Irish Republican News

Ballymena pogrom

Nationalists are being urged to remain calm and vigilant after three days of racist loyalist violence in County Antrim.

Minister accused of ‘incitement’ as leisure centre burned

Unionist ‘Communities Minister’ Gordon Lyons is under pressure after he identified the location where those who fled this week’s arson attacks in Ballymena had been brought.

Call for Britain to finally admit truth in Thompson murder

The seriously ill brother of a Catholic man murdered by a pro-British death squad has pleaded with the British government to reveal the truth about the killing.

Orwellian ‘truth’ body to be handed Sean Brown case

Britain’s so-called ‘Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery’ (ICRIR) has been expanded to become a ‘Ministry for Truth’, with some 26 former RUC members, British soldiers and other Crown Force staff joining scores of civil servants to create a pro-British version of events in controversial cases.

Gaza campaign defies intimidation

A group of loyalists, some waving Israeli and British flags, attempted to confront a march by thousands in support of those facing starvation and genocide in Gaza on Saturday.

Wolfe Tone symbolically reunited with his wife at Bodenstown

A handful of soil, brought over from the grave of Wolfe Tone’s wife, Matilda, in New York was scattered on his grave in Bodenstown, County Kildare as part of a weekend commemoration at the site where the republican legend is buried.

Stunning courtroom victory for Gerry Adams

Despite a court finding that Gerry Adams had been defamed by the BBC in a high-profile television documentary in 2016, the broadcaster’s attacks on Adams and Sinn Féin have not stopped.

BBC struggles to accept the truth

The BBC has said it will continue to broadcast its news output into the 26 Counties amid a strong reaction by unionists to the outcome of the Gerry Adams libel trial, which the BBC has so far refused to accept.

Anger as Shea Reynolds now held seven years without bail

A republican who has been denied liberty for seven years on a legal pretext has been denied bail once more.

Torture of 17-year-old demands hearing in Supreme Court - lawyer

A woman who was beaten as a teenage girl into making admissions about the IRA has been forced to bring a case to Britain’s highest court to clear her name.

President fights back against Israeli smears

Irish President Michael D Higgins has said accusations that those who criticise the policies of the Israeli government are “anti-Semitic” is a slander.

Farage seen offering hope to freedom campaigns

The shift of British politics to the right, as represented by the increasing dominance of Nigel Farage’s Reform Part, is being seen as accelerating the causes of Irish unity and Scottish independence.

A united civic identity in a sovereign republic

John Crawley, an author and a former IRA volunteer, gave the oration last weekend at the National Independent Republican Commemoration in Bodenstown, where Wolfe Tone is buried. The following is the text of his address.

Nationalists doubt Dublin’s commitment to Irish unity

Northern nationalists felt betrayed by Dublin 100 years ago, after the collapse of the Boundary Commission in December 1925. It left the border unchanged despite their hopes that it would make unification inevitable. Many of their descendants still feel that way.

Where is the outrage over the Winkie Irvine case?

The exceptional story of the arrest, treatment and sentencing of Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine warrants considerably greater attention and protest than has so far been the case.

The Great Hunger

An introduction to the history of the famine in Ireland, by the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025