A woman who wasn’t even born when her big brother was killed by a plastic bullet in Derry says she wants to know why a secret file into his death has to remain closed until she is nearly 80 years old.
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‘No more delays’ - why must family wait until 2059?
A woman who wasn’t even born when her big brother was killed by a plastic bullet in Derry says she wants to know why a secret file into his death has to remain closed until she is nearly 80 years old.
Published June 5, 2020
Sinn Féin speak to Irish America, English Queen
Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has called upon Irish-American supporters to begin lobbying for a referendum on the unification of Ireland.
Published June 5, 2020
Prisoners’ campaigner remembered on fortieth anniversary
Tributes have been paid to former British soldier John Turnley who campaigned for Irish republican prisoners before being shot dead by a loyalist paramilitary death squad linked to the British Army’s SAS regiment.
Published June 5, 2020
Gaelic blessing could be political statement, says church
The Church of England has been accused of anti-Irish racism after it refused to allow an Irish language inscription on a gravestone on the basis that Gaelic ‘can cause intense feelings’.
Published June 5, 2020
On the day it emerged that the most senior British military figure linked to the killing has died, an Irish court has served to maintain an official cover-up of the murder of Louth man Seamus Ludlow.
Published May 29, 2020
No explanation for militarised raids, arrests
A violent Crown Force operation to arrest four Derry men ended with all four being released without a single shred of evidence being put forward, according to the men’s lawyers.
Published May 29, 2020
IRA questions dominate interviews for SF leaders
As part of a newspaper interview, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the IRA’s armed struggle was “justified” and there is “every chance” she would have taken up arms during the conflict.
Published May 29, 2020
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
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