There has been a welcome for a judge’s ruling that there are sufficient grounds that a former British soldier accused of killing Aidan McAnespie in County Tyrone in 1988 should stand trial.
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Soldier’s trial for McAnespie killing to go ahead
There has been a welcome for a judge’s ruling that there are sufficient grounds that a former British soldier accused of killing Aidan McAnespie in County Tyrone in 1988 should stand trial.
Published August 21, 2021
Unionists urged to embrace Protocol trade potential
Loyalists opposed to Brexit’s Irish trade Protocol have put up threatening posters bearing the image of infamous sectarian serial killer Billy Wright.
Published August 21, 2021
Loyalist parades and bonfires have continued across the Six Counties ahead of the ‘Last Saturday’ parades by the Royal Black Preceptory, the senior organisation associated to the anti-Catholic Orange Order.
Published August 21, 2021
Families mark anniversaries with new determination
The family of Eamon McDevitt, who was shot dead by the British Army in Strabane, in 1971 have described the last half century as ‘50 years of injustice’.
Published August 21, 2021
Derry man was a ‘brave and courageous soldier’
Dozens of republicans joined members of his family this week to pay tribute to Eamonn Lafferty, the first IRA Volunteer killed by British forces in the conflict in Derry.
Published August 21, 2021
The British and Unionist Broadcasting Corporation
Allegations of institutional sectarianism at the BBC have resurfaced
after it aired a clip during its primetime Newsline TV news programme
which included the obscene sectarian slogan ‘F*ck the Pope’.
Published August 14, 2021
Intense pressure on London to back away from impunity plan
UN human rights experts have expressed “grave concerns” over a plan by
Britain to provide an effective amnesty to those who carried our
killings and other crimes on its behalf in the north of Ireland.
Published August 14, 2021
Grieving family’s home raided; Blanketman laid to rest
British Crown Forces raided the family home of the late Irish National
Liberation Army Volunteer James McWilliams only two days after his
tragic passing this week.
Published August 14, 2021
Belfast march marks 50 years since Ballymurphy shootings
The 50th anniversary of the deaths of ten innocent people who were shot
and killed in a British Army operation in Ballymurphy was marked in
Belfast on Sunday, August 8.
Published August 14, 2021
Tribute to ‘Hooded Man’ on internment anniversary
Wreaths have been laid at the grave of Gerry McKerr in County Armagh to
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of internment.
Published August 14, 2021
Republican bonfire tensions decline
There were no significant bonfires to mark the anniversary of the
introduction of internment in west Belfast this year, although a
confrontation with PSNI police in Dungannon, County Tyrone led to a
night of trouble there.
Published August 14, 2021
‘Makey-up’ government changes law to suit itself
The disdain for Covid-19 rules by Irish political figures has brought about a loosening in the regulations to combat the disease as the Dublin coalition struggles to quell public anger over a rule-breaking party linked to a crony appointment.
Published August 7, 2021
Crime spree of East Belfast UVF revealed
Drug-dealing loyalist paramilitaries are running riot in east Belfast
and engaging in a shocking litany of crimes with little interference
from the PSNI, according to a report drafted by the paramilitaries
themselves.
Published August 7, 2021
Bloody Sunday ‘was successful operation’ - TUV man
A unionist election candidate has described the Bloody Sunday massacre
as a “successful operation” and praised the British soldiers who killed
fourteen innocent civil rights demonstrators in Derry in 1972.
Published August 7, 2021
Family of UDR victim retraumatised by Tory amnesty plan
The family of murdered independent councillor and civil rights activist
from Tyrone, Patsy Kelly, have taken to social media to express their
outrage and trauma at British government plans to introduce a blanket
amnesty for the conflict.
Published August 7, 2021
British public ahead of politicians on Ireland
Voters in Britain who support the reunification of Ireland outnumber
those who support the union by three to one, according to a new poll.
Barely one in ten oppose Irish unity, while more than half failed to
express an opinion.
Published August 7, 2021
Union backs prison move by Craigavon Two’s Wootton
One of two imprisoned victims of a miscarriage of justice is threatening
legal action in a bid to force prison authorities to transfer him out of
the high-security Maghaberry jail used for political prisoners.
Published August 7, 2021
Irish school forced out of east Belfast
There has been a shocked reaction across Ireland and abroad to news that an Irish language nursery school due to open in East Belfast has been forced to relocate as a result of loyalist pressure.
Published July 31, 2021
Britain ‘running scared’ from the truth
Victims groups have said international action is needed to put pressure of the British government to change course on its planned law of impunity for war crimes committed by its forces in the north of Ireland.
Published July 31, 2021
Liam Campbell denied appeal against extradition
The decision of an appeal court in Dublin to uphold a “cosmopolitan” extradition of a Dundalk republican to Lithuania, a country he has never visited, has been condemned by justice campaigners.
Published July 31, 2021
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