The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has predicted further growth for his
party in an address at a south Armagh rally to mark the 30th anniversary
of the prison hunger strikes of 1981.
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Adams sees further gains for Sinn Fein
The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has predicted further growth for his
party in an address at a south Armagh rally to mark the 30th anniversary
of the prison hunger strikes of 1981.
Published August 19, 2011
Hopes for justice at Strabane commemoration
The brother of a disabled County Tyrone man killed forty years ago by the
British Army says he is hopeful a new investigation will clear his
brother’s name.
Published August 19, 2011
Brendan Lillis released, says partner
Critically ill internee Brendan Lillis, currently receiving medical care
at City Hospital in south Belfast, has been freed, according to his
partner.
Published August 18, 2011
The truth about Billy McKavanagh
An unarmed Catholic man shot dead by the British army 40 years ago was
innocent of any wrongdoing, an inquiry has found.
Published August 13, 2011
Lillis held incommunicado in ‘a pantomime of callousness’
The Life Sentence Review Commissioners sat yesterday [Friday] to
consider the case of critically ill internee Brendan Lillis, who remains
under the watch of prison warders at a hospital in Belfast following his
transfer from notorious Maghaberry jail earlier this week.
Published August 13, 2011
No relief from marching season
Clashes erupted in Derry today [Saturday] following a sectarian parade
by the loyalist Apprentice Boys’ organisation, one of the largest of
the Protestant marching season.
Published August 13, 2011
‘Lock-on’ protest at Alliance Party HQ
A number of members of the Republican Network for Unity (RNU) group
dramatically stormed the Alliance Party’s headquarters in south Belfast
on Thursday morning in protest at party leader David Ford’s handling of
the situation at Maghaberry jail.
Published August 13, 2011
Forty years after the introduction of internment, a group of
ex-internees have said they will take legal action against the British
government over the policy of internment.
Published August 13, 2011
Gaybo backs away from Presidential ‘coronation’
The 26-County Presidential campaign bordered on absurdity this week
when television personality Gay Byrne briefly became favourite to win
the election, before confirming he would not be a candidate.
Published August 13, 2011
Lillis under heavy guard at City Hospital
Brendan Lillis is receiving urgent treatment at City Hospital in the
south of Belfast where he remains under the close watch of British
prison authorities.
Published August 10, 2011
Lillis, nearing death, is removed to hospital
Interned former political prisoner Brendan Lillis has been taken from
Maghaberry jail today to an unknown destination after a prison doctor
admitted his condition was “critical”.
Published August 9, 2011
Following last week’s refusal by the Stormont authorities to release
him, the partner of Brendan Lillis has said their campaign is no longer
working to free the ailing prisoner, but to save his life.
Published August 8, 2011
Hunger strike families appeal for action
The families of most of the 1981 Hunger Strikers have called for an end
to the abuses taking place at Maghaberry prison in County Antrim.
Published August 8, 2011
A group of republican prisoners at Maghaberry have begun a 48 hour fast
to protest the failure of the British/Stormont authorities to implement
an agreement last August on conditions within the jail.
Published August 8, 2011
News organisations must submit to the PSNI any footage or photographs of
rioting or other public disorder in the north of Ireland, a judge has
ruled.
Published August 8, 2011
Schoolboy fights for life after attack
A 17-year-old schoolboy is critically ill in hospital after being beaten
in a sectarian attack in Antrim.
Published August 8, 2011
Fortieth anniversary of Ballymurphy and Internment
An event to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre
has heard renewed calls for an independent international inquiry.
Published August 8, 2011
Ford refuses release of Brendan Lillis
There have been demands for the resignation of Six-County Justice
Minister David Ford after he rejected an appeal by the broad nationalist
community for the release of a dying prisoner today.
Published August 3, 2011
British Army protected UVF ‘Butcher’
The British Army withheld evidence for more than three decades which
confirms that some of its locally recruited units were used to finance
and support UVF paramilitary death squads.
Published August 3, 2011
McGuinness backs Lillis release
Members of the two main nationalist parties in the North are to join the
partner of critically ill prisoner Brendan Lillis in a meeting with the
Six-County Justice Minister later today [Wednesday] to plead for his
release from Maghaberry jail on compassionate grounds.
Published August 3, 2011
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