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Loyalist terror in west Belfast

Loyalist paramilitaries are being blamed for gun attacks in the Shankill area of Belfast in the run up to Christmas.

Published December 29, 2025

Vigil for victims of Silverbridge massacre

A candlelit vigil took place before Christmas to mark the 50th anniversary of the killings at Donnelly’s Bar, at which Gaelic Athletic Association President Jarlath Burns condemned an ongoing cover-up.

Published December 29, 2025

‘Workaround’ border poll plan ‘must be addressed’

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has described the failure to specify clear parameters in the Good Friday Agreement regarding the holding of a border poll as having been “one of these sort of constructive solutions... workarounds”. She called for Dublin and London to “respond to the reality” regarding the need for unity referendums.

Published December 29, 2025

Irish support for Palestine at Christmas

Small groups and individuals across Ireland have been demonstrating solidarity with the Palestinian people and seeking to shame the Dublin government’s weak response to the Israeli genocide there.

Published December 29, 2025

Merger seen as progress towards republican unity

Republican Network for Unity (RNU) and Éire Nua have announced that they have merged.

Published December 29, 2025

Settlement – but still no justice

An apology has been issued by the Crown Forces for the “hurt and suffering” endured by the family of Patrick Rooney since the nine-year-old was shot dead in his own home at the Divis Flats in Belfast August 1969.

Published December 18, 2025

The PSNI arms stashes - what were they planning?

A scandal over the disappearance of weapons and ammunition from a Crown Force training facility in County Antrim has mounted after it emerged that the PSNI leadership chose to ignore warnings for years that a huge quantity of weaponry was steadily being diverted from their stores.

Published December 18, 2025

British Supreme Court protects secrecy for state killers

The British government has won an appeal which hands them full control over the disclosure of key material to investigations into its war crimes in the north of Ireland.

Published December 18, 2025

Concern mounts for hunger striking activists

One of the pro-Palestinian remand prisoners nearing death on hunger strike in England has been taken to hospital after 46 days of refusing food.

Published December 18, 2025

Meeting to discuss harassment subjected to harassment

A meeting of a republican prisoners’ welfare group in Dublin last Wednesday, intended to educate a wider public about the work of the organisation and to highlight ongoing incidents of state harassment, was itself marred by state harassment.

Published December 18, 2025

Praise for councillor’s stance against British occupation

Republican Sinn Féin has congratulated its Galway councillor Tomás Ó Curraoin for protesting against the display of the British Union Jack flag in Galway during the visit of the British Ambassador to the city.

Published December 18, 2025

Kenova report a British ‘fairytale’

The final report of a £47 million investigation into the activities of a top British Army double agent inside the IRA has shed more light on the murderous actions of his Crown Force handlers, but has again failed to identify Freddie Scappaticci as the agent in question.