An extract from a speech made in the Dublin parliament by Richard Boyd
Barrett of People before Profit during a debate on the report of the
Kenova and Denton police investigations into British state collusion.
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Unanswered questions on collusion
An extract from a speech made in the Dublin parliament by Richard Boyd
Barrett of People before Profit during a debate on the report of the
Kenova and Denton police investigations into British state collusion.
Published February 19, 2026
Speaking at the launch of a new stage show, former Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams has reflected on the effects of the notorious British
broadcast ban that stopped his own voice being aired and meant it had to
be replaced by actors instead.
Published February 12, 2026
Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike fifty years ago, had three
funerals and two burials. One funeral had no body and one burial was
done in darkness. His life is commemorated on three headstones in Leigue
Cemetery, Ballina, County Mayo.
Published February 12, 2026
London case not about truth and accountability
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams writes to defend himself from
unsubstantiated hearsay in a civil case which gets under way in London
in March, in which three victims of IRA bombs in London will attempt to
hold him responsible.
Published February 5, 2026
This week marked the 54th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre,
when the British Army opened fire on civilians in the streets of Derry,
killing thirteen and wounding a dozen more, with one of the injured,
John Johnson, dying five months later.
Published February 5, 2026
Bloody Sunday March for Justice - Unfinished Business
The Bloody Sunday March Committee has releasing its programme of events
to mark the 54th anniversary of the massacre of civil rights
demonstrators in Derry by the British Army.
Published January 22, 2026
Justice delayed, repression delivered
The ongoing prosecution of Derry Republican Kieran McCool exposes, once
again, the British state’s obsession with persecuting Irish Republicans
long after any credible justification has evaporated.
Published January 15, 2026
Statements issued in the name of Irish republican groups to mark the arrival of the New Year.
Published January 8, 2026
The dirty tactic of internment
The ongoing hunger strikes in English prisons by members of the ‘Filton
24’ have highlighted a dirty repression tactic used by the British state
forces – internment by remand. This is one that is well known to Irish
Republicans.
Published January 8, 2026
A round-up of the historical state papers which have been released to
the media in the annual New Year tradition.
Published December 29, 2025
Brendan McLaughlin and Eamon Melaugh
Tributes have been paid on the death of Derry man Brendan McLaughlin, a
former Blanketman and Hunger Striker, who died on December 8.
Published December 18, 2025
Family of Rising martyr commemorated with new headstone
Despite a cold wet winters Saturday morning in Dublin, dozens gathered
in Glasnevin Cemetery to attend the “official” unveiling of a headstone
recently erected over the grave of Thomas “Tom” Clarke’s family.
Published December 4, 2025
Irish Republican Prisoners List 2025
A current listing of Irish republican prisoners for December 2025, with
addresses for sending Christmas greetings.
Published November 20, 2025
Inaugural Speech of President Catherine Connolly
The speech delivered by President Connolly at Dublin Castle on Tuesday.
Published November 13, 2025
The drive-by murder of Eileen Quinn
Eileen Quinn was a 24-year-old mother of three young children from
County Galway. On All Saints’ Day 1920 she was shot dead outside her
home by the Black and Tans of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in one
of the most notorious civilian reprisal killings during the Irish War of
Independence.
Published November 6, 2025
Last week British imperialism in Ireland reared its ugly head once
again. This time in the form of a ‘not guilty’ verdict for the British
soldier known by the pseudonym “Soldier F”, who escaped any notion of
‘justice’ in a corrupt British judicial system.
Published November 6, 2025
Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey anniversary
A number of commemorations took place at the weekend to mark the 35th
Anniversary of the deaths on active service of Dessie Grew and Martin
McCaughey, two legendary IRA fighters shot to death in a “shoot to kill”
ambush executed by the murderous SAS.
Published October 16, 2025
The full text of Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald’s response
to the introduction by the Dublin government of its Budget statement
for 2026.
The long awaited release of the McCullough Review has exposed
a long term culture of politically motivated surveillance of
journalists, whistleblowers and political opponents by the PSNI.
Published October 9, 2025
Spies, lies and political policing
The long awaited release this week of the McCullough Review has exposed
a long term culture of politically motivated surveillance of
journalists, whistleblowers and political opponents by the PSNI.
Published October 2, 2025
New plaque for ‘Heroes of Arra’
A memorial plaque has been unveiled in North Tipperary in memory of nine
IRA Volunteers who died during Ireland’s War of Independence and the
Civil War.
Published September 25, 2025
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