The 26-County Presidential campaign bordered on absurdity this week
when television personality Gay Byrne briefly became favourite to win
the election, before confirming he would not be a candidate.
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Gaybo backs away from Presidential ‘coronation’
The 26-County Presidential campaign bordered on absurdity this week
when television personality Gay Byrne briefly became favourite to win
the election, before confirming he would not be a candidate.
Published August 13, 2011
Lillis under heavy guard at City Hospital
Brendan Lillis is receiving urgent treatment at City Hospital in the
south of Belfast where he remains under the close watch of British
prison authorities.
Published August 10, 2011
Lillis, nearing death, is removed to hospital
Interned former political prisoner Brendan Lillis has been taken from
Maghaberry jail today to an unknown destination after a prison doctor
admitted his condition was “critical”.
Published August 9, 2011
Following last week’s refusal by the Stormont authorities to release
him, the partner of Brendan Lillis has said their campaign is no longer
working to free the ailing prisoner, but to save his life.
Published August 8, 2011
Hunger strike families appeal for action
The families of most of the 1981 Hunger Strikers have called for an end
to the abuses taking place at Maghaberry prison in County Antrim.
Published August 8, 2011
A group of republican prisoners at Maghaberry have begun a 48 hour fast
to protest the failure of the British/Stormont authorities to implement
an agreement last August on conditions within the jail.
Published August 8, 2011
News organisations must submit to the PSNI any footage or photographs of
rioting or other public disorder in the north of Ireland, a judge has
ruled.
Published August 8, 2011
Schoolboy fights for life after attack
A 17-year-old schoolboy is critically ill in hospital after being beaten
in a sectarian attack in Antrim.
Published August 8, 2011
Fortieth anniversary of Ballymurphy and Internment
An event to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre
has heard renewed calls for an independent international inquiry.
Published August 8, 2011
Ford refuses release of Brendan Lillis
There have been demands for the resignation of Six-County Justice
Minister David Ford after he rejected an appeal by the broad nationalist
community for the release of a dying prisoner today.
Published August 3, 2011
British Army protected UVF ‘Butcher’
The British Army withheld evidence for more than three decades which
confirms that some of its locally recruited units were used to finance
and support UVF paramilitary death squads.
Published August 3, 2011
McGuinness backs Lillis release
Members of the two main nationalist parties in the North are to join the
partner of critically ill prisoner Brendan Lillis in a meeting with the
Six-County Justice Minister later today [Wednesday] to plead for his
release from Maghaberry jail on compassionate grounds.
Published August 3, 2011
Shell ‘goons’ battle protestors as pipe construction begins
A day of action by environmental protestors was greeted with violence as
full construction work on a gas pipeline by Shell and contractors in
north County Mayo began at the weekend.
Published August 3, 2011
Housing project spiked by new DUP minister
A project to build 200 houses at a former north Belfast British Army
barracks has been blocked by unionists for naked territorial and
sectarian reasons.
Published August 3, 2011
Child abuse scandal hits Presidential campaign
Senator David Norris yesterday withdrew his candidacy from the
26-County presidential election in the autumn after a scandal erupted
over his intervention on behalf of an Israeli man, a former lover, who
was convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old boy in 1992.
Published August 3, 2011
SDLP’s Ritchie facing leadership threat
The deputy leader of the SDLP has said he will stand against current
leader Margaret Ritchie for the post at the party’s annual conference in
November.
Published August 3, 2011
Policing in ‘cloud-cuckoo-land’
A heavy-handed series of arrest operations against families of prominent
republicans backfired significantly on the PSNI this week as public
opinion turned against them.
Published July 29, 2011
No compassion for dying prisoner
The Life Sentence Review Commission has refused release of critically
ill republican prisoner Brendan Lillis on compassionate grounds as a
growing human rights campaign continues to demand his release.
Published July 29, 2011
PSNI ignoring loyalist violence - SF
Sinn Fein has accused the PSNI of an “obvious disparity” between how riots in loyalist and nationalist areas are policed.
Published July 29, 2011
Orangemen attempt Garvaghy march
The Orange Order yesterday [Wednesday] attempted to stage a march along
part of the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
Published July 29, 2011
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