A nationalist community in Belfast has been subjected to a nightly
onslaught of bottles, nuts, bolts, golf balls, bricks and paintballs
before being hemmed in by a wall of steel on Wednesday evening to allow
a loyalist parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order pass by.
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Short Strand besieged once again
A nationalist community in Belfast has been subjected to a nightly
onslaught of bottles, nuts, bolts, golf balls, bricks and paintballs
before being hemmed in by a wall of steel on Wednesday evening to allow
a loyalist parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order pass by.
Published July 4, 2015
Loyalists ‘celebrate’ racism, sectarianism
Loyalists’ use of confederate flags as a statement of racist hate has
reinforced concerns over their use of flags to spread fear and
intimidation over the marching season.
Published July 4, 2015
TDs concerned as McKevitt returned to jail after cancer surgery
Five members of the Dublin parliament have protested about the
conditions in which jailed republican Michael McKevitt is being held and
have expressed their “deep concern” after he was abruptly returned to
prison following a cancer operation.
Published July 4, 2015
Water tax protestors attacked outside Dail
An anti-austerity protest in Dublin was brutally cleared by Gardai on
Wednesday to allow disgraced former Minister Alan Shatter drive through
protestors into the Leinster House parliament.
Published July 4, 2015
Sinn Fein takes mayoralties in historic advance
The election of a first-ever Sinn Fein mayor in Dublin has underlined
the party’s progress in city councils across the island ahead of the
centennial commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published July 4, 2015
The Dublin government has been accused of lining up with the IMF and the
EU institutions to inflict further suffering on the Greek people even as
it continues to impose further austerity cuts here.
Published June 27, 2015
Sinn Fein facing Cork rebellion
A spectacular row over the disciplining of two councillors has divided
the Sinn Fein organisation in Cork, with up to 70 resignations reported
across the Cork East constituency.
Published June 27, 2015
Bonfires lit prematurely amid loyalist infighting
Two loyalist ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires have been prematurely set ablaze,
igniting a blame game over who may be responsible.
Published June 27, 2015
Tragic family’s action over police investigation
An Armagh woman who survived a no warning loyalist bomb that killed two
people is to take a civil action against the RUC/PSNI police for failing
to properly investigate her son’s murder at the hands of another
loyalist death squad years later.
Published June 27, 2015
Finucanes will continue to lead collusion campaigns
The family of murdered Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane have said
they will not give up despite the rejection of their legal challenge
against the British government’s refusal to hold a public inquiry.
Published June 27, 2015
A former republican prisoner is facing the sack after he failed a
security check -- after 19 years.
Published June 27, 2015
Evidence of anti-Irish attitudes in the upper echelons of the US media has
shocked the Irish public as it struggles with a disaster in Berkeley,
California, that this week claimed the lives of six students and injured
a further seven.
Published June 20, 2015
Dublin under pressure to respond to collusion evidence
There appears to have been a shift in public attitudes in the 26
Counties following the broadcast of the documentary ‘Collusion’ by state
broadcaster RTE this week.
Published June 20, 2015
Clerys workers locked out as ‘golden circle’ cashes in
The shuttering of Clerys landmark shop in Dublin city centre has cast a
light on new Irish company law which allowed the troubled business to be
stripped of valuable assets before its workers were suddenly left
jobless.
Published June 20, 2015
Parade progress but loyalist threat continues
One of the first controversial sectarian parades of the summer passed
off uneventfully on Friday night in north Belfast after loyalist
bandsmen appeared to adhere to a Parades Commission determination.
Published June 20, 2015
Republican community worker assaulted by police
A member of the Republican Network for Unity was assaulted and arrested
by the PSNI while putting up suicide awareness posters in north Belfast
on Sunday afternoon.
Published June 20, 2015
Degrading treatment for heart attack prisoner
A republican political prisoner at Maghaberry has detailed a traumatic experience
at the hands of prison warders after he sought medical attention for a
suspected heart attack.
Published June 20, 2015
The head of the PSNI police in the north of Ireland, George Hamilton,
has said the force has a “vault” of secret information on the conflict
in the North but is concerned its release would create a “one sided
focus” on the force’s actions.
Published June 13, 2015
New call for justice after death of sectarian assault victim
Derry man Paul McCauley died last weekend as a result of a vicious
loyalist assault nine years ago. His father has now called for a full
and proper investigation into his murder.
Published June 13, 2015
Gun attack as loyalist flags rise over interfaces again
The unionist paramilitary UVF is being blamed after a masked gang this
week threatened to shoot a man at his home while his 14-year-old son was
inside. Three men, one armed with a gun, threw a brick at the house on
Blythe Street in Sandy Row in south Belfast before threatening the man.
Published June 13, 2015
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