There has been a very cautious welcome for the news that a new police
investigation is to be set up into the activities of British army agent
Stakeknife, thought to have been the highest ranking British double
agent within the IRA during the conflict.
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Sinn Fein has blamed the PSNI for “reneging on promises” after loyalist
flags were erected in a mixed area of south Belfast.
Evidence of British state collusion in a paedophile ring at a notorious
Belfast care home will not be examined fully by the Historical
Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA), currently underway in Banbridge,
County Down, it has been confirmed.
An inquest into a gun attack against Protestant workmen in 1976 has had
to be halted following the bizarre claim that a match has been found for
a palm print, forty years after it was taken from the scene of the
attack.
Families of six men murdered in the Loughinisland massacre have welcomed
an Ombudsman’s investigation that has finally exposed significant state
collusion with the killers.
Masked gangs are now evicting people from their homes in the 26 Counties
at the behest of international vulture funds, who have ordered a wave of
repossessions to extract profit from their newly acquired loan books.
Republican Sinn Fein man has hit out at the “arbitrary arrest and
internment” of twelve of its members following the opening of a
republican Garden of Remembrance in Lurgan, County Armagh last weekend.
Republicans in north Belfast have described how the PSNI police
descended on a house within minutes of a spying device being discovered
by builders doing work on the property in the Ardoyne area.
The wife of a County Armagh man shot dead by a member of the Parachute
regiment more than 40 years ago has welcomed the findings of a fresh
inquest saying “the world has seen that he was innocent”.
Loyalists have targeted the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery in a
graffiti attack.
The DUP has blocked funding for a community centre indefinitely
because of the appearance of the names of the two Irish War of
Independence heroes on nearby gates to the site.
As ordinary Gardai police struggle to contain the escalating gangland
war, Garda chiefs have been warned by a policing watchdog that public
trust in the force is fading over repeated scandals and failures.
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has been accused of handing unionism a
“triple lock” on justice after nationalists were sidelined in the
administration and scrutiny of the department’s functions.
A bizarre intervention by the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland has drawn
international attention to a revisionist state event in Dublin which
honoured the British soldiers who died in 1916 fighting to maintain
British rule in Ireland.
Sinn Fein has accused Fianna Fail of acting in coalition with Fine Gael
by abstaining in a motion to scrap water charges.
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has said he will visit the Somme
battlefields of World War One as an act of reconciliation, to recognise
human suffering and to reach out to his unionist neighbours in the
north.
Representatives from across the political spectrum attended a wreath-
laying ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the assassination of
Inishowen Sinn Fein Councillor Eddie Fullerton in Buncrana in 1991 on
Wednesday evening.
The SDLP has quit the devolved administration in the Six Counties in the
latest development to hit the formation of a new Executive in the North.
Wexford TD Brendan Howlin has been named as the new leader of the Labour
Party in the 26 Counties as the politic system in Dublin continues to
stumble following the formation of a minority government earlier this
month.
On the 42nd anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, which killed 33
people, a Dublin government minister said he would continue to repeat
demands that the British security papers on the attacks be opened.