Three Irish bankers were jailed on Friday as a custodial sentence was
handed down for a first time to those involved in the multi-billion
fraud at Anglo-Irish Bank.
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Breakthrough as three bankers are jailed
Three Irish bankers were jailed on Friday as a custodial sentence was
handed down for a first time to those involved in the multi-billion
fraud at Anglo-Irish Bank.
Published August 1, 2015
The attendance of a large colour party at the funeral procession of
republican socialist matriarch Peggy O’Hara last weekend has outraged
politicians and encouraged the PSNI to make a number of provocative
raids, including at the home of the dead woman’s grief-stricken family.
Published July 25, 2015
Papers confirm Thatcher was aware of Kincora cover-up
The discovery of new state papers about a network of high-profile
establishment figures systematically abusing and trafficking children
from the north of Ireland has added to suspicions that an ‘inquiry’ set
up in County Down by the British government is merely an attempt to
sideline the scandal.
Published July 25, 2015
Raids across North an ‘attempt to appease unionists’
Derry independent republican councillor Gary Donnelly has described a
violent search of his home by the PSNI as an attempt to “placate” the DUP.
Published July 25, 2015
Derry name change back on the agenda
A new effort is underway to have the name of Derry city officially
recognised by the British government and internationally.
Published July 25, 2015
Banking scandals multiply while inquiries are neutered
The 26 County government’s financial institution for managing the assets
of its collapsed banking system has refused to cross the border to
answer questions over corrupt practices in the sale of assets at heavily
discounted prices in the north of Ireland.
Published July 25, 2015
New parties launch ahead of election
With recent polls showing that independents and small alliances could
comprise more than a quarter of the Dublin parliament after the
forthcoming general election, two new political groupings have presented
themselves.
Published July 25, 2015
Loyalist gunmen issue threat after riots
Loyalist disturbances have continued in north Belfast since an
anti-Catholic Orange Order parade was rerouted from the nationalist
Ardoyne area on Monday.
Published July 18, 2015
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
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