The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has led Irish congratulations to Joe Biden after his success in becoming the US President.
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Irish leaders respond to US election outcome
Published November 7, 2020
Tories wary as Biden elected US President
The new US President-elect Joe Biden could make a visit to Ireland’s border area as part of an intervention on Brexit, according to reports.
Published November 7, 2020
Varadkar damaged by cronyism revelations
Sinn Féin is to table a motion of no confidence in Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar after he offered no real defence for leaking a confidential medical contract to a friend involved in negotiations for a rival group.
Published November 7, 2020
Mother of ‘boy who got away’ calls for investigations
The mother of a Catholic teenager who was chased, attacked and robbed by loyalist youths this summer has spoken out over the PSNI’s refusal to properly investigate the death of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe.
Published November 6, 2020
No indication of British plan for referendums
There are fears the London government could seek to prevent referendums on Irish unity and Scottish independence for decades in light of recent statements by its most senior representatives in both countries.
Published November 6, 2020
Wild west scene at PSNI house party
The parallel systems of policing in the north of Ireland have been highlighted by the treatment of two members of the PSNI who were released despite pleading guilty to opening fire at a house party.
Published November 6, 2020
Frederick Douglass to be remembered in Belfast
A proposal to erect a statue dedicated to US abolitionist and activist Frederick Douglass has been passed by Belfast City Council. Douglass, a former slave, visited Belfast in 1845 as part of his lecturing tour of Ireland.
Published November 6, 2020
Clashes as anger mounts over policing
There has been sporadic unrest in Derry over three days as a provocative
Crown Force operation took place in the area of Racecourse Road,
Greenhaw Road, Glengalliagh Road and Fern Road.
Published October 31, 2020
‘Lies and failure’ over killing of 13-year-old
New evidence has emerged in the murder of 13-year-old Martha Campbell in
Belfast in 1972, which puts a British Army unit in the area and shooting
at the time she was shot and killed.
Published October 31, 2020
SF Senator steps down amid new grants scandal
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accepted the resignation of party
Senator Elisha McCallion as a new financial scandal erupted in the North
this week.
Published October 31, 2020
PPS defends its own in Stakeknife case
A decision of the North’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to
prosecute one of their own members for perjury relating to the
‘Stakeknife’ double-agent has come as no surprise, according to legal
representatives of his victims.
Published October 31, 2020
Detailed study launched on use of plastic bullets in North
‘Plastic Justice’, an extensive report on the history, legacy and the
deadly impact of the plastic bullet in the north of Ireland, was
launched by Relatives for Justice last weekend.
Published October 31, 2020
‘Guerrilla’ campaign draws attention to British occupation
Lasair Dhearg activists said they have carried out a “new
guerilla marketing strategy” throughout Belfast to highlight the
ongoing British occupation of the north of Ireland.
Published October 31, 2020
US Action Alert: Stop plans for a hard border
This weeks marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1980 hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, as well as the centenary of the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. It is also an important week for the Irish cause in 2020. That is because it is now widely believed that the British government has delayed key Brexit negotiations until after the US Presidential election.
Published October 27, 2020
An adoption rights activist born in one of Ireland’s notorious ‘mother
and baby’ homes has described a move to seal records about the
institutions for thirty years as a denial of justice.
Published October 23, 2020
Martin ‘not interested’ in Irish Unity
A refusal by Micheál Martin to say if a border poll will ever take place
and a statement that Irish reunification is not a priority has put the
Taoiseach at odds with a broad swathe of Irish public opinion, including
his own party.
Published October 23, 2020
A deeply-rooted prejudice of DUP minister Edwin Poots emerged in
scandalous fashion this week when he issued a series of bigoted remarks
in connection with Covid-19, peaking with the incredible claim that they
weren’t sectarian as “most Sinn Féin leaders don’t attend the Catholic Church on a regular basis”.
Published October 23, 2020
MI5 infiltration of Craigavon 2 campaign prompts legal action
Lawyers representing two men jailed in a miscarriage of justice say
there are new grounds for their convictions to be deemed unsafe due to
the sinister involvement of MI5 double agent Dennis McFadden.
Published October 23, 2020
Family urge letter writer to come forward
The family of a County Tyrone man murdered by loyalists 30 years ago has
called for an independent investigation to be carried out after
receiving an anonymous letter containing significant new information.
Published October 23, 2020
US election campaign echoes in Ireland
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has outlined how he will
work with Irish-America and Ireland if he is elected US president.
Published October 23, 2020
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