Building a republic ‘worthy of the name’

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There has been an angry response among nationalists to British efforts to dismiss the
prospect of Irish reunification through a border poll.
Irish sports figures have again come under attack in Britain for failing to
wear a poppy in honour of British soldiers who died in conflicts around
the world, including in Ireland.
Enough ammunition to restart the conflict in the north of Ireland has
“disappeared” from a PSNI police training centre in Antrim, according to
a Crown Force statement.
Loyalists have again targeted members of the cross-community Alliance
Party after it was condemned by hardline unionists over its approach to
power-sharing and local government in the north of Ireland.
The Republican Network for Unity has strongly condemned the activity of
British soldiers in the north Armagh area.
A new belligerence by the Democratic Unionist Party has triggered a
fresh crisis for the Stormont Assembly and renewed the focus on
the need to advance the process of Irish reunification.
More than £4.6m was spent by the British government on the defence of a
former British soldier facing prosecution for the murder of two people
and injuring another five on Bloody Sunday, it has emerged.
A campaign of anti-immigrant violence in both parts of Ireland is being
fuelled by government incompetence and inaction.
Members of the Crown Forces and unionist paramilitaries have protected
the killer of Portadown teenager Marian Beattie, her family have said.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has reported online censorship at the
hands of Meta, the trillion‑dollar US corporation which owns Facebook.
Events have been taking place in Rathvilly, County Carlow to mark the
105th anniversary of the execution of martyr Kevin Barry by British
forces
The speech delivered by President Connolly at Dublin Castle on Tuesday.
All the anniversary reflections on the massive upheavals linked to the
unveiling of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA), 40 years ago next week,
may draw at least some comparisons with the increasing tensions at
Stormont today.
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.
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.