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Details of 1921 Derry prison break unearthed

A recently unearthed document provides a valuable insight into Derry’s history. By Seamus McKinney (for the Irish News)

Published May 30, 2024

The collective amnesia over the Dublin-Monaghan bombings

The Dublin-Monaghan bombings directly affected thousands of people, not just the relatives of the 33 people and an unborn baby who were killed, but the hundreds injured and their families.

Published May 23, 2024

Immigrants are not the enemy

Conservative and right wing elements are exploiting the issue of asylum seekers and immigrants or race to advance their own agenda.

Published May 23, 2024

The family of an Armagh teenager shot dead by a British state agent say their campaign for justice won’t be stopped. “We know the truth; what we want is for it to be recorded, set down in history, that this man killed Gavin.”

Published May 16, 2024

Remembering the forgotten victims of Dublin and Monaghan

The Dublin and Monaghan car bombings were the single biggest atrocity of the conflict committed in one day. Last Friday a new documentary film on the massacre opened in Dublin.

Published May 16, 2024

Immigration and border tensions make Unity more urgent

The May 2024 local election results in England have confirmed what the opinion polls have suggested for the past year. The Conservatives are destined to lose the next UK General Election. But their actions for the remainder of their time in government can still have an impact on both Britain and Ireland.

Published May 9, 2024

There cannot be an official history of the Troubles

There was a revealing spat last week between the NIO and academic historians about the British government’s plans to bowdlerise the original historical archival proposals in the Stormont House Agreement (SHA) on legacy

Published May 9, 2024

The opportunity for a new beginning

As former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson was mobbed by a media scrum outside Newry Courthouse following a first court hearing of shock sex crime charges dating back to 1985, DUP interim leader Gavin Robinson has been appealing for unionist unity. Unionism can use the current crisis to plan for the future.

Published April 25, 2024

New memorial stone to mark anniversary of Peggy Whyte

The son of a woman murdered in a UVF bomb attack on her south Belfast home has said the Catholic community living in the Lower Ormeau Road area were one of the most targeted during the conflict.

Published April 18, 2024

Legacy of Bobby Sands MP’s victory

The election of hunger striker Bobby Sands as a Westminster MP 43 years ago marked an historic change and set the Provisional movement on the path to political settlement.

Published April 11, 2024

Harris couldn’t care less about the North

The Irish government must be the only one in the world which has an objective, a constitutional imperative, repeated dutifully, religiously, but no plan to achieve it and refuses to do anything to achieve it.

Published April 11, 2024

Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system

Israel has ended its assault on the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, because there is nothing left to assault.

Published April 4, 2024

Britain will never reveal its role in the ‘dirty war’

None of Jon Boutcher’s recommendations from Operation Kenova are likely to be actioned, writes Brian Feeney.

Published March 28, 2024

Rosemary Nelson’s last interview

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of prominent Irish human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson. Her killing, amid Crown force harassment, led to the continuing belief that the state colluded with her loyalist killers.

Published March 21, 2024

Fire and rain: the burning of Long Kesh

An eyewitness account of the burning of the Long Kesh prison camp by Irish republican internees 45 years ago this week, by Irish author Ronan Bennett.

Published March 21, 2024

Unveiling of statues is historic day for Belfast

The installation of two bronze statues in the grounds of Belfast City Hall to commemorate two radical Belfast women has been hailed as a “historic and symbolic day for the city”.

Published March 14, 2024

Vote No, twice

A referendum takes place in the 26 Counties on Friday to alter two articles of the Irish Constitution relating to families. Voters should vote no on the basis they can both be redone, better, later.

Published March 7, 2024

The GAA club that saw off an army

A documentary on the Crossmaglen Rangers club in south Armagh highlights the difficulties it has faced throughout the conflict.

Published February 29, 2024

Stop this genocide

I want to return to my home. I want to feel like a human deserving of life. Truly deserving of the most basic human rights.

Published February 22, 2024

Britain cannot handle the truth

An extract from an essay by Megan K. Stack for the New York Times on the cover-up of the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, 35 years ago this month.