West Belfast Long Kesh escapee Pol Brennan said it is a “bittersweet”
feeling for him to be back on Irish soil after his deportation from the
US at the weekend.
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Deported Brennan weighs options
West Belfast Long Kesh escapee Pol Brennan said it is a “bittersweet”
feeling for him to be back on Irish soil after his deportation from the
US at the weekend.
Published August 27, 2009
PSNI informer part of murder gang
The Police Ombudsman has confirmed that a Crown force informer was a
member of a gang that gunned down a father of six in front of his wife
and children.
Published August 27, 2009
UDA brigadier in Banbridge mob terror
It has now been confirmed that UDA leader Jackie McDonald was one of
over 100 unionists who laid siege to homes in the Peggy’s Loaning area
of Banbridge for several hours on Tuesday, August 11.
Published August 27, 2009
There has been a wave of praise by politicians in Ireland and Britain
following the death of US Senator Edward Kennedy for his efforts in the
Irish peace process and his decades of political service.
Published August 27, 2009
Former Irish political prisoner Pól Brennan was deported from the US
today [Friday], returning to Ireland for the first time in 25 years.
Published August 22, 2009
Human rights probe into Ardoyne violence
An international human rights adviser is to investigate the
circumstances in which four young people, including a 13-year-old child,
were injured with plastic bullets in north Belfast last month.
Published August 20, 2009
‘Shoot to kill’ case set for Europe
The families of two unarmed IRA Volunteers shot dead by the British Army
SAS nearly 20 years ago are to take their case to Europe over the
failure of the RUC police to hold a genuine investigation.
Published August 20, 2009
Thousands attend hunger strike rally
As part of a weekend of events a rally and wreath-laying ceremony took place in the village of Galbally -- home of Martin Hurson, the sixth person to die in the 1981 fast.
Published August 20, 2009
Burning of Bombay St remembered
Hundreds of members of the West Belfast community gathered on Sunday for
a march and rally to mark the 40th anniversary of the pogroms of August
1969.
Published August 20, 2009
‘No to Lisbon’ campaign launched
A group campaigning for a ‘No’ vote in the October 2nd referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty has expressed concern over guidelines issued to
broadcasters.
Published August 20, 2009
Two republican activists boarded a British warship in Belfast last
weekend.
Published August 20, 2009
This urgent action alert is from the Pol Brennan support group.
Published August 17, 2009
The Green Party is set to hold a special convention on the Dublin
government’s controversial ‘bad bank’ after a swell in grass-roots
opposition
Published August 14, 2009
Sinn Fein brushed off suggestions of internal unrest following a meeting in Navan,
County Meath, this week.
Published August 14, 2009
Tyrone village used as RAF training centre
Residents are demanding that the British Army stop using a County Tyrone
village as a training centre for its war in Afghanistan.
Published August 14, 2009
New PSNI chief appointed amid devolution doubts
Members of the Policing Board have unanimously appointed Englishman Matt
Baggott, head of Leicestershire police, as the new PSNI chief.
Published August 14, 2009
Up to a hundred loyalists descended on an area of Banbridge, County Down
this week terrifying residents and ripping down two Irish flags.
Published August 14, 2009
Police used to suppress workers’ protest
A sit-in action by workers who occupied the Dublin store of
international travel company Thomas Cook ended violently this week when
scores of Garda police used battering rams to raid the premises and
arrest the workers.
Published August 7, 2009
PSNI behind loyalist ‘mob rule’
The PSNI have been accused of facilitating the KKK-style intimidation of
a Catholic family in Larne.
Published August 7, 2009
The PSNI are likely to mount a military-style operation to force an
Apprentice Boys parade through a Belfast sectarian interface this
weekend.
Published August 7, 2009
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