In a dramatic turnaround, Sinn Fein has said it will seek to block the
welfare bill, a key element of the Stormont House Agreement, after
accusing the DUP of acting in bad faith on the issue.
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Stormont in new crisis after talks deal collapses
In a dramatic turnaround, Sinn Fein has said it will seek to block the
welfare bill, a key element of the Stormont House Agreement, after
accusing the DUP of acting in bad faith on the issue.
Published March 9, 2015
Leader’s speech by Gerry Adams at Sinn Fein Ard Fheis 2015
The Presidential address by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at
his party's annual conference in Derry this weekend.
Published March 7, 2015
Sinn Fein has categorically ruled out joining a coalition government in
Dublin as junior partner after elections due early next year. The party
is holding its Ard Fheis (annual conference) in Derry this weekend.
Published March 7, 2015
Catholics are leaving the PSNI police in numbers and fewer are applying
to join, new figures have shown.
Published March 7, 2015
Tensions rising at Portlaoise prison
A statement by republican prisoners at Portlaoise jail in the Irish
midlands has warned of a deteriorating situation there.
Published March 7, 2015
Raymond McCreesh park issue ‘resolved’
A play park in Newry has been held up by unionists as a symbol of ‘Sinn
Fein intransigence’ after the party blocked a new attempt to change its
name.
Published March 7, 2015
Wealthy mount blockade against property repossession
A media circus in south county Dublin has highlighted the efforts of
Ireland’s super-rich to defy legal moves to seize their assets.
Published March 7, 2015
‘Language strike’ and petition against EU treatment of Irish
A Sinn Fein member of the European Parliament is refusing to speak any
language other than her native Gaelic, in protest at the European
Union’s failure to fulfil its designation of Irish as a full official
language of the EU.
Published March 7, 2015
‘Criminals’ and ‘touts’ in south Armagh
Sinn Fein has warned that a lack of confidence in the PSNI police is
encouraging illegal activity in border areas.
Published February 28, 2015
Father seeks to end the silence on Scappaticci
A father of a man allegedly murdered by notorious British Crown informer
and double agent, Freddie Scappaticci, is behind a new effort to bring
the state to book for Scappaticci’s secret crimes.
Published February 28, 2015
Report warns against displays of Irishness
A St Patrick’s Day parade in Scotland is facing cancellation because it
could be attacked by loyalists, according to reports this week.
Published February 28, 2015
Cut-to-the-bone coalition demonises opposition
The Dublin government has attempted to turn the tables on its left-wing
opponents this week with efforts to portray them as “dangerous” and
“anti-democratic”.
Published February 28, 2015
Six-County officials are understood to have witnessed a blazing row
between the leaders of the two main nationalist parties over new welfare
cuts.
Published February 28, 2015
Govt ‘apologising’ for independence, ‘celebrating’ partition
The Dublin government stands accused of planning to celebrate the
partition of Ireland, following comments made by Fine Gael’s
controversial Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan at his party’s annual
conference last weekend.
Published February 28, 2015
Jailed activists on hunger strike
Anti-austerity activists have embarked on a hunger strike in protest at
their incarceration at Wheatfield prison in Dublin, and are now also
threatening to refuse fluids.
Published February 21, 2015
An abuse victim is hopeful after winning the first stage in a battle to have a
Westminster parliamentary inquiry look into allegations that senior
unionist politicians, businessmen and high-level British state agents
connived in a paedophile ring at the notorious Kincora care home in
Belfast.
Published February 21, 2015
More protests as activists are jailed
The jailing of five anti-austerity protestors has marked a further
escalation in the 26 County government’s crackdown on political
demonstrations against the water tax.
Published February 21, 2015
Bomb alerts in Derry and Belfast
An area around Currynieirin in Derry was closed off for two days this
week while an object reported as a “mortar-like device” was recovered. A
telephone caller to a local newspaper said an explosive device had been
left on a laneway by “the republican movement”.
Published February 21, 2015
Irish society polarised as never before
New research has shown the 26 County state is now the most unequal
country in the European Union for the distribution of income, and one of
the worst in the western world for health inequality.
Published February 21, 2015
‘Psychological torture’ of MI5 approach
A former republican prisoner has said he fears he is being set up by
British security forces after he was detained by MI5 at an Italian
airport.
Published February 21, 2015
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