The rate of suicide among young people in Ireland is one of the highest
in Europe, new figures show, with the rate even higher in the Six
Counties area.
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Suicides spike as mental health budgets are cut
The rate of suicide among young people in Ireland is one of the highest
in Europe, new figures show, with the rate even higher in the Six
Counties area.
Published January 25, 2013
Spooks at work in Ireland, England, France
A Derry man has revealed how he was approached at a French airport by
two men who identified themselves as members of MI5. Another man has
said he was recently approached to become an informer by the PSNI in
Derry, while another reported recruitment bid took place recently in
Manchester.
Published January 25, 2013
Tributes have been paid to Inez McCormack, a key supporter of the
MacBride principles on fair employment, who died this week aged 69
following a battle with cancer.
Published January 25, 2013
Veteran republican Dolours Price, sister of Irish political prisoner
Marian Price, has died.
Published January 24, 2013
The Short Strand, a small working class nationalist and republican enclave
of less than 3,000 men, women and children, has come under a renewed
siege in the past week by violent loyalists.
Published January 18, 2013
Talks seek to end flag ‘protests’
New efforts to end the flag riots in the North of Ireland have seen
church leaders and even loyalist paramilitary figures take the lead in
seeking an end to the violence.
Published January 18, 2013
Freedom refused even as guilty verdict overturned
A terminally ill Derry man has experienced elation and heartbreak this
week after an appeal court in Belfast quashed his controversial
conviction for the 2009 Real IRA attack on the Massereene British Army
base -- only to order a retrial, while refusing him bail.
Published January 18, 2013
UVF men signed up by media as threats ignored
The media coverage of the flag protests and riots is being increasingly
called into question after members of the UVF were seen to act as guides
for some members of the international media covering the flags protests.
Published January 18, 2013
Border poll campaign launches this weekend
Sinn Féin is to hold a major conference in Dublin this weekend to launch
the party’s campaign for a Border poll.
Published January 18, 2013
Goodman, Tesco accused in horsemeat scandal
Britain’s Tesco retail chain store has been linked to factories
manufacturing and selling beefburgers in Ireland containing a high
percentage of horsemeat.
Published January 18, 2013
Brian Shivers’ conviction overturned
A terminally ill man jailed for a Real IRA attack on a British Army
base has had his conviction overturned.
Published January 15, 2013
Loyalists in surprise attack on Short Strand
A sudden attack on the small nationalist enclave of the Short Strand
tonight saw the homes of elderly residents set ablaze and a group of
adults with special needs come under petrol bomb attack.
Published January 14, 2013
PSNI blamed as loyalists attack Short Strand
A flags protest at Belfast City Hall swiftly degenerated into violence
this afternoon after a unionist mob charged towards a nationalist
enclave in east Belfast, attacking homes and launching into hours of
intense riots.
Published January 12, 2013
Intense rioting as flags protests continue
Published January 12, 2013
Garda pact with loyalist ‘idiot’
A deal between the 26 County Garda police and arch-loyalist Willie
Frazer for a secret protest in Dublin has been revealed -- just hours
after Frazer said he would not condemn an assassination attempt on the
life of Six County Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Published January 11, 2013
Price’s internment opposed at Derry courthouse
Legal proceedings against Marian Price were adjourned on Wednesday at
Derry’s Magistrate’s Court after District Judge, Mr Barney McElholm said
he would have to take advice from medical professionals regarding the
republican prisoner’s fitness to appear.
Published January 11, 2013
Pan-unionism hailed as forum meets
Unionist political leaders have said they are willing to hold talks with
loyalist murder gangs about increasingly violent flag protests.
Published January 11, 2013
Students starved by new grants requirements
Hundreds of Irish students have been forced to accept free food boxes
because they cannot afford to eat, it has emerged.
Published January 11, 2013
Omagh case to go before European court
Two senior republicans are seeking to go before the European Court of
Human Rights in a bid to overturn a ruling that they were liable for the
Omagh bombing.
Published January 11, 2013
A row has erupted in the Irish midlands over an artwork featuring
messages written by republican hunger strikers in Long Kesh Prison.
Published January 11, 2013
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