A brother of one of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday has secured High Court permission to challenge the decision to drop murder charges against a former British soldier accused of taking part in the massacre.
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Bloody Sunday killer will not see charges dropped pending review
A brother of one of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday has secured High Court permission to challenge the decision to drop murder charges against a former British soldier accused of taking part in the massacre.
Published July 10, 2021
Loyalists use marching season to claim territory
In a major campaign of loyalist intimidation, flags have appeared all over towns and cities in the north of Ireland, three to a lamppost in many places.
Published July 10, 2021
Tributes to Irish hunger strikers appear around New York
A series of tributes to the ten Irish men who died on hunger strike in 1981 have been appearing around New York City in recent months.
Published July 10, 2021
A device believed to be a military grade British listening device has been found in a working class housing estate in Lurgan, County Armagh.
Published July 10, 2021
Labour wins Dublin by-election
A by-election in the constituency of Dublin Bay South has been won by
Labour’s Ivana Bacik in a vote which saw Fianna Fáil suffer its worst
ever election result and saw Fine Gael shut out of the constituency for
the first time in its history.
Published July 9, 2021
The families of victims of killer British soldiers will continue to fight for justice after Crown prosecutors announced they are discontinuing proceedings against the only soldier to face charges for the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, as well as those soldiers involved in the murder of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty.
Published July 3, 2021
Loyalists to gather at Drumcree
An attempt to reignite the Drumcree parade dispute could be the next move by loyalists seeking to escalate sectarian tensions over Brexit.
Published July 3, 2021
Section of Act of Union ‘repealed’ by Brexit
Unionists have been outraged by a Belfast High Court ruling that Brexit implicitly repeals part of the Acts of Union, which legislated for the annexation of Ireland by Britain in 1800 following the defeat of the United Irishmen rebellion two years earlier.
Published July 3, 2021
Shrinking DUP now smaller than Sinn Féin at Stormont
The DUP has lost its status as the largest party in the Belfast Assembly as the party continues to disintegrate following the affirmation of Jeffrey Donaldson as the new party leader.
Published July 3, 2021
Time for Truth campaign protests British impunity move
The British government’s proposed Legacy Bill has been denounced as “totally unacceptable” as a campaign ramped up this week to demand London “honour its own word” and respect people’s “basic human rights”.
Published July 3, 2021
New claims fuel concerns in Noah Donohoe case
An appalling vista has opened up for policing in the north of Ireland after the PSNI reportedly ignored a confession that a 14-year-old mixed-race Catholic boy, Noah Donohoe, was abducted and murdered in a loyalist area of Belfast.
Published July 3, 2021
Prosecutions of British soldiers halted on a pretext
Anger and disbelief have greeted a decision by Crown Prosecutors to summarily collapse cases against those involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre and the Operation Motorman atrocity, both perpetrated by the British Army’s Parachute Regiment in Derry in 1972.
Published July 2, 2021
A Lurgan mother-of-three has spoken out after an intimidating encounter with MI5 left her feeling “stalked” by British military agents.
Published June 26, 2021
Loyalist mouthpiece works for ‘peace charity’
There have been calls for an investigation into a ‘peace-building charity’ after it emerged one of its board members is a loyalist spokesperson who has been linked to recent threats of violence.
Published June 26, 2021
Signs of acceptance in DUP following turmoil
Outgoing DUP leader Edwin Poots has admitted that unionists have been exaggerating their grievances and that Irish language legislation being opposed by his party is balanced and moderate.
Published June 26, 2021
Loyalists looking to create friction
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has called for a loyalist bonfire in the New Lodge area of Belfast to be removed from a sectarian interface after golf balls were fired from the site aimed at houses and vehicles in nationalist areas.
Published June 26, 2021
Protest as Dáil renews support for kangaroo courts
Sinn Féin and the Green Party have faced widespread condemnation after they failed to oppose the renewal of the ‘Special Criminal Court’, a court dating from 1939 which is used to deprive republicans and others of the right to a fair trial by jury.
Published June 26, 2021
Gardaí ignore 999 calls, offered powers to search phones
New legislation is being put forward to give police in the 26 Counties the power to search through private phones and other electronic devices, even as it emerged the Gardaí been ignoring more than a thousand emergency phone calls for help every month.
Published June 26, 2021
Jeffrey Donaldson to become next DUP leader
Jeffrey Donaldson has been named as the next leader of the DUP. It emerged today that he was the only candidate to replace Edwin Poots, who announced his resignation following an internal party revolt last week.
Published June 22, 2021
Unionism in turmoil as basic rights asserted
A second collapse of the leadership of the largest unionist party, in the face
of Irish language speakers receiving a commitment that their rights will
be protected, marks a further loosening of the grip on northern politics
by the DUP’s extremists.
Published June 19, 2021
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