There are fears a long-standing British strategy to delay legal actions against state killers is succeeding after two soldiers were reported to have died within a week, leaving their victims’ loved ones without justice or closure.
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Time runs out for families seeking justice
There are fears a long-standing British strategy to delay legal actions against state killers is succeeding after two soldiers were reported to have died within a week, leaving their victims’ loved ones without justice or closure.
Published October 23, 2021
MI5 linked to dangerous neglect of prisoner
Republican prisoner Davy Jordan has described the prison treatment of fellow Maghaberry internee and heart-attack victim Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat as “tantamount to attempted murder”.
Published October 23, 2021
Britain drops bid to overturn inquest outcome
A brother of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by the British Army in 1972 has welcomed the end of British efforts to overturn a coroner’s finding that his killing was “unjustified”.
Published October 23, 2021
Support for Leonard family’s fight for new inquest
The family of Michael Leonard has won the support of Fermanagh and Omagh council in its efforts to secure truth and justice for the unarmed innocent civilian who was shot dead on his way to cross the border to his County Donegal home.
Published October 23, 2021
Farage ‘hasn’t a clue’ as he reads out IRA slogans
Far-right British nationalist Nigel Farage has been pranked into issuing pro-IRA messages on three successive occasions for his for-hire video request service.
Published October 23, 2021
Tensions rise in Armagh ahead of partition event
A large-scale British military operation is underway in the town of Armagh ahead of a provocative commemoration of the partition of Ireland involving Prime Minister Boris Johnson. England’s Queen Elizabeth has announced she has withdrawn from tomorrow’s event, citing ill health.
Published October 20, 2021
Justice denied as killer soldier ‘dies from Covid’
The British soldier on trial for the killing of John Pat Cunningham, Dennis Hutchings, is reported to have died this evening in a Belfast hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.
Published October 18, 2021
Jingo Johnson paints up a storm
There is a growing belief that the Tory government in London is manipulating Brexit tensions for electoral purposes, regardless of the mounting political crisis in the north of Ireland.
Published October 16, 2021
Sectarian killer convicted of threatening grieving daughter
Glenanne Gang member Garfield Beattie has been found guilty of sending a threatening letter to the daughter of one of his murder victims, Aontú Deputy Leader Denise Mullen.
Published October 16, 2021
Palestinian internee punished in Maghaberry following heart attack
British prison authorities in Ireland are using a heart attack suffered by a Palestinian remand prisoner as an excuse to reduce his access to the outside world, his family have warned.
Published October 16, 2021
Children exploited in Crown propaganda exercises
Flagrant efforts by the British Army and the PSNI to influence and recruit children from nationalist areas have been denounced.
Published October 16, 2021
Inquest sought over ‘rule change’ triple killing
Relatives of a County Down man shot dead by British soldiers 50 years ago this month have requested a new inquest.
Published October 16, 2021
Irish author stands up for Palestine
Best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney is standing with Palestinians by respecting their call to boycott Israel. She is refusing to allow an Israeli company buy the Hebrew translation and publication rights for her latest novel.
Published October 16, 2021
British bad faith on Protocol talks threatens new border showdown
Despite planned EU concessions, the British government has moved to sabotage a round of talks intended to deal with unionist objections to Brexit’s Irish Protocol by raising a new “red line” barrier in the negotiations.
Published October 10, 2021
Snub to Higgins as Govt figures to attend Partition event
Fine Gael’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and Fianna Fáil’s Chief Whip Jack Chambers are to represent the Dublin government in an event to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland and the creation of a unionist-dominated statelet in the North.
Published October 9, 2021
Trial opens into cold-blooded killing of special needs victim
A trial of a British soldier in the north of Ireland has heard evidence that he intentionally shot and killed an innocent and vulnerable man who posed no threat whatsoever.
Published October 9, 2021
British tricks to avoid accountability for killings
The British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis is attempting to “run down the clock” in a legal challenge over collusion in the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, the High Court has heard.
Published October 9, 2021
Alliance, Greens blamed for slowing progress on sectarianism
A provocative ‘centenary parade’ by the anti-Catholic Orange Order was stopped from marching through a leafy suburban area of Belfast last weekend in a sign of growing opposition to loyalist parades across the North.
Published October 9, 2021
End of hunger strike commemorated
Republicans marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the 1981 hunger strike last weekend at events across the North and elsewhere.
Published October 9, 2021
Govt under pressure to end corporate tax dodges
The operation of the 26 County state as a haven for greedy tech multinationals and the super rich is being strongly challenged by the international efforts of whistleblowers and tax justice campaigners.
Published October 9, 2021
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