The normal order in Irish hurling was restored in Croke Park this
afternoon when Kilkenny won the all-Ireland hurling final replay thanks
to another stunning performance by veteran Henry Shefflin over a
luckless Galway side, who never quite gained enough altitude to threaten
the serial champions.
Nationalist residents of north Belfast have said they are “bewildered”
by a decision of the Parades Commission to permit a giant unionist
parade to march past St Patrick’s Church in Belfast and the Carrick
Hill interface on Saturday, with only the lightest of restrictions.
A hunger fast by four Tyrone men at Maghaberry seeking to be housed
alongside other republican prisoners in the jail has ended following
developments inside and outside the prison.
Interned political activist Marian Price is reported to have suffered
another lung infection, preventing her from receiving a complicating
treatment for her arthritis. She was unable to communicate with her
legal team ahead of a court hearing this week.
Nationalists have dismissed claims by DUP leader Peter Robinson that
the union is “more secure” than ever as political tensions escalated
ahead of the centenary of the Ulster Covenant.
The Minister of State at the Department of Health Roisin Shortall has
resigned in a row over political interference in the siting of new
healthcare facilities.
Donegal have won the All-Ireland football final with considerable skill
and resilience at Croke Park this afternoon, raising the Sam Maguire Cup
for the first time since 1992.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has condemned so-called ‘dissidents’ in
Dublin despite a rally in the city last weekend which saw hundreds of
republicans of all hues unite to march in support of interned political
activist Marian Price.
A joint effort by the two main nationalist parties in the North to seek
to exclude unionist extremist Nelson McCausland from holding a
Ministerial position for three months is being seen as a potentially
significant development.
The identity of a former RUC sergeant who fired the shots that killed
unarmed Pearse Jordan 20 years ago will not be revealed at his inquest, a court
has ruled.
Almost 40,000 are leaving Ireland each year as a result of the
continuing decline in the 26 County economy, bringing Irish emigration
to its highest level since the famine.
The 26-County Government has said the referendum on the proposed new
31st amendment of the Constitution, giving the State increased powers to
take children into care, will take place on Saturday, November 10.
Rather than bring closure, the findings of the Hillsborough Independent
Panel have left the families of the 96 victims of the 1989 tragedy
demanding that justice be finally done.
A resolution asking
the Dublin government to apologise for its role in the early days of the
conflict is a unionist ploy to distract attention from the real issues.
A member of the hardline unionist DUP is to take the helm of a body
tasked with overseeing the conversion of the former site of Long Kesh
prison, including the demolition of most or all of the world-famous
H-Blocks.
No consultations have yet taken place with residents of a nationalist
area which 20,000 members of the anti-Catholic Orange Order and
thousands more supporters are due to parade past later this month.
Hundreds of people could be in line for compensation after a British
military document revealed that the British army continued to
interrogate suspects it had captured, despite being banned from doing
so.
The case of the Boston College IRA tapes is to go before the US Supreme
Court as the British authorities continue their efforts to investigate
those allegedly named in the interviews as IRA member
A detailed statement issued today [Friday] by Ed Moloney, the
former director of Boston College’s Belfast Project, in regard to the
PSNI’s attempt to access the project’s confidential interviews.
A major rally for interned republican activist Marian Price takes place
this Saturday [tomorrow] in Dublin. Writing this week, Eamonn McCann
said that the era when Irish republicans were imprisoned in British
jails without due process is supposed to be history -- but some want to
turn the clock back.
The most senior of the Protestant marching organisations has taken the
unprecedented step of apologising to the clergy and parishioners of the
Catholic St Patrick’s Church after three nights of march-related
violence in north Belfast.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has paid tribute to former political
prisoner Alan Ryan who was brutally shot down by a hired hitman in
Dublin earlier this week.
The conviction of former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison and
others entrapped by IRA informer Sandy Lynch and Freddie Scappaticci
have been deemed a miscarriage of justice.
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has warned that loyalists have become the
“spokespersons for the Protestant marching Orders when it comes to
parading issues in North Belfast”.
Controversial 26-County Health Minister James Reilly was shamed into a
U-turn on cuts to personal assistant services for the disabled after
disabled people and their carers gathered in protest -- but he quickly
seized funds which had been earmarked for the mentally ill.
The oration given by Diarmuid MacDubhghlais at the
annual hunger strike commemoration by Republican Sinn Féin in Bundoran,
County Donegal on August 25.
Again and again bands have flouted Parades Commission rulings by playing
prohibited music, by playing at prohibited places, by flying prohibited
flags and much else besides, and what? The same band does the same thing
the next year, and what?
A commemoration for the Protestant republican Henry Joy McCracken, the
founder of the United Irishmen, was attacked by a loyalist mob this
evening, triggering a wave of rioting in north Belfast.