A lowering of the interest rate being charged by the European Union for
its share of the current 85 billion euro bailout loan will not deflect
the Dublin government from implementing further cuts to services as well
as new stealth taxes, the government has said.
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EU forced to cut Irish interest rate
A lowering of the interest rate being charged by the European Union for
its share of the current 85 billion euro bailout loan will not deflect
the Dublin government from implementing further cuts to services as well
as new stealth taxes, the government has said.
Published July 24, 2011
PSNI invade wedding, arrest couple, question guests
The PSNI in Derry have been accused of mixing sectarianism with racism
as they interrupted a wedding ceremony between a local man and a woman
who had moved to Ireland from China, and arrested the couple.
Published July 24, 2011
Supporters of critically ill Maghaberry prisoner Brendan Lillis are to
stage a hunger protest in a last-ditch attempt to convince the Stormont
and British authorities to release him from prison before he dies.
Published July 19, 2011
Mid-Ulster UVF blamed for Portadown attack
Over 100 loyalists were involved in a serious mob assault at a
‘peaceline’ in Portadown on Friday night, throwing bricks, bottles,
paint-bombs, fireworks and at least one blast bomb.
Published July 19, 2011
Stormont buries its head after riots
The Six-County administration at Stormont has been criticised for
adopting a ‘securocrat’ response to the marching season.
Published July 19, 2011
Soccer team attacked in north Belfast
Members of a north Belfast soccer team have been left with injuries
including stab wounds and a broken leg after being attacked by a
loyalist mob.
Published July 19, 2011
A member of the Continuity IRA has dismissed offers from senior Sinn
Fein figures to enter into talks, according to the Guardian newspaper.
Published July 19, 2011
Minister in ‘Thatcherite’ attack on welfare recipients
‘Minister for Social Protection’, Labour’s Joan Burton, has been widely
condemned after she suggested that social welfare is becoming a
“lifestyle choice”.
Published July 19, 2011
The PSNI attacked a peaceful protest in the republican Ardoyne area of
north Belfast to facilitate a sectarian march, triggering hours of
rioting on Tuesday evening.
Published July 14, 2011
Interfaces attacked amid surge in UVF activity
A series of sectarian and racist attacks were carried out by loyalists
in the nights leading up to the ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires and the
‘Twelfth’ marches.
Published July 14, 2011
Kenny and Gilmore caught as false promises are exposed
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore both misled voters
in pre-election assurances about the future of hospital services in
Roscommon, it has emerged.
Published July 14, 2011
Call for prosecutions after new abuse report
There has been another shocking report on the failure of the Catholic
Church to protect child abuse victims in the 26 Counties.
Published July 14, 2011
McGeough’s legal challenge to conviction gets go ahead
Jailed former Provisional IRA commander Gerry McGeough has passed the
first stage of a legal battle to be given an amnesty, in line with those
accorded to some other combatants in the North’s conflict.
Published July 14, 2011
Inverted priorities at the Dail
The Dublin government postponed Ireland’s National Famine Commemoration
Day due to the visit of ‘Queen of England’ Elizabeth Windsor -- and is
still refusing to name a date for the event.
Published July 14, 2011
Nationalists riot as parade forced through
Intense rioting has engulfed north Belfast after a parade by the Orange
Order was forced through the republican Ardoyne area.
Published July 13, 2011
Eleventh Night mayhem in Belfast
Serious disturbances broke out across Belfast and elsewhere last night
as loyalist bonfires spilled over into sectarian attacks and quickly
evolved into general rioting.
Published July 12, 2011
UVF riots in Ballyclare, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus
Riots orchestrated by the unionist paramilitary UVF erupted in a number
of towns in county Antrim overnight, ostensibly over the removal of UVF
flags erected for the marching season.
Published July 10, 2011
More than a thousand people have protested outside the Dublin parliament
as the coalition government begins to wield the axe against frontline
health services around the country in order to serve European/IMF
demands for spending cuts.
Published July 8, 2011
RSF arrests linked to Drumcree protest
A controversial plan by the Orange Order to hold a parade in Portadown
in County Armagh without the usual notification was apparently averted
when the organisation was informed of pending arrests of the Republican
Sinn Fein leadership, it has emerged.
Published July 8, 2011
Anger at police intimidation in the North is mounting after children
returning from a bus trip to Dublin last week were terrorised by heavily
armed PSNI members for up two hours
Published July 8, 2011
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