Well-known loyalist Willie Frazer attempted to personally “arrest” a
republican he alleged was ‘on the run’ from a conflict-related
prosecution this week. The victims’ campaigner tried moved towards
mourners at a funeral in County Down, but was blocked by a line of PSNI
police.
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High-profile arrests and prosecutions as OTR furore continues
Well-known loyalist Willie Frazer attempted to personally “arrest” a
republican he alleged was ‘on the run’ from a conflict-related
prosecution this week. The victims’ campaigner tried moved towards
mourners at a funeral in County Down, but was blocked by a line of PSNI
police.
Published April 11, 2014
McGurk’s report to be released uncensored
Families of those killed in the McGurk’s Bar massacre have succeeded in
forcing the British authorities to release an unedited report into the
bombing, it has been confirmed.
Published April 11, 2014
McGuinness salutes the queen at royal banquet
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness this evening stood for the British
national anthem and toasted the “health and happiness” of the English
queen in the most symbolic gesture yet of his party’s support for the
status quo in the north of Ireland.
Published April 8, 2014
McGuinness defends royal banquet trip
Sinn Fein has confirmed reports that Martin McGuinness is to visit
Windsor Castle to attend a royal banquet with the English queen this
week.
Published April 6, 2014
No charges over UDA mob terror
Between 100 and 200 armed loyalist paramilitaries ransacked houses and
assaulted residents in Larne in a mob attack carried out with apparent
impunity by the south Antrim UDA.
Published April 5, 2014
Voters abandon coalition after justice system scandals
Continuing public anger over illegality, corruption and delinquency in
the 26 County justice system has seen support for the Dublin coalition
government slide to its lowest levels for several years.
Published April 5, 2014
Adams blocking Six County progress - Robinson
DUP leader Peter Robinson has blamed Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein’s other
southern-based politicians for a failure to advance an agreement on
welfare cuts in the Six Counties
Published April 5, 2014
A surge in activity by republican militants in the Strabane area of
county Tyrone has seen the PSNI police twice targeted by explosive
devices and a nearby village declared a ‘no go’ area for the force.
Published April 5, 2014
More courtroom hypocrisy on parades
Seventeen members of a loyalist flute band have been cleared of defying
a ban on them marching past St Patrick’s Church in Belfast in the latest
sign that the courts do not intend to hold loyalists to account for
parades infractions.
Published April 5, 2014
Anger at British ‘freedom’ claim at Glasnevin
British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers was accused of a “final,
carefully calculated insult” to Ireland’s republican martyrs in a
ceremony of Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin last Monday, March 31st.
Published April 5, 2014
Humiliated Minister clings to post
After ricocheting from one scandal to the next since his appointment,
disgraced 26-County Minister Alan Shatter is to finally face a
parliamentary motion of no confidence.
Published March 29, 2014
Bell gets bail as PSNI postpone Adams response
The PSNI have yet to say if they are seeking to question Sinn Fein
leader Gerry Adams following the arrest and charging of his former
comrade, Ivor Bell, on IRA charges last week.
Published March 29, 2014
Hunger strike over treatment of segregated prisoner
Republican prisoners in Maghaberry held a 48-hour hunger protest this
week in support of a prisoner held in the jail’s punishment block for
the past three years.
Published March 29, 2014
My sectarian slaughter ‘saved the Union’ - Hutchinson
The leader of the UVF paramilitary-linked Progressive Unionist Party
(PUP) Billy Hutchinson has claimed his role in the murder of two
Catholic men 40 years ago ‘helped prevent a united Ireland’.
Published March 29, 2014
Loyalist extemism promoted as Irish language is sidelined
Loyalists who wore balaclavas during a ‘show of strength’ close to a
north Belfast interface were taking part in “street theatre”, according
to the Stormont-funded ‘Ulster Political Research Group’ which has links
to the unionist paramilitary UDA.
Published March 29, 2014
The cousin of two Catholic brothers murdered by Billy Hutchinson in 1974
responds to the PUP leader’s attempt to justify his actions.
Published March 29, 2014
Judicial system in disarray after new spying scandal
The Dublin government is in crisis and the 26 County judicial system on
the point of collapse following revelations that illegal recordings
have been made of telephone conversations to and from police stations
for some three decades.
Published March 26, 2014
Garda Commissioner quits after corruption scandal
The chief of the 26 County Garda police, Martin Callinan, resigned today
after refusing to withdraw his condemnations of two whistleblowers who
exposed corrupt practices in the force.
Published March 25, 2014
‘Vindictive’ policing as 77-year-old is charged
Veteran republican Ivor Bell has been charged this Friday night with
IRA membership and “aiding and abetting” the execution of informer Jean
McConville in 1972.
Published March 22, 2014
Sharp tactics put PSNI into New York parade
The organisers of the New York City St Patrick’s Day parade infuriated
Irish opinion in the city with a last minute u-turn to include a
contingent of anti-Irish PSNI police while continuing to ban gay and
lesbian organisations.
Published March 22, 2014
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