In a dramatic public address on Easter Monday, the ‘Real IRA’ affirmed
its determination to pursue its armed struggle against British rule.
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In a dramatic public address on Easter Monday, the ‘Real IRA’ affirmed
its determination to pursue its armed struggle against British rule.
Published April 30, 2011
Three Senate seats for Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein has secured three seats in what may be the last ever 26-County
Seanad [Senate].
Published April 30, 2011
Sectarian attacks and bomb alerts
A series of bomb hoaxes and alerts also intensified in the past week and
fuelled a sense of rising tension in the North.
Published April 30, 2011
Gerry Kelly rejects call to repudiate IRA
With elections to local councils and the Stormont Assembly due to take
place within a week, Sinn Fein is coming under pressure from the
unionist parties and the mainstream media to turn its back on the IRA.
Published April 30, 2011
Union Jack raised over Sinn Fein offices
The first contentious loyalist parades of the year have passed off
peacefully.
Published April 30, 2011
Uncertainty shrouds health services after HSE board quits
The new 26-County Health Minister Dr James Reilly has cleared out the
board of the Health Service Executive (HSE), claiming the dramatic
shake-up will improve services and accountability.
Published April 30, 2011
A group of former Provisional IRA members have declared that they will
continue the armed struggle until a united Ireland is achieved.
Published April 25, 2011
Golden circles continue to rob 26-County state
A number of elite public servants continue to be paid up to one million
euro ($1.46m) in annual salary and associated benefits, despite the
economic demise of the 26 Counties and the arrival of the IMF.
Published April 25, 2011
UVF boss, Celtic manager targeted for assassination
A senior UVF unionist paramilitary was left in critical condition after
being stabbed outside a busy north Belfast supermarket, apparently by a
feuding rival.
Published April 25, 2011
Child clubbed by PSNI in stop-and-search
A County Armagh schoolboy was assaulted by a member of the PSNI who
batoned the 12-year-old just over a week ago, it has emerged.
Published April 25, 2011
Unity referendum subject to GFA - Sinn Fein
With all of the mainstream political parties unanimous on three key
issues -- the need to defeat dissident republicanism, safeguard the
Six-County political institutions and oppose cuts to the British
subvention -- only the call for an all-island referendum has caused a
stir in the Assembly election campaign.
Published April 25, 2011
‘Fun’ menu for Irish treaty signatories sold at auction
A “humorous” menu prepared for an Irish delegation dinner during the
Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in London in 1921 has been sold in
Dublin for a four-figure sum.
Published April 25, 2011
A stand against the securocrats
Policing in the North is once again in crisis after the chief executive
at the Police Ombudsman's office suddenly quit, blaming senior
government officials for interfering in the office's investigations.
Published April 18, 2011
Concerns over new human rights violations
Sinn Fein has criticised the PSNI's continued detention and
interrogation of a number of people in connection with dissident
republican activity.
Published April 18, 2011
The mother of a six-year-old boy shot in the head during the conflict
has expressed her frustration after the police Historical Enquiries
Team (HET) dismissed evidence of loyalist involvement in the death.
Published April 18, 2011
IMF, EU join in Dublin fudge exercise
The Fine Gael/Labour government in Dublin declared last week it had
"passed" a review of its economic progress by its International
Monetary Fund and European Union creditors without any penalty.
Published April 18, 2011
The 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny held his first bilateral meeting
with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London this afternoon.
Published April 18, 2011
McGuinness to represent SF in leaders debates
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams will almost certainly not be
representing the party in televised leaders' battles ahead of the
North's election.
Published April 18, 2011
Sinn Fein has offered to meet with “the militarist factions” to outline
the party’s strategy for advancing republican objectives and in its
belief in “the futility of armed actions”.
Published April 13, 2011
Assembly election candidates named
There are 218 candidates in total for the 108 Six-County Assembly seats
up for grabs in the election on May 5, spread over the traditional 18
six-seater constituencies.
Published April 13, 2011
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