Efforts to restore Stormont following the Westminster election on
December 12 have accelerated despite election campaigning.
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Pre-Christmas talks expected at Stormont
Efforts to restore Stormont following the Westminster election on
December 12 have accelerated despite election campaigning.
Published November 30, 2019
Sinister UDA figures behind hate banners
Unionist banners have been erected by the UDA targeting the family of
Pat Finucane, the Belfast defence lawyer who in 1989 was assassinated by
a UDA paramilitary death squad in collusion with British military
intelligence.
Published November 23, 2019
Sinn Féin appeals for unity agenda at Ard Fheis
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has urged the Dublin government to
convene a forum on Irish unity ahead of a border poll within the next
five years.
Published November 23, 2019
Tomorrow, Sunday November 24, a ‘March for Irish Unity’ is due to take
place between Lifford in County Donegal and Strabane in County Tyrone.
Published November 23, 2019
Special Branch accused in civilian death
The mother of a County Down woman who died when an undercover British
agent allegedly became involved in an IRA attack is taking a case
against the PSNI police chief and the British Ministry of Defence.
Published November 23, 2019
Mixed outcome as PSNI allowed appeal to Supreme Court
The PSNI (formerly RUC) is to take a ruling that the police force lacks
the independence to investigate a killing by the British Army to the
Supreme Court in London.
Published November 23, 2019
Racism button pushed ahead of by-elections in South
Fine Gael has been branded a “safe house for right-wing politics” after
a series of controversies over bigotry, including a by-election
candidate who claimed asylum seekers need to be “deprogrammed” when they
seek refuge in Ireland.
Published November 23, 2019
Sinn Féin has accused the DUP of forming electoral alliances with active
paramilitaries and demonising republicans and nationalists in an attempt
to provide itself with cover.
Published November 16, 2019
Brexit distorts Westminster election campaign
The DUP has been accused of treating Brexit like an “embarrassing
relative” by failing to make any mention of it in the party’s election
broadcast for next month’s Westminster poll.
Published November 16, 2019
Johnson pledges war crimes amnesty
A Tory vow to amend British law to protect former British soldiers from
prosecutions relating to their crimes in the north of Ireland has been
condemned as an attempt to use the conflict in Ireland for electoral
gain.
Published November 16, 2019
Westminster election could clear way for Stormont - SF
The Sinn Féin Ard Fheis has heard this weekend that the Stormont
Assembly could be restored in the New Year.
Published November 16, 2019
Joseph McCrystal - ‘no one seems to care’
The family of a Catholic man shot dead by loyalists almost 50 years have
vowed to continue their fight for justice following the publication of a
report by Relatives for Justice. Joseph McCrystal was shot as he
returned to his home in Newtownabbey on November 12, 1972. He died the
following day.
Published November 16, 2019
McAllister ordered to report to airport
A former political prisoner who sought asylum in the US again hears he
will be deported after being ordered to report to US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Newark Airport.
Published November 16, 2019
UDA threat alters election contest
A decision by the Ulster Unionist Party to stand aside in North Belfast
following loyalist threats of violence has been condemned, despite the
insistence of the party’s new leader Steve Aiken that the move was not
connected to the threats.
Published November 9, 2019
One pact follows another as Remainers bid for change
An SDLP decision to stand aside in north Belfast as a result of the
UUP’s pact with the DUP in the constituency has triggered a reciprocal
arrangement with Sinn Féin which now also includes the Green Party.
Published November 9, 2019
PSNI bid to ‘steal Christmas’ from prisoners, families
The headquarters of Saoradh in Derry, Junior McDaid House, has been
targeted in yet another PSNI raid on Thursday morning, this time in
connection with a fundraising raffle.
Published November 9, 2019
Tributes to Dickie Glenholmes and Fr Des Wilson
Republicans have been paying tribute to IRA veteran Richard ‘Dickie’
Glenholmes, who died on Monday after a lengthy illness, as well as Fr
Des Wilson, who passed away on Tuesday.
Published November 9, 2019
By-elections bring test for republican politics in South
Four by-elections in the 26 Counties are to go ahead on 29 November --
two in Dublin, one in Cork and one in Wexford.
The by-elections follow the recent election of four TDs to the European
Parliament, requiring them to relinquish their seats at Leinster House.
Published November 9, 2019
University fails to defend academic freedom for campaigner
Queen’s University Belfast is once again being accused of discriminating
against nationalists after a Law Professor at the university revealed he
had come under pressure to end his involvement in a public debate on
Brexit and Irish reunification.
Published November 9, 2019
UDA’s election coercion for DUP
Loyalist paramilitaries have issued threats against the Ulster Unionist
Party (UUP) in a bid to force it to withdraw from the Westminster
election in north Belfast against Nigel Dodds, the Deputy leader of the
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Published November 2, 2019
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