Loyalists have returned to intimidate the Holy Cross Catholic girls’
school in north Belfast, almost 12 years after a previous campaign of
violence and terror made international headlines.
A new, openly sectarian political party called ‘Protestant Coalition’
has been formed in the North by those involved in the recent loyalist
flag protests and disturbances.
The site of the Long Kesh prison will be used to create “a shrine to
peace”, Sinn Fein’s deputy First Minister has said, following a decision
to go ahead with the project.
Nationalists in north Belfast have walked out of a meeting with the
Parades Commission after being told to stay clear of their own parish
church this Sunday as yet another incendiary loyalist parade marches by.
The Great Hunger of 1845-52 raises questions that are still unanswered, and last weekend, historians, students, and members of the public gathered at Fordham
University to discuss them.
Masked loyalist paramilitaries erected more than 600 UVF flags in east
Belfast last weekend along key arterial routes, without consultation or
notification in an operation that involved cherry pickers operating in
broad daylight.
Margaret Thatcher once encouraged her advisers to consider a ‘clearance’
of Catholics from the Six Counties as a solution to the conflict, it has
been revealed.
An inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway has uncovered
grave shortcomings in the care she received prior to her death, chiefly
the failure to terminate her pregnancy when her life was threatened by a
miscarriage.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to keep secret interviews
with former IRA members from being turned over to the British
authorities in the North of Ireland.
On Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, Lurgan man Martin Corey will have spent
three years in Maghaberry Prison without any charges ever being placed
against him.
The 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement has prompted a wave of
political commentary and a fresh debate on whether the promises made at
the time of the agreement have been honoured.
Secret US embassy cables have revealed that officials in Dublin warned
of the “emotional involvement” of Irish Americans in Irish politics, but
expressed satisfaction that senior politicians in the main Irish parties
were supportive of US government interests.
Descendants of Easter Rising leaders have expressed anger at the
dilapidated condition of the historical Moore Street buildings in
Dublin, where the last headquarters of the rebel leaders was based
during the 1916 Easter Rising.
The death of Margaret Thatcher will not,
unfortunately, signal an end to the damaging policies she introduced and
implemented in Ireland, Britain or elsewhere around the globe.
A device detonated inside a litter bin in the Kilwilkie estate in
Lurgan, County Armagh, last Saturday close to where the PSNI were
attempting to film those attending an Easter commemoration in St
Colman’s cemetery.
An early morning sectarian parade by loyalists through the republican
Ardoyne passed off without incident as two nationalist groups held
protests on Saturday.
Headstones and monuments at a plot maintained by Sinn Fein activists in
Cork’s St Finbarr’s Cemetery on Glasheen Road were targeted by a vandal
just 24 hours ahead of the party’s Easter Rising commemorations events
last weekend.