A father of a man allegedly murdered by notorious British Crown informer
and double agent, Freddie Scappaticci, is behind a new effort to bring
the state to book for Scappaticci’s secret crimes.
The Dublin government has attempted to turn the tables on its left-wing
opponents this week with efforts to portray them as “dangerous” and
“anti-democratic”.
The Dublin government stands accused of planning to celebrate the
partition of Ireland, following comments made by Fine Gael’s
controversial Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan at his party’s annual
conference last weekend.
On open letter by blogger Ciaran Tierney on last weekend’s hostile live
television interview of Paul Murphy TD by Ryan Tubridy, presenter of
the Irish state broadcaster’s main light entertainment programme, the
Late Late show.
Anti-austerity activists have embarked on a hunger strike in protest at
their incarceration at Wheatfield prison in Dublin, and are now also
threatening to refuse fluids.
An abuse victim is hopeful after winning the first stage in a battle to have a
Westminster parliamentary inquiry look into allegations that senior
unionist politicians, businessmen and high-level British state agents
connived in a paedophile ring at the notorious Kincora care home in
Belfast.
The jailing of five anti-austerity protestors has marked a further
escalation in the 26 County government’s crackdown on political
demonstrations against the water tax.
An area around Currynieirin in Derry was closed off for two days this
week while an object reported as a “mortar-like device” was recovered. A
telephone caller to a local newspaper said an explosive device had been
left on a laneway by “the republican movement”.
New research has shown the 26 County state is now the most unequal
country in the European Union for the distribution of income, and one of
the worst in the western world for health inequality.
Four of the 11 new ‘super’ councils could be set to have Irish as the
first language on their logos and literature, according to the two
nationalist parties.
The family and friends of a South Armagh man have condemned his continued
imprisonment pending a possible prosecution in regard to the 1998 Omagh
bomb attack.
A number of children have been arrested in Dublin after being caught up
in a shocking crackdown by the 26 County state against anti-austerity
protests in the capital.
Maghaberry’s ‘riot squad’ have continued to use violence against
republican prisoners following last week’s disturbances at the jail,
which left one prisoner to seek hospital treatment.
The failure to convict a single member of the British Crown forces since
1998 is being linked to the systematic frustration of investigations and
inquests by elements within the policing system in the north of Ireland.
The latest development in a notorious ‘oral history’ project operated by
a Boston university has seen British forces granted the right to seize,
but not open, sealed tapes of interviews given by a former unionist
paramilitary prisoner.
A sectarian loyalist parade organised by Willie Frazer has been given
approval to march through Dublin city centre and past the GPO on
O’Connell Street, the site of the 1916 Easter Rising, according to
reports.
A new mural calling for people to join the UDA was recently painted in
Carrickfergus, County Antrim, prompting fears that the unionist
paramilitary group is again recruiting.
The arrest of anti-austerity TD Paul Murphy and three other left-wing activists in
early morning raids has led to angry protests at Garda police stations
across Dublin.
A republican political prisoner was badly beaten by warders at
Maghaberry jail last week following confrontations over new changes to
the prison regime.
Leave to seek a judicial review of how the PSNI police investigated a
gang responsible for the murders of up to 120 innocent Catholics was
granted last week after it emerged that a key police report on the gang
was suddenly “shelved” five years ago.
Many of the issues behind the original Bloody Sunday march are still
relevant today, marchers attending a Bloody Sunday commemoration rally
have been told.
Policing is too important
to be left to the police, and in the context of the north of Ireland, the past is also too important to be left to the police.