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‘Bad faith’ prosecution of pensioner

A 70-year-old County Tyrone man is facing trial on historic IRA charges, despite concerns that the prosecution amounts to an abuse of process, as prosecutions of British soldiers remain suspended or effectively abandoned ahead of pending legislation for conflict-related amnesty.

Published August 10, 2023

Loyalists blamed for racist and sectarian attacks

Loyalists carried out a shocking attack on a Polish man whose home in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, was attacked by masked men with stone slabs and hammers.

Published August 10, 2023

DUP egotists ‘damaging unionism’ - Donaldson

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has accused some of his own party colleagues of damaging the party with “manufactured” attacks driven by a desire “to gain media coverage or advance their personal agenda”.

Published August 3, 2023

Shock as anti-eviction activists handed 15-year sentences

Republicans and housing activists have condemned the extraordinary sentences handed down to three anti-eviction activists in relation to an eviction in Strokestown, County Roscommon, in 2018.

Published August 3, 2023

Victims of British double-agent speak out

Peter Keeley was a British soldier planted within the Provisional IRA in South Down. Now, almost 30 people who say his actions or inactions have caused them harm are suing him and his Crown Force bosses.

Published August 3, 2023

Prosecutors avoid bringing Daniel’s killer to justice

The family of Daniel Hegarty, a 15-year-old boy shot dead by the British in Derry in 1972, is being ignored by prosecutors, despite a court ordering them to bring his killer to trial.

Published August 3, 2023

US fund demands end to discrimination

A powerful US-based pension fund has challenged the owners of a Belfast aerospace manufacturer to provide ‘information on its hiring practices.’

Published August 3, 2023

Anti-slavery campaigner celebrated

A statue of the anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass has been unveiled in Belfast.

Published August 3, 2023

PSNI harvested journalists’ phones for cover-up plot

The phone records of a respected Belfast-based journalist were secretly searched by the PSNI police during an investigation into allegations against the force.

Published July 27, 2023

Loyalists threatens judge after children hit by feud gunfire

A unionist paramilitary gang is threatening to kill a senior district judge over his refusal to grant bail to gang members caught up in a long-running feud.

Published July 27, 2023

Shock at unionist tribute to Shankill Butchers

There has been strong local condemnation of a tribute to the notorious ‘Shankill Butchers’ who terrorised Belfast with their infamously brutal ‘romper room’ sectarian killings.

Published July 27, 2023

Charges linked to stop-and-search harassment of families

A member of the PSNI is to be prosecuted over an assault on prominent republican Brian Carron, it has emerged. The PSNI man will appear in court later this month in connection with the incident, which came after a campaign of state harassment against the prominent republican.