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.
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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
The Border ‘will be maintained by the gun’
Amid a hostile reaction by unionist politicians to a draft Brexit deal,
one TUV politician has warned that the border through Ireland will be
“maintained by the gun”.
Published November 24, 2018
Councillors join new Sinn Fein splinter party
A breakaway anti-abortion, nationalist/republican party being set up by
former Sinn Fein TD Peadar Toibin is organising meetings across the
country and has already recruited two councillors, Sinn Fein Kildare
councillor Ide Cussen and former Sinn Fein Cork councillor Ger Keohane.
Published November 24, 2018
Inquests ‘a problem’, says Karen Bradley
Britain’s Direct Ruler in Ireland, Karen Bradley, has been widely
condemned for comments that families of victims of British war crimes
are part of ‘the problem’ for seeking coronial inquests, and that she
was ‘outraged’ by the legal pursuit of the soldiers involved.
Published November 24, 2018
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