Shots have been fired by loyalists tonight towards St Matthew’s chapel
amid a serious assault by unionist paramilitaries on the nationalist
Short Strand.
![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/rn.gif) | ![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/harp.gif) |
Published June 21, 2011
Loyalist mob attacks Short Strand
Catholic homes in east Belfast’s Short Strand area and elsewhere have
been attacked by over a hundred masked loyalists tonight, and several
injuries have already been reported.
Published June 20, 2011
Faced with intense criticism over their failure to deal with the deep economic crisis in their first 100 days of office, the 26-County coalition leaders this week renewed promises to ‘burn the bondholders’ of two of the state’s nationalised banks, while vowing to maintain social welfare and income tax at current levels.
Published June 17, 2011
Cancer victim tortured at Maghaberry
A republican prisoner who is undergoing cancer treatment has been
brutally strip-searched en route to the hospital.
Published June 17, 2011
Unprecedented harassment of republicans
The brother of a man shot dead by British soldiers in County Armagh is
to take legal action after he was followed by British intelligence
officers on holiday all the way to Dubai.
Published June 17, 2011
Police Ombudsman damned in new report
The Police Ombudsman’s Office is heavily criticised in a new report into
its work.
Published June 17, 2011
Sectarian tension linked to marching season
The controversial Whiterock parade by the Protestant Orange Order in
Belfast later this month will go ahead, despite the opposition of local
nationalist residents.
Published June 17, 2011
Bloody Sunday prosecutions still awaited one year on
A decision on the prosecution of British paratroopers over the Bloody
Sunday killings is expected before the end of the summer.
Published June 17, 2011
A founder member of a Sinn Fein breakaway group was assassinated on
Thursday in an attack which has shocked the broader republican community
in Dublin.
Published June 12, 2011
IRA members meet tribunal team
A meeting between former Provisional IRA Volunteers and the Smithwick
Tribunal into the deaths of two senior RUC policemen in 1989 was
facilitated by Sinn Fein, party President Gerry Adams has confirmed.
Published June 12, 2011
Cameron seeks end to ‘shared-out Stormont’
British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined his vision for the
future of the Six Counties, urging the North’s politicians to “move
beyond” the question of British rule in Ireland, and instead focus on
“the economic and social issues that affect people in their daily
lives”.
Published June 12, 2011
‘Tour of the North’ rerouted from Ardoyne
A triumphalist parade by the Protestant Orange Order has again been
banned from passing a republican community in north Belfast.
Published June 12, 2011
New inquest ordered into UDA murder
The Six-County Attorney General has ordered a new inquest into the
murder of a Catholic man shot dead by a loyalist death squad in west
Belfast in 1988.
Published June 12, 2011
UN demands investigation into Magdalene torture
The UN Committee Against Torture has recommended the 26-County State
investigate “all allegations of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment that were allegedly committed in the
Magdalene Laundries”.
Published June 12, 2011
Condolences have been expressed to the family of Brian Lenihan after he
passed away this morning.
Published June 10, 2011
Paul Maskey elected MP for West Belfast
Sinn Fein Assembly member Paul Maskey has been elected as the new MP for
West Belfast, replacing party president, Gerry Adams.
Published June 10, 2011
Stormont faces appointment test
Sinn Fein is under heavy pressure to sack one of their Stormont advisors
as a controversy continued over her appointment this week.
Published June 6, 2011
RUC killed U.S. citizen in 1997, inquest finds
A coroner is to prepare a file for the Public Prosecution Service after
an inquest found that an American father-of-one died from injuries
inflicted by the PSNI police (then the RUC) in 1997.
Published June 6, 2011
Support grows for Maghaberry campaign
Up to 500 people gathered outside the gates of the notorious Maghaberry
prison in Lisburn on Sunday afternoon in protest at the treatment of
republican prisoners at the jail.
Published June 6, 2011
Dublin cabinet lurches towards flat taxes
The coalition government in Dublin appears set to move ahead with
controversial plans for new water and family home taxes from next year
despite mixed signals about the plans at cabinet level.
Published June 6, 2011
Instructions
By default, this search engine looks for all words in any order. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes:
"gerry adams"
The search engine also supports AND, OR, and NOT keywords to specify boolean expressions:
sinn OR fein
sinn NOT fein
Note that only twenty search results are displayed, in chronological order.