Members of the British Crown forces were central to the orchestrated
murder of prominent Catholics, according to new research based on
official state investigations and military files.
Two cases in which Roma children were suddenly removed from their
families in Dublin and the midlands because they were ‘too blonde’ have
caused outrage in Ireland and abroad.
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has said a 1993 IRA attack on the
leadership of the UDA death squads in west Belfast in which nine
civilians died “cannot be defended”.
A pipe-bomb and two mail-bomb attacks on the PSNI in the space of 24
hours appear to be the latest signs of an increasingly active campaign
by the republican armed groups.
The Garda police in the South have refused repeated requests to send the
secret journal of top informer Denis Donaldson to the Police Ombudsman
in the North of Ireland.
Irish rebels against British rule established a government at Kilkenny
on October 20 1642, 371 years ago this week. An account of how
Ireland's first national Assembly came about.
A look at the controversy over comments by sports
commentator Joe Brolly in defence of
nationalist communities who name facilities
after hunger strikers and other republican heroes.
A shocking Famine-era ‘solution’ to the problem of youth unemployment
has dominated this year’s announcement of Budget plans by the coalition
government in Dublin.
Republican Network for Unity has warned that British agents may be
behind a bewildering series of unclaimed bomb alerts, most of which have
been hoaxes or proved groundless.
The Dublin government has been accused of turning the west of Ireland
into a US military hub after it emerged that highly weaponised warplanes
have been landing and refuelling at Shannon Airport on their way to and
from conflicts in the Middle East.
The centenary of an address by nationalist Roger Casement to win the
hearts and minds of Protestant Home Rulers at a rally in north Antrim
will be marked next week.
The organisation describing itself as the ‘new’ IRA said this week it
had executed a major drug dealer in north Belfast amid escalating
violence on the streets of the Six Counties.
A decision to appoint a former SAS military figure as a direct rule
British minister is being seen as an indication of a mounting crisis in
the peace process in the north of Ireland.
Unionist hardliners have been strongly criticised for seeking to
‘upscale’ protests and disturbances in its efforts to force a sectarian
parade through the nationalist Ardoyne in north Belfast.
The case against two Craigavon men convicted of shooting a PSNI man in
2009 appears to be nearing collapse as the appeal against their
convictions took place this week at the Court of Appeal in Belfast.
Three elected Leinster House TDs were video-recorded by specialist PSNI
police as they attempted to speak to the family of a jailed republican
activist, it has emerged.
Fine Gael leader and 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been humiliated
after the rejection by voters of a dictatorial attempt to abolish the
Seanad, the upper house of the Dublin parliament.
It will be sad and a major setback if 5000 jobs are not realised and
300 million pounds in investment lost. More important than Peter Robinson
reneging on the MLK [Maze/Long Kesh] project, is what his decision
symbolises.
The Seanad, the upper house of the 26-County parliament, has been saved
from abolition by a small margin following counting of votes in
yesterday’s referendum.
Turnout in today's 26-County referenda could be close to a record low as
voters appear to be staying away from a potentially historic ballot on
the abolition of the Seanad, the upper chamber of the 26-County
parliament.
Elements in the mainstream media have urged Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams
to resign following the conviction this week of his brother, Liam, for
the sexual abuse of his daughter Aine in the period 1977-1983.
Sinn Féin First Minister Martin McGuinness has challenged unionists to
confront the paramilitary UVF in east Belfast, who he accused of being
closely linked to the anti-Catholic Orange Order.
There has been strong criticism of an official British Army event in
which soldiers were filmed clapping and dancing to loyalist tunes at
Ibrox Park football stadium in Glasgow.
Relatives of three IRA Volunteers shot dead by the SAS have expressed
frustration after being told it will be another year before a full
inquest is heard.
There has been much exploitation and manipulation of people bereaved and
injured in our conflict - playing on emotions and grief for political
capital.
The Court of Appeal of Lithuania on Wednesday cleared Irish citizen
Michael Campbell, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for trying to
buy weapons for the Real IRA in 2008.