A sudden, unilateral and large-scale loyalist terror attack on the tiny
nationalist community of the Short Strand was bravely fended off this
week in an act of courage reminiscent of previous generations of the
nationalist struggle.
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A sudden, unilateral and large-scale loyalist terror attack on the tiny
nationalist community of the Short Strand was bravely fended off this
week in an act of courage reminiscent of previous generations of the
nationalist struggle.
Published June 22, 2011
Clashes follow ‘Tour of the North’
Members of the Protestant Orange Order and loyalist bandsmen clashed
with the PSNI after a controversial sectarian parade was rerouted from
the republican Ardoyne area of north Belfast on Friday.
Published June 22, 2011
An attempt to have the case against Colin Duffy and Brian Shivers
dropped has been refused by a judge.
Published June 22, 2011
US college battles to preserve history project
An American university is fighting a British bid to get hold of
interviews with members of the Provisional IRA, gathered as part of an
oral history project.
Published June 22, 2011
Kingsmills victims may bring civil case
Relatives of those who died in a gun attack at Kingsmills in south
Armagh in 1976 may take a civil action against those they believe to be
responsible.
Published June 22, 2011
Republican hardliners urged to unite
The former head of Irish Northern Aid, Martin Galvin, has urged
republicans of all factions to unite to draw up a new strategy to defeat
the British, in opposition to Sinn Fein.
Published June 22, 2011
There was serious rioting for a second night in east Belfast tonight as
masked unionist paramilitaries renewed their attempts to attack the
nationalist Short Strand enclave.
Published June 22, 2011
Shots have been fired by loyalists tonight towards St Matthew’s chapel
amid a serious assault by unionist paramilitaries on the nationalist
Short Strand.
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
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