The number and variety of Easter commemorative events taking place this
weekend is at a record as the 26 County state attempts to make up for
the years when it ignored the 1916 anniversary.
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The main Easter commemorations
The number and variety of Easter commemorative events taking place this
weekend is at a record as the 26 County state attempts to make up for
the years when it ignored the 1916 anniversary.
Published March 26, 2016
McDonald condemns new US ‘security’ agenda
Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald has said she was subjected to
“heavy-handed and very invasive” security searches while travelling
home from the United States after St Patrick’s Day.
Published March 26, 2016
Triumph as 1916 battle site is saved
In a landmark victory for republican heritage campaigners, a High Court
judge has granted that a number of buildings on and around Dublin’s
Moore Street are a battlefield site worthy of the designation of
national monument.
Published March 19, 2016
Adams seeks to end differential treatment by US officials
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has called on the US to review its security
arrangements for visits by party representatives after he was
dramatically refused entry to a St Patrick’s reception at the White
House.
Published March 19, 2016
Prison tensions heightened after official’s death
There have been further condemnations by politicians after a senior
prison official died from a heart attack two weeks after he received a
leg injury in an attack on his vehicle.
Published March 19, 2016
Increased harassment in nationalist areas
Several homes in Belfast were violently raided last weekend amid an
increased PSNI presence, with heavily armed units deployed in the west
and north of the city.
Published March 19, 2016
Bankers ramp up evictions as fraud accused beat jail
Over a hundred families are being evicted from a Dublin estate after
Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs ordered the estate cleared following a
purchase of the loan underlying the development.
Published March 19, 2016
Hits and misses for official 1916 commemorations
There has been strong criticism of a banner in honour of four
parliamentary nationalists, three of whom died long before the 1916
Rising and one who bitterly opposed it, amid continuing preparations for
the centennial.
Published March 19, 2016
Obama silent as Adams blasts White House insult
Published March 16, 2016
Adams refused entry to White House event
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams was prevented from attending a St
Patrick’s Day event at the White House last night by security
personnel, although his deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald and colleague
Martin McGuinness were allowed to take part.
Published March 16, 2016
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has formally taken on the role of Acting
Taoiseach until a new government is formed in Dublin or, as appears
increasingly likely, a second general election takes place.
Published March 12, 2016
Prominent Derry republican interned
Derry man Tony Taylor has been jailed in Maghaberry following a decision by
the British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers to put him to prison.
Published March 12, 2016
Hegarty family defy prosecutors
A British soldier who shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in Derry in 1972
will not be prosecuted, Crown prosecutors have said.
Published March 12, 2016
British soldiers were deployed on the republican wing at Maghaberry jail
as political prisoners maintained a standoff in the canteen, according
to media reports.
Published March 12, 2016
Border poll should follow British move to quit EU - McGuinness
A vote should be held in the Six Counties on the reunification of
Ireland if Britain decides to leave the EU, Sinn Fein’s Martin
McGuinness has said.
Published March 12, 2016
‘No ethnics or Irish’ for unionists
Unionists have demanded that Irish language words be removed from
manhole covers in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Published March 12, 2016
Parties wary after ‘fundamental realignment’
Following an election count which lasted six days, the new Dublin
parliament will meet next Thursday to elect a new Taoiseach, although no
new government is expected to be formed for several weeks.
Published March 5, 2016
Cold-blooded murder as criminals lash out
There has been a shocked reaction among republicans in Dublin after a
second member of the Ryan family was shot dead in Dublin by a crime
gang.
Published March 5, 2016
Attack linked to Maghaberry crisis
A prison guard has been injured in a suspected booby-trap attack on his
car as tensions at Maghaberry jail have escalated once again.
Published March 5, 2016
Freed republican calls for Omagh inquiry
A man accused of taking part in the 1998 Omagh bomb has said there
needs to be a public inquiry into the attack which claimed the lives of
29 people and for which he wrongly spent two years in jail.
Published March 5, 2016
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