The Six Counties currently have the highest rate of transmission of the coronavirus in either Britain or Ireland but is facing a new danger this week as lockdowns weaken on both sides of the border.
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Dysfunction on show as lockdowns break down
The Six Counties currently have the highest rate of transmission of the coronavirus in either Britain or Ireland but is facing a new danger this week as lockdowns weaken on both sides of the border.
Published May 29, 2020
Activists push back against normalisation of the PSNI
Republicans have been removing dozens of PSNI symbols across north and west Belfast as part of a campaign against Britain’s ‘normalisation’ of the PSNI and other state forces.
Published May 29, 2020
Eugene Reavey challenges online smears
Prominent peace campaigner Eugene Reavey is to take on defamatory statements made about him on the internet by suing Google and Facebook.
Published May 29, 2020
The Continuity IRA, which says it has been recruiting and regrouping in the Fermanagh area, has released pictures of one of its armed patrols along a border road. It has claimed the organisation “can operate at any time day or night in south Fermanagh”.
Published May 22, 2020
Unionist MP defies policy change, insists Irish are British
A row has erupted after DUP MP Gavin Robinson said people born in the north of Ireland have to be British first before they can be Irish.
Published May 22, 2020
Gardaí involved in abusive Belfast search - RSF
Republican Sinn Féin have said a heavy-handed police raid on one of its member’s homes in west Belfast involved a specialist unit from the 26 Counties.
Published May 22, 2020
Concern as Basque hunger striker hospitalised
Irish republican groups have been expressing their support for Basque political prisoner Patxi Ruiz, who has been hospitalised with kidney failure after a hunger and thirst strike which began on May 11.
Published May 22, 2020
A Catholic church in County Antrim has been targeted in a loyalist paint bomb attack.
Published May 22, 2020
Irish support for struggling Native American communities
The chief of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma has welcomed Irish donations to help two tribes suffering in the Covid-19 pandemic as a sign of the solidarity between the two nations which dates back more than 170 years.
Published May 22, 2020
Every person born in the north of Ireland is currently regarded as a European Union citizen for immigration purposes after the British government backed down in the face of a marathon campaign by a Derry woman and her US-born partner.
Published May 15, 2020
Adams ruling to open door for other internees
Hundreds of those interned without trial in the 1970 could see convictions quashed or receive compensation as a result of a ruling of the Supreme Court in London in favour of Gerry Adams.
Published May 15, 2020
Britain to prepare Irish seaports as Brexit inches forward
There have been conflicting signals over how Britain intends to implement the special status for the north of Ireland in the wake of Brexit.
Published May 15, 2020
Loyalists brutally attack and rob young cyclist
A Catholic teenager who was attacked by loyalists in north Belfast on Sunday evening has recounted a savage sectarian assault as he was out for a cycle.
Published May 15, 2020
UDA behind threats to journalists - PSNI
The PSNI have said loyalist paramilitaries are behind threats against a number of journalists and politicians, and told one journalist he could be the target of an under-car booby trap attack.
Published May 15, 2020
Lockdown clashes with marching season
Four sectarian parades are being planned by loyalists despite the continuing coronavirus lockdown in the north of Ireland.
Published May 15, 2020
Convictions overturned after Adams’s internment ruled unlawful
Convictions against Gerry Adams dating from the 1970s have been overturned by the Supreme Court in London in a judgement which could have consequences for many others who were interned without trial.
Published May 13, 2020
Escapee’s conviction declared miscarriage of justice
The conviction of one of those who escaped Long Kesh in 1983 and who settled in the USA, Kevin Barry Artt, has been quashed two decades after the British government ended its efforts to extradite him.
Published May 8, 2020
Lockdown tensions boil over in the Dáil
Political anxiety overcame caretaker Taoiseach, Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar in the Dublin parliament this week when he suddenly lashed out at Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald, who he accused of being “two-faced”.
Published May 8, 2020
All-Ireland opportunity to eliminate virus ‘could be wasted’
A medical expert has said that with infection rates in decline, the island of Ireland now has an opportunity to eliminate the coronavirus.
Published May 8, 2020
Grief as another IRA stalwart passes
A funeral for lifelong republican Jim Scullion, who led IRA prisoners in Long Kesh at the height of the conflict, has provoked criticism from unionists.
Published May 8, 2020
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