A Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled that the British Crown Forces fabricated admissions in 1978 to secure the conviction of a teenager which saw him locked away for ten years of his early adulthood.
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Miscarriage of justice overturned after 42 years
A Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled that the British Crown Forces fabricated admissions in 1978 to secure the conviction of a teenager which saw him locked away for ten years of his early adulthood.
Published December 4, 2020
The mother of a Catholic gun attack victim fears her son will be killed by the UDA after he was blasted on his doorstep in Coleraine in a savage sectarian attack.
Published December 4, 2020
Housing Executive pays out over sectarian harassment
A man who was forced to endure colleagues calling Catholics ‘Fenians’, wishing him ‘Happy King Billy’s Day’ and draping a a Union Jack over his work van has settled a case against the North’s Housing Executive.
Published December 4, 2020
Singer regrets not doing more for Irish cause
Shane MacGowan, the former lead singer of the Pogues, says he felt guilty for “not having the guts” to join the I.R.A. in a new documentary.
Published December 4, 2020
British govt rejects Supreme Court call for Finucane inquiry
The British government has again refused to establish a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, the 39-year-old defence lawyer shot dead in front of his family in Belfast in 1989 by paramilitaries acting on the direction of the British Armed Forces.
Published November 30, 2020
Decision day for Finucane inquiry
Monday has become a day of reckoning as the date a court was told Britain will finally make a decision known on a public inquiry into the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published November 27, 2020
Pressure on Johnson as Brexit deadline approaches
US President-elect Joe Biden has again spoken out against the prospect of a remilitarised border through Ireland and Britain’s moves to violate the Good Friday Agreement and international law.
Published November 27, 2020
Duplicity of coalition condemned on centenary of key massacre
The two leaders of the 26 County government have been condemned for hypocrisy for piously marking the centenary of the 1920 Bloody Sunday massacre in Croke Park despite previously commemorating those who carried out the atrocity.
Published November 27, 2020
Payout setback for PSNI’s ‘dark forces’
In a settlement which could set a marker for other claims against the Crown Forces, huge damages have been paid to journalists falsely arrested by the PSNI in 2018.
Published November 27, 2020
The UDA shot a man in Coleraine, planted three pipe bombs in a nearby village and threatened to kill a journalist this week amid an ongoing crime spree by the unionist paramilitary organisation and its drug-dealing gangs.
Published November 27, 2020
Intimidation fears over north Belfast graffiti
Racist and sectarian graffiti has appeared on walls in a loyalist area of north Belfast, not far from where 14-year-old Noah Donohoe disappeared in June.
Published November 27, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the biggest expansion of the British military since the Cold War, calling for Britain to go on the offensive and end an “era of retreat” in the aftermath of Brexit.
Published November 20, 2020
Loyalist paramilitaries clash over cash
Leaders of two loyalist paramilitary groups are said to be at the point of feuding over drug dealing on Belfast’s Shankill Road.
Published November 20, 2020
Legal fightback over anti-republican measures
Republicans are taking to the courts to fight attempts by British forces to abuse the law in order to oppress and marginalise normal political activity.
Published November 20, 2020
Anger as GAA-linked firm backs British Army
Protests have been organised over an apparent collaboration between the British Army and Irish sportswear firm O’Neills, the primary manufacturer of Gaelic sports jerseys and school sports kits in Ireland.
Published November 20, 2020
Council bias ‘must be addressed’
The discriminatory treatment of cultural symbols in rural areas of the north of Ireland continues as loyalist flags and emblems go untouched, while visible signs of Irish republicanism are often threatened and removed.
Published November 20, 2020
MI5’s sinister tools: money and intimidation
Envelopes of cash have been sent to a County Fermanagh home in an effort to recruit a member of Republican Sinn Féin, one of several attempts to infiltrate the party.
Published November 20, 2020
Madness of DUP’s veto on public health
Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has accused the DUP of exploiting Covid-19 as an ‘orange versus green’ issue in a week she described as ‘shameful and depressing’.
Published November 14, 2020
Cummings quits as Tories face Brexit realities
A power struggle at Downing Street that ended on Friday with Boris Johnson’s top advisor Dominic Cummings walking out of Number 10 may mark the beginning of the end for a no-deal Brexit and a hard border through Ireland.
Published November 14, 2020
Fine Gael shaken by mounting nepotism allegations
Fine Gael launched its most bitter attack on Sinn Féin in years this week in a desperate response to a cronyism scandal which has now expanded to include the position of shamed Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe.
Published November 14, 2020
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