The Dublin government has been accused of lining up with the IMF and the
EU institutions to inflict further suffering on the Greek people even as
it continues to impose further austerity cuts here.
A spectacular row over the disciplining of two councillors has divided
the Sinn Fein organisation in Cork, with up to 70 resignations reported
across the Cork East constituency.
An Armagh woman who survived a no warning loyalist bomb that killed two
people is to take a civil action against the RUC/PSNI police for failing
to properly investigate her son’s murder at the hands of another
loyalist death squad years later.
The family of murdered Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane have said
they will not give up despite the rejection of their legal challenge
against the British government’s refusal to hold a public inquiry.
Thirty years ago, Seamus Ruddy disappeared in France. Dominique Foulon,
former editor of Irland Libre and Solidarite Irlande, calls for his body
to be returned to his family.
Evidence of anti-Irish attitudes in the upper echelons of the US media has
shocked the Irish public as it struggles with a disaster in Berkeley,
California, that this week claimed the lives of six students and injured
a further seven.
There appears to have been a shift in public attitudes in the 26
Counties following the broadcast of the documentary ‘Collusion’ by state
broadcaster RTE this week.
The shuttering of Clerys landmark shop in Dublin city centre has cast a
light on new Irish company law which allowed the troubled business to be
stripped of valuable assets before its workers were suddenly left
jobless.
One of the first controversial sectarian parades of the summer passed
off uneventfully on Friday night in north Belfast after loyalist
bandsmen appeared to adhere to a Parades Commission determination.
A member of the Republican Network for Unity was assaulted and arrested
by the PSNI while putting up suicide awareness posters in north Belfast
on Sunday afternoon.
A republican political prisoner at Maghaberry has detailed a traumatic experience
at the hands of prison warders after he sought medical attention for a
suspected heart attack.
The Stormont House Agreement is now history. It joins the long list of
documents gathering dust in the archives like the 1995 Frameworks
Document, large chunks of the 2001 Weston Park Agreement and the 2010
Hillsborough Agreement.
The head of the PSNI police in the north of Ireland, George Hamilton,
has said the force has a “vault” of secret information on the conflict
in the North but is concerned its release would create a “one sided
focus” on the force’s actions.
Derry man Paul McCauley died last weekend as a result of a vicious
loyalist assault nine years ago. His father has now called for a full
and proper investigation into his murder.
The unionist paramilitary UVF is being blamed after a masked gang this
week threatened to shoot a man at his home while his 14-year-old son was
inside. Three men, one armed with a gun, threw a brick at the house on
Blythe Street in Sandy Row in south Belfast before threatening the man.
The head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the north of Ireland, Barra
McGrory, is facing an apparent loyalist death threat over allegations
that he is working to a Sinn Fein agenda.
Relatives of those who died in the McGurk’s Bar attack have gathered in their dozens to help restore a memorial in north Belfast which was damaged in a paint attack.
The 1916 Societies, a republican campaign group, has claimed
responsibility for raising an Irish tricolour flag and the green ‘Irish
Republic’ flag of Easter 1916 over the Stormont Assembly outside
Belfast last week.
A new film ecords the stories primarily of republican women (activists in the
IRA and Cumann na mBan) who were imprisoned in Armagh gaol and
Maghaberry prison during the armed conflict.
The case against two high-profile Sinn Fein activists accused of IRA
membership collapsed this week after key witnesses withdrew their
evidence in a dramatic week for republicans in the court.
There was a hysterical response by unionists this week after the Irish
national flag and the flag of the proclamation of the Irish Republic
were seen to briefly fly above the Belfast Assembly at Stormont.
The British government secretly authorised the use of a chemical riot
control agent, fired from aerosols, water cannon or dropped from the
air, to be used on republican PoWs at the height of the conflict, it has
been confirmed.
World renowned musician James Galway has created a furore among
unionists by admitting he regards himself as someone from “British
occupied part of Ireland”.
The Dublin government is to launch a formal investigation into financial
transactions at the bailed-out Anglo Irish Bank after an attempt to
prevent embarrassing details emerging via the Dublin parliament was
rejected by a High Court judge.
Confirmation that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) received a
seven-figure sum from Sepp Blatter’s FIFA as secret compensation for an
infamous foul which knocked Ireland out of the World Cup playoffs in
2009 has been greeted with disgust at home and abroad.
A Police Ombudsman investigation is reported to have uncovered serious
concerns about collusion in the murder of Sinn Fein councillor Eddie
Fullerton. A look back at an infamous assassination, 24 years ago this
month.