A long-delayed compensation scheme is set to bring official recognition for many of those who suffered permanent disablement in the conflict. After years of political and legal disputes, the scheme opened for applications this week.
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Compensation scheme for victims opens
A long-delayed compensation scheme is set to bring official recognition for many of those who suffered permanent disablement in the conflict. After years of political and legal disputes, the scheme opened for applications this week.
Published September 4, 2021
Loyalist gangs targeting EU citizens
A loyalist paramilitary group in the Dungannon area has posted an image
of a masked gang alongside a caption threatening “foreign nationals” who
they said were “from the nationalist end of the town”.
Published August 27, 2021
The PSNI has received loyalist death threats against more than 30
prominent nationalists and republicans but failed to pass them on, it
has emerged.
Published August 27, 2021
Unionist protests against the Irish protocol of the Brexit Withdrawal
Agreement appear to be petering out after less than fifty people
gathered for a high profile rally in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh on
Wednesday, 25 August.
Published August 27, 2021
Fresh inquest opens into plastic bullet killing
A new inquest into the death of a 10-year-old boy in Belfast in 1975
has heard his injuries were “consistent” with being shot at by British
soldiers firing plastic bullets.
Published August 27, 2021
Anger at GAA all-Ireland advertisement for PSNI
The GAA has been condemned after it published advertising for the Crown
Forces in a match programme for the All-Ireland hurling final at Croke
Park in Dublin last weekend.
Published August 27, 2021
Gun salute at hunger strike commemoration
Members of the family of Mickey Devine took part in an unveiling for
his 40th anniversary last weekend. Irish National Liberation Army
Volunteers fired a volley of ten shots in salute to their comrade and the other nine hunger strikers
who died in 1981.
Published August 27, 2021
‘Uncomfortable’ truth behind informers challenged
Published August 21, 2021
Soldier’s trial for McAnespie killing to go ahead
There has been a welcome for a judge’s ruling that there are sufficient grounds that a former British soldier accused of killing Aidan McAnespie in County Tyrone in 1988 should stand trial.
Published August 21, 2021
Unionists urged to embrace Protocol trade potential
Loyalists opposed to Brexit’s Irish trade Protocol have put up threatening posters bearing the image of infamous sectarian serial killer Billy Wright.
Published August 21, 2021
Loyalist parades and bonfires have continued across the Six Counties ahead of the ‘Last Saturday’ parades by the Royal Black Preceptory, the senior organisation associated to the anti-Catholic Orange Order.
Published August 21, 2021
Families mark anniversaries with new determination
The family of Eamon McDevitt, who was shot dead by the British Army in Strabane, in 1971 have described the last half century as ‘50 years of injustice’.
Published August 21, 2021
Derry man was a ‘brave and courageous soldier’
Dozens of republicans joined members of his family this week to pay tribute to Eamonn Lafferty, the first IRA Volunteer killed by British forces in the conflict in Derry.
Published August 21, 2021
The British and Unionist Broadcasting Corporation
Allegations of institutional sectarianism at the BBC have resurfaced
after it aired a clip during its primetime Newsline TV news programme
which included the obscene sectarian slogan ‘F*ck the Pope’.
Published August 14, 2021
Intense pressure on London to back away from impunity plan
UN human rights experts have expressed “grave concerns” over a plan by
Britain to provide an effective amnesty to those who carried our
killings and other crimes on its behalf in the north of Ireland.
Published August 14, 2021
Grieving family’s home raided; Blanketman laid to rest
British Crown Forces raided the family home of the late Irish National
Liberation Army Volunteer James McWilliams only two days after his
tragic passing this week.
Published August 14, 2021
Belfast march marks 50 years since Ballymurphy shootings
The 50th anniversary of the deaths of ten innocent people who were shot
and killed in a British Army operation in Ballymurphy was marked in
Belfast on Sunday, August 8.
Published August 14, 2021
Tribute to ‘Hooded Man’ on internment anniversary
Wreaths have been laid at the grave of Gerry McKerr in County Armagh to
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of internment.
Published August 14, 2021
Republican bonfire tensions decline
There were no significant bonfires to mark the anniversary of the
introduction of internment in west Belfast this year, although a
confrontation with PSNI police in Dungannon, County Tyrone led to a
night of trouble there.
Published August 14, 2021
‘Makey-up’ government changes law to suit itself
The disdain for Covid-19 rules by Irish political figures has brought about a loosening in the regulations to combat the disease as the Dublin coalition struggles to quell public anger over a rule-breaking party linked to a crony appointment.
Published August 7, 2021
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