Just under 90,000 people marched in Dublin on Saturday in the latest
anti-austerity protest against the 26 County government’s new water
charges as a scandal over the operation of Irish Water, the new national
water board, has expanded.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to identify leading
republicans who received British royal pardons following a furore over
the revelation that senior Sinn Fein politician Gerry Kelly received a
pardon in the 1980s.
A single gang of unionist paramilitaries is thought to be behind a
murder and a spate of shooting and beatings across the North Antrim and
Coleraine areas.
A former republican prisoner who suffers from a severe speech impediment
is afraid to leave his Belfast home because of constant harassment by
the PSNI police.
The families of 10 innocent civilians killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy
massacre have described a meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny this week as
a “positive move forward”.
From the foundation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) to the
fateful days of Easter 1916, when Irish Volunteers took to the streets
to fight for our freedom. The first in a two-part historical feature.
Political activity in the north of Ireland was unexpectedly set back
this week when the US State Department cancelled a meeting with Sinn
Fein President Gerry Adams in Washington DC.
There were only relatively minor incidents in Belfast on Tuesday after a
loyalist flag protest outside Belfast City Hall was held as thousands
gathered to celebrate the feast day of Ireland’s patron saint.
There has been “dishonourable silence” from the British government on
evidence of deep collusion between the British forces in Ireland and
unionist paramilitaries during the conflict, an Irish human rights
researcher author has told a US congressional panel.
Tens of thousands are preparing to march in Dublin today in the latest
anti-austerity protest. Three separate marches, highlighting
the impact of austerity and the new tax on tap water, are planned for
Saturday afternoon.
A researcher at Amnesty International recalls Gerry McKerr, one of the Hooded Men, who passed away this week as his case against torture continues before the European Court of Human Rights.
Jim Slaven of the James Connolly Society gives his opinion on the
political developments in the Six Counties and Sinn Fein’s change of
heart on the Welfare Bill currently before Stormont. He argues that the
solution to the ills currently afflicting Ireland are to be found in
establishing a genuine democratic republic rather than pandering to
power within the partitioned states.
Almost a hundred thousand people took the streets in the North’s biggest
protest against austerity cuts on Friday as Sinn Fein battled
accusations that it has let down working class voters and the poor in
the negotiation of the Stormont House Agreement.
The emergence of a second historical case in which a teenager was
allegedly abused by an IRA member has reignited a controversy begun six
months ago over Sinn Fein’s handling of such matters.
The British Crown forces in the north of Ireland have for the first time
admitted collusion with a notorious loyalist killer in the unionist
paramilitary UVF.
The family of a man with special needs who was shot dead by the British
Army in 1974 have said they have no faith in a re-opened police
investigation by the PSNI’s ‘Legacy Investigation Branch’.
Laws stating that Queen Elizabeth is the king of Ireland and that anyone
selling horses outside greater Dublin shall die are to be repealed, the
Dublin government has announced.
The President of the High Court in Dublin has this afternoon directed
the immediate release of four anti-water charges protesters over a
technicality regarding the manner of their committal.
In a dramatic turnaround, Sinn Fein has said it will seek to block the
welfare bill, a key element of the Stormont House Agreement, after
accusing the DUP of acting in bad faith on the issue.
Sinn Fein has categorically ruled out joining a coalition government in
Dublin as junior partner after elections due early next year. The party
is holding its Ard Fheis (annual conference) in Derry this weekend.
A Sinn Fein member of the European Parliament is refusing to speak any
language other than her native Gaelic, in protest at the European
Union’s failure to fulfil its designation of Irish as a full official
language of the EU.