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Verdict due in Bloody Sunday prosecution

The brother of a Bloody Sunday victim has spoken of how he missed a day of the trial of the soldier accused of murdering William McKinney due to a loyalist death threat.

Published October 23, 2025

‘Vote Connolly because we cannot’

A campaign in the north of Ireland has urged voters in the south to vote for Catherine Connolly because northerners are barred from taking part.

Published October 23, 2025

Questions pile up over Enniskillen bomb

Senior PSNI police engaged in a cover-up to protect an IRA informer involved in the Remembrance Sunday bombing, one of the most controversial tragedies of the conflict, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Published October 23, 2025

Interned republican subjected to political punishment

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association has strongly condemned the use of isolation against Republican prisoner Brian Cavlan, who was interned last week and has since been held in the prison’s CSU punishment unit with the claim he had ‘failed’ the body scanner.

Published October 23, 2025

Craigavon Two convictions ‘unsafe’

The safety of the conviction of two men jailed for a Continuity IRA gun attack on a member of the PSNI police “must be re-examined” after it emerged the PSNI spied on a legal team, the two lawyers have said.

Published October 23, 2025

British injustice behind new legacy plan

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has condemned the British government’s proposed legacy legislation which is set to deny the right of internees to compensation for wrongful imprisonment.

Published October 16, 2025

Alliance leader calls for details on reunification vote

Comments by Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, who has called for the British government to set out the criteria for when he would call a border poll, have been widely welcomed.

Published October 16, 2025

PSNI still spying on journalists for MI5

The PSNI has admitted that it is continuing to forward data obtained from the surveillance of journalists to British military intelligence, despite major legal questions over the practice in the wake of a recent report.

Published October 16, 2025

Gaza ceasefire ‘must see attacks end’

The ceasefire in the Israel military’s genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza has been welcomed in Ireland, but anger and concern is growing at the continuation of Israeli killings and related violence.

Published October 16, 2025

Harassment of activists increasing

Despite a peace deal in the Middle East, the PSNI has escalated its intimidatory approach to pro-Palestine activists in the North, threatening protestors in Newry with ‘terrorist’ legislation and others in Derry with arrest for holding an unnotified parade.

Published October 16, 2025

Negligible opposition to bilingual signs

Only a tiny fraction of residents in Belfast are opposed to dual-language signs, according to a survey, despite the actions of unionist hardliners who this week used an angle grinder to vandalise one sign.

Published October 16, 2025

A double standard for terror

Reported threats from unionist paramilitaries to carry out a campaign of violence against Belfast City Council property displaying Irish language signage have provoked fears that policing failures could facilitate a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.

Published October 9, 2025

Paisley behind ‘false flag’ bombing campaign, papers show

Loyalists with links to former DUP leader Ian Paisley were responsible for a series of ‘false flag’ bomb attacks in the early 1970s, newly uncovered British Army intelligence documents have confirmed.

Published October 9, 2025

Gaza protests under attack

Anti-genocide protests are being met with increasing state violence in the aftermath of Israel’s illegal abduction of activists attempting to deliver aid to break the siege of Gaza.

Published October 9, 2025

Expectations grow for border poll

Anticipation of moves towards a referendum on Irish unity is at a new high after former British Direct Ruler Shaun Woodward said that a border poll could be held within three years, while former DUP MP Ian Paisley has said he is open to debate the issue.