Pressure is growing to end the public funding of loyalist ‘community
organisations’ after some of the worst sectarian displays at Eleventh
Night bonfires in some years.
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Stop the cash for bonfire ‘bigotfest’
Pressure is growing to end the public funding of loyalist ‘community
organisations’ after some of the worst sectarian displays at Eleventh
Night bonfires in some years.
Published July 18, 2015
Properties ‘liberated’ in direct action on housing
Housing activists in Dublin have been secretly taking over disused and
abandoned government-owned properties in an effort to tackle the problem
of homelessness in the capital.
Published July 18, 2015
MI5 role in shoot-to-kill cases revealed
A former MI5 surveillance ‘spook’ has described how he followed IRA
Volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill for months before he was shot dead in a
boarding house in London.
Published July 18, 2015
Dáil hears Ballymurphy justice appeal
Relatives of those killed in the Ballymurphy massacre were present for
an emotional debate in the Dublin parliament in which Sinn Fein leader
Gerry Adams vividly described being in the area on the night of the
killings when internment without trial was introduced by the British
government in 1971.
Published July 18, 2015
Tributes for IRSM legend Peggy O’Hara
The funeral of Peggy O’Hara, mother of 1981 INLA hunger striker, Patsy
O’Hara, has brought together republican figures of all strands together
to pay their respects.
Published July 18, 2015
Marcher accused of attempted murder as parade rerouted
Loyalists rioted on Monday night in north Belfast and drove a vehicle
into nationalist residents, seriously injuring a teenage girl, after
their march was preventing from passing through the Catholic Ardoyne
area.
Published July 14, 2015
Loyalist intimidation has reached shocking new levels after sectarian
graffiti appeared in south Belfast that threatens to ‘crucify’
Catholics, while Nazi flags were erected near a loyalist bonfire site in
County Antrim.
Published July 11, 2015
Residents forced out by grant-funded bonfire mayhem
Residents living next to a loyalist ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfire site have
had to be moved out of their homes due to the hazard presented by one of
tonight’s planned infernos.
Published July 11, 2015
Interface areas brace for parades
Tensions are running high in a number of flashpoint areas in advance of
the ‘Twelfth’ parades, and thousands of PSNI police have been
deployed to facilitate the marches by the anti-Catholic Orange Order.
Published July 11, 2015
Robinsons deny benefit as ‘Namagate’ scandal grows
Allegations of political corruption and bribery relating to the North’s
largest ever property deal have multiplied in the past week and are now
to be investigated by Britain’s version of the FBI, the National Crime
Agency.
Published July 11, 2015
The families of three IRA Volunteers shot dead by the British Army’s SAS
in County Tyrone in 1988 are taking legal action against former Ulster
Unionist Ken Maginnis, the British government and the police chief
constable.
Published July 11, 2015
Pensions payout as Kenny flies high
There is outrage among government backbenchers after it was revealed
that disgraced former 26-County Prime Ministers, Brian Cowen and Bertie
Ahern, are to have thousands of euro a year added to their already
inflated pensions.
Published July 11, 2015
Stormont link to secret millions
A senior politician in the north of Ireland has been identified as the
recipient of a giant payoff as part of a billion euro property deal
which could threaten the continued functioning of the Stormont
administration.
Published July 4, 2015
Short Strand besieged once again
A nationalist community in Belfast has been subjected to a nightly
onslaught of bottles, nuts, bolts, golf balls, bricks and paintballs
before being hemmed in by a wall of steel on Wednesday evening to allow
a loyalist parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order pass by.
Published July 4, 2015
Loyalists ‘celebrate’ racism, sectarianism
Loyalists’ use of confederate flags as a statement of racist hate has
reinforced concerns over their use of flags to spread fear and
intimidation over the marching season.
Published July 4, 2015
TDs concerned as McKevitt returned to jail after cancer surgery
Five members of the Dublin parliament have protested about the
conditions in which jailed republican Michael McKevitt is being held and
have expressed their “deep concern” after he was abruptly returned to
prison following a cancer operation.
Published July 4, 2015
Water tax protestors attacked outside Dail
An anti-austerity protest in Dublin was brutally cleared by Gardai on
Wednesday to allow disgraced former Minister Alan Shatter drive through
protestors into the Leinster House parliament.
Published July 4, 2015
Sinn Fein takes mayoralties in historic advance
The election of a first-ever Sinn Fein mayor in Dublin has underlined
the party’s progress in city councils across the island ahead of the
centennial commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published July 4, 2015
The Dublin government has been accused of lining up with the IMF and the
EU institutions to inflict further suffering on the Greek people even as
it continues to impose further austerity cuts here.
Published June 27, 2015
Sinn Fein facing Cork rebellion
A spectacular row over the disciplining of two councillors has divided
the Sinn Fein organisation in Cork, with up to 70 resignations reported
across the Cork East constituency.
Published June 27, 2015
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