The leadership battle in the SDLP reaches a climax tomorrow when
youthful challenger Colum Eastwood is expected to unseat party stalwart
Alasdair McDonnell.
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New leader predicted as SDLP struggles with identity crisis
The leadership battle in the SDLP reaches a climax tomorrow when
youthful challenger Colum Eastwood is expected to unseat party stalwart
Alasdair McDonnell.
Published November 13, 2015
State harassment continues for veteran republicans
Peace campaigner and former republican prisoner Patrick Magee said he was
refused permission to board a flight last week, simply because it was
due to pass over US airspace.
Published November 13, 2015
Loyalist violence linked to ‘territory’ claims
Loyalists have targeted the home of a Catholic family in a campaign of
sectarian terror on a north Belfast street.
Published November 13, 2015
Fianna Fail hit by sex abuse scandal
Former minister Pat Carey has stepped down as the director of elections
for the 26 County’s largest opposition party over shock sex abuse
allegations against him.
Published November 13, 2015
Robinson under pressure to quit as talks wind down
DUP leader Peter Robinson is likely to resign ‘within weeks’, according to reports, as it emerged that he is to be investigated by the
PSNI over comments he made in regard to a property deal nine years ago.
Published November 6, 2015
Clashes between nationalists and PSNI
Youths in republican areas have battled with the PSNI police in Lurgan
and Derry as anger over raids and harassment spilled over into violence.
Published November 6, 2015
New doubts over Craigavon Two trial
The convictions against the Craigavon Two are on even shakier ground
after new details about key evidence was made public.
Published November 6, 2015
‘Dickensian’ Maghaberry condemned by inspectors
For the first time ever, official prison inspectors have issued an
“urgent action plan” to authorities at Maghaberry jail in the wake of a
recent inspection.
Published November 6, 2015
British war crimes seen at heart of poppy issue
Loyalists have picketed a store in Belfast in protest at the failure to
sell poppies, as the controversy over the marking of the British Army’s
Remembrance Day surfaced for another year.
Published November 6, 2015
Taoiseach condemns those behind healthcare failures
The Dublin government’s failures in the health sector have been
dramatically highlighted by a hospital whistleblower, who revealed this
week that a 91-year-old man with Parkinson’s Disease had endured almost
30 hours on a trolley in a Dublin hospital corridor.
Published November 6, 2015
A weak and largely negative response by socialists and social democrats
to a vote transfer pact with other progressive election candidates could
have opened the door to a further five years of right-wing government in
Dublin.
Published October 31, 2015
Second bullet found in massacre victim
The family of a victim of the Ballymurphy massacre has been vindicated
in their decades-long struggle for justice after his exhumed body
appears to contain a bullet.
Published October 31, 2015
Disturbing racial incidents in Belfast
A Sudanese father and his five-year-old daughter have been forced to
flee their home in east Belfast after suffering racist intimidation.
Published October 31, 2015
Dublin shooting a case of collusion, family says
The family of a man killed by the unionist paramilitary UVF in Dublin in
1994 is to sue the PSNI police over collusion with the killers.
Published October 31, 2015
A small loyalist paramilitary group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, is
believed to have been responsible for a firebomb attack that destroyed a
car in a residential area of County Down this week.
Published October 31, 2015
Kenny accused of ‘make-believe’ politics
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of suffering from ‘Walter Mitty’
syndrome after one of his infamous ‘tall tales’ was finally exposed as
an invention.
Published October 31, 2015
Contradictions multiply at Stormont talks
DUP Ministers suddenly returned to work and multi-party talks have
resumed following the publication on Tuesday of a British intelligence
report that claims the Provisional IRA, INLA, UVF, UDA and Red Hand
Commando all still exist and control arms, but are ‘committed to peace’.
Published October 23, 2015
Duffy trio freed as case falls apart after two years
Three relatives of prominent republican Colin Duffy, who were due to
stand trial on IRA charges later this year, have been acquitted of all
charges against them and walked free from court on Thursday.
Published October 23, 2015
PSNI ‘attempting to put RNU out of business’
Carl Reilly, the chairperson of Republican Network for Unity has been arrested and
charged with ‘directing terrorism’, while another member of the RNU
leadership, Paul Crawford, was also arrested on IRA charges.
Published October 23, 2015
Sinn Fein double agent exposed
The Dublin government had a top-level informer in Sinn Fein over ten
years ago, former Justice Minister Michael McDowell has revealed.
Published October 23, 2015
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