A new claim broadcast by BBC Spotlight journalist Jennifer O’Leary
against Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been rejected by police and
could provoke a libel action by Mr Adams.
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Sinn Fein furious over new BBC smear
A new claim broadcast by BBC Spotlight journalist Jennifer O’Leary
against Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been rejected by police and
could provoke a libel action by Mr Adams.
Published September 24, 2016
Children flee for lives after loyalist mob attack club
A Derry mother has described how her family was forced to lie on the
floor of her car as she fled through the city’s Waterside area after a
loyalist mob targeted Catholic teenagers.
Published September 24, 2016
Anti-water charges campaign remains defiant
Political tension is building in the 26 Counties ahead of the annual
budget announcements after a giant demonstration in Dublin again
demanded the abolition of water charges.
Published September 24, 2016
Adams and McGuinness reveal timescale to quit
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has announced that he will step down from
his leadership role as part of the party’s ten year plan. Mr Adams
indicated a time frame within ten years for his departure as party
president, and confirmed that it was a matter of not ‘if, but when’.
Published September 17, 2016
Inquiry announced into northern corruption scandal
The 26 County Taoiseach Enda Kenny has agreed that an inquiry should go
ahead into evidence of corrupt practices in the sale of distressed
property assets in the North of Ireland, but is refusing a broader
inquiry into the actions of NAMA, the bank set up to handle such sales.
Published September 17, 2016
Maghaberry horror leaves prisoner blind
An “extreme and shocking” case of neglect has been reported at
Maghaberry jail after prison staff watched but failed to intervene while
a mentally ill prisoner blinded and mutilated himself.
Published September 17, 2016
Stormont political dynasties face new challenges
The entry of a political party from the South and a profound redrafting
of Westminster constituencies is set to shake up the political
establishment in the North.
Published September 17, 2016
Woman interned in 1970s takes test case
A West Belfast woman interned during the conflict is pressing for full
disclosure of documents which she believes will show she was subjected
to inhumane conditions.
Published September 17, 2016
Spain fights back against surge for independence
Sinn Fein has condemned a decision by Spain’s Constitutional Court to
back a ruling that Basque separatist politician Arnaldo Otegi cannot run
as a candidate in an upcoming regional election due to a conviction
against him for links to the armed group ETA.
Published September 17, 2016
PSNI accused after CS gas death
A man from a well-known republican family died at the hands of the PSNI
on Thursday amid a new wave of police harassment and abuses in Belfast.
Published September 10, 2016
‘Profit process’ creamed hundreds of millions off property deal
An auditor’s report has found that several hundred million euro have
been lost to the 26 County exchequer in a notorious billion-pound
property transaction as a recording emerged of a central figure in the
deal apparently receiving a bag full of cash in a Belfast car park.
Published September 10, 2016
Brexit goes before the Belfast courts
The peace process is based upon membership of the European Union, the
High Court in Belfast has heard, in one of two legal challenges to be
taken against the British decision to withdraw from the EU.
Published September 10, 2016
Documents reveal British Army likely shot single mother
A judicial review is being heard in connection with the discovery that
the British Crown forces concealed the truth about the suspected
military killing of a woman in west Belfast for more than 40 years.
Published September 10, 2016
Accusations fly amid calls for republican dialogue
A new war of words has broken out between Sinn Fein and rival
republicans following a claim that ‘dissidents’ were responsible for an
arson attack on a community centre in Derry.
Published September 10, 2016
Barman quits over policy of ‘no Irish allowed’
There have been calls for new measures to protect the rights of Irish
speakers after an employee of a well-known Cork city pub was told that
he was not allowed to speak Irish on the premises.
Published September 10, 2016
Fake economy exposed by Apple tax ‘windfall’
The Dublin government is the subject of anger and ridicule after it
defended illegal tax dodges by multinational corporations and rejected
a European ruling that it receive up to 13 billion euro in unpaid taxes
from US corporation, Apple.
Published September 3, 2016
Sinn Fein suffers damaging Antrim split
A Sinn Fein councillor and 17 party activists have quit the party in
response to its treatment of Daithi McKay, a party Assembly member who
was forced to resign his seat last month over his contacts with loyalist
Jamie Bryson.
Published September 3, 2016
Tories set to wreck human rights basis to peace deal
The Tory government in London is to push ahead with a decision to scrap
its Human Rights Act as part of its ‘Brexit’ agenda to drag the north of
Ireland and Scotland out of the European Union.
Published September 3, 2016
Soldiers lurk as RNU commemorate McCracken
The Republican Network for Unity has condemned the presence of British
army troops in the area of their annual commemoration for Henry Joy
McCracken last Sunday, August 28.
Published September 3, 2016
Housing crisis linked to tax scandal
The scandal over the Dublin government’s failure to collect tax from US
multinationals has refocused attention on its favourable treatment of
international ‘vulture funds’ who purchased large property asset
portfolios following the 2008 economic crisis.
Published September 3, 2016
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