There are fears that loyalist paramilitaries may be rearming after one
of the largest weapons caches found in the North in two decades was
uncovered entirely by accident this week.
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August 30, 2013
UVF arms threat
There are fears that loyalist paramilitaries may be rearming after one
of the largest weapons caches found in the North in two decades was
uncovered entirely by accident this week.
North Belfast mayhem averted with disperse order
A republican commemoration in north Belfast was dispersed by organisers
on Sunday after hundreds of loyalists threatened to riot on the parade
route.
Cowen refuses to apologise for crisis failures
The former 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen has admitted his government
had no plan to deal with the economic collapse in 2008. He claimed that
‘nobody is more sorry’ than him about what happened to the country, but
refused to apologise for the debacle.
Rasharkin residents escape bomb attack
Residents of the village of Rasharkin, County Antrim, were targeted by a
loyalist pipe bomb during a sectarian parade last weekend.
Labour figure sees SF coalition possibility
The chief whip of the Irish Labour party has said Sinn Féin could have a
role in a future 26-County coalition administration.
Heaney remembered as greatest Irish poet since Yeats
Tributes to the Nobel prize winner Derry poet Seamus Heaney has
dominated the Irish media following the announcement of his death this
morning, Friday 30th August.
An attack on Syria will only spread the war and killing
The western powers are champing at the bit to increase
their leverage in Syria’s grisly struggle for power
Haass should know who he’s dealing with
In traditional unionist fashion the DUP has ridden the past year's wave
of violence to hold back progress.
August 23, 2013
Price’s torment continues
A conviction against former internee Marian Price has been rescinded by
a court the day after it was imposed in the latest twist to the saga of
harassment and oppression of the former republican prisoner.
Concerns for peace process after DUP move on H-Blocks
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has warned that “the extremes of political
unionism” have been boosted after DUP leader Peter Robinson rejected
plans for a peace centre on the site of the former Long Kesh prison.
Legal challenge to ‘strangulation’ of McCracken event
Organisers of a republican commemoration in north Belfast are to seek a
High Court challenge over a Parades Commission decision to force it to
pass through a maze of back streets and into a dead end.
Drug dealers threatened
The breakaway republican armed group Oglaigh Na hEireann (ONH) has
threatened to punish more than 50 people it says are drug-dealers in
west Belfast.
Inequality in housing ’hidden”
Six County government officials have been accused of masking the true
levels of Catholic inequality in north Belfast, according to a new
report.
Call for civil disobedience against unjust water tax
As the Dublin government begins to install water meters across the
Twenty-Six County state, eirigi Dublin City Councillor Louise Minihan
has called on local communities to “get organised” to resist the
installation programme.
The fiery cross of Larkinism
The most militant traditions of Irish workers are expressed in one word:
Larkinism.
Address to John Joe McGirl commemoration
The speech delivered by
Martin McGuinness to the John Joe McGirl Commemoration, Ballinamore,
County Leitrim, on Saturday 17th August.
August 17, 2013
Historic H-Blocks in jeopardy
The Stormont administration has suffered another blow to its
credibility after the DUP ended its support for a plan to develop a
peace centre at the site of the former Long Kesh H-Blocks.
The coalition against civil rights
An alliance between the anti-Catholic Orange Order and loyalist
paramilitaries has been blamed for the scenes of mayhem in Belfast city
centre events last Friday, August 9th, when a nationalist civil rights
parade was blocked and then attacked by loyalist mobs.
Injunction on inquest files a test for devolution
A legal and political power struggle has broken out involving Six County
civil servants, Crown officials, a Sinn Fein Minister and British Direct
Ruler Theresa Villiers.
Family members targeted by PSNI recruitment attempts
The daughter of a County Tyrone republican has been urged by the PSNI to
turn informer on her own father, months after her cousin was subjected
to the same pressure.
McCracken parade decision shows republicans ‘second class’
A republican march through north Belfast on the same day as a loyalist
parade has been rerouted by the Parades Commission.
Booze and bling among Shell’s pipeline ‘bribes’
There have been calls for an independent inquiry into allegations that
alcohol was distributed to Gardai and gifts handed out to residents on
behalf of Shell’s contentious pipeline and refinery project in northwest
County Mayo.
The burning of Bombay Street
In 1969, a sectarian mob burned 1,500 residents from their homes on
Bombay Street, Belfast, 44 years ago this week, helping to give rise to the Provisional IRA:
Unionist mindset same as in 1968
When you strip it down to fundamentals, last weekend demonstrated
exactly the same unionist attitudes and mindset as they held in 1968.
August 11, 2013
No violence at Castlederg march
A republican commemoration in County Tyrone, which had appeared to be
threatened by loyalists, has passed off peacefully.
August 9, 2013
Breaking through
Up to ten thousand republicans, socialists and concerned citizens took
part in a civil rights march against internment through Belfast this
evening despite heavy rioting by loyalists and a political campaign to
demonise those taking part.
Belfast Mayor kicked by loyalists during Woodvale walkabout
A loyalist protest turned violent this week when Sinn Fein’s Mayor of
Belfast, Mairtin Muilleoir, attended the re-opening of a park.
IRA statement on death of prison chief
A former IRA leader has confirmed the organisation killed Brian Stack,
the only 26-County prison officer to die in the conflict, in March 1983.
Strong support for Omagh families on 15th anniversary
Families of the Omagh bomb victims are being forced to go to the courts
to require the Dublin and London governments to hold a public inquiry
into the 1998 attack.
British Direct Ruler condemns Tyrone commemoration
Controversy over a republican commemoration in County Tyrone this Sunday
has continued after the British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers, in an
usually partisan intervention, demanded the parade be called off.
End of ‘civil war politics’ predicted
Former Fianna Fail deputy leader Mary O’Rourke says it is time for her
party and Fine Gael to seriously consider going into Coalition with each
other.
British torture base revealed
The location of a secret camp used to torture 14 victims of internment,
long kept secret by the British government, has finally been exposed.
Laying claim to the Volunteers of Tyrone
An article by Sean Bresnahan on the upcoming Tyrone event to commemorate
two IRA volunteers who died in 1973.
August 2, 2013
Castlederg massacre ‘would be a great service’
A unionist councillor was charged by the PSNI this evening over her
public support for the idea of a loyalist massacre at next week’s
republican commemoration in Castlederg.
Parade tensions shift
The controversy over internet comments by DUP Councillor Ruth Patterson
will have dramatically escalated tensions over the planned republican
commemoration in Castlederg, which unionists want banned entirely.
Kenny leaves RTE ahead of new broadcasting charge
One of Ireland’s best paid public employees, television and radio
personality Pat Kenny, has left Irish state broadcaster RTE (Radio
Teilifis Eireann).
Thatcher’s fears over Sinn Fein publicity
Secret British documents from 1983 show the high level of concern in
London at the rise of Sinn Fein, and advanced plans to limit media
opportunities for the party.
Houses and cars attacked in Belfast
There has been a worrying increase in the number of reprisal attacks in
Protestant areas as the warm summer continues to fuel sectarian clashes
at Belfast’s interfaces.
McGurk’s families challenge HET secrecy
Relatives of those killed in the McGurk’s Bar bombing have called on the
PSNI police to release the findings of an investigation by their
Historical Enquiries Team into the UVF atrocity.
Building a new Republic
The address delivered by Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams at the
MacGill Summer School in County Donegal on the topic of ‘How
stands the Republic’
Anniversary of Internment 2013
Internment or Detention Without Trial is nothing new to Irish people and
has been used every few decades throughout our Nation’s occupation.
