Asylum seekers at one of Ireland’s most notorious direct provision
centres are to be relocated after ending a hunger strike in protest at
the conditions of their disease-ridden accommodation in County Kerry.
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Desperate hunger strike by refugees forces action
Asylum seekers at one of Ireland’s most notorious direct provision
centres are to be relocated after ending a hunger strike in protest at
the conditions of their disease-ridden accommodation in County Kerry.
Published July 31, 2020
Support urged for interned Blanketman
Saoradh have called the immediate release of former political prisoner
Ciarán ‘Zack’ Smyth and an end to the use of internment against
republicans.
Published July 31, 2020
Sinn Féin MP questions Good Friday Agreement
A veteran Sinn Féin politician has created a storm after he expressed
his personal concern that the public had been cheated by the Good Friday
Agreement.
Published July 24, 2020
Coalition ‘a shambles’ as stresses mount
The lifespan of the new government in Dublin appears to be shortening as
unrest within the three-party coalition has begun to manifest itself.
Published July 24, 2020
Pressure grows for all-Ireland virus strategy
The partition of Ireland is once again endangering lives as divergent
strategies on the coronavirus make it easier for the disease and disease
carriers to bypass restrictions on either side.
Published July 24, 2020
MP undeterred by loyalist confrontation
North Belfast MP John Finucane says he will not be intimidated after he was
asked to leave a protest by alleged loyalist paramilitary commander
Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine.
Published July 24, 2020
Family ‘none the wiser’ over killing
The family of a Catholic teenager shot dead by an RUC policeman 40 years
ago say they never got “any justice” for his killing.
Published July 24, 2020
Tributes for historic Sinn Féin politician
Tributes have been paid to veteran republican Tom Mitchell who died in
his native Dublin at the age of 88.
Published July 24, 2020
Loyalist bands defied public appeals to call off marches because of the coronavirus on Monday and insisted on holding hundreds of parades to mark a sectarian battle victory.
Published July 17, 2020
London plans ‘power grab’ after Brexit
The London government is pushing a unionist agenda by using Brexit to commandeer powers which should be returned from Brussels to administrations in Belfast and Edinburgh, it has been claimed.
Published July 17, 2020
Demo in Derry against “unrelenting, torturous” harassment
A protest took place against police harassment outside Strand Road PSNI barracks in Derry last Saturday.
Published July 17, 2020
Inequality seen in football’s anti-racism stance
Football federations are being urged to do more to combat anti-Irish racism following allegations of a growing disparity in the handling of abuse in professional soccer.
Published July 17, 2020
Nuclear sub nearly struck ferry - report
A British nuclear submarine almost collided with a ferry sailing out of Belfast after naval commanders under-estimated the speed of the Stena ferry.
Published July 17, 2020
Apple skips out of billions in Irish tax dodge
Apple Inc. has been told it will not have to pay €13bn ($15bn) in back taxes to the 26 County state after winning an appeal at the European Union’s second-highest court.
Published July 17, 2020
Martin’s government in chaos as Minister gets the sack
The incoming Dublin government may have already struck an iceberg after Taoiseach Micheál Martin suddenly fired his Agriculture Minister Barry Cowen in connection with motoring offences dating from four years ago.
Published July 15, 2020
An illegal loyalist bonfire burned through a sectarian interface into
the nationalist New Lodge last night, terrifying residents and provoking
further clashes between nationalist youths and the PSNI police.
Published July 12, 2020
Stormont dances to a loyalist tune
A range of politicians and mainstream media have jumped on a loyalist bandwagon to stigmatise mourners at the funeral of legendary figure Bobby Storey, and mount a political attack on Sinn Fein.
Published July 11, 2020
Clashes in north Belfast ahead of ‘Eleventh Night’
Tensions are escalating in north Belfast as loyalists prepare for the biggest sectarian displays of the marching season.
Published July 11, 2020
Apology sought as court denounces political police raids
Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey have said the PSNI should apologise after the Court of Appeal spelled out why it had quashed a search warrant used to mount shocking heavy-handed raids against them in 2018.
Published July 11, 2020
Martin turns away from Irish unity poll
The head of the new coalition government in Dublin, Fianna Fáil leader Michel Martin, has moved his party further away from its republican roots after casting doubt on a referendum on Irish unification as contained in the Good Friday Agreement.
Published July 11, 2020
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