An unusual dispute has arisen in east Tyrone after a former IRA leader
denied a Sinn Fein man’s claims that loyalists and republicans reached
“an understanding” in the area after a secret meeting in the early
1990s.
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Sinn Fein MP claims deal with loyalists in 1993
An unusual dispute has arisen in east Tyrone after a former IRA leader
denied a Sinn Fein man’s claims that loyalists and republicans reached
“an understanding” in the area after a secret meeting in the early
1990s.
Published October 20, 2018
Over 120,000 people joined a march for Scottish independence through
Edinburgh last Saturday in the largest ever march about the issue.
Published October 13, 2018
Tribunal blasts Garda Chief’s ‘repulsive’ lies
Former Garda police Commissioner Martin Callinan led a whispering
campaign of lies and defamation against police whistleblower Sergeant
Maurice McCabe and then denied it under oath, according to the findings
of a sworn tribunal of inquiry.
Published October 13, 2018
Effort to open Britain’s archive of secrets
The widow of a man shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast 47 years
ago has begun a High Court bid to obtain access to documents stored in
secret English vaults.
Published October 13, 2018
Prison warders accused of seeking confrontation
Maghaberry prisoners aligned to Republican Sinn Fein have condemned what
it said were attempts to provoke tension at the jail by prison warders.
Published October 13, 2018
PSNI cooperation with investigations in doubt
Sinn Fein has condemned the Police Federation in the North (PFNI) after
it warned that current and former members of the PSNI/RUC police would
not cooperate with the proposed Historical Investigations Unit (HIU).
Published October 13, 2018
Varadkar reeling as Minister quits over €500m scandal
Ireland’s reputation as a centre of large-scale financial corruption has
not been helped by a whirlwind of devastating revelations which brought
a sudden end to the Ministerial career of Denis Naughten on Thursday.
Published October 13, 2018
Minister quits amid questions over 500m euro contract
The 26 County Minister for Communications Denis Naughten resigned
suddenly this afternoon as a controversy escalated over his handling of
a 500 million euro contract for the rollout of rural broadband.
Published October 11, 2018
Budget 2019 denounced as ‘a betrayal’
Fine Gael’s Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has revealed the third and
final annual 26 County budget agreed with Fianna Fail as part of their
government pact.
Published October 9, 2018
DUP leader Arlene Foster has described her party’s opposition to a deal
in Brexit negotiations that would result in new checks on goods moving
across the Irish Sea as a “red line” that is “blood red”.
Published October 6, 2018
Historic civil rights march remembered
Events have been taking place in Derry to mark the 50th anniversary of
the 1968 civil rights’ march, which some consider to have been the start
of the recent conflict in Ireland.
Published October 6, 2018
Roof raised as marchers take Dublin
Up to 20,000 people, of all ages and from across the country, gathered
at a rally outside the Dublin parliament on Wednesday demanding an end
to the housing crisis.
Published October 6, 2018
Pat Finucane murder linked to MI5’s ‘licence to kill’
MI5 authorised its agents and informers to kill targets and commit other
crimes under a secret policy which operated throughout the conflict in
Ireland and continued until at least 2012, an investigative powers
tribunal in London has heard.
Published October 6, 2018
New Lodge investigation ordered
A decision to order a new investigation into the killing of six men in
north Belfast 45 years ago has been widely welcomed.
Published October 6, 2018
Not-so-covert spying operations
Aggressive house raids on republicans in North and West Belfast were
followed by an open attempt to bug the family home and car of one of the
victims, as British intelligence operations become increasingly public
in the face of smart phone technology.
Published October 6, 2018
No compensation for Bloody Sunday
A damages payment to a survivor of the British Army’s Bloody Sunday
massacre is being seen as a step towards the goal of achieving real
justice for the victims, rather than compensation.
Published September 29, 2018
Brexit ‘a matter of life and death’
A British Labour MP has broken the silence of the mainstream media over
the consequences of Brexit in terms of the remilitarisation of the
border through Ireland.
Published September 29, 2018
Time for Truth brings campaign to Stormont
Victims and survivors of the recent conflict in the north of Ireland
travelled to Stormont this week as part of the ‘Time for Truth’ campaign
and submitted 6000 responses to the British government’s consultation on
‘Addressing the Legacy of the Past in the North’.
Published September 29, 2018
Loyalist attacks go unchecked in Antrim
Loyalists paramilitary organisations have been involved in brutal
attacks in County Antrim amid violent wrangling over local control and
the proceeds of crime.
Published September 29, 2018
DUP ‘accountable but not responsible’
Two unionist-controlled councils donated thousands of pounds to the
DUP’s Ian Paisley in the latest financial scandal to hit the party and
its already disgraced MP for North Antrim.
Published September 29, 2018
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