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Published May 13, 2026
Sheerin internment highlighted by vindictive MI5 action
The British state has once again been accused of cruelty and political repression in its treatment of Irish republican prisoners after prisoner Niall Sheerin remained incarcerated despite being eligible for release while grieving the death of his father.
Published May 13, 2026
The Union is cracking at the seams
The North's First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, writes that Westminster politics continues to lurch further to the right, and that offers little for Scotland, Wales or Ireland.
Published May 13, 2026
Poll increases pressure for action on unity vote
New polling across the island has reinforced calls for movement on Irish
reunification after a survey confirmed cross-border support for Irish
unity and EU membership.
Published May 7, 2026
An all-island Presidential election for the first time
A Bill from Aontú to give presidential voting rights to Irish citizens
in the north of Ireland passed its second stage this week, but it still
under threat from the coalition government.
Published May 7, 2026
What is the use of going back into Stormont?
What is the point of the Stormont assembly except to perpetuate partition, which is the cause of the problem?
Published May 7, 2026
Sands statue ‘not going anywhere’
Attempts to remove the Bobby Sands statue in Twinbrook have exposed a
double standard over planning rules in Belfast, where republican
memorials are challenged while a much wider landscape of loyalist and
unionist structures has long been tolerated.
Published April 30, 2026
Sinn Féin’s annual Ard Fheis took place last weekend at Belfast’s
Waterfront Hall, where party leaders outlined priorities on
affordability, housing, Stormont reform, and Irish unity.
Published April 30, 2026
Several hundred people turned out at a Sinn Féin event in Scotstown in
County Monaghan last Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of
IRA legend, Óglach Séamus McElwain.
Published April 30, 2026
It’s time for Sinn Féin to give up on the Belfast Assembly
What is the use of going back into the Stormont arrangements again in
2027 when they don’t deliver on anything?
Published April 30, 2026
Parties aligned in bid to end London rule
The head of the Scottish government, John Swinney, has openly indicated
a willingness to work alongside Sinn Féin in what he described as an
effort “to change the dynamics of the United Kingdom”.
Published April 23, 2026
The Dublin government has survived a motion of confidence in the Dublin
parliament following a week of nationwide fuel protests, but the
political fallout has intensified, exposing deep divisions within the
coalition and mounting pressure inside Fianna Fáil.
Published April 16, 2026
Republican Movement will ‘stand to’
An Easter Statement issued in the name of the
leadership of the Republican Movement (Republican Sinn Féin).
Published April 16, 2026
Cypriots demand closure of British bases
More than half of voters in the Republic of Cyprus want to shut down
British military bases on the eastern Mediterranean island, a new poll
has found.
Published April 9, 2026
The ‘rest of the UK’ is a meaningless invention
The media fail to simple compare the north of Ireland
with Britain as it would reinforce this place’s separateness,
writes Brian Feeney.
Published April 9, 2026
Unionism polarised by new political direction
A former unionist councillor and former PSNI policewoman has said she
believes Irish unity is inevitable and has rejected a recent revival of
‘not an inch’ intransigence by her former colleagues in the Ulster
Unionist Party.
Published February 19, 2026
Bloody Sunday insult on eve of anniversary
Efforts to protect the Crown Forces from the consequences of their
murderous actions in Ireland have continued on multiple fronts.
Published January 29, 2026
Change on the way as ‘old firm’ parties are overtaken by SF/SD
The combined support for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is at its lowest
level in history and has been overtaken by a potential left-wing
coalition of Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats, according to a new
poll.
Published January 29, 2026
Sinn Féin has paid warm tributes following the passing of Mickey Brady,
former MP and lifelong Republican activist, saying the party and the
people of Newry have “lost a giant of the community”.
Published January 22, 2026
In the wake of the selection of former senior PSNI figure Jon Burrows to
lead the Ulster Unionist Party after he was co-opted into it just six
months ago, alongside another unelected politician, Diana Armstrong, as
his deputy, commentator Brian Feeney has warned that trouble is brewing
for unionism.
Published January 22, 2026