A PSNI operation to remove materials gathered to build a bonfire marking
the anniversary of internment sparked four nights of riots and disorder
in the nationalist Galliagh area of Derry this week.
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Derry youths riot over ‘stolen’ bonfire
A PSNI operation to remove materials gathered to build a bonfire marking
the anniversary of internment sparked four nights of riots and disorder
in the nationalist Galliagh area of Derry this week.
Published July 27, 2012
Smithwick lawyers ‘bewildered and alarmed’ by PSNI secrecy
Five intelligence documents were deliberately withheld from the
Smithwick Tribunal by the PSNI police, the force has said, deepening the
mystery over a profoundly murky incident from 1989.
Published July 27, 2012
Television networks respond to Irish viewer anger
US television network ABC was this week forced to apologise live on air
for branding the victims of Bloody Sunday as ‘IRA protesters’ in a
recent news report.
Published July 27, 2012
Martin Corey case set for European courts
The European Court is to be asked to challenge a decision to overturn a
ruling that internee Martin Corey should be released from prison.
Published July 27, 2012
First arrests in Anglo fraud case
The former chairman and chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, Sean
Fitzpatrick, and two other former high-ranking executives at the bank
have finally been charged with offences relating to white-collar crimes
at the collapsed bank.
Published July 27, 2012
Unity statement by ‘IRA Army Council’
The Real IRA and a number of breakaway IRA organisations, including
Republican Action Against Drugs and Oglaigh na hEireann, have come
together to issue the following public statement this evening in the
name of the IRA Army Council.
Published July 26, 2012
A member of Sinn Fein has described how he was set upon as he videoed a
loyalist ‘kick the Pope’ band deliberately circling and playing
sectarian tunes outside a Catholic church during the Orange Order’s
main Belfast ‘Twelfth’ parade.
Published July 20, 2012
The fallout from the decision to force an anti-Catholic parade through
Catholic north Belfast on July 12th continued this week with a series
of arrests.
Published July 20, 2012
SF challenges British on prisoner issues
Sinn Fein’s party leader Gerry Adams has challenged the British Direct
Ruler, Owen Paterson during a meeting at the Dublin parliament over
political prisoners in the North, including the continued imprisonment
of Marian Price and Martin Corey.
Published July 20, 2012
Loyalists extend bonfire message of hate
The Polish community in the North have reacted angrily after it emerged
that Polish national flags were placed on loyalist bonfires alongside
Irish tricolour flags in a public display of racism and bigotry.
Published July 20, 2012
IMF demands more cuts as protest councillor jailed
The International Monetary Fund has ordered the Dublin government to
slash dole payments, cut child benefit, and take medical cards away from
more old age pensioners.
Published July 20, 2012
Opposition walkout over anti-democratic action
All Opposition members of the Dublin parliament walked out of the Dail
chamber on the last day of parliamentary session in a rare protest at the
government’s handling of legislation on Gaeltacht (Irish language
speaking) areas.
Published July 20, 2012
The sound of gunfire echoed across north Belfast on Thursday night
following disturbances over an incendiary and bitterly opposed sectarian
parade.
Published July 13, 2012
Legal turmoil as Martin Corey’s bail release overturned
Irish political dissident Martin Corey remains in jail this weekend
after a Belfast High Court decision to release him was initially
blocked by the British government before being controversially
overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Published July 13, 2012
Problems mount for Boston College journalists
Efforts to prevent a peace process ‘research project’ being used to
prosecute and jail senior republicans suffered a setback this week
following a court ruling in Boston.
Published July 13, 2012
Violence follows ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires
The annual period of sectarian strife surrounding the July 12th marches
saw an increased number of loyalist ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires.
Published July 13, 2012
Attempt to recuit informer at Derry hospital
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has condemned what it said was a
recruitment attempt by British MI5 agents which took place at the breast
cancer unit at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.
Published July 13, 2012
Minister shamed over private hospital deal
Sinn Féin has strongly challenged the leadership of the Labour Party
this week after the 26-County Minister for Health James Reilly was
publicly named in Stubbs Gazette over a 1.9 million euro bad debt.
Published July 13, 2012
Rioting in Ardoyne after Orange parade forced through
Trouble has erupted in Ardoyne today after the republican area was
cleared by the PSNI police to allow an incendiary Orange march pass
through.
Published July 12, 2012
Corey ordered held until appeal hearing tomorrow
The British government is to bring an appeal tomorrow against Martin
Corey’s legal victory against his internment, it has emerged. Mr Corey
was released on bail yesterday [Monday], but his release was
dramatically blocked at the request of the British Direct Ruler, Owen
Paterson.
Published July 10, 2012
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