A row has broken out after council staff attempted to remove the names
of political prisoners from a public Christmas tree in Strabane, County
Tyrone.
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Unionist bid to steal Christmas from prisoners’ families
A row has broken out after council staff attempted to remove the names
of political prisoners from a public Christmas tree in Strabane, County
Tyrone.
Published December 8, 2018
Emotions run high as new group holds meetings
A debate on abortion legislation in the Dublin parliament has seen a
bitter attack by Sinn Fein TDs against former comrades as a potentially
damaging split in the party continues to grow.
Published December 1, 2018
Loughinisland at the heart of battle over policing
Families of those killed in a notorious loyalist/Crown force massacre
have welcomed a judge’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge against
the Police Ombudsman’s finding that the police colluded with the
killers.
Published December 1, 2018
Loyalist violence ignored as gangs issue Brexit warning
Loyalist paramilitaries “have the run of the town” in County Antrim,
according to the owner of a repair business in Carrickfergus whose cars
have repeatedly been torched.
Published December 1, 2018
Breakthrough for equality of symbolism in Derry
Derry City and Strabane council is set to be the first council in the
north of Ireland to allow staff members to honour Ireland’s war dead by
wearing an Easter Lily, a symbol with its roots in the 1916 Easter
Rising.
Published December 1, 2018
Early shoot-to-kill incidents recalled
Relatives for Justice have launched a report into the killings of Jim
Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna amid outstanding questions about the
shoot-to-kill policy of targeted state assassinations which was
responsible for their deaths.
Published December 1, 2018
Thousands march over housing crisis
Campaigners have taken to the streets of Dublin this Saturday afternoon
to voice their anger over the ongoing housing and homelessness crisis.
Published December 1, 2018
Tony Taylor freed, banned from political statements
Derry republican Tony Taylor, released as his internment by the British
approached a significant one thousand days, was released this evening
after a day of tense last-minute negotiations around the details of his
release.
Published November 28, 2018
Tony Taylor to be released after almost 1,000 days
Republican political prisoner Tony Taylor is set to be freed tomorrow
after spending 994 days interned at Maghaberry Jail without charge.
Published November 27, 2018
The Border ‘will be maintained by the gun’
Amid a hostile reaction by unionist politicians to a draft Brexit deal,
one TUV politician has warned that the border through Ireland will be
“maintained by the gun”.
Published November 24, 2018
Councillors join new Sinn Fein splinter party
A breakaway anti-abortion, nationalist/republican party being set up by
former Sinn Fein TD Peadar Toibin is organising meetings across the
country and has already recruited two councillors, Sinn Fein Kildare
councillor Ide Cussen and former Sinn Fein Cork councillor Ger Keohane.
Published November 24, 2018
Inquests ‘a problem’, says Karen Bradley
Britain’s Direct Ruler in Ireland, Karen Bradley, has been widely
condemned for comments that families of victims of British war crimes
are part of ‘the problem’ for seeking coronial inquests, and that she
was ‘outraged’ by the legal pursuit of the soldiers involved.
Published November 24, 2018
Recruitment target endangered by MI5 approach
Members of a British intelligence agency who tried to recruit a
vulnerable teenager have “put him at risk”, according to his mother.
Published November 24, 2018
Red mist descends on British military memorial in Dublin
A protest action has seen a giant sculpture of a British soldier at the
entrance to Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green daubed with red paint.
Published November 24, 2018
Call for all-Ireland soccer team
Sinn Fein deputy leader Pearse Doherty has called for a debate about the
possibility of establishing an all-island soccer team, following the
resignation of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane as the Ireland management
team.
Published November 24, 2018
DUP MPs told to ‘get over yourselves’
The DUP leadership is completely at odds with civic unionism after a
draft Brexit deal won praise across the north of Ireland, particularly
from farmers and business interests who see significant advantages in
proposed arrangements to facilitate trade with both Britain and the EU.
Published November 17, 2018
Republican Sinn Fein name new party President
Republican Sinn Fein has named a new party President, Seosamh O
Mhaoileoin, at its Ard Fheis [annual conference] last weekend,
replacing Des Dalton without an election.
Published November 17, 2018
Heartbreak for Derry family of interned prisoner
The elderly father of a political prisoner who’s been in jail for almost
1,000 days without charge or trial has written a heartfelt letter to the
British government pleading for his son’s release.
Published November 17, 2018
Indignation after new files back McGurk’s Bar families
A shocking British military archive discovered by a grandson of victims
of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre of 1971 proves that the Royal Ulster
Constabulary police originated and disseminated “a line” falsely stating
that the atrocity was an IRA ‘own goal’, just over 4 hours after the
bombing.
Published November 17, 2018
Ballymurphy horror relived at inquest
There were emotional scenes in a Belfast court this week as families of
the Ballymurphy massacre victims described their grief and loss after
British soldiers killed eleven civilians in 1971.
Published November 17, 2018
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