
Lyra McKee’s last tweet on the night of Holy Thursday contained a
photograph of journalists and onlookers standing feet away from a PSNI
vehicle during a riot in Derry. It became her last report on the
“madness” as she described it, that tragically cut her life short.
Published April 27, 2019

The text of the speech delivered by the President of
Ireland Michael D Higgins at the official opening of Áras Uí Chonghaile, the James
Connolly Visitor Centre, on the Falls Road in west Belfast on Friday.
Published April 20, 2019

The following is the oration delivered at the annual Easter
commemoration in Duleek this weekend by independent republican Cáit
Trainor.
Published April 20, 2019

Protests have been taking place to convince Irish state broadcaster RTÉ
to withdraw from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Israel over its
attacks against the Palestinian people.
Published April 6, 2019

100 years ago this week, Ned Broy smuggled Michael Collins into the
headquarters of the British police in Ireland. It was a key turning
point in the War of Independence.
Published March 30, 2019

Two young Dublin men, Seán Farrell and Ciarán Maguire currently face
extradition to the Six Counties on foot of a European Arrest Warrant
served by the PSNI in March 2017. If their request is successful Seán
and Ciarán will face trial and potentially lengthy prison terms in Co
Antrim’s notorious Maghaberry Prison where republican prisoners have for
many years been subjected to forced strip searches, systematic beatings
and held in isolation for prolonged periods of time.
Published March 30, 2019

Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton collectively known as the
Craigavon Two, this week pass the 10th anniversary of their
incarceration.
Published March 23, 2019

Sitting in the gallery of the Ballymurphy Massacre Inquest courtroom,
you see two battles being waged. There is the legal battle for truth by
victims’ families. There is also a battle of wills wherein the British
Crown seems intent on grinding down families who dare fight for legacy
truth by a strategy termed “deny, delay and die”.
Published March 23, 2019

March 1st marked the 38th anniversary of the start of Bobby Sands hunger
strike in 1981. Nine days into his protest Sands turned 27 years of age.
He would not live to see another birthday.
Published March 9, 2019

There are many reasons you might think Karen Bradley should resign, but
the Derry Girls may not be the first one that comes to mind.
Published March 9, 2019

This week marks the
twentieth anniversary of the abduction of the Kurdish leader Abdullah
Öcalan, who remains in solitary confinement as the only prisoner on an
island in the Sea of Marmara in Turkey.
Published February 16, 2019

During the years 1918 and 1919 Irish republicans, including Éamon de
Valera and Michael Collins, were imprisoned in Lincoln Jail in England.
They occupied themselves with study and debate, and then devised a
textbook prison escape, 100 years ago this month.
Published February 16, 2019

There is plenty
that we can learn today from the history of the Republican Court of a
century ago.
Published February 9, 2019

Saoradh’s view of the conviction in a non-jury court this week of its
former party chairperson in Dublin, Kevin Braney, on the word of a paid
informer.
Published February 9, 2019

Eamonn McCann of People for Profit, who was one of the organisers of the
original civil rights march and continues to organise the annual Bloody
Sunday march for justice, outlines why this year’s march demands “Jail
Jackson”.
Published February 2, 2019

The new all-Ireland political party being led by Peadar Tóibín this week
revealed its new name as Aontú, the Irish for unity or consent. In this
statement written for the centenary of the First Dáil in 1919, Mr Tóibín
set out his republican vision for the party.
Published February 2, 2019

Last weekend, an official state commemoration of the First Dail took
place in the Mansion House in Dublin. Addressing the audience, Sinn Féin
President Mary Lou McDonald said that “we have before us the opportunity to build a new and
united Ireland”.
Published January 26, 2019

The context for this years’s Bloody Sunday March.
Published January 26, 2019

One hundred years this week, on a quiet Tipperary roadway, the first
nationalist revolt against the British Empire last century was started
by a small band of armed men from townlands and villages -- Donohill,
Solohead and Hollyford -- in the vicinity of Tipperary Town. The
Soloheadbeg ambush shook British rule in Ireland.
Published January 19, 2019

It must be a disconcerting time to be a Unionist. The very fabric of the
UK is fraying at the edges at an alarming rate. Scots were a mere five
percentage points from backing independence in 2014, while Brexit
represents the biggest centrifugal force in the history of the British
state.
Published January 19, 2019
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