A hearing before the North’s senior coroner has heard an admission that
PSNI Special Branch visited an interrogation suite where a Strabane
republican was found dead four years ago.
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Special Branch link to death of prisoner
A hearing before the North’s senior coroner has heard an admission that
PSNI Special Branch visited an interrogation suite where a Strabane
republican was found dead four years ago.
Published November 2, 2013
UVF commander named as local police board member
Some people in loyalist areas are afraid to go to the police because of
the PSNI’s links to the UVF, according to a BBC documentary broadcast
this week.
Published November 2, 2013
‘IRA Derry Brigade’ claims attacks
A republican armed group calling itself the ‘IRA’ has said that it
launched a grenade attack on the PSNI earlier this month.
Published November 2, 2013
One of the most cold-blooded atrocities of the conflict, the Greysteel
massacre of October 30 1993, was marked with a Memorial mass this week.
Published November 1, 2013
Clashes at north Belfast parade
There were scuffles during an anti-Catholic parade past St Patrick’s
Catholic church in north Belfast on Sunday.
Published November 1, 2013
‘Carry on’ for British Army fascists
A picture which shows two British soldiers making Nazi salutes in front
of British and loyalist flags has caused a fresh controversy following
its publication by a tabloid newspaper in England.
Published November 1, 2013
Members of the British Crown forces were central to the orchestrated
murder of prominent Catholics, according to new research based on
official state investigations and military files.
Published October 25, 2013
Robinson calls for ‘more strategic’ unionism
DUP leader Peter Robinson this week challenged unionists to shed
“siege-mentality” thinking and to be more considered in their approach
to unionism.
Published October 25, 2013
Roma community in shock after Gardaí seize kids
Two cases in which Roma children were suddenly removed from their
families in Dublin and the midlands because they were ‘too blonde’ have
caused outrage in Ireland and abroad.
Published October 25, 2013
Apology as Shankill victims are remembered
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has said a 1993 IRA attack on the
leadership of the UDA death squads in west Belfast in which nine
civilians died “cannot be defended”.
Published October 25, 2013
Devices found as alerts continue
A pipe-bomb and two mail-bomb attacks on the PSNI in the space of 24
hours appear to be the latest signs of an increasingly active campaign
by the republican armed groups.
Published October 25, 2013
Gardaí refuse to release journal of dead informer
The Garda police in the South have refused repeated requests to send the
secret journal of top informer Denis Donaldson to the Police Ombudsman
in the North of Ireland.
Published October 25, 2013
A one-way ticket for Irish youth
A shocking Famine-era ‘solution’ to the problem of youth unemployment
has dominated this year’s announcement of Budget plans by the coalition
government in Dublin.
Published October 18, 2013
Republican Network for Unity has warned that British agents may be
behind a bewildering series of unclaimed bomb alerts, most of which have
been hoaxes or proved groundless.
Published October 18, 2013
Families face tense wait in Craigavon Two appeal
The Court of Appeal is to consider its judgement in the apparent
miscarriage of justice for John Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville.
Published October 18, 2013
Racist violence linked to unionist paramilitary resurgence
A series of racial attacks in east Belfast and elsewhere has been linked
to loyalist paramilitaries.
Published October 18, 2013
WMD fears for Shannon Airport after warplane confirmation
The Dublin government has been accused of turning the west of Ireland
into a US military hub after it emerged that highly weaponised warplanes
have been landing and refuelling at Shannon Airport on their way to and
from conflicts in the Middle East.
Published October 18, 2013
Media ‘cover-up’ on penalty points as journalist is booted
A story about the sacking of an Irish journalist has led to the
mainstream Irish media being accused of a ‘blatant cover up’.
Published October 18, 2013
Govt sets budget targets: emigrant ships, paupers’ graves
The coalition government’s budget has been slammed as an attack on the
young and old, the sick and the infirm, on new mothers and young
workers.
Published October 16, 2013
Mayhem as militants fill political vacuum
The organisation describing itself as the ‘new’ IRA said this week it
had executed a major drug dealer in north Belfast amid escalating
violence on the streets of the Six Counties.
Published October 11, 2013
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