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