A sectarian outburst by the DUP leader Peter Robinson has
disgusted nationalists and escalated the sense of crisis in the North’s
political process.
Published September 27, 2013
Attempts to prevent loyalist flag- and march-related violence took a
bizarre turn this Friday, September 27th, as accused loyalist ringleaders
Willie Frazer, Jamie Bryson and Jim Dowson wore fancy dress costumes to
a Belfast court appearance.
Published September 27, 2013
A man beaten unconscious in a suspected random sectarian attack has been
told by doctors his facial injuries are permanent.
Published September 27, 2013
Fourteen months after the PSNI announced they were launching a murder
inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings, none of the soldiers who
killed 14 civilians in Derry and injured a further 22 have been
interviewed by the police.
Published September 27, 2013
Statements by the governor of the 26-County Central Bank, Patrick
Honohan, have placed him at the centre of a blame game over the banking
crisis which collapsed the Irish economy.
Published September 27, 2013
The inclusion of a recruitment ad for the Six-County PSNI in the match
programme for last weekend’s GAA All-Ireland Football Final has outraged
Irish nationalists and republicans.
Published September 27, 2013
Garda police resorted to pepper spray and brute force on Wednesday in
one of the most violent days of protest yet seen on the streets of
Dublin against the austerity program of the 26 County state.
Published September 20, 2013
The five main Stormont Assembly parties took part in round-table talks
with US diplomat Richard Haass for the first time today [Friday,
September 20th] as part of discussions to deal with parades, flags and
justice issues.
Published September 20, 2013
The British government has issued electoral forms to voters in the Six
Counties which have left tens of thousands of nationalists and
republicans without their votes through a new requirement to declare
themselves as residents of ‘Northern Ireland’.
Published September 20, 2013
Sinn Fein has said next year’s vote on Scottish independence has boosted
the party’s calls for a ‘border poll’.
Published September 20, 2013
A new inquest has been ordered into the killing of a mother-of-six shot
dead in Derry by the British army in 1971.
Published September 20, 2013
Good to see you, Dr Haass. We are a naturally hospitable people but
consider your welcome as double the usual. Anyone who can help us deal
with flags, parades and the past gets the mother and father of all cead
mile failtes.
Published September 20, 2013
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has accused the British Direct Ruler
Theresa Villiers of an “unacceptable intervention” ahead of talks about
dealing with the past as well as the issues of parades and flags.
Published September 13, 2013
School-children as young as five had to get police protection as they
arrived at three Catholic schools in north Belfast this week.
Published September 13, 2013
The referendum campaign on abolishing the Seanad sprang into life this
week with an attack by Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams on Fianna Fail’s
position, while Taoiseach Enda Kenny blankly refused to enter a
televised debate on the matter.
Published September 13, 2013
The British government has abandoned a planned Supreme court challenge
to a ruling that stop and search operations involving a former IRA
hunger striker and a brother-in-law of Martin McGuinness were unlawful.
Published September 13, 2013
A resolution has been passed by the Louisiana state legislature to urge
the US government “to immediately take all appropriate steps to assist
in the unification of Ireland”.
Published September 13, 2013
A memorial march to mark the anniversary of the murder of Dublin ‘Real
IRA’ commander Alan Ryan passed off with dignity this week despite
provocative actions by the Garda police and by the criminal gang which
killed him.
Published September 13, 2013
The British government has refused calls for a public cross-Border
inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing.
Published September 12, 2013
Details have emerged this week about the brutal strip-searching of a
female republican prisoner at Hydebank Wood Prison.
Published September 6, 2013
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