A Catholic woman in her late 50s was punched and thrown to the ground by
three marchers as she tried to cross a sectarian parade by the Royal Black
Institution in Ballymena on Saturday.
Tension is increasing within the Dublin coalition government over its
continuing attempts to maintain the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank as a
going concern.
A leading figure in the Catholic Church has blasted the establishment
media for its failure to question the British line on the 1972 Claudy
bomb attack.
The British government has apologised for protecting a ‘suspect’ in the
1972 Claudy bombing, but is still refusing to reveal to the public the
full details of what it knows about the attack.
An address to the Michael Collins commemoration in County Cork by Fianna
Fail’s Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has led to considerable
discussion about the end of ‘civil war politics’ and a potential
realignment in Irish politics.
A nationalist residents group is planning to block the Crumlin Road in
north Belfast if yet another sectarian march due to take place this
weekend is not rerouted.
Many of the Bloody Sunday relatives have
spoken publicly about their feelings since the publication of the
Saville report for the first time at Belfast’s Feile an Phobal.
One of the breakaway IRA groups heavily involved in the recent upsurge
of armed actions has confirmed that it is growing in strength
and that most of its members are former members of the Provisional IRA.
The PSNI are facing court action alongside organisers of a sectarian
band parade in Rasharkin after the parade was illegally directed along a
different route last Friday.
A documentary to be screened next Sunday will air suspicions that
British intelligence had advance knowledge of an IRA attack in Holland,
in which two Australian tourists died, but failed to stop it.
Republican Sinn Fein has accused a new splinter organisation operating
under the name ‘Real Sinn Fein’ of engaging in a “policy of
disinformation” against their former colleagues.
The PSNI has refused to say why it did not divert civilians away from a
dissident republican bomb attack for 15 minutes until the device was
about to explode.
Residents of an overwhelmingly nationalist County Antrim village are
furious that the Parades Commission has accepted a route for a sectarian
loyalist parade without consultation.
Sinn Fein has criticised a call by the rival nationalist SDLP for
control of state intelligence operations in the North to be transferred
to the PSNI police from British military intelligence agency, MI5.
As the countdown to an official visit by the British head of state to
the Twenty-Six Counties continues, details have been announced of the
latest protests against the move.
Sinn Fein’s Six-County Development Minister Conor Murphy has suspended
his most senior civil servant under amid a controversy over the award of
contracts for water supply.
Coiste na nlarchimi is a national organisation dedicated to upholding
the rights of former political prisoners and ensuring that society’s
institutions do not discriminate formally or informally against
ex-political prisoners.
The Apprentice Boys’ ‘Relief of Derry’ march -- the largest sectarian
parade of the year -- passed quietly on Saturday following reports of
dialogue between nationalist groups and the Stormont and British
administrations.
The British government should acknowledge at “the highest level” the
truth about the shooting dead of a 12-year-old girl by a British soldier
in south Armagh 34 years ago today, politicians have said.
An increase in electricity prices will cause further hardship to those
struggling to pay bills as new figures show the Electricity Supply Board
(ESB) is cutting power to 900 households per month over non-payment of
bills.
Those who pretend dissident Republicans are unimportant,
dismiss them as criminals, ignore them or expect Sinn Fein to control
them, have badly miscalculated.
Unionist paramilitaries have targeted the homes of Catholics in Antrim
town with pipe bombs as sectarian tensions once again ratchet up in the
Six Counties.
A former Sinn Fein councillor who refused to condemn the current armed
campaign by breakaway IRA groups has apparently become the subject of a
high profile media hate campaign
Unionists have attacked each other over the possibility of Sinn Fein’s
Martin McGuinness becoming First Minister following next May’s election
to the Belfast Assembly at Stormont.
GARC (the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective) has issued what it says
is an attempt to set the record straight on the July 12th protests
against an Orange Order march in north Belfast.
A dirty protest between republican prisoners and the authorities at
Maghaberry jail in the North has been resolved to the prisoners’
satisfaction following talks.
A challenge by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams to rival republican
organisations to meet him for discussions about the way ahead has met
with a suspicious reaction by the parties involved and condemned by the
British government.
Efforts to end a dirty protest by republican prisoners at Maghaberry
jail have made little progress, but talks involving the Six-County
department of justice and the North’s Prison Service are continuing this
week.
The British Direct Ruler in the North, Owen Paterson, has used his
‘executive power’ to permanently seal off a road in County Down near a
British Army base.
Sinn Fein President and West Belfast MP Gerry Adams has praised all of
those involved in the west Belfast festival, including a hurling
event in the grounds of the Six-County Assembly at Stormont.
An extract from the book, Internment, by John McGuffin, on the thinking
that went into the policy of internment without trial, implemented in
the north of Ireland 39 years ago this week.
A bomb attack on a PSNI base and the attempted assassination of a
senior British Army officer have rocked the political system in the
North of Ireland.
An incompetent Dublin government has allowed a second wave of jobs
losses to further undermine the 26-County economy, with unemployment in
the state reaching a 16-year high, opposition leaders have said.
The slaughter of three band members saw the
unintentional exposure of the involvement of British military personnel
in directing and assisting unionist death squads in their murder
campaign.
The families of 11 people shot dead by paratroopers in West Belfast are
to present the British secretary of state for the North, Owen Patterson,
and Stormont justice minister, David Ford, with a new dossier of
evidence on the killings.
The full hearing of a legal challenge by Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty to
the Dublin government’s refusal to move the writ for a by-election in the
Donegal South West constituency is expected to be heard on October 18th
at the High Court.
A Walmart executive reportedly wept last week as he apologised to the
family of two loyalist murder victims for the “deep hurt” caused after
their killer was given his checkout job back despite having been sacked
for sectarian remarks.
In August 1971, British soldiers went on
a three-day killing rampage in Ballymurphy, murdering 11 innocent
people. Now their families want justice for Belfast's Bloody Sunday.