The UVF ‘ceasefire’ is increasingly being viewed as a sham after the
unionist paramilitary groups organised two nights of heavy rioting in
the Rathcoole area of Belfast in response to an ongoing collusion
inquiry.
Former IRA Volunteer Gerry ‘Whitey’ Bradley has been found dead, just
hours after the screening of a shocking documentary based on interviews
with former IRA leader Brendan Hughes.
Five former politicians charged with taking bribes were sent forward for
trial today as the 26 County state began to grapple with the legacy of
institutional corruption.
The two main opposition parties in the 26 Counties are still supporting
the coalition government’s plan to reduce the state’s budget deficit to
3% of GDP by 2014 -- despite learning that the plan involves cutbacks
and taxes of 15 billion euro, exactly double what had been previously
outlined.
One of the most senior ex-Provisional IRA figures in the North has said
that the nationalist community should not pass on information or
“collaborate in any way” with the PSNI.
A tribute to Maire Drumm, the vice president of Sinn Fein and a
commander in Cumann na mBan, who was killed by loyalists while
recovering in Belfast’s Mater Hospital. 34 years ago today.
Thirty thousand public service jobs in the Six Counties are to be
eliminated after the British government slashed its promised
contribution to maintaining society in the Six Counties.
An IRA trial dramatically collapsed
yesterday after top secret documents
which reveal that an alleged MI5 agent orchestrated a bombing campaign
were withheld from the defence.
A new submission by lawyers acting for Colin Duffy forced a judge
to postpone a decision on whether he should stand trial for the Real IRA
attack on Massereene British Army base in March of last year
The family of a taxi driver lured to his death by a loyalist murder
squad have called for an independent inquiry as they prepare to mark the
20th anniversary of his killing.
That, on the day an ailing Margaret Thatcher was being treated in a
private hospital, British Tory chancellor George Osborne was rising at
Westminster to wield his ideological axe was highly ironic.
Five hundred days after the seat was vacated, the Dublin government has
incredibly told the High Court that there has been no unreasonable delay
in holding a by-election in Donegal South West.
Cross-party talks between the Dublin government and the two largest
opposition parties are to go ahead despite the revelation that the 26
County budget deficit is heading for 15 billion euro -- double the
previous worst estimate.
A British soldier who served less than a year in jail over shooting a
woman should have been charged with her murder, the Historical Enquiries
Team has found.
Declassified official documents shed an interesting light on British
government attitudes towards loyalist infiltration of the security
forces and loyalist violence in the 1970s.
The Dublin government is to hold talks with the leaders of two of the
main opposition parties -- pointedly excluding Sinn Fein -- as it
struggles to cope with the consequences of its own ineptitude and
corruption.
The PSNI investigation into the Real IRA attack on Massareene British
army base has ‘lost’ documentation surrounding a vehicle which was the
only evidence alleged to have connected two men to the killings of two
British soldiers.
A fresh wave of British army intelligence officers have been deployed in
Derry to combat the increasing activity of the Real IRA and Oglaigh na
hEireann.
Over a thousand Irish Republicans Marched from Galbally Community centre
to Galbally graveyard last weekend to remember IRA Volunteers Dessie Grew
and Martin McCaughey who were killed by the SAS on IRA active service 20
years ago.
Unionist paramilitaries who killed more than 100 people during the first
18 months of internment escaped detention because the British government
believed there was “no serious Protestant threat” to the state, newly
discovered papers reveal.
Lurgan republican Colin Duffy was forcibly strip-searched and assaulted
both before and after a tense court appearance in Coleraine, County
Derry on Monday.
Amnesty International and British Irish Rights Watch today urged British
authorities not to forget victims of torture in Ireland, following the
release of a new Guardian film by Ian Cobain.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams clashed with British Secretary of State
Owen Paterson after he wore a wristband supporting the British Army’s
notorious Royal Irish Regiment at a meeting with the families of victims
of a British Army massacre.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has accused Fine Gael and the Labour
Party of being involved in a “cosy political consensus” with what was
probably the most unpopular Government in the history of the state.
Public support for so-called ‘dissident’ republican groups has been
significantly underestimated by the Irish political and media
establishment, according to academic research published on Thursday.
The ‘Real IRA’ has claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb with more
than 200 pounds of explosives outside an Ulster Bank in a commercial
district of Derry in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed his determination to
sustain British rule in the Six Counties despite the Real IRA attack in
Derry on Tuesday.
The Green Party has suggested the formation of a national unity
government and is seeking to establish an all-party forum to discuss the
economic crisis.
A blame game has erupted over a fund which was uncovered earlier this
year involving the 26-County Department of Health, the Health Service
Executive (HSE) and the powerful SIPTU trade union.
Gary Donnelly, a former prisoner in the North's high-security facility at Maghaberry, speaks about a shocking, largely unnoticed protest by republican dissidents that erupted inside the prison ealier this year.
The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has denied the sovereignty of the 26-County
state has been jeopardised by the banking and budget crises, even as
European officials began dictating Irish economic policy.
An application for political asylum in Sweden allegedly made almost 30
years ago by Gerry McGeough from Tyrone is due to be used as evidence
against him in a Belfast court.
The state’s unprecedented use of law and order forces against its own
citizens while protecting private commercial interests augurs badly for
a remote community in north Mayo and for the State as a whole, a
planning hearing has been told.
A massively increased price-tag for the bank bailout by the Fianna
Fail/Green Party government has left the 26-County state braced for
deeper cuts and rising taxes and blighted the state’s finances for a
generation.
The family of a 14-year-old boy whose face was published in newspapers
and leaflets as part of a PSNI police “naming and shaming” tactic have
taken a legal challenge against his treatment.
One of the UVF’s most senior members has turned ‘supergrass’ and is
ready to give evidence against other members of the loyalist murder
gang, it has been revealed.
The PSNI were accused of using of repressive legislation to harass a
nationalist community on Tuesday as the force launched a major “security
operation” on the outskirts of the Derrybeg estate in Newry.
Just 1% of the population are estimated to own 34% of the wealth of the
Twenty-Six Counties. The &lsquo1% Network’ is to hold a
political walking tour through the heartland of the golden circle in Dublin.