Best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney is standing with Palestinians by respecting their call to boycott Israel. She is refusing to allow an Israeli company buy the Hebrew translation and publication rights for her latest novel.
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Irish author stands up for Palestine
Best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney is standing with Palestinians by respecting their call to boycott Israel. She is refusing to allow an Israeli company buy the Hebrew translation and publication rights for her latest novel.
Published October 16, 2021
British bad faith on Protocol talks threatens new border showdown
Despite planned EU concessions, the British government has moved to sabotage a round of talks intended to deal with unionist objections to Brexit’s Irish Protocol by raising a new “red line” barrier in the negotiations.
Published October 10, 2021
Snub to Higgins as Govt figures to attend Partition event
Fine Gael’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and Fianna Fáil’s Chief Whip Jack Chambers are to represent the Dublin government in an event to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland and the creation of a unionist-dominated statelet in the North.
Published October 9, 2021
Trial opens into cold-blooded killing of special needs victim
A trial of a British soldier in the north of Ireland has heard evidence that he intentionally shot and killed an innocent and vulnerable man who posed no threat whatsoever.
Published October 9, 2021
British tricks to avoid accountability for killings
The British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis is attempting to “run down the clock” in a legal challenge over collusion in the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, the High Court has heard.
Published October 9, 2021
Alliance, Greens blamed for slowing progress on sectarianism
A provocative ‘centenary parade’ by the anti-Catholic Orange Order was stopped from marching through a leafy suburban area of Belfast last weekend in a sign of growing opposition to loyalist parades across the North.
Published October 9, 2021
End of hunger strike commemorated
Republicans marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the 1981 hunger strike last weekend at events across the North and elsewhere.
Published October 9, 2021
Govt under pressure to end corporate tax dodges
The operation of the 26 County state as a haven for greedy tech multinationals and the super rich is being strongly challenged by the international efforts of whistleblowers and tax justice campaigners.
Published October 9, 2021
A unionist election deal could be forming around a plan to pull down Stormont if the Brexit Protocol is not scrapped, or if Sinn Féin becomes the largest party after the next Assembly election.
Published October 1, 2021
Police Ombudsman backing a ‘dirty war’ agenda
Pressure is growing over conflict killings in which informers are implicated after the Office of the Police Ombudsman was accused of consistently protecting those involved.
Published October 1, 2021
Saoradh says party under intense attack
More than a dozen Saoradh members have now been rounded up and charged with a variety of offences in what the party believes is new initiative by Britain to increase its grip in the north of Ireland.
Published October 1, 2021
North insulated from Brexit chaos by Protocol
While there is anger in Britain over empty shelves, staff shortages and a fuel crisis, the north of Ireland is avoiding almost all the negative effects of Brexit thanks to the special status afforded by the Irish Protocol.
Published October 1, 2021
Tribute to Diarmuid O’Neill on 25th anniversary
The last Provisional IRA Volunteer killed during the conflict “continues to inspire us”, former Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has said.
Published October 1, 2021
Nationalists in Derry’s Waterside have condemned a loyalist parade which featured the emblems of the unionist paramilitary UDA last weekend, Saturday 25 September.
Published October 1, 2021
London’s refusal to honour its treaty obligations towards Ireland have been called out by Joe Biden in a major setback for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his first meeting with the new US President.
Published September 25, 2021
Sinister agenda behind Facebook action
Irish republican groups are being forced to fight for the right to free speech this week after scores of social media accounts were shut down and removed by Facebook in a one-sided act of repression.
Published September 25, 2021
Justice a big step closer for veteran collusion campaigner
Eugene Reavey, who has campaigned for justice since his three brothers were shot by members of a notorious pro-British death squad in January 1976, has hailed the news that a member of the British Crown Forces is expected to face prosecution for the killings.
Published September 25, 2021
Grand cover-up plan under pressure
A British plan to impose a statute of limitations on all war crimes committed in the north of Ireland could be in breach of international law, a European human rights commissioner has said.
Published September 25, 2021
Council of State shamed by Bruton outburst
The former 26 County Taoiseach John Bruton is under pressure to withdraw his comments and step down from the body that advises Irish Presidents following a torrent of false and demeaning criticism against the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins.
Published September 25, 2021
Parades Commission call for Scotland
There have been appeals for a Parades Commission to be set up in Scotland following a weekend of provocative sectarian displays by Orange Order marchers at the weekend.
Published September 25, 2021
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