The British government has further postponed a scheduled Assembly
election for a year after hardline unionists successfully lobbied to
avoid a reckoning with the Six County electorate.
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Democracy denied as Britain again steps in
The British government has further postponed a scheduled Assembly
election for a year after hardline unionists successfully lobbied to
avoid a reckoning with the Six County electorate.
Published February 16, 2023
Hopes for justice as two inquests get underway
The first inquest into the 1998 murder of a County Derry man opened in
Belfast on Monday.
Published February 16, 2023
Rents spiral upwards as ideology blocks change
The rent crisis in Ireland is having a devastating impact on the lives
of an entire generation, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Published February 16, 2023
Bill could deliver far-reaching public inquiry into collusion
Legislation for a commission of investigation into decades of collusion
by the British state has passed through the first stage of the Dublin
parliament.
Published February 16, 2023
Unionists have failed in their legal attempts to force a renegotiation
of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement after the Supreme Court in London
unanimously dismissed a challenge to its new trading procedures.
Published February 9, 2023
Omagh inquiry could become a whitewash
Expectations are low that an official inquiry into the role of state
forces in the Omagh bomb will tackle the censorship and secrecy which have
grown up around the events of August 15, 1998.
Published February 9, 2023
Backlash over wife killer’s role in Orange Order
The true nature of the anti-Catholic Orange Order has been exposed by
its decision to appoint a man convicted of killing his wife as a
‘Worshipful Master’ in Tyrone.
Published February 9, 2023
The sentencing of a British soldier for the 1988 killing of Aidan
McAnespie has met with a muted response, with most nationalists and
republicans condemning the suspension of the three-year sentence which
has ensured David Holden will not spend a day in prison for the crime.
Published February 9, 2023
North Belfast massacre remembered
A candlelit procession was among the events which were
held to mark the 50th anniversary of the killing of six men in the New
Lodge area of Belfast.
Published February 9, 2023
Saoradh has condemned a publicity stunt by armed PSNI police at a
Catholic school in Derry in which children were photographed holding
the force’s militaristic clothing and other equipment.
Published February 9, 2023
Killer soldier gets suspended sentence; Omagh inquiry announced
A decision by a non-jury court in Belfast to hand only a suspended
sentence to a former British soldier found guilty of the manslaughter of
23-year-old Tyrone man Aidan McAnespie at a border checkpoint 35 years
ago has been greeted with shock and disappointment.
Published February 2, 2023
Schoolchildren targeted by anti-Irish hate
Widespread disgust has greeted a sectarian sign which was placed by
loyalists outside a school for young children in Clough, County Down.
Published February 2, 2023
Successive governments cheated most vulnerable citizens
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted the 26 County State ‘didn’t have a
leg to stand on’ in relation to disability payments deliberately
withheld from people in care.
Published February 2, 2023
Loyalist power struggle erupts on the Shankill
UDA gangsters smashed up a pub belonging to the daughter of a veteran
loyalist amid a broadening feud over loyalist crime rackets.
Published February 2, 2023
Bloody Sunday rally hears condemnation of ‘amnesty by attrition’
Nationalists and republicans joined in events to mark the anniversary of
the Bloody Sunday massacre and to renew demands for justice for the
victims.
Published February 2, 2023
‘Bill of Shame’ could protect serial killers
The 90-year-old mother of a Catholic schoolboy brutally beaten and shot
dead by loyalists 50 years ago has told of how she strongly believes
there was British state collusion in his killing.
Published February 2, 2023
British agent was behind ‘romper room’ murder gang
The son of a man killed by loyalists fifty years ago believes he was the
victim of a ‘counter gang’ set up by the British Army to carry out
atrocities.
Published February 2, 2023
Report on arrest of journalists suppressed
An official report on an infamous arrest operation against two
journalists investigating collusion in 2018 has been withheld, with only
a small summary released into the public domain.
Published January 26, 2023
Britain shows little motivation for ending North’s stalemate
The British government could face court action if it “stalls and delays”
in calling a vote on Irish reunification, according to Sinn Féin leader
Mary Lou McDonald.
Published January 26, 2023
‘Hooded Men’ working to bring an end to torture methods
A BBC documentary on the ‘Hooded Men’ has cast a new light on the
treatment of the group of 14 innocent young men who were arrested,
interned and subjected to extreme and experimental cruelty by their
British Army captors.
Published January 26, 2023
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