This weeks marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1980 hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, as well as the centenary of the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. It is also an important week for the Irish cause in 2020. That is because it is now widely believed that the British government has delayed key Brexit negotiations until after the US Presidential election.
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US Action Alert: Stop plans for a hard border
This weeks marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1980 hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, as well as the centenary of the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. It is also an important week for the Irish cause in 2020. That is because it is now widely believed that the British government has delayed key Brexit negotiations until after the US Presidential election.
Published October 27, 2020
An adoption rights activist born in one of Ireland’s notorious ‘mother
and baby’ homes has described a move to seal records about the
institutions for thirty years as a denial of justice.
Published October 23, 2020
Martin ‘not interested’ in Irish Unity
A refusal by Micheál Martin to say if a border poll will ever take place
and a statement that Irish reunification is not a priority has put the
Taoiseach at odds with a broad swathe of Irish public opinion, including
his own party.
Published October 23, 2020
A deeply-rooted prejudice of DUP minister Edwin Poots emerged in
scandalous fashion this week when he issued a series of bigoted remarks
in connection with Covid-19, peaking with the incredible claim that they
weren’t sectarian as “most Sinn Féin leaders don’t attend the Catholic Church on a regular basis”.
Published October 23, 2020
MI5 infiltration of Craigavon 2 campaign prompts legal action
Lawyers representing two men jailed in a miscarriage of justice say
there are new grounds for their convictions to be deemed unsafe due to
the sinister involvement of MI5 double agent Dennis McFadden.
Published October 23, 2020
Family urge letter writer to come forward
The family of a County Tyrone man murdered by loyalists 30 years ago has
called for an independent investigation to be carried out after
receiving an anonymous letter containing significant new information.
Published October 23, 2020
US election campaign echoes in Ireland
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has outlined how he will
work with Irish-America and Ireland if he is elected US president.
Published October 23, 2020
Micheál Martin confirms new lockdown
After weeks of vacillation and infighting, the Dublin government has
responded to inexorably rising levels of the coronavirus in Ireland with
a stringent, six-week ‘level 5’ lockdown.
Published October 19, 2020
Post-Brexit Europe will see a border between Scotland and England if the
result of the latest poll, which found 58% of Scots now support
independence, is borne out in a referendum.
Published October 16, 2020
Consequences of partitioned public health become clear
The failure to agree a joint all-island strategy on tackling the
Covid-19 pandemic has led to a blame game on both sides of the border as
the numbers of new cases and deaths have once again spiralled upwards.
Published October 16, 2020
Protest at new British spy towers
Large-scale surveillance installations used by British forces to spy on
the nationalist population in the north of Ireland are the focus of a
new campaign by republican activists.
Published October 16, 2020
New information on killings ignored by PSNI
A year after a breakthrough documentary was broadcast on the case, the
father of two brothers killed by loyalists almost 30 years ago has
confirmed that the PSNI failed to take any action on the new
information.
Published October 16, 2020
Former death row prisoner tortured into ‘confession’ takes case
A Belfast man has begun a High Court action over the British Army’s use
of torture techniques to extract a false confession used to secure a
death sentence against him at trial.
Published October 16, 2020
Partition ‘celebration’ plans get slow handclap
A forum set up by the British government to look at how to mark next
year’s ‘Centenary of Northern Ireland’ is being boycotted by
nationalists and republicans. The Centenary Forum was announced by
British prime minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Ireland in
August.
Published October 16, 2020
Tories back death squads, condemn human rights lawyers
An attack on human rights lawyers by the British Prime Minister has been described as “appalling” and “ shameful”.
Published October 9, 2020
Loyalists shoot grandmother, stone schoolbus
A 61-year-old woman has been left fighting for her life after a unionist paramilitary gun attack in Coleraine, County Derry. Sally Cummings is in a critical condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after being struck in the head by one of eight shots.
Published October 9, 2020
Glenanne Gang member linked to shocking new death threat
A member of the notorious ‘Glenanne Gang’ death squad is being investigated after a shocking death threat was made against Aontú councillor Denise Mullen, the daughter of a man previously murdered by the gang.
Published October 9, 2020
Brexit a reality as Gardaí move to harden border
An armed Garda support unit is to be permanently deployed to the border in a decision which appears to confirm plans for a cross-border remilitarisation of the area.
Published October 9, 2020
Bank protest over frozen accounts
Political activists in Derry occupied the local branch of the Santander bank in an action over the freezing of bank accounts and welfare benefits of those targeted by the PSNI.
Published October 9, 2020
Amnesty take on case of murdered 12-year-old
Amnesty International is helping organise a campaign for justice for Majella O’Hare, a girl who was shot in the back on her way to church by a British soldier and then ‘treated like a piece of meat’, according to an eyewitness.
Published October 9, 2020
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