Disingenuous and almost sarcastic comments by British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson on his first visit to the Belfast Assembly have underlined
a sense that politicians at Stormont have been left to fend for
themselves despite a new effort to ‘make Northern Ireland work’.
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Stormont parties left high and dry by Johnson
Disingenuous and almost sarcastic comments by British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson on his first visit to the Belfast Assembly have underlined
a sense that politicians at Stormont have been left to fend for
themselves despite a new effort to ‘make Northern Ireland work’.
Published January 17, 2020
Sinn Féin kept in second class in RTE election debates
Sinn Féin has described the decision by the state-run broadcaster RTE to
hold a one-to-one election debate between the leaders of Fine Gael and
Fianna Fail as an “utter joke”.
Published January 17, 2020
SAS victim facing jail sentence over IRA charges
A man shot in an SAS ambush as the Provisional IRA engaged Crown Forces
in Coalisland 23 years ago has been convicted of involvement in the
attack, and jailed ahead of sentencing -- despite the incident taking place
before the Good Friday peace Agreement.
Published January 17, 2020
Family remember tragic death of three-year-old
The family of the first child to be killed by a British Army armoured
vehicle have been recalling the tragedy, fifty years after it took
place.
Published January 17, 2020
British PM took action to cancel ‘Famine’ event
Former British prime minister John Major stepped in to stop plans for a
service commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger in 1996,
according to state papers dating from that time.
Published January 17, 2020
Varadkar calls election for February 8
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to seek a dissolution of the Dublin parliament
from President Michael D Higgins to allow for a 26 County general
election on Saturday February 8.
Published January 14, 2020
Stormont restored as parties divvy up Ministerial posts
The DUP’s Arlene Foster has returned as Stormont First Minister and Sinn
Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has taken up the post of deputy First Minister
as the main political parties moved quickly today to restore the Six
County institutions and take up Ministerial appointments.
Published January 11, 2020
Sinn Féin agree to return to Stormont
Three years after they collapsed, Sinn Féin has made a decision to
return to the partitionist institutions at Stormont, with party leader
Mary Lou McDonald stating that it is the “responsibility of every
party to ensure the Executive meets”.
Published January 10, 2020
Public rises up against revisionism
One of the most extraordinary displays of contempt by an Irish
government for its own people -- a plan to hold an official state
commemoration for those who oppressed and terrorised Ireland for a
century -- has been “deferred” following a huge public outcry.
Published January 10, 2020
UDA beat man to death after talks with British govt
The unionist paramilitary UDA has been linked to the murder of
Carrickfergus man Glenn Quinn, a former barman who had no paramilitary
connections. His death was due to a severe beating he received after he
fell out with a senior figure from the South East Antrim UDA.
Published January 10, 2020
Justice one step closer for Aidan McAnespie
A former British soldier is to stand trial for the 1988 killing of a
Catholic man at a Crown Force checkpoint. Aidan McAnespie, 23, was
walking through a border checkpoint on his way to a Gaelic football
match when he was struck in the back by gunfire.
Published January 10, 2020
Hospitals crisis could trigger collapse of government
Amid an unprecedented crisis in Irish hospitals and with the Dublin
government staggering towards an inevitable election, a group of
independent TDs have put down a motion of no confidence in the Minister
for Health Simon Harris.
Published January 10, 2020
Republican groups issue New Year statements
The New IRA has issued a New Year statement in which it said it looked
forward to a consolidation of the struggle against the British
occupation and “vowed to meet force with force”.
Published January 10, 2020
Govts publish draft deal for Stormont
A new draft Stormont talks agreement has been presented tonight by the
Dublin and London governments which outlines new measures to reform the
Stormont institutions and calls for support for Irish and Ulster-Scots
culture in the north of Ireland, but falls short of an Irish Language
Act.
Dublin and London governments which outlines new measures to reform the
Stormont institutions and calls for support for Irish and Ulster-Scots
culture in the north of Ireland, but falls short of an Irish Language
Act.
Published January 9, 2020
A century of cover-up for miscarriages of justice
More than 1,000 files on the Guildford Four, Maguire Seven and
Birmingham Six, notorious miscarriage of justice cases involving
innocent Irish civilians living in England, are to remain secret almost
a century longer than they were supposed.
Published January 3, 2020
Dublin had challenged British on threat to lawyers
Revelations around a British government minister’s claim that some
lawyers in the north of Ireland were “unduly sympathetic to the IRA”
have further highlighted the need for a full public inquiry into the
murder of Pat Finucane.
Published January 3, 2020
Politicians to meet Byrne over Christmas ‘show of strength’
PSNI Chief Simon Byrne is to meet a group of Armagh political
representatives amid continuing anger over a picture he published on
Christmas morning of himself posing alongside heavily armed PSNI men
outside their Crown Force base in the village of Crossmaglen.
Published January 3, 2020
Reactionaries seek to derail calls for Irish Unity
With a growing consensus around the need for a border poll to reunite
Ireland in accordance with the Good Friday Agreement, right-wing
politicians in the 26 Counties have been using the Christmas period to
attempt to silence the calls and urge a return of the partitionist
institutions at Stormont instead.
Published January 3, 2020
British bid to ‘control’ internet activism revealed
State papers from the 1990s have shown that the British government’s
Northern Ireland Office sought to suppress and counteract the
increasingly effective use of the media by republicans, including the
world wide web emerging at the time.
Published January 3, 2020
English soccer match halted over anti-Irish abuse
A Championship soccer match in England had to be stopped this week
following an outbreak of anti-Irish racism directed against Irish
international and Stoke City player James McClean.
Published January 3, 2020
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