
O’Neill, has passed away from cancer in Limerick this week while still
being actively sought by the British authorities in the North for
“breaching bail”.
Published June 9, 2018
‘Spycops’ inquiry reveals Irish political groups targeted
Sinn Fein and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) were
infiltrated by an undercover British police unit which is currently the
focus of a major inquiry in England.
Published June 9, 2018
Coalition rumours mount as Varadkar launches Feile
A rumoured alliance between Sinn Fein and Fine Gael appears closer this
week after Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched the West
Belfast festival, Feile an Phobail, on Friday.
Published June 9, 2018
US-based escapee seeks to overturn conviction
A former political prisoner, who fled to the United States after being
part of the 1983 mass escape from the H-Blocks of Long Kesh 35 years
ago, is making a new attempt to clear his name.
Published June 9, 2018
The issue of women’s rights and access to abortion are now being placed
alongside calls for same-sex marriage as part of an equality agenda
being opposed by unionists.
Published June 2, 2018
Exhaustion at Britain’s scattershot border ideas
Britain’s cartwheeling approach to Brexit and the north of Ireland has
reached a critical point with a new plan to expand the Irish border into
a ten-mile demilitarised ‘buffer’ zone.
Published June 2, 2018
Momentum seen behind Sinn Fein policy shift
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she expects her party will
endorse the provision of abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy
following last Friday’s 26 County referendum to repeal the Eighth
Amendment, which gave a pregnant woman only an equal right to life as
her unborn child.
Published June 2, 2018
Bradley refuses to discuss Taylor case
The British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley has refused to meet Derry
councillors to discuss the two-year internment of a republican political
activist.
Published June 2, 2018
Hopes new inquest will answer questions
The younger brother of Derry plastic bullet victim, Stephen McConomy,
says a new inquest into his death could provide his family with the
“answers we deserve.”
Published June 2, 2018
Republicans remember George McBrearty and Charles Maguire
Dozens of republicans gathered with friends and family of the late IRA
Volunteer, George McBrearty in Derry on Sunday to commemorate the 37th
anniversary of his death at the hands of SAS alongside his comrade
Charles ‘Pop’ Maguire in 1981.
Published June 2, 2018
‘New politics’ brings historic change
An overwhelming vote in favour of repealing the 8th amendment of the
Irish constitution has opened the way for the liberalisation of
Ireland’s abortion laws, with a final result of 66.4% to 33.6%.
Published May 26, 2018
Pressure grows to move beyond DUP vetoes
The leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn visited Belfast
this week to mark 20 years since the Good Friday peace agreement and
added his voice to efforts to circumvent unionist intransigence.
Published May 26, 2018
Boy hospitalised after vicious loyalist beating
A Catholic teenager has been hospitalised after being kicked in the head
in a sectarian attack in Derry’s Waterside area.
Published May 26, 2018
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