Relatives and friends gathered this week for a memorial march to
remember five Catholic people shot dead by the British army 50 years
ago.
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Springhill/Westrock massacre remembered, 50 years on
Relatives and friends gathered this week for a memorial march to
remember five Catholic people shot dead by the British army 50 years
ago.
Published July 14, 2022
Loyalist mayhem and hate now ‘mainstreamed’
Hundreds of loyalist bonfires have gone ahead tonight across the North
despite the death of a bonfire builder who fell to his death from one of the
pyres.
Published July 12, 2022
Johnson ‘resigns’ but remains in power; reshuffles Cabinet
Controversy continues in London after British Prime Minister delivered a
resignation speech in Downing Street but insisted he would stay on as
British Prime Minister until a successor is appointed.
Published July 7, 2022
Lewis quits as Johnson seeks to stay until October
Britain’s Direct Ruler in Ireland Brandon Lewis has resigned from the
Cabinet as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now on the point of yielding
to the overwhelming pressure for him to go.
Published July 7, 2022
After one of the most bizarre days in British politics, Boris Johnson is
still clinging to power in London despite no fewer than 42 resignations
from his government, including a record 14 Ministers in one day.
Published July 6, 2022
Collusion alleged as Irvine walks
The open involvement of a British minister in the release on bail of a
top loyalist paramilitary figure has hiked tensions in the north of
Ireland ahead of next week’s ‘Twelfth’ marches.
Published July 6, 2022
Legacy ‘Bill of Shame’ passed by MPs
The British government has been accused of retraumatising victims of the
conflict after legislation for a broad amnesty for its war criminals in
the north of Ireland was rushed through the House of Commons.
Published July 6, 2022
PSNI working alongside MI5 to recruit informers
The PSNI are increasingly facilitating British military intelligence in
their attempts to recruit nationalists as informers.
Published July 6, 2022
Royalist propaganda delivered to Irish schoolchildren
A new ‘patriotic’ book to promote the Queen of England has been
distributed to schools in the occupied north of Ireland.
Published July 6, 2022
Demands grow for action on unity
Calls for Irish self-determination and Scottish independence look set to
grow amid the meltdown of Boris Johnson’s administration in London. Sinn
Féin TD for Cavan-Monaghan Matt Carthy called on the Tory government to
now “clarify the criteria” for an Irish unity poll.
Published July 6, 2022
McGurk’s Bar report quashed after seven year fight
A deceptive police report into the McGurk’s Bar bomb atrocity is to be
quashed in its entirety, concluding a titanic legal battle between
victims of the atrocity and the PSNI.
Published June 30, 2022
‘Epic’ power grab seen in London’s unilateral actions
The British government’s proposed Bill of Rights has been described as a
“power grab on an epic scale” that will violate the Good Friday
Agreement’s basic human rights guarantees.
Published June 30, 2022
Inquest exposes murder as legacy fight continues in London
A Derry mother was shot dead by a British soldier in her back garden in
circumstances which were “unjustified”, a coroner has ruled.
Published June 30, 2022
Shocking sectarian attack ignored by PSNI
A Catholic man who fled his east Belfast home with his injured partner
after being attacked by a loyalist mob has described the PSNI as a
“disgrace” after they ignored their pleas for help for over an hour.
Published June 30, 2022
British ruling class faces new resistance
Irish republican socialist James Connolly is back in vogue in Britain amid increasing signs of a new political awakening there.
Published June 30, 2022
Republican prisoner challenges strip searches
A republican prisoner has won High Court permission to challenge strip
searches inflicted on him before and after attending a hospital
appointment.
Published June 30, 2022
With plans well advanced in London for a hard border through Ireland and
a blanket amnesty for British war crimes, there is a consensus among
nationalists that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is under unprecedented
attack.
Published June 23, 2022
The chairman of Saoradh in Derry has been summarily jailed by order of
the British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis.
Published June 23, 2022
Activist arrested as British Navy ignores Irish neutrality
A former councillor has been arrested in Cork after challenging the
presence of a British Navy warship.
Published June 23, 2022
Sectarian tensions mount ahead of ‘Twelfth’
There are fears of trouble at a flashpoint in north Belfast in the
coming weeks after the letters KAT, which means ‘Kill All Taigs’, were
scrawled close to a notorious bonfire site.
Published June 23, 2022
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