A whistleblower in a Dublin nursing home where a significant number of patients have died from a coronavirus infection has made serious allegations of failings leading to the deaths of 24 clients.
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Whistleblower calls for nursing homes inquiry
A whistleblower in a Dublin nursing home where a significant number of patients have died from a coronavirus infection has made serious allegations of failings leading to the deaths of 24 clients.
Published May 8, 2020
A new US Special Envoy to the north of Ireland, Mick Mulvaney, has been sworn into office. Mr Mulvaney is an Irish-American with family roots in County Mayo.
Published May 8, 2020
Divided we fall as lockdowns clash at Border
The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has spoken out about the danger of having two jurisdictions in Ireland in the current health crisis, saying it is wrong to have an all-island approach to animal care, but not human healthcare.
Published May 1, 2020
Duffy arrest an exercise in persecution
Prominent republican Colin Duffy, currently on bail awaiting trial, has overcome a cynical attempt by the PSNI to return him to jail over an alleged breach of his bail conditions.
Published May 1, 2020
Brexit delay urged over British inaction
The British government has been accused of “foot dragging and vague promises” amid calls for urgent action on preparations on Brexit, including new customs posts to carry out checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea.
Published May 1, 2020
Britain seen gaining control over Irish policing
The 32 County Sovereignty Committee has said appointments of two senior figures from Britain’s PSNI police to An Garda Síochána represent a strengthening of direct control of the police in Ireland by British intelligence.
Published May 1, 2020
‘Inquiry’ seen as bid to give cover to broken promises
A Westminster committee has launched an inquiry to consider British government proposals on legacy, but it does not have the confidence of victims and relatives of people killed as a result of British state violence and collusion.
Published May 1, 2020
Rights being stolen as workers face arrest, fines
The coronavirus was used as an excuse to break up protests by retail workers this week as they sought their legal redundancy rights, despite the protestors adhering to social distancing requirements.
Published May 1, 2020
Colombia three get amnesty, 19 years on
Three Irish republicans once accused of training rebels in Colombia’s civil war
have been granted an amnesty nearly two decades after they were
arrested.
Published April 24, 2020
Doctor quits Medical Council over state blunders
There have been calls for a criminal investigation into the failure to
protect residents of Irish nursing and care homes from the coronavirus
disease after a prominent County Dublin doctor resigned from the Irish
Medical Council over the government’s mishandling of the
crisis.
Published April 24, 2020
Two-speed island response jeopardising public health efforts
A growing disparity between the coronavirus death rates in the north and
south of Ireland is proof that two different approaches to the crisis
are causing lives to be lost, according to academics.
Published April 24, 2020
Republican dies in fight against virus
A republican healthcare worker from County Tyrone has died from
coronovirus following a 40-year career saving lives as a nurse.
Published April 24, 2020
Campaigner urges caution against ‘indescribable’ illness
Prominent Belfast lawyer and campaigner Niall Murphy has paid tribute to
the medical staff who helped save his life after he became infected with
the Coronavirus.
Published April 24, 2020
Online exhibition of Easter Rising materials
The best-known flag of the Easter Rising is not the Tricolour that flew
over the GPO in 1916 but the Irish Republic one currently on display by
the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin, in an exhibition that can be viewed online.
Published April 24, 2020
‘New IRA’ vows to continue struggle
In an Easter statement, the New IRA has said it remains committed to
bringing the British government’s undemocratic rule in occupied Ireland
to an end. It dismissed the idea of a border poll in the aftermath of Brexit, and
warned the British establishment listens only to “physical force”.
Published April 17, 2020
Concern over plan to deploy British Army ‘help’
There are fears the Coronavirus could be used as a cover for the renewed
deployment of British soldiers on the ground in the north of Ireland.
Published April 17, 2020
Scandal of rising virus death toll
It has emerged that two in three of coronavirus deaths in Ireland have
taken place in residential homes at a rate significantly higher than
anywhere else in the world.
Published April 17, 2020
‘Grand coalition’ plan slithers on
A historic but deeply unpopular coalition government between Fianna Fáil
and Fine Gael appears to be on the cards after the Green Party failed to
reject a bizzare manifesto issued in a desperate plea for support to
prop up the improbable alliance.
Published April 17, 2020
Haggarty prison sentence extended, but no return to jail
A unionist paramilitary double agent who admitted the murders of five people and a
catalog of other atrocities has had his prison sentence nominally
increased by three-and-a-half years.
Published April 17, 2020
Republican prisoners spat at by warders
Republican Prisoners at Maghaberry prison have said that prison warders
have been caught deliberately spitting on doors during night checks.
Saoradh has demanded an end to what it said was a “barbaric activity”
which has threatened a coronavirus outbreak.
Published April 17, 2020
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