The leaders of the two main unionist parties held urgent meetings on the
unionist identity tonight following a week of violence and disorder in
the North of Ireland.
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Unionism in ‘identity crisis’ as violence expands
The leaders of the two main unionist parties held urgent meetings on the
unionist identity tonight following a week of violence and disorder in
the North of Ireland.
Published December 10, 2012
Unionist intimidation and violence continue
Trouble has broken out again in Belfast this evening after more than a
thousand loyalists, including a number of masked paramilitaries,
marched to the city centre to demand the Union Jack flag be reinstated
year-round atop Belfast City Hall.
Published December 8, 2012
A wave of unionist violence and intimidation has followed a vote in the
Belfast City Council on Monday to sharply reduce the number of days the
British Union Jack flag flies over the City Hall.
Published December 7, 2012
Unionists seeking flags ‘revenge’
Unionist politicians are to try to turn the tables after a vote to
reduce the flying of the British Union Jack flag above Belfast City Hall
-- with a motion that the ‘Butcher’s Apron’ flies 365 days a year above
Stormont, the seat of the Six County Assembly.
Published December 7, 2012
Politics behind decision to charge éirígí activist
The PSNI has been accused of “a crude attempt at political censorship”
after Newry-based eirigi representative Stephen Murney was remanded
without bail on charges that he had information “likely to be of use to
terrorists”.
Published December 7, 2012
Carers’ nightmare after cruel coalition budget
The inequity and sheer viciousness of the Dublin government’s Budget for
2013 has come as a shock to the Irish public.
Published December 7, 2012
Emergency heart procedure for Gerry McGeough
Fears over the health of jailed former Sinn Fein Ard Chomhairle member
Gerry McGeough have grown after he was removed for emergency heart
treatment last week.
Published December 7, 2012
Unionists urged to attend Irish constitutional convention
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has urged unionists to reconsider an
invitation to join the 26-County constitutional convention.
Published December 7, 2012
Horrific Budget for poor, elderly, students, workers
There were scuffles this evening between protestors and 26-County Garda
police at the Dublin parliament following arguably the harshest budget
in living memory.
Published December 5, 2012
Loyalists slash guard, storm City Hall over Belfast flag vote
A loyalist mob which had gathered outside Belfast City Hall this evening
erupted into violence following a vote to limit the days on which the
British Union Jack flag flies above the building.
Published December 3, 2012
Republican socialist group éirigí is being subjected to a concerted
smear campaign following the arrest of one of its members this week.
Published November 30, 2012
Hopes increase for Maghaberry resolution
The remaining block of republican prisoners have ended their protest in Maghaberry prison after getting what they say was a
“goodwill gesture” from Six-County justice minister David Ford.
Published November 30, 2012
15,000 march in pre-Budget demonstration
The Dublin government’s fiscal ‘kite flying’ season is well and truly
underway ahead of next month’s annual 26-County Budget announcement.
Published November 30, 2012
‘End impunity’ for Bloody Sunday killings
A number of relatives of those murdered by British paratroopers on
Bloody Sunday say they will continue to march until those responsible
for the 1972 massacre are held to account.
Published November 30, 2012
Price family condemns Parole Commissioners delay
The family of Marian Price has said it is “appalled” at what it says are
deliberate delays by the Parole Commission in reviewing her case.
Published November 30, 2012
No protest against small loyalist march
Nationalist residents have asked the Apprentice Boys why they intend to
hold a parade past St Patrick’s Church in Belfast involving just 25
people.
Published November 30, 2012
CIRA prisoners suspend Maghaberry protest
A statement was issued today by republican prisoners aligned to the
Continuity IRA on Roe 3 in Maghaberry jail, suspending their
protests at the County Antrim jail from Monday.
Published November 25, 2012
A decision by a group of 22 prisoners on Maghaberry’s Roe 4 landing to
call off their ‘dirty’ [no-wash] protest to facilitate talks on a
solution to the prison crisis has been welcomed by politicians in the
North.
Published November 23, 2012
Inquiry fiasco adds to Savita controversy
The Dublin government has been forced to organise a second inquiry into
the death of a pregnant woman at University College Hospital Galway
(UCHG) after it drew international condemnation for the profoundly
incompetent manner in which it constituted the first.
Published November 23, 2012
Global power-brokers to get Irish ‘welcome’
An announcement by British Prime Minister, David Cameron, that a G8
summit of the leaders of world powers will be held in June next year in
County Fermanagh has seen contrasting responses from Irish republicans.
Published November 23, 2012
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