British intelligence agents operate across the 32 counties of Ireland
and have received information from politicians, members of An Garda
police, Revenue tax officials and the 26-County Army, the Smithwick
Tribunal has heard.
Hundreds of people gathered in Derry’s Bogside on Sunday in what was one
of the largest demonstrations held yet in support of the interned
political prisoner Marian Price to demand her immediate release.
Lawyers for Sinn Féin have written to the Attorney General seeking
advance copies of government “information” being sent to homes about the
EU Austerity Treaty.
A plan to hoist a large granite monument in the centre of Portadown
commemorating the centenary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant, a
unionist pact to oppose Irish independence in 1912, has been strongly
criticised.
A public meeting in Derry last week heard of several serious allegations
of the misuse of stop and search powers against people with ‘dissident’
views, their children and wider family circles.
The coalition government’s plans for the introduction of new water
taxes has generated a new wave of resentment at the financial pressures
being imposed on people in the 26 Counties.
A recording of a telephone conversation with a former British army
General Officer Commanding in the north appears to confirm allegations
that Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci was the infamous British
double-agent known as ‘Steak-Knife’ or ‘Stakeknife’.
A member of the PSNI police left a loaded gun, ammunition and deadly CS
gas lying on a nine-year-old girl’s bed following a raid on her
family’s north Belfast home.
While no schedule or timetable exists for Ireland to be reunited, the
means by which it can be done has been agreed and a road map has been
legislated for.
Chaos erupted at the annual conference of the Labour Party in Galway
today as Gardai were unable to hold back protestors against the
26-County government’s austerity program.
A member of the breakaway ‘Real IRA’ has told a public Easter commemoration in Derry that the group will continue its armed struggle against British rule in the north of Ireland.
Former Fianna Fail minister Éamon Ó Cuív has added his voice to a
campaign for the release of a high-profile republican dissident, former
Sinn Fein Ard Chomhairle member Gerry McGeough.
The PSNI police took almost two hours to respond to a bomb alert in
Newry on Saturday, raising fresh questions over the force’s attitude
towards the civilian population in the North of Ireland.
Speaking at an Easter Rising commemoration in Bandon, west Cork, Sinn
Fein President Gerry Adams has said the 26-County State has failed the
leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
A new tourist attraction based on the Titanic in Belfast, where the ship
was built, has been hit by a controversy following accusations that it
is perpetuating the class divide with which the ship is synonymous.
The former news anchorman of ‘Ulster Television’, Mike Nesbitt, who was
elected new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party last weekend, has said
“there has never been a better time” for unionism and said he wants to
address Sinn Fein’s Ard Fheis.
A decision to order the blinds at the National Convention Centre to be
pulled down as over ten thousand angry citizens descended on Fine Gael’s
annual conference last weekend has become a metaphor for the coalition
government’s attitude to the Irish people.
There were serious disturbances in Craigavon, County Armagh last
weekend following the convictions of two local men over a Continuity
IRA attack in 2009.
A US appeal court has adjourned to consider whether an academic project
by Boston College involving confidential interviews with former IRA
Volunteers must be handed over to the PSNI police.
The police Historical Enquiries Team (HET) in the North has given
favourable treatment to British soldiers linked to killings during the
conflict, a University of Ulster report has confirmed.
The unionist paramilitary UDA has intimidated a Protestant family out of
their County Derry home after their son was spotted wearing an Ireland
t-shirt.
Padraig Pearse’s oration at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin at the funeral
of Irish Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was a significant event
in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.