A border poll and Irish unity could follow quickly after the Assembly
election in two weeks time – that’s according to unionist politicians
who have been ramping up sectarian fears ahead of the vote.
![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/rn.gif) | ![[Irish Republican News]](https://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/harp.gif) |
Sabres rattled as unionists warn of impending reunification
A border poll and Irish unity could follow quickly after the Assembly
election in two weeks time – that’s according to unionist politicians
who have been ramping up sectarian fears ahead of the vote.
Published April 21, 2022
Trouble in Derry after PSNI bid to suppress commemoration
A mini-riot erupted in Derry today after a violent PSNI arrest operation
was launched against an Easter commemoration attended by thousands of
republicans.
Published April 18, 2022
Unionism split by actions of extremists
Hardline unionists have been blamed for a shocking incident that saw a
noose placed around the neck of an image of Ulster Unionist Party leader
Doug Beattie.
Published April 14, 2022
PSNI accused of abusing child informers
The PSNI has been condemned over its recruitment of child informers,
details of which they have again refused to disclose.
Published April 14, 2022
Call for end to UVF funding on anniversary of peace deal
State bodies who are still directing cash to loyalist paramilitary
groups stand accused of operating a form of collusion, 24 years after
the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Published April 14, 2022
Election campaigns targeted by loyalists and state agencies
The Irish Republican Socialist Party candidate for West Belfast Dan
Murphy has described the ongoing harassment of party election workers in
the constituency by the Crown Forces “as an attack on democracy and an
attack on the West Belfast electorate”.
Published April 14, 2022
Republican groups battle censorship ahead of Easter events
A sudden escalation in the online censorship of republican groups is
being seen as an attempt by anti-republican forces to shut down this
year’s Easter Rising commemorations.
Published April 14, 2022
A former republican prisoner who took part in the 1981 hunger strike has
died. Dungiven man Liam McCloskey survived 55 days without food when he
was forced to end his hunger strike in September 1981.
Published April 14, 2022
Minister potentially funding his own assassins
The 26 County Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, has been
funding organisations linked to unionist paramilitaries who have been
threatening to assassinate him, it has emerged.
Published April 7, 2022
Hundreds of PSNI members are Orangemen or Freemasons
A huge number of PSNI police are signed-up members of sectarian
Protestant or Masonic groups, it has emerged.
Published April 7, 2022
Sinn Féin shifts focus for election campaign
A Sinn Féin focus on the cost of living in the Stormont election has
sparked controversy, with the DUP, the SDLP and the Irish Republican
Socialist Party all rowing in to criticise the temporary
downgrading of the party’s Irish unity agenda.
Published April 7, 2022
Call for investigation into UDR role in brutal killing
The anniversary of the murder of a County Antrim man as he slept
beside his wife and baby daughter has brought fresh calls for an inquest
into the the circumstances of the killing and the role of the Crown
Forces in the attack.
Published April 7, 2022
‘Rights delayed are rights denied’
More than 1,000 people have signed a letter expressing their “deep
concerns regarding the persisting failure” to introduce the Irish
Language Act following decades of delay.
Published April 7, 2022
Ex-prisoners win compensation via Redress Board
Two former republican prisoners beaten behind bars as teenagers are to
receive five-figure compensation payouts via an unusual route.
Published April 7, 2022
Who stands behind ‘Brexit’s bombers’?
Questions are being raised over the role of unionist politicians and
media in motivating a hoax bomb attack at an event in north Belfast on
Friday morning, 25 March.
Published March 31, 2022
British soldier goes on trial for McAnespie killing
A trial in Belfast of a former British soldier has heard that his claim
that his finger “slipped” when he killed 23-year-old nationalist Aidan
McAnespie at a border checkpoint was “not credible”.
Published March 31, 2022
Hopes fade for language rights as ‘hocus-pocus’ deal dissolves
An admission by the British government that it has no immediate plans to
introduce Irish language legislation in the north of Ireland has been
angrily condemned by Irish language speakers.
Published March 31, 2022
AIA claim successes against normalisation of British rule
A year-long republican campaign in Armagh appears to have succeeded in
its bid to stop the city being branded as a “UK City of Culture”.
Published March 31, 2022
PSNI refuse to deny informer allegations
A legal challenge has been launched after the PSNI police said it would
neither confirm nor deny if alleged paedophile priest Malachy Finegan
was an informer for the force.
Published March 31, 2022
Protest at Orange parade in Glasgow
A parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order past a Catholic church went
ahead in Glasgow on Sunday, 27 March, amid a new focus on the failure of
the authorities in Scotland to limit sectarian marches in the city.
Published March 31, 2022
Instructions
By default, this search engine looks for all words in any order. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes:
"gerry adams"
The search engine also supports AND, OR, and NOT keywords to specify boolean expressions:
sinn OR fein
sinn NOT fein
Note that only twenty search results are displayed, in chronological order.