With the prospects of Irish reunification appearing to grow in the
aftermath of the Brexit referendum, some elements within the 26 County
establishment have become increasingly nervous.
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Hostility to Sinn Fein unity effort emerges in Dublin
With the prospects of Irish reunification appearing to grow in the
aftermath of the Brexit referendum, some elements within the 26 County
establishment have become increasingly nervous.
Published August 19, 2017
Minister ‘looking to get handle’ on deepening homelessness crisis
The number of homeless people in Ireland could reach 10,000 by the
middle of next year if the low level of government activity continues,
charities have warned.
Published August 19, 2017
Youths riot over bonfire raids
A one-sided approach by council authorities to bonfires has
been blamed for a riotous conflagration in nationalist areas of Belfast
city centre this week which threatened to reignite conflict at sectarian
interfaces in the city.
Published August 12, 2017
Sinn Fein leaders open door to left-right coalition
There is increasing speculation that Sinn Fein could become the junior
partners in the next coalition government in the 26 Counties after the
party leadership refused to rule it out.
Published August 12, 2017
Protest stops British Legion concert performance
A protest by a group called ‘Irish Socialist Republicans’ successfully disrupted a
concert performance in honour of the British Army at a rural village in
County Limerick this week.
Published August 12, 2017
Strong turnout for restricted anti-internment march
Over a thousand people took part in an anti-internment parade through
Belfast which was banned from the city centre last weekend, while two
tiny loyalist and fascist events were allowed to take place there.
Published August 12, 2017
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly has condemned the DUP for “cosying up to the
UDA” while Sinn Fein was “standing up against armed groups from right
across the community”.
Published August 12, 2017
‘Spycop’ infiltrated Troops Out Movement
Undercover police who spied on political groups have been identified by
a judge-led public inquiry in England into illegal police operations.
Published August 12, 2017
Historic Dáil document on peaceful unification
An Irish parliamentary report on achieving Irish unity has placed the
republican goal of a united Ireland in the context of 26 County
constitutional parliamentary politics for the first time.
Published August 5, 2017
Varadkar makes waves in Belfast
The 26 County Taoiseach has made his first visit north of the border
since becoming Fine Gael leader, and called for a “unique solution” to
the status of the Six Counties after Brexit and attending a Gay Pride
event.
Published August 5, 2017
PSNI ‘handed keys to every flat’
The PSNI police have been provided with the keys to every property in
the tower blocks of republican north Belfast, it has emerged.
Published August 5, 2017
Portlaoise dispute reflects divisions for prisoners
A dispute which saw unaligned republican prisoner Donal Billings
undertake a brief hunger protest after he was removed from the
republican wing of Portlaoise jail has ended amicably with his return to
the wing.
Published August 5, 2017
Tensions high as Belfast rallies against internment
Tensions remain high in the North following ‘the Twelfth’ marches by
the Orange Order and sectarian bonfires earlier this month, and ahead
of a confluence of nationalist, loyalist and far-right protests and
counter-protests in Belfast on Sunday.
Published August 5, 2017
Talks on hold but Stormont rancour continues
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams has said he would “cancel his holidays now” to
deal with outstanding issues and get Stormont’s Executive back up and
running.
Published August 5, 2017
PSNI’s Glenanne cover-up fails
In a dramatic vindication for the grieving families, the High Court in
Belfast has accepted that the PSNI wrecked an investigation into
collusion by Britain in the notorious Glenanne Gang, which was
responsible for killing 130 Catholics.
Published July 29, 2017
Finucane family granted appeal to Supreme Court
The widow of murdered defence lawyer Pat Finucane has been granted
permission to take her bid for a public inquiry into his death to the
highest court in England.
Published July 29, 2017
There is a growing media focus on the Orange Order in the north of Ireland
after reports that the secretive anti-Catholic organisation has a
violent initiation ritual known as ‘riding the goat’, and that its members
were told not to use the phrase ‘Rest in Peace’ as it is too Catholic.
Published July 29, 2017
‘Defiant’ Varadkar will not advance new electronic border
There are indications that the Dublin government may be waking up to the
risks involved in reinforcing the partition of Ireland after it rejected
the prospect of a new economic border to impose Brexit.
Published July 29, 2017
Tories evasive as questions hang over new DUP role
The British government may be planning to supplant the power-sharing
Executive at Stormont with the ‘consultative committee’ set up as part
of the deal with the Democratic Unionists to prop up the Tory government
at Westminster, it has been warned.
Published July 29, 2017
Loyalists seeking confrontation with marches
Loyalists marched through a mixed community in south Belfast on Friday
night in a show of strength in tribute to notorious UDA paramilitaries
linked to a string of sectarian atrocities.
Published July 29, 2017
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