Unionists have increased pressure on parades and flags ahead of planned
talks, with loyalists planning a major flags parade through Belfast city
centre on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Marchers increase tensions in Belfast
Unionists have increased pressure on parades and flags ahead of planned
talks, with loyalists planning a major flags parade through Belfast city
centre on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Published November 8, 2014
DUP bigotry fuels new calls for Irish Language Act
The DUP’s Gregory Campbell has been called upon to apologise for an
attempt to mock the Irish language community in the Six-County Assembly
at Stormont.
Published November 8, 2014
Poll, protests confirm dramatic change in Irish politics
Sinn Fein has topped an opinion poll in the 26 Counties for the first
time in the history of polling in the state, gaining four points to move
up to 26%.
Published November 1, 2014
The nationalist residents of the Short Strand endured five nights of
loyalist violence this week in east Belfast as loyalist mobs attacked
with petrol bombs, fireworks and other missiles.
Published November 1, 2014
Cahill ‘cover-up’ accusations unravel
The political controversy over abuse allegations by west Belfast woman
Mairia Cahill has taken a further twist following the revelation that
she actually wrote to the Provisional IRA’s army council to ask for their
assistance in seeking justice.
Published November 1, 2014
McConville case discredited as wrong man is arrested
Former Sinn Fein councillor Pat Rice is the latest to be arrested in
connection with the IRA execution in 1972 of informer Jean McConville,
but appears to have been an embarrassing victim of mistaken identity.
Published November 1, 2014
The ‘new IRA’ has said it planted two devices in the County Tyrone town
of Strabane in an attempt to ambush PSNI police on Thursday night. It is
the second time in the past two weeks that an attack has been mounted in
the north west. A bomb left at a vacant house in Derry was also directed
against the PSNI, it has emerged.
Published November 1, 2014
Hart holds talks amid budget progress
New US peace envoy Gary Hart has spent two days in a series of
bilateral meetings with the five main parties in the North and the
Dublin and London governments.
Published November 1, 2014
Craigavon Two case set for Supreme Court
Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton are to go before the highest
court in British law in a bid to clear their names after receiving
permission to do so this week.
Published November 1, 2014
A mud-slinging campaign by the Irish political establishment has
effectively halted Sinn Fein’s rise to become the largest party in the
26 Counties.
Published October 25, 2014
Sinn Fein has described the Stormont multi-party talks a “sham process”
and warned that there is limited prospect of agreement unless the DUP
shows a greater willingness to engage.
Published October 25, 2014
A UDA murder gang is targeting west Belfast lawyer Padraig O Muirigh, it
has emerged. It is the same outfit which, in collusion with British
forces, carried out the 1989 killing of high-profile Belfast defence
lawyer, Pat Finucane.
Published October 25, 2014
Ladder of informer recruitment bids
A County Derry man has said that PSNI men offered to “get rid” of
assault charges if he agreed to become an informer.
Published October 25, 2014
Ill prisoners humiliated by Maghaberry regime
Support groups for republican prisoners in Maghaberry have complained
about the medical maltreatment of prisoners at the jail.
Published October 25, 2014
The Republican Network for Unity say they have photographs of water
meters which have recently been installed behind the backs of west
Belfast residents.
Published October 25, 2014
Stormont crisis over unionist bad faith
The North’s political process has ground to a halt after the DUP
dramatically reneged on a deal to appoint a Sinn Fein Speaker of the
Stormont Assembly and then entirely boycotted the opening of a new round
of talks in Belfast.
Published October 18, 2014
SF facing media campaign over abuse allegations
Sinn Fein has strongly rejected claims it sought to “cover-up”
allegations of sexual abuse against a member of the Provisional IRA.
Published October 18, 2014
Anger as Craigavon Two sentence is extended
Miscarriage of justice victim John Paul Wootton has had his life
sentence tariff increased by four years by the Court of Appeal, despite
the chief justice admitting that the youth played no identifiable role
in the CIRA action for which he received a life sentence.
Published October 18, 2014
Budget ‘too little, too late’ for those in need
The coalition 26-County government has been accused of using this week’s
annual budget announcements as an attempt regain popular support after
comprehensively losing two by-elections while 100,000 people marched in
Dublin against the hated new water charges.
Published October 18, 2014
Loyalists planned killings before and after ceasefire
In 2005, ten years after the organisation declared a ‘ceasefire’, the
unionist paramilitary UVF continued to gather personal information on
leading republicans with the intention of targeting them for
assassination.
Published October 18, 2014
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