Irish Republican News

Judge claims ‘public interest’ in extraditing escapees

Two elderly men who escaped from Long Kesh jail in a dramatic tunnelling breakout nearly 50 years ago are set to be extradited into British jurisdiction.

Stakeknife charade exposed

There have been calls for a public inquiry after evidence emerged of a bizarre conspiracy involving British agent Freddie Scappaticci, senior British officials and top members of its military and judiciary.

Locked-up republicans vow to fight injustice

Two republican prisoners were informed at a hearing on Wednesday that their internment without trial is to continue for at least six more months, while separately a key challenge is being heard at the Supreme Court in London.

Garbled threats rejected by Lisburn residents

Threatening and sectarian leaflets from unionist paramilitaries have been pushed through letterboxes of homes in a mixed area of County Antrim.

Mixed messages from British government on inquests

Families of those killed in a British Army ambush have been told by the British government that an inquest into the massacre will be allowed to proceed, while a positive outcome of another inquest is to be appealed.

Online censorship linked to criminalisation agenda

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has hit out after moves by the Google LLC to implement anti-republican censorship on its YouTube platform.

Glenanne gang prosecution raises new questions

An RUC ‘whistle-blower’ is to be the first to be prosecuted in an investigation by the North’s Police Ombudsman into the Glenanne Gang, a collaboration between unionist paramilitaries and members of the British Crown Forces which carried out at least 125 sectarian murders.

White House fallout continues

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has said she is proud of the stance she took in staying away from Washington DC last week because of attacks on innocent Palestinians.

Details emerge of Colum Marks shoot-to-kill

The British Army’s SAS and MI5 and at least two RUC Special Branch units were involved in an operation in which an unarmed IRA Volunteer was killed, a Police Ombudsman report has revealed.

Sectarian agenda feared behind road carnage

Most of the victims of the deadly crashes on the most dangerous road in Ireland or Britain are from the Catholic and nationalist community.

It’s ‘The King and Irish’ as the occupation goes emerald green

England’s King Charles and Queen Camilla were welcomed by Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill in the Irish language for an official visit to the British-ruled north of Ireland on Wednesday.

1916 Societies forms alliance with Éirígí

A “strategic alliance” between two republican groups has resulted in the emergence of a new ‘Republican Bloc’, according to one of those involved.

Reject the welfare cuts

Cuts announced this month by the British government Minister Rachel Reeves are set to push thousands of people in the north of Ireland into poverty and have been opposed across the political spectrum.

Chipping away at partition

Carl Duffy, a candidate for Aontú in the last general election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, lays out a possible ‘inch-by-inch’ approach towards a United Ireland.

The smell of death returns in Gaza

We are in a terrifying new reality, writes Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta (for the Electronic Intifada).

Tom Smith remembered

Volunteer Tom Smith, Dublin Brigade, Irish Republican Army was shot dead by Free State soldiers during an escape attempt from Portlaoise jail on 17th of March 1975, 50 years ago this week.

Friday, March 28, 2025