A bitter conflict between the New IRA and British state forces has
deepened after the armed group claimed responsibility for a targeted gun
attack against a prominent and senior PSNI figure, John Caldwell.
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PSNI reprisal raids after New IRA gun attack
A bitter conflict between the New IRA and British state forces has
deepened after the armed group claimed responsibility for a targeted gun
attack against a prominent and senior PSNI figure, John Caldwell.
Published March 2, 2023
Plastic bullet injury goes unpunished
A British soldier who fired a plastic bullet which partially blinded a
Catholic schoolboy in 1997 used “reasonable force”, a High Court judge
has ruled.
Published March 2, 2023
Attitude to loyalist gangs condemned
The vastly different approach of the British Crown Forces to loyalist
paramilitaries vis-a-vis republican armed groups has been condemned by
the Alliance Party.
Published March 2, 2023
Easter parade charges beaten again
Prominent Belfast republican Dee Fennell has been acquitted of
overseeing an illegal Easter procession.
Published March 2, 2023
Council resisting law on Irish language signage
A unionist-dominated council area faces potential legal action over its
refusal to introduce a policy on allowing dual language street signs.
Published March 2, 2023
EU president Ursula Von Der Leyen and British prime minister Rishi Sunak
have signed a long-awaited deal over post-Brexit trading arrangements
for the north of Ireland.
Published February 27, 2023
Tory psychodrama boosts DUP wreckers
Proposals for a deal to finally end the dispute over the implementation
of Brexit in the north of Ireland have been derailed by the
intransigence of Tory and unionist extremists.
Published February 23, 2023
A senior member of the PSNI has been injured in a shooting in County
Tyrone which has been linked to republican armed groups.
Published February 23, 2023
Inquest begins into the ‘forgotten massacre’
The long-awaited Springhill/Westrock inquest commenced this week in
Belfast.
Published February 23, 2023
Public inquiry sought into actions of UVF agents
The family of two Catholic brothers shot dead by loyalists almost 30
years ago has called for a public inquiry into the series of sectarian
murders carried out at the time.
Published February 23, 2023
Protest against ‘hatred and disinformation’
Attempts by racists and foreign instigators to take advantage of concern
in Ireland over immigration has been dramatically opposed by more than
ten thousand people who attended a public rally in Dublin last weekend.
Published February 23, 2023
Evidence destroyed after James Murray’s bookmaker killings
Masks worn by the unionist paramilitary killers of three innocent
Catholics in a November 1992 massacre were recovered by the Crown Forces
the following day – but they were never tested and have since gone missing,
it has emerged.
Published February 23, 2023
Hardline unionists succeeded in winning approval for a provocative
monument to partition at Stormont on the day their boycott of the
Assembly blocked over a hundred organ transplants.
Published February 16, 2023
Praise for SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon as she steps down
Tributes have been paid in Ireland to Scottish First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon, who announced on Wednesday that she is stepping down as leader
of the Scottish National Party and First Minister.
Published February 16, 2023
Democracy denied as Britain again steps in
The British government has further postponed a scheduled Assembly
election for a year after hardline unionists successfully lobbied to
avoid a reckoning with the Six County electorate.
Published February 16, 2023
Hopes for justice as two inquests get underway
The first inquest into the 1998 murder of a County Derry man opened in
Belfast on Monday.
Published February 16, 2023
Rents spiral upwards as ideology blocks change
The rent crisis in Ireland is having a devastating impact on the lives
of an entire generation, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Published February 16, 2023
Bill could deliver far-reaching public inquiry into collusion
Legislation for a commission of investigation into decades of collusion
by the British state has passed through the first stage of the Dublin
parliament.
Published February 16, 2023
Unionists have failed in their legal attempts to force a renegotiation
of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement after the Supreme Court in London
unanimously dismissed a challenge to its new trading procedures.
Published February 9, 2023
Omagh inquiry could become a whitewash
Expectations are low that an official inquiry into the role of state
forces in the Omagh bomb will tackle the censorship and secrecy which have
grown up around the events of August 15, 1998.
Published February 9, 2023
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