Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has tested positive for coronavirus, she has confirmed in a statement today.
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Mary Lou McDonald recovering after virus diagnosis
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has tested positive for coronavirus, she has confirmed in a statement today.
Published April 14, 2020
Jackboots follow public health failure
Police in the 26 Counties have been given unprecedented powers as state
efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being displaced by an
authoritarian crackdown set to last well into the summer.
Published April 10, 2020
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael told to learn lessons of the GFA
Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has marked the anniversary of the
Good Friday Agreement with a rebuke of continuing efforts by right-wing
politicians in Dublin to exclude his party from office.
Published April 10, 2020
‘Casual collusion’ in military logs of Springhill massacre unit
A British Army unit responsible for the murders of five unarmed Catholic
civilians, including a 13-year-old schoolgirl, handed a loyalist gunman
over to the UDA, according to a report published last weekend in the
Sunday World.
Published April 10, 2020
PSNI to investigate republican funeral over social distancing
The Catholic church has backed calls for the PSNI to stop policing
funerals after a colour party at a republican funeral was targeted for
the novel crime of marching too close together.
Published April 10, 2020
The former Canadian Supreme court judge who led an investigation into
allegations of British state collusion with unionist paramilitary death
squads has died. He passed away in Canada on Tuesday aged 94.
Published April 10, 2020
Grey skies lift as North’s weather warnings included in map
After years of criticism for excluding the Six Counties, the Irish
weather forecasting service is to include all of Ireland on its weather
warning maps.
Published April 10, 2020
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions across Ireland, many republican and community organisations have abandoned plans for commemorations to mark the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 9, 2020
British PM in intensive care as condition worsens
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently being treated in an intensive care unit with the coronavirus after being rushed to a London hospital last night.
Published April 6, 2020
Demand for island strategy as virus deaths mount
The North’s political leaders must depart from the British government’s coronavirus strategy and urgently harmonise with the South, a leading medical professor has said.
Published April 3, 2020
The Dublin government is being urged to come clean about the situation in the South’s nursing homes after it was revealed that four deaths have taken place in just one out of the dozens of care homes contaminated by the coronavirus.
Published April 3, 2020
Belfast man imprisoned ‘for political activity’
A member of Saoradh, a former prisoner, has been summarily returned to jail, apparently for the offense of meeting other Saoradh members.
Published April 3, 2020
PSNI condemned over new failure to hand over collusion files
The PSNI police has been told “defending the indefensible is no longer acceptable” after a report was published into its failure to disclose important information in relation to a case of alleged collusion between its predecessor, the RUC, and unionist paramilitaries.
Published April 3, 2020
Seanad election sees return of Sinn Féin representatives
Former Sinn Féin MP, Elisha McCallion, has been elected to Seanad Éireann to serve on the senate’s Industrial and Commercial panel, while the party’s former MEP Lynn Boylan has returned to political life by taking a seat on the Agricultural panel.
Published April 3, 2020
West Belfast leads the way with community response
A huge effort will see more than 1,000 food parcels distributed across west Belfast in the coming days.
Published April 3, 2020
Anger as vital equipment runs short
Government politicians who paid tribute to healthcare workers this week have been accused of hypocrisy over their failure to supply enough equipment to protect the workers or to take care of the ill.
Published March 27, 2020
‘Slavishness’ of Stormont costing lives
The Stormont administration faces a mounting crisis over what has been described as an “abject” determination by unionists to follow the Tory government’s disastrous lead on the coronavirus epidemic.
Published March 27, 2020
Tributes paid to Toni Carragher
The death has taken place of Toni Carragher, a well-known campaigner against British army militarisation along the border, and the former secretary of the South Armagh Farmers and Residents’ Committee.
Published March 27, 2020
Emergency powers being abused in the North
Draconian new powers introduced at Westminster in the name of protecting the public are already being abused in the north of Ireland, according to republicans in Derry.
Published March 27, 2020
Unresolved sectarian murder case ‘locked down’ by PSNI
Prosecutors have refused to ask the PSNI police to reopen an investigation linked to the murder of three Catholics killed by unionist paramilitaries almost 30 years ago, despite never having received a file on the cases against four suspects, including a man identified as the killer.
Published March 27, 2020
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