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Pol Brennan Action Alert

This urgent action alert is from the Pol Brennan support group.

Published August 17, 2009

Nama unease grows

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 Féin circles the wagons

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

Loyalist terror continues

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

Concern over weekend parades

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

PSNI bases sold off

The North’s Policing Board has agreed to sell off underused and abandoned PSNI stations in towns and villages across the Six Counties.

Published August 7, 2009

Open letter to the Orange Order

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has issued an open letter to the Orange Order Grand Secretary Drew Nelson.

Published August 7, 2009

‘Regret’ over checkpoint murder

The British government has expressed “deep regret” over the fatal shooting of a Tyrone man 21 years ago, but declined to formally apologise.

Published July 31, 2009

Massacre cover-up exposed

The British Army knew within hours that the bombing the McGurk’s Bar in 1971 was a loyalist massacre of innocent Catholics and not an IRA ‘own goal’ as it claimed at the time.

Published July 31, 2009

Loyalists burn schools

A north Belfast primary school has been targeted by loyalists for the second time in two weeks.

Published July 31, 2009

PSNI briefing against eirigi

eirigi general secretary Breandan Mac Cionnaith has slammed what he described as yet another example of political policing by the PSNI following the arrest of a second man in connection with Massereene attack.

Published July 31, 2009

Adams defies critics

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has denounced critics who have questioned his continued leadership of the party and its new political direction.

Published July 31, 2009

Cuts plan would have huge social consequences - Adams

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has warned that if the report by the so-called ‘An Bord Snip Nua’ is implemented, its proposals would have devastating social consequences.