The new British Prime Minister Theresa May has stressed her
commitment to maintaining British rule in the north of Ireland amid
concern among human rights workers that her appointment will further
undermine civil and human rights here.
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New British PM and Direct Ruler ‘value Northern Ireland’
The new British Prime Minister Theresa May has stressed her
commitment to maintaining British rule in the north of Ireland amid
concern among human rights workers that her appointment will further
undermine civil and human rights here.
Published July 16, 2016
‘Messy business’ as debate over post-Brexit border begins
Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister at Stormont, Martin McGuinness, has
said the new British Prime Minister is on a collision course with the
European Union over its approach to what he described as a “disastrous
decision” to leave the EU.
Published July 16, 2016
Growing support for release of Derry internee
Pressure for the release of Derry republican Tony Taylor has increased
following the dropping of a prosecution dating from October 2015 and the
removal from her post of British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers, who
ordered his internment.
Published July 16, 2016
Census confirms numbers of vacant homes amid housing crisis
Homeless campaigners have demanded immediate action after Census 2016
found almost 200,000 houses and apartments lying empty across the 26
Counties.
Published July 16, 2016
Villiers replaced as British Direct Ruler
James Brokenshire, a 48-year-old Tory MP and junior Home Office Minister
based in Kent, has been named as the new British Direct Ruler in Ireland
after Theresa Villiers was dropped from the post.
Published July 14, 2016
Houses gutted by bonfires as Orangemen march
There were confrontations this morning as sectarian parades were forced
through Catholic communities following a night in which bonfires were
lit to herald the day of loyalist aggression.
Published July 12, 2016
Theresa May to become British PM on Wednesday
British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he will officially
step down on Wednesday, months ahead of schedule. His announcement came
after it emerged his replacement will be Home Secretary Theresa May,
whose last rival for the leadership of the Conservative Party dropped
out this morning.
Published July 11, 2016
Unionists ‘veto’ Irish Brexit forum
Sinn Fein has called on the Taoiseach to press ahead with a plan to
convene a national, all-Ireland forum on dealing with the fallout of the
British vote to leave the EU.
Published July 9, 2016
Kenny facing party demands for timeline to quit
Pressure is growing on the Fine Gael leader and 26 County Taoiseach Enda
Kenny to declare a timetable for his departure as questions mount over
his leadership abilities in the wake of the Brexit crisis in Britain.
Published July 9, 2016
Bonfire terror ‘utterly insane’
A number of potentially toxic Eleventh Night bonfires in Belfast have
caused fear and alarm, including one outside a city centre hotel and
others near houses in east Belfast.
Published July 9, 2016
Nationalists to protest Twelfth parades
The Protestant marching season reaches its climax on Tuesday with a
number of provocative sectarian marches once again planned for
nationalist areas.
Published July 9, 2016
Upheaval in British Labour Party linked to Iraq report
An attempted internal party coup within the British Labour Party is
being blamed on the publication of an official government report by John
Chilcot into the Iraq war. Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister
and Labour leader, was savaged in the verdict and faces angry demands
for justice from British victims of the war.
Published July 9, 2016
Sign of the times as Irish language is attacked
A new initiative to support the Irish language in the North has been
attacked in a unionist campaign of vandalism and hate.
Published July 9, 2016
Unionists fear unity, demand border troops
Unionists have expressed concern at a renewed support for Irish
nationalism and republicanism following the result of the recent British
referendum to leave the European Union.
Published July 2, 2016
New British PM could take hard line on Ireland
The battle to replace David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party
and British Prime Minister is set to be dominated by two contendors with
extreme right-wing views.
Published July 2, 2016
New evidence points to cold-blooded killing
The Police Ombudsman is to examine the death of a republican 25 years
ago after relatives of IRA Volunteer Colum Marks brought a High Court
challenge over the ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy of planned state executions.
Published July 2, 2016
Increase in harassment of republicans
Republican Sinn Fein has said two members of its Ard Chomhairle
leadership were among a group stopped and ambushed in Lurgan, County
Armagh in a heavy-handed operation by British forces this week.
Published July 2, 2016
Orange parade plan for Ardoyne abandoned
A major Orange Order parade passed off peacefully in Belfast on Friday
after a proposed march through nationalist areas of north Belfast did
not go ahead.
Published July 2, 2016
Shock over latest charity scandal
The founder of Irish suicide prevention charity Console, his wife and
son ran up credit card bills of almost half a million euro on items such
as designer clothes, foreign trips and weekly groceries over a
three-year period, according to a long-delayed audit of the charity.
Published July 2, 2016
Race violence as politicians discuss Brexit chaos
England is currently experiencing a wave of xenophobic attacks as
politicians across Europe grapple with the fallout of the shock result
of a British vote to leave the EU.
Published June 29, 2016
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