The PSNI police have been provided with the keys to every property in
the tower blocks of republican north Belfast, it has emerged.
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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
Orange Order not shamed by hate fiesta
The Orange Order has refused to apologise after photographs emerged of
supporters in Scotland wearing bizarre and shocking costumes expressing
racist and sectarian hate.
Published July 22, 2017
Politics as usual as Irish unity seen in reach
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD has said that Micheal Martin “needs
to get serious about a United Ireland” following the Fianna Fail
leader’s refusal to support the establishment of a parliamentary
committee on Irish Unity.
Published July 22, 2017
A third attempt to extradite Liam Campbell to Lithuania is being opposed
over the nature of the prison conditions in the country.
Published July 22, 2017
Adams challenges internment-related convictions
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has launched a legal bid to overturn two
historical convictions for attempting to escape from Long Kesh
internment camp.
Published July 22, 2017
Call for big turnout for Tony Taylor
Nationalist and republican groups are coming together this weekend to
again demand freedom for imprisoned Irish activist Tony Taylor.
Published July 22, 2017
Fears for republican held with criminals
Protests are being organised on behalf of a republican prisoner who is
being kept in isolation among the general criminal cohort at Maghaberry
jail.
Published July 22, 2017
The Democratic Unionist Party has caused a furore by issuing
conflicting statements about the burning of a coffin effigy of the late
Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness on a loyalist bonfire in east
Belfast on Tuesday.
Published July 15, 2017
The height of the Protestant marching season passed more quietly than
recent years as Orangemen and bandsmen largely respected the rulings of
the Parades Commission, which adjudicates on the routes of contentious
parades.
Published July 15, 2017
Varadkar opposes unity referendum
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has expressed his surprise at remarks
made by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, during an interview with Time Magazine,
in which he says that he is ‘very much opposed’ to a referendum on Irish
reunification.
Published July 15, 2017
Links between local councils and loyalist paramilitary groups continue
to grow with the erection in north Down of banners carrying the motto of
infamous UDA death squads.
Published July 15, 2017
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