Kneecap defeat last-gasp censorship
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Adams facing spurious show-trial
Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has vowed to defend himself as a
civil case in London seeks a court ruling that he was a leading member
of the Provisional IRA and personally liable for attacks over three
decades.
Finucane inquiry advances amid state secrecy fights
The London government has published terms of reference for a public
inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane by
British state agents at his north Belfast home.
‘No Shamrock for Trump’ campaign grows
A strong intervention by President of Ireland Catherine Connolly over
the US–Israeli war on Iran has sparked an escalating political clash in
Dublin, Belfast and Washington over violations of international law.
‘Clear’ case of collusion spelled out in uncovered documents
An on-duty member of the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment used his
own car to deliver a death squad that killed a republican in County
Tyrone. Later, he flew in a British army helicopter as part of the
follow-up ‘security’ operation.
Questions over MI5 activity in Spanish jurisdiction
An Irish republican political party has warned that British military
intelligence approached and attempted to intimidate one of its members
while he was on a family holiday in Spain.
‘Epstein war’ condemned
A sudden and unprovoked US/Israeli aerial bombing campaign against Iran
has erupted into a giant war stretching from the eastern Mediterranean
to the Indian Ocean.
UVF issues mural ‘enforcement order’
UVF unionist paramilitaries have issued a warning to anyone who might
damage a mural at the home of Irish soccer team Crusaders.
Serial-killing UDR battalion admitted Cappagh ambush
A former British Army intelligence officer has revealed that locally
recruited British soldiers were directly involved in the 1991 ambush of
three young Irish Republican Army Volunteers in Cappagh, County Tyrone.
‘No Fenians need apply’ - grant conspiracy exposed
A number of British government departments secretly worked together to
block an arts grant to the Belfast rap trio Kneecap because of their
identity as northern nationalists.
Republicans in direct action protests
Lasair Dhearg activists visited the ‘Famine Queen’ statue of England’s
Queen Victoria, which stands within the grounds of the hospital named
after her on Belfast’s Falls Road, on Friday afternoon.
Campaign grows for release of Niall Sheerin
The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) has launched
a national campaign calling for the immediate release of republican
prisoner Niall Sheerin.
Clonard Street Martyrs
The Clonard Street Martyrs are remembered in republican history as four
young Volunteers of Óglaigh na hÉireann who gave their lives in active
service in the heart of their own community, Clonard in West Belfast, on
9 March 1972.
Sinn Féin will not be complicit in Middle East war
The decision by the United States, alongside Israel, to launch
unprovoked military operations against Iran, is a flagrant violation of
the United Nations Charter and International Law.
Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands began his hunger strike, 45 years ago this week. A brief
account of his life and death in struggle, by the Seán Heuston 1916 Society.
The failures of royalty
All human beings have the right, as a birthright, to be treated equally.
I am for a rights-based, citizen-centred society in which citizens
fulfil their obligations for the common good.
