Forty years to the day after he was gunned down by British paratroopers, Official
IRA Volunteer Joe McCann was commemorated in Belfast.
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Forty years to the day after he was gunned down by British paratroopers, Official
IRA Volunteer Joe McCann was commemorated in Belfast.
Published April 20, 2012
Protesters break through police lines at Labour conference
Chaos erupted at the annual conference of the Labour Party in Galway
today as Gardai were unable to hold back protestors against the
26-County government’s austerity program.
Published April 14, 2012
A member of the breakaway ‘Real IRA’ has told a public Easter commemoration in Derry that the group will continue its armed struggle against British rule in the north of Ireland.
Published April 13, 2012
Pressure grows for release of Gerry McGeough and Marian Price
Former Fianna Fail minister Éamon Ó Cuív has added his voice to a
campaign for the release of a high-profile republican dissident, former
Sinn Fein Ard Chomhairle member Gerry McGeough.
Published April 13, 2012
PSNI accused of using civilians as cover
The PSNI police took almost two hours to respond to a bomb alert in
Newry on Saturday, raising fresh questions over the force’s attitude
towards the civilian population in the North of Ireland.
Published April 13, 2012
Referendum an insult to 1916 leaders - Adams
Speaking at an Easter Rising commemoration in Bandon, west Cork, Sinn
Fein President Gerry Adams has said the 26-County State has failed the
leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 13, 2012
Redmond recalled as Dublin launches ‘decade of commemorations’
The centenary of the Third Home Rule Bill for Ireland was marked by
an event in Waterford city hall on Wednesday evening.
Published April 13, 2012
Stormy weather for Titanic Belfast
A new tourist attraction based on the Titanic in Belfast, where the ship
was built, has been hit by a controversy following accusations that it
is perpetuating the class divide with which the ship is synonymous.
Published April 13, 2012
The former news anchorman of ‘Ulster Television’, Mike Nesbitt, who was
elected new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party last weekend, has said
“there has never been a better time” for unionism and said he wants to
address Sinn Fein’s Ard Fheis.
Published April 6, 2012
Fine Gael ‘blind to the people’
A decision to order the blinds at the National Convention Centre to be
pulled down as over ten thousand angry citizens descended on Fine Gael’s
annual conference last weekend has become a metaphor for the coalition
government’s attitude to the Irish people.
Published April 6, 2012
There were serious disturbances in Craigavon, County Armagh last
weekend following the convictions of two local men over a Continuity
IRA attack in 2009.
Published April 6, 2012
Courtroom battle over IRA interviews
A US appeal court has adjourned to consider whether an academic project
by Boston College involving confidential interviews with former IRA
Volunteers must be handed over to the PSNI police.
Published April 6, 2012
The police Historical Enquiries Team (HET) in the North has given
favourable treatment to British soldiers linked to killings during the
conflict, a University of Ulster report has confirmed.
Published April 6, 2012
Family forced out for Ireland t-shirt
The unionist paramilitary UDA has intimidated a Protestant family out of
their County Derry home after their son was spotted wearing an Ireland
t-shirt.
Published April 6, 2012
A list of Easter Rising Commemorative events in Ireland for 2012. Please contact your local organisation for details.
Published April 3, 2012
Huge crowds gather outside Fine Gael Ard Fheis
Over ten thousand protestors have gathered outside the Fine Gael Ard
Fheis [annual conference] this afternoon, with more still arriving.
Published March 31, 2012
Over a million households have boycotted the 100 euro household charge
in an extraordinary act of public defiance against an austerity flat tax
imposed by the Dublin government.
Published March 30, 2012
Three homes of Republican Sinn Féin members were raided by armed PSNI
and CID police units this week in Craigavon in County Armagh. In each
home computers, media storage devices and mobile phones were seized.
Published March 30, 2012
Fianna Fáil ‘purged’ as attention turns to Kenny
A decision by former 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former European
Commission Padraig Flynn and other party colleagues to resign from
Fianna Fáil this week over the report of the Mahon tribunal is being
seen as a potentially defining moment in the battle against corruption
in Ireland.
Published March 30, 2012
More delays for Marshall and shoot-to-kill inquests
The family of a man shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries while eight
undercover British soldiers were hiding nearby yesterday criticised a
decision not to hold an inquest into the murder.
Published March 30, 2012
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