New evidence has emerged in the murder of 13-year-old Martha Campbell in
Belfast in 1972, which puts a British Army unit in the area and shooting
at the time she was shot and killed.
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‘Lies and failure’ over killing of 13-year-old
New evidence has emerged in the murder of 13-year-old Martha Campbell in
Belfast in 1972, which puts a British Army unit in the area and shooting
at the time she was shot and killed.
Published October 31, 2020
SF Senator steps down amid new grants scandal
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accepted the resignation of party
Senator Elisha McCallion as a new financial scandal erupted in the North
this week.
Published October 31, 2020
PPS defends its own in Stakeknife case
A decision of the North’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to
prosecute one of their own members for perjury relating to the
‘Stakeknife’ double-agent has come as no surprise, according to legal
representatives of his victims.
Published October 31, 2020
Detailed study launched on use of plastic bullets in North
‘Plastic Justice’, an extensive report on the history, legacy and the
deadly impact of the plastic bullet in the north of Ireland, was
launched by Relatives for Justice last weekend.
Published October 31, 2020
‘Guerrilla’ campaign draws attention to British occupation
Lasair Dhearg activists said they have carried out a “new
guerilla marketing strategy” throughout Belfast to highlight the
ongoing British occupation of the north of Ireland.
Published October 31, 2020
US Action Alert: Stop plans for a hard border
This weeks marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1980 hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, as well as the centenary of the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. It is also an important week for the Irish cause in 2020. That is because it is now widely believed that the British government has delayed key Brexit negotiations until after the US Presidential election.
Published October 27, 2020
An adoption rights activist born in one of Ireland’s notorious ‘mother
and baby’ homes has described a move to seal records about the
institutions for thirty years as a denial of justice.
Published October 23, 2020
Martin ‘not interested’ in Irish Unity
A refusal by Micheál Martin to say if a border poll will ever take place
and a statement that Irish reunification is not a priority has put the
Taoiseach at odds with a broad swathe of Irish public opinion, including
his own party.
Published October 23, 2020
A deeply-rooted prejudice of DUP minister Edwin Poots emerged in
scandalous fashion this week when he issued a series of bigoted remarks
in connection with Covid-19, peaking with the incredible claim that they
weren’t sectarian as “most Sinn Féin leaders don’t attend the Catholic Church on a regular basis”.
Published October 23, 2020
MI5 infiltration of Craigavon 2 campaign prompts legal action
Lawyers representing two men jailed in a miscarriage of justice say
there are new grounds for their convictions to be deemed unsafe due to
the sinister involvement of MI5 double agent Dennis McFadden.
Published October 23, 2020
Family urge letter writer to come forward
The family of a County Tyrone man murdered by loyalists 30 years ago has
called for an independent investigation to be carried out after
receiving an anonymous letter containing significant new information.
Published October 23, 2020
US election campaign echoes in Ireland
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has outlined how he will
work with Irish-America and Ireland if he is elected US president.
Published October 23, 2020
Micheál Martin confirms new lockdown
After weeks of vacillation and infighting, the Dublin government has
responded to inexorably rising levels of the coronavirus in Ireland with
a stringent, six-week ‘level 5’ lockdown.
Published October 19, 2020
Post-Brexit Europe will see a border between Scotland and England if the
result of the latest poll, which found 58% of Scots now support
independence, is borne out in a referendum.
Published October 16, 2020
Consequences of partitioned public health become clear
The failure to agree a joint all-island strategy on tackling the
Covid-19 pandemic has led to a blame game on both sides of the border as
the numbers of new cases and deaths have once again spiralled upwards.
Published October 16, 2020
Protest at new British spy towers
Large-scale surveillance installations used by British forces to spy on
the nationalist population in the north of Ireland are the focus of a
new campaign by republican activists.
Published October 16, 2020
New information on killings ignored by PSNI
A year after a breakthrough documentary was broadcast on the case, the
father of two brothers killed by loyalists almost 30 years ago has
confirmed that the PSNI failed to take any action on the new
information.
Published October 16, 2020
Former death row prisoner tortured into ‘confession’ takes case
A Belfast man has begun a High Court action over the British Army’s use
of torture techniques to extract a false confession used to secure a
death sentence against him at trial.
Published October 16, 2020
Partition ‘celebration’ plans get slow handclap
A forum set up by the British government to look at how to mark next
year’s ‘Centenary of Northern Ireland’ is being boycotted by
nationalists and republicans. The Centenary Forum was announced by
British prime minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Ireland in
August.
Published October 16, 2020
Tories back death squads, condemn human rights lawyers
An attack on human rights lawyers by the British Prime Minister has been described as “appalling” and “ shameful”.
Published October 9, 2020
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