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.
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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
Unionist’s bigotry draws international attention
John Taylor, the former Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has made headlines around the world after describing US vice president-elect Kamala Harris as “the Indian”.
Published November 14, 2020
Anger as UVF ‘honoured’ at Belfast City Hall
Sinn Féin has called for a review after a Poppy Day wreath for the unionist paramilitary UVF was laid at Belfast City Council’s cenotaph in the Garden of Remembrance at City Hall.
Published November 14, 2020
Righting a wrong at Westminster
A slur against a peace campaigner that remained on the record of the London parliament for 21 years has finally been corrected.
Published November 14, 2020
Irish leaders respond to US election outcome
The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has led Irish congratulations to Joe Biden after his success in becoming the US President.
Published November 7, 2020
Tories wary as Biden elected US President
The new US President-elect Joe Biden could make a visit to Ireland’s border area as part of an intervention on Brexit, according to reports.
Published November 7, 2020
Varadkar damaged by cronyism revelations
Sinn Féin is to table a motion of no confidence in Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar after he offered no real defence for leaking a confidential medical contract to a friend involved in negotiations for a rival group.
Published November 7, 2020
Mother of ‘boy who got away’ calls for investigations
The mother of a Catholic teenager who was chased, attacked and robbed by loyalist youths this summer has spoken out over the PSNI’s refusal to properly investigate the death of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe.
Published November 6, 2020
No indication of British plan for referendums
There are fears the London government could seek to prevent referendums on Irish unity and Scottish independence for decades in light of recent statements by its most senior representatives in both countries.
Published November 6, 2020
Wild west scene at PSNI house party
The parallel systems of policing in the north of Ireland have been highlighted by the treatment of two members of the PSNI who were released despite pleading guilty to opening fire at a house party.
Published November 6, 2020
Frederick Douglass to be remembered in Belfast
A proposal to erect a statue dedicated to US abolitionist and activist Frederick Douglass has been passed by Belfast City Council. Douglass, a former slave, visited Belfast in 1845 as part of his lecturing tour of Ireland.
Published November 6, 2020
Clashes as anger mounts over policing
There has been sporadic unrest in Derry over three days as a provocative
Crown Force operation took place in the area of Racecourse Road,
Greenhaw Road, Glengalliagh Road and Fern Road.
Published October 31, 2020
‘Lies and failure’ over killing of 13-year-old
New evidence has emerged in the murder of 13-year-old Martha Campbell in
Belfast in 1972, which puts a British Army unit in the area and shooting
at the time she was shot and killed.
Published October 31, 2020
SF Senator steps down amid new grants scandal
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accepted the resignation of party
Senator Elisha McCallion as a new financial scandal erupted in the North
this week.
Published October 31, 2020
PPS defends its own in Stakeknife case
A decision of the North’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to
prosecute one of their own members for perjury relating to the
‘Stakeknife’ double-agent has come as no surprise, according to legal
representatives of his victims.
Published October 31, 2020
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