As concerns mount over the forthcoming marching season, several thousand
unionists and scores of bands brought Newry to a standstill on Friday of
last weekend in what was described as “an orgy of sectarian
triumphalism”.
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Parades issue seen as post-election bargaining chip
As concerns mount over the forthcoming marching season, several thousand
unionists and scores of bands brought Newry to a standstill on Friday of
last weekend in what was described as “an orgy of sectarian
triumphalism”.
Published April 25, 2015
Media war continues in the North
A crude propaganda exercise by the British Crown forces backfired this
week when it emerged that damage to a vehicle exhibited at a press
conference had been almost entirely faked by British Army operatives.
Published April 25, 2015
Increasing support for ‘Republic Day’ events
Republicans across Ireland marked the calendar anniversary of the Easter
Rising on Friday.
Published April 25, 2015
Loyalists escalate race violence
There has been a new spate of racist attacks across Belfast, with the
Polish community being particularly targeted by loyalists.
Published April 18, 2015
Inquiry into ‘Stakeknife’ collusion
An investigation is to be launched into the series of killings carried
out by the British agent known as Stakeknife and other Crown agents
acting secretly inside the Provisional IRA.
Published April 18, 2015
A media blitz by the PSNI police to improve its image among nationalists
in the north of Ireland is being challenged by republican activists.
Published April 18, 2015
British warplanes ‘in Irish skies’
The socialist republican party eirigi has voiced their concerns
following a recent “training mission” conducted by the British Forces of
occupation.
Published April 18, 2015
Gardai abuse austerity protestors
There have been demonstrations against Garda police brutality in Dublin
after two women taking part in a peaceful sit-down protest against water
charges were injured when Gardai smashed down a glass door.
Published April 18, 2015
Call to find victims of British gun attack
An appeal has been launched to trace a man and a woman who were shot and
injured by the British Army in 1972. The pair were wounded in an
incident in which a woman was shot dead in West Belfast.
Published April 18, 2015
Adams shifts stance on ‘border poll’
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams made a call for a “referendum on Irish
unity” on Easter Sunday as he spoke at a 1916 commemoration in Roslea,
County Fermanagh. He did not specify if the referendum should be a
national one or the ‘border poll’ within the Six Counties, as Sinn Fein
has previously argued for.
Published April 11, 2015
Tories accused over Kincora abuses, sectarian pact
The continuing cover-up over sexual abuse at the Kincora Boys’ Home in
the north of Ireland has become a prominent issue in the British general
election campaign after a former British Army intelligence officer
revealed this week that he was told to drop an investigation into the
scandal.
Published April 11, 2015
Republican political prisoners occupied a canteen in Maghaberry jail on
Easter Sunday in protest at being refused permission to wear lilies to
remember their dead.
Published April 11, 2015
Parade concerns for Glengormley
There are fears over a new sectarian Orange Order parade through a
mainly nationalist area of Glengormley in County Antrim, which planned
as part of a provocative protest in support of other sectarian Orange
parades.
Published April 11, 2015
Dunnes workers punished for strike action
There has been an angry response by unions after national retail chain
Dunnes Stores sacked some employees and took other hostile actions
against workers in the wake of a one-day industrial action at the
stores’ outlets in the 26 Counties last week.
Published April 11, 2015
Event to shed new light on Great Hunger in the North
An annual commemoration of the Great Hunger, when one million Irish
people died, is to be held in the Six Counties for the first time.
Published April 11, 2015
There has been a broad welcome for news that the site of the last stand
of the 1916 rebels during the Easter Rising is to be bought by the 26
County State for 4 million euro.
Published April 4, 2015
Loyalist bomb alert as new councils face old problems
There was a hoax bomb attack and graffiti sprayed on council buildings
in Dungannon as the north’s new ‘super councils’ finally took up power
as part of a shake-up of local government in the north of Ireland.
Published April 4, 2015
Nationalists could be the story of the Westminster election
Next month’s British general election could see the Scottish National
Party (SNP) win almost all of the parliamentary seats in Scotland,
recreating the historic and transformative 1918 Westminster election in
Ireland.
Published April 4, 2015
Family mark tragedy, forty years on
A Portadown family have dedicated a plaque in memory of their mother who
was murdered by the UVF in 1975.
Published April 4, 2015
No mercy from the landlord class
The Dublin government has been accused of acting only on behalf of
large-scale property owners in Ireland as it emerged that a substantial
number of TDs identify themselves as professional landlords.
Published April 4, 2015
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