After years of criticism for excluding the Six Counties, the Irish
weather forecasting service is to include all of Ireland on its weather
warning maps.
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Grey skies lift as North’s weather warnings included in map
After years of criticism for excluding the Six Counties, the Irish
weather forecasting service is to include all of Ireland on its weather
warning maps.
Published April 10, 2020
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions across Ireland, many republican and community organisations have abandoned plans for commemorations to mark the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 9, 2020
British PM in intensive care as condition worsens
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently being treated in an intensive care unit with the coronavirus after being rushed to a London hospital last night.
Published April 6, 2020
Demand for island strategy as virus deaths mount
The North’s political leaders must depart from the British government’s coronavirus strategy and urgently harmonise with the South, a leading medical professor has said.
Published April 3, 2020
The Dublin government is being urged to come clean about the situation in the South’s nursing homes after it was revealed that four deaths have taken place in just one out of the dozens of care homes contaminated by the coronavirus.
Published April 3, 2020
Belfast man imprisoned ‘for political activity’
A member of Saoradh, a former prisoner, has been summarily returned to jail, apparently for the offense of meeting other Saoradh members.
Published April 3, 2020
PSNI condemned over new failure to hand over collusion files
The PSNI police has been told “defending the indefensible is no longer acceptable” after a report was published into its failure to disclose important information in relation to a case of alleged collusion between its predecessor, the RUC, and unionist paramilitaries.
Published April 3, 2020
Seanad election sees return of Sinn Féin representatives
Former Sinn Féin MP, Elisha McCallion, has been elected to Seanad Éireann to serve on the senate’s Industrial and Commercial panel, while the party’s former MEP Lynn Boylan has returned to political life by taking a seat on the Agricultural panel.
Published April 3, 2020
West Belfast leads the way with community response
A huge effort will see more than 1,000 food parcels distributed across west Belfast in the coming days.
Published April 3, 2020
Anger as vital equipment runs short
Government politicians who paid tribute to healthcare workers this week have been accused of hypocrisy over their failure to supply enough equipment to protect the workers or to take care of the ill.
Published March 27, 2020
‘Slavishness’ of Stormont costing lives
The Stormont administration faces a mounting crisis over what has been described as an “abject” determination by unionists to follow the Tory government’s disastrous lead on the coronavirus epidemic.
Published March 27, 2020
Tributes paid to Toni Carragher
The death has taken place of Toni Carragher, a well-known campaigner against British army militarisation along the border, and the former secretary of the South Armagh Farmers and Residents’ Committee.
Published March 27, 2020
Emergency powers being abused in the North
Draconian new powers introduced at Westminster in the name of protecting the public are already being abused in the north of Ireland, according to republicans in Derry.
Published March 27, 2020
Unresolved sectarian murder case ‘locked down’ by PSNI
Prosecutors have refused to ask the PSNI police to reopen an investigation linked to the murder of three Catholics killed by unionist paramilitaries almost 30 years ago, despite never having received a file on the cases against four suspects, including a man identified as the killer.
Published March 27, 2020
Easter commemorations cancelled
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD has said that her party’s planned Easter commemorations have been cancelled in their entirety due to the deterioration of the coronavirus situation.
Published March 27, 2020
Govts move to ‘lockdown’; prisoners seek help
In televised addresses, both the premiers in Dublin and London have announced stronger measures in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Published March 24, 2020
Tories back away from ‘herd cull’ plan
Amid warnings that health care systems in Britain and the north of Ireland were facing a potentially catastrophic meltdown, both Tories and unionists in Ireland have ended their hands-off approach to the coronavirus health crisis.
Published March 20, 2020
Prisoners forced to take action over virus threat
Republican prisoners in both Portlaoise and Maghaberry prisons have voluntarily stopped visits with family as a result of the Coronavirus.
Published March 20, 2020
Speech cheers viewers, leaves questions unanswered
After delivering an inspirational but ultimately vacuous speech on the implications of the Coronavirus crisis, the caretaker 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to take more practical action to protect lives and livelihoods across Ireland.
Published March 20, 2020
Genuine unity urged as crisis grows
A national government of unity could bring help to those in need during the current health crisis, Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Published March 20, 2020
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