A 76-year-old woman injured during a Crown Force operation to disrupt an
Easter 1916 commemoration in Lurgan has come to symbolise the defiance
of republicans against a new effort to disrupt republican Easter parade
colour parties.
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PSNI oppression fails to halt Rising commemorations
A 76-year-old woman injured during a Crown Force operation to disrupt an
Easter 1916 commemoration in Lurgan has come to symbolise the defiance
of republicans against a new effort to disrupt republican Easter parade
colour parties.
Published April 7, 2018
Murder gangs could hit South over Brexit, Trimble warns
A former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has suggested loyalist
paramilitaries could mount attacks against the Dublin government over
its efforts to prevent a ‘hard border’ through Ireland.
Published April 7, 2018
DUP leader to emigrate if Ireland reunited
The leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster, has said she could not tolerate
living in Ireland if the island were to be reunited.
Published April 7, 2018
Raid on UDA commander provokes ‘show of strength’
More than 40 members of the North Down UDA mounted a display of
paramilitary power in Bangor, County Down following police searches of
loyalist Dee Stitt’s home and two other properties.
Published April 7, 2018
Unionists seen leading anti-Islam sentiment
Senior unionist politicians have been accused of engaging in racist
commentary amid a controversy over the distribution of fascistic
leaflets against immigrants.
Published April 7, 2018
Derry moves to protect children from Crown Force recruitment
There has been a general welcome in Derry after councillors formally
backed a call for schools to ban British Armed Forces from accessing
children.
Published April 7, 2018
Clashes at Derry parade amid tension at Rising events
Confrontations at Easter 1916 events across the North erupted in a
mini-riot in Derry today as the annual march by the 1916 Commemoration
Committee, supported by Saoradh, gathered in the Creggan estate in the
city.
Published April 2, 2018
Easter commemoration attacked by PSNI
The PSNI have this afternoon attacked an Easter commemoration in Lurgan,
County Armagh, injuring a woman and dramatically raising tensions ahead
of a weekend of commemorative events.
Published March 31, 2018
There has been an outcry in Ireland after more than sixteen Palestinians
were killed in the Gaza Strip on Friday as Israel used snipers and other
weaponry against tens of thousands of demonstrators who had gathered
along the Gaza-Israel boundary.
Published March 31, 2018
Judge calls time on internment by remand
In a positive development in the campaign against internment by remand
which has seen republicans jailed for years without charges being
brought, Luke O’Neill has been granted bail.
Published March 31, 2018
Nationalist frustration on anniversary of Good Friday Agreement
On the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, a desultory
media exercise by British Prime Minister Theresa May at a farm in County
Down has added to the belief that political atrophy in London means
there will be no revival of the Stormont powersharing institutions in
the short term.
Published March 31, 2018
Trial of British soldiers to go ahead
Two former British soldiers are to stand trial charged with murdering an
Official IRA man in Belfast 46 years ago, a judge has ordered.
Published March 31, 2018
Calls for protests as homeless numbers top five figures
The position of the 26 County Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy is
under increasing threat after a shock increase in the number of homeless
people, particularly children, which has rocketed by almost 50 per cent
in the last year.
Published March 31, 2018
Hand over inquest funds, court orders
In an emphatic ruling, a High Court judge has issued a “mandatory order”
to civil servants in Belfast and London to provide long-denied funds for
legacy inquests in the North of Ireland.
Published March 24, 2018
Mixed messages over tributes to SF leaders
Unionists have reacted with outrage following a proclamation by the
mayor of New York last weekend naming March 17, 2018 as ‘Gerry Adams
Day’.
Published March 24, 2018
IRSP concern over Tory legal dodge
The Irish Republican Socialist Party has said it believes that two of
its members were killed as part of a wider campaign against the party by
the British government and are now the target of a potential cover-up.
Published March 24, 2018
Battles over flags on St Patrick’s Day
At the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Newry, the national flag was
flown despite attempts by Newry, Mourne and Down Council to ban it.
Published March 24, 2018
Sinn Fein postpones abortion debate until after poll
Sinn Fein has suspended one of its TDs, Offaly TD Carol Nolan, after
she voted against holding a referendum to remove a constitutional ban
on abortion this week.
Published March 24, 2018
Labour appoints new shadow Direct Ruler in Brexit row
The spokesperson on Ireland for the British Labour Party, Owen Smith,
was dramatically sacked by party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday night in
a row over the party’s position on Britain’s departure from the European
Union.
Published March 24, 2018
Hooded men, Amnesty stunned by ECHR dismissal of torture case
A decision by the European Court of Human Rights has been described as a
bad day for justice after it refused to revise a judgement that the
‘Hooded Men’ did not suffer torture at the hands of their British
military captors in 1971.
Published March 20, 2018
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