Telephone conversations recorded five years ago between top bankers at
Anglo Irish Bank at the heart of the bank’s collapse have enraged the
Irish public and confirmed that a culture of delinquency and deception
lay behind its failure and nationalisation by the 26-County state.
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June 28, 2013
Anglo fraudsters exposed
Telephone conversations recorded five years ago between top bankers at
Anglo Irish Bank at the heart of the bank’s collapse have enraged the
Irish public and confirmed that a culture of delinquency and deception
lay behind its failure and nationalisation by the 26-County state.
New group emerges from Carrick Hill chaos
A new umbrella group has been set up to represent nationalist residents’
groups. The ‘Communities Against Sectarian Parades’ (CASP) group was set
up last week to oppose coat-trailing loyalist marches in north, west and
east Belfast, as well as in Derry, Rasharkin and Newtownbutler.
Diplock verdict overturned
West Belfast man Patrick Livingstone, jailed by a non-jury court on the
word of the RUC nearly 40 years ago, has had his life prison sentence
overturned.
Short Strand hit by peace line attacks
The nationalist Short Strand in east Belfast has come under repeated
petrol bomb attack, with three attacks in the space of a week.
O Cuiv talks lead to PSNI raid
The home of a Derry community worker was raided by the PSNI last
Saturday, less than 24 hours after she had met with Galway TD Eamon O
Cuiv to highlight her concerns about police raids in the area.
Labour in crisis
The chairman of the Irish Labour Party, Colm Keaveney, has quit as the
party continues to experience a major internal bust-up and a decline in
support over its political direction.
The Connaught Rangers Mutiny
Irish soldiers fighting for the British Army in India went on strike
after hearing of British war crimes in Ireland on June 28 1920, 93 years
ago this week.
The accused
The worm has turned and ‘Big Liv’ stands vindicated, able to point the
finger at those who conspired to unjustly secure a worthless conviction.
June 22, 2013
Sinn Féin Minister injured in parade tensions
Sinn Fein’s Six-County Minister for Culture Caral Ni Chuilin had to
attend hospital tonight after becoming involved in a bizarre incident
involving the party’s policing spokesperson, Gerry Kelly, and a PSNI
police Land Rover.
June 21, 2013
G8 shame - and pride
The sycophantic feting of the world’s most powerful leaders in the
British-occupied north of Ireland this week has disgraced politicians
in both parts of the island.
Child survives loyalist fire-bomb
As David Cameron told the world that British-occupied Ireland was a
“transformed place”, a four-year-old Catholic child almost burned alive
in a sectarian petrol bomb attack.
Protests against provocative ‘Tour of the North’
Tonight’s ‘Tour of the North’ parade passes a number of nationalist
communities in north Belfast, and is one of the most contentious parades
of the anti-Catholic Orange Order’s marching season.
British lies on display in Bloody Sunday makeover
A new video installation in Derry has been criticised as an attempt to
rewrite the history of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.
Shell campaigner on hunger strike
Campaigners against the construction of a Shell gas pipeline at Rossport
in County Mayo say one of their fellow campaigners is on a hunger strike
over his arrest.
PSNI claims are ‘nonsense on stilts’, tribunal hears
Attempts by the PSNI in the north of Ireland to derail a collusion
inquiry in Dublin have been condemned in the strongest terms by lawyers
for the chief of the Gardai police in the south.
Rossport Solidarity Camp
A week of action from 21st - 30th of June 2013 in Aughoose,
Pullathomas, County Mayo. Make this the week you come to visit Rossport.
Immoral diplomacy
Anyone who believes David Cameron that he chose an island outside
Enniskillen in an island called Ireland to stage the G8 had only to
listen to PSNI chief superintendent Alan McCrum who said Enniskillen is
really hard to get to.
June 17, 2013
Obama urges peace, reconciliation ahead of G8
US President Barack Obama has urged schoolchildren and politicians in the
North to work towards a more lasting peace and an end to sectarian
divisions.
June 14, 2013
Oppressive G8 policing underway
A member of eirigi has become the first person to be arrested ahead of
a giant security clampdown on political protests in advance of the G8
summit in the Irish border county of Fermanagh gets under way within
the next few days.
Garda thuggery at funeral of dedicated revolutionary
There has been widespread condemnation of the intimidatory and deeply
provocative behaviour of 26-County police at the funeral of former Sinn
Fein President Ruairi O Bradaigh last Saturday.
British always knew rubber bullets were lethal
The use of rubber bullets in the North of Ireland was sanctioned by the
British government despite its own tests showing they were potentially
lethal, new documents have revealed.
Para flags raised but Bloody Sunday insult dismissed
Inflammatory flags displaying the winged insignia of the British Army’s
murderous Parachute Regiment have appeared at several flashpoints in
Belfast and Derry.
‘Pro-life dissident’ faces Sinn Féin Dáil expulsion
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has said he will vote against new abortion
legislation when it comes before parliament next week, making it likely
he will be expelled from Sinn Fein’s parliamentary party.
Oration at the grave of Ruairí O Brádaigh
The oration by Des Dalton, President, Republican Sinn Féin at the grave of
Patron Ruairí O Brádaigh, St Coman’s Cemetery, Roscommon.
The Battle of Ballynahinch
An account of the battle which ended the United Irish Rebellion in
Ulster, 215 years ago this week, by Marcas Mac Ruairi.
Why we must protest
By hosting the G8 summit
in occupied Ireland, the British government are attempting to portray
our country as a peaceful colony – a success story for modern day
capitalism and imperialism.
June 7, 2013
Death of a Republican legend
Ruairi O Bradaigh was “a towering figure” of Irish republicanism who
came to embody the “very essence” of the Republican tradition, his
successor as leader of Republican Sinn Fein, Des Dalton, has said.
Increased links between Sinn Fein and PSNI
PSNI Chief Matt Baggott has attended a Sinn Fein event for the first
time this [Friday] afternoon, marking a new level of co-operation
between the main nationalist party in the North and the British Crown
police.
Former prisoners blocked from Stormont posts
A new law stopping many former PoWs from becoming ‘special advisers’ at
Stormont is expected to be in place within weeks, after the nationalist
SDLP failed to oppose it.
Dublin government presses ahead with Seanad abolition
The partners in the Dublin coalition government, Fine Gael and Labour,
are said to have “diverged sharply” in their attitude to the
confirmation this week that a referendum is to be held to scrap the
upper chamber of the Dublin parliament.
‘21st century’ unionists launch new party
A new unionist party has styled itself as the ‘Northern Ireland party
for the 21st century’.
London bar forced to abandon ‘Bloody Sundae’ cocktail
A ‘Sundae Bloody Sundae’ cocktail has been removed from a bar menu in
London after provoking outrage among relatives of those killed.
Injustice then is injustice now
After six months detention in Maghaberry jail as a result of his
republican beliefs, prominent eirigi activist Stephen Murney calls for
the end of internment.
SDLP’s uncertainty principle is baffling
What you’ve watched in the last fortnight is the political equivalent of
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in physics.
June 5, 2013
Former Sinn Féin president Ruairí Ó Brádaigh dies
Former Sinn Féin president Ruairí Ó Brádaigh has died in hospital in
Roscommon this afternoon, aged 80.
