After five deaths at the jail in the past year, prisons campaigner
Alec McCrory raises concerns about the situation in Maghaberry.
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After five deaths at the jail in the past year, prisons campaigner
Alec McCrory raises concerns about the situation in Maghaberry.
Published November 26, 2016
Demand the release of Tony Taylor
The internment of Tony Taylor strikes at the very heart of democracy and
the right to a fair trial.
Published November 12, 2016
A statement from Saoradh member, Damhnic Mac Eochaidh, read out at the
demonstration against British/PSNI harassment in Belfast, and also one
by 15-year-old Ailise ni Mhurchu from west Belfast, on the PSNI
stop and search procedures she has endured while going to and coming
from school.
Published November 5, 2016
Brexit has implications for whole of Ireland
Brexit presents enormous and unprecedented challenges to jobs and
investment, to public services and to the progress and co-operation we
now take for granted. It demands that we put the needs of our people and
economy to the fore.
Published November 5, 2016
Brits plan to ignore human rights laws - again
Last week’s Tory party conference
exposed once again the British establishment’s largely xenophobic view
of the world outside of England.
Published October 22, 2016
Budget will re-enforce inequality
The spin is that last week’s Budget spreads the benefits to all.
It doesn’t.
Published October 15, 2016
Brexiteers should know consequences of ignoring Ireland
There will be consequences if the carefully worded deal in the Good Friday Agreement about how to advance Irish unity peacefully and democratically is casually set aside unilaterally by the British government.
Published October 15, 2016
Pauline Mellon on the Ardoyne parades dispute, from her blog,
‘The Diary of a Derry Mother’.
Published October 8, 2016
Have Sinn Fein been outwitted by the DUP?
In setting out to free Ireland, in believing they could outwit the
British, Sinn Fein have in fact set us backwards to the days of unionist
domination.
Published October 1, 2016
Mark
Thompson of Relatives for Justice responds to the BBC Spotlight
documentary on the death of British double-agent Denis Donaldson.
Published September 24, 2016
Building Gaeilge for future generations
Irish history is full of examples of policies intended to deter the use
of the Irish language while promoting English. But it is also full of
courageous men and women who strove to defend the language and music and culture of Ireland.
Published September 17, 2016
Honest and transparent debate needed on united Ireland
A welcome off-shoot from the recent ‘Brexit’ referendum in Britain is
that talk of a United Ireland has come again to the fore of political
discourse all across Ireland.
Published September 10, 2016
The most beautiful of all battles
This week a peace agreement represents the first time that Colombia will
be at peace since 1948, and includes comprehensive agreements that
encompass many aspects of Colombian life.
Published August 27, 2016
Potential for building a new Ireland
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness says that the debate on an united Ireland
has begun and can’t be stopped.
Published August 6, 2016
Once again a British politician - who has no stake in this
island - is given influence over our lives by a British government whose
priority interests are not ours.
Published July 30, 2016
Political process has a one dimensional unionist narrative
The revelation that the 1916 memorial in Carnlough was removed in the
dead of night by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council is unsurprising but
symptomatic of a political establishment and narrative that seeks to
remove all vestiges of Irish nationalist and republican culture and
history.
Published July 23, 2016
Sectarian Orange Order bonfires
Perhaps one reason why the Northern state turns a blind eye to the
naked sectarianism displayed at 11th July bonfires is the fundamentally
sectarian foundations of the British Constitution.
Published July 16, 2016
Ignoring the truth over north’s position on EU
Forthcoming negotiations are an opportunity for Sinn Fein
and northern nationalists to tighten relations with the Republic in ways
that benefit all the people on this island.
Published June 25, 2016
Question is now about extent of loyalist collusion
Let’s hope the Police Ombudsman’s report on the Loughinisland killings
becomes a model for future investigations by his office.
Published June 18, 2016
It is poignantly fitting that the truth about Loughinisland has emerged
at this precise time as people gather in their local pubs for the start of Euro
2016.
Published June 11, 2016
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