Sinn Fein has condemned a decision by Spain’s Constitutional Court to
back a ruling that Basque separatist politician Arnaldo Otegi cannot run
as a candidate in an upcoming regional election due to a conviction
against him for links to the armed group ETA.
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Spain fights back against surge for independence
Sinn Fein has condemned a decision by Spain’s Constitutional Court to
back a ruling that Basque separatist politician Arnaldo Otegi cannot run
as a candidate in an upcoming regional election due to a conviction
against him for links to the armed group ETA.
Published September 17, 2016
PSNI accused after CS gas death
A man from a well-known republican family died at the hands of the PSNI
on Thursday amid a new wave of police harassment and abuses in Belfast.
Published September 10, 2016
‘Profit process’ creamed hundreds of millions off property deal
An auditor’s report has found that several hundred million euro have
been lost to the 26 County exchequer in a notorious billion-pound
property transaction as a recording emerged of a central figure in the
deal apparently receiving a bag full of cash in a Belfast car park.
Published September 10, 2016
Brexit goes before the Belfast courts
The peace process is based upon membership of the European Union, the
High Court in Belfast has heard, in one of two legal challenges to be
taken against the British decision to withdraw from the EU.
Published September 10, 2016
Documents reveal British Army likely shot single mother
A judicial review is being heard in connection with the discovery that
the British Crown forces concealed the truth about the suspected
military killing of a woman in west Belfast for more than 40 years.
Published September 10, 2016
Accusations fly amid calls for republican dialogue
A new war of words has broken out between Sinn Fein and rival
republicans following a claim that ‘dissidents’ were responsible for an
arson attack on a community centre in Derry.
Published September 10, 2016
Barman quits over policy of ‘no Irish allowed’
There have been calls for new measures to protect the rights of Irish
speakers after an employee of a well-known Cork city pub was told that
he was not allowed to speak Irish on the premises.
Published September 10, 2016
Fake economy exposed by Apple tax ‘windfall’
The Dublin government is the subject of anger and ridicule after it
defended illegal tax dodges by multinational corporations and rejected
a European ruling that it receive up to 13 billion euro in unpaid taxes
from US corporation, Apple.
Published September 3, 2016
Sinn Fein suffers damaging Antrim split
A Sinn Fein councillor and 17 party activists have quit the party in
response to its treatment of Daithi McKay, a party Assembly member who
was forced to resign his seat last month over his contacts with loyalist
Jamie Bryson.
Published September 3, 2016
Tories set to wreck human rights basis to peace deal
The Tory government in London is to push ahead with a decision to scrap
its Human Rights Act as part of its ‘Brexit’ agenda to drag the north of
Ireland and Scotland out of the European Union.
Published September 3, 2016
Soldiers lurk as RNU commemorate McCracken
The Republican Network for Unity has condemned the presence of British
army troops in the area of their annual commemoration for Henry Joy
McCracken last Sunday, August 28.
Published September 3, 2016
Housing crisis linked to tax scandal
The scandal over the Dublin government’s failure to collect tax from US
multinationals has refocused attention on its favourable treatment of
international ‘vulture funds’ who purchased large property asset
portfolios following the 2008 economic crisis.
Published September 3, 2016
An Irish-made documentary exploring the life and death of IRA hunger
striker Bobby Sands smashed the national box office record in its
opening weekend, and continues to sell out weeks after it opened.
Published September 3, 2016
The chairman of a County Antrim Gaelic sports club has resigned after it
voted to remove entrance gates dedicated to the memory of two Irish War
of Independence martyrs in order to secure a grant from a
unionist-controlled council.
Published August 27, 2016
Bryson sought revenge for Dervock band - report
A dispute over a sectarian loyalist parade through the mainly
nationalist town of Rasharkin last week is being linked to the “leak” of
private messages targeting Sinn Fein Assembly member Daithi McKay.
Published August 27, 2016
Call for new investigation into informer recruitment coercion
The Police Ombudsman has been urged to review an investigation into the
suspicious death of a republican while in PSNI custody after an
investigator linked to the case resigned.
Published August 27, 2016
Papers reignite hunger strike ‘deal’ debate
Recently released government papers dating from 1985 have again reopened
a debate about negotiations which took place during the 1981 hunger
strike which some have argued could have prevented the deaths of six of
the ten republican prisoners who died.
Published August 27, 2016
Collusion victim’s son condemns ‘years of lies’
A man whose wife was killed when a car bomb exploded outside the Step
Inn bar in south Armagh 40 years ago has said he wants to see a new
inquest
Published August 27, 2016
New delay as end of Bloody Sunday saga is “in sight”
The Bloody Sunday families have called on the PSNI to state whether or
not they intend recommending that the soldiers responsible for the 1972
killings are prosecuted.
Published August 27, 2016
Sinister agenda sees McKay ousted
Senior Sinn Fein political figure Daithi McKay, who worked to expose
wrongdoing in the murky world of Ireland’s NAMA property deals, could
end up being the only direct casualty of the scandal following his
forced resignation this week.
Published August 20, 2016
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