Irish Republican News

Burnham sets fire to the GFA

The new British Prime Minister has faced a furious backlash after declaring that a referendum on Irish unity was “off the table” during his first official visit to the north of Ireland.

Former British PM insists a united Ireland is inevitable

Discussion of the prospects for Irish unity is at fever pitch despite efforts by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to claim that the issue is “off the table”.

Garvaghy residents stand firm amid parades storm

Unionists have been accused of seeking to turn back the clock to again generate fear and conflict in Portadown by demanding a triumphalist anti-Catholic parade be forced through the Catholic part of the town.

Fifty years on, Dempsey family still denied justice

Fifty years after unionists burned a young Catholic family to death in one of the most horrific attacks of the conflict, the family of Joe, Jeanette and baby Brigeen Dempsey are still waiting for answers.

PSNI refuse to act against Billy Wright flags

The PSNI has again been accused of sectarian policing after refusing to remove flags erected for the north’s worst serial killer from the streets of Dungannon.

Stormont crisis deepens as O’Neill insists SF will not walk away

Sinn Féin First Minister Michelle O’Neill has insisted her party is “not walking away” from Stormont despite mounting dysfunction within the Six County political institutions, including the failure to agree a budget and the continued breach of a legal obligation to implement an Irish language strategy.

Solidarity with the Garvaghy Road

The Garvaghy Road community has been assured that a court ruling quashing this year’s Parades Commission determination does not mean the Orange Order will be able to hold their infamously incendiary Drumcree parade through the nationalist area of Portadown.

PSNI links to paramilitaries exposed

Continuing levels of collusion between British Crown Forces and unionist paramilitaries has been laid bare by a new report into last year’s racist riots in Ballymena.

Bryant seeks to explain away flawed Legacy bill

Families bereaved during the conflict have rejected British Direct Ruler Chris Bryant’s claim that some people have “misunderstood” the purpose of the British government’s Bill on the legacy of the conflict.

Ireland urged to block Israel’s genocide bonds

Pressure is growing in Ireland for the Dublin government to stop facilitating the genocide in Palestine and Lebanon, after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for Israeli forces to kill 30 to 40 Palestinians in Gaza every night, including people not considered threats, saying some “are not worthy of life”.

Saoradh plans south Armagh hunger strike commemoration

Hardline republican group Saoradh is planning to hold a hunger strike commemoration in Sinn Féin’s traditional south Armagh heartland.

Northern ferry routes escape new rules

A change of rules for ferry passengers crossing the Irish Sea should apply to the entire island, Sinn Féin has said.

Britain will not dictate Ireland’s future

Andy Burnham’s attempt to put Irish unity ‘off the table’ betrays a limp imperial reflex towards a democratic reckoning that Britain can no longer postpone. By Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard (for tribunemag.co.uk)

The poll that will never come

How a party that once fought to remove the British built its entire strategy on a clause the British wrote, the British control, and the British have now told us in writing they have no intention of ever using. By Saoradh Belfast chairman Séamus Fitzsimons.

Holy Cross terror recalled

Twenty-five years ago, Catholic schoolgirls in north Belfast were forced to run a gauntlet of unionist hate on their way to Holy Cross Girls’ Primary School.

Napper Tandy

Remembering leading United Irishman James Napper Tandy who died on the 24th August 1803 whilst in exile in France.

Monday, September 7, 2026