England is currently experiencing a wave of xenophobic attacks as
politicians across Europe grapple with the fallout of the shock result
of a British vote to leave the EU.
Two strikes inside three minutes sank a brave Irish campaign in the Euro
2016 championship and put the host team into the quarter-finals in Lyon
this afternoon.
Pressure for Irish reunification is at its highest in a generation after
a shock ‘Leave’ result in the British referendum on the European Union
is set to force the north of Ireland out of the EU and could bring a
virtual iron curtain down across the island of Ireland.
Plans have been advanced to allow a controversial parade by the
anti-Catholic Orange Order march through a nationalist area of north
Belfast in return for loyalists ending a campaign of intimidation at a
sectarian interface.
Alleged evidence against veteran republican Ivor Bell has been
unlawfully obtained from America in breach of an international treaty, a
court has heard.
An epic GAA football match that became known as the ‘All Ireland Behind
Barbed Wire’ was commemorated last weekend when a match was played at
the site of the former internment camp at Frongoch in Wales.
An already legendary victory over Italy on Wednesday has propelled Ireland into
the last 16 in the Euro 2016 international soccer tournament, setting up
a fateful encounter with hosts France on Sunday and gripping a nation that had
feared its chance of progress had slipped away.
Forthcoming negotiations are an opportunity for Sinn Fein
and northern nationalists to tighten relations with the Republic in ways
that benefit all the people on this island.
Conservative Party leader David Cameron has resigned as British Prime
Minister, and said he will step down in October. He made his
resignation speech this morning outside Downing Street after Britain
voted to leave the European Union. Mr Cameron said he accepted the
decision of the electorate, which voted for a ‘Brexit’ yesterday by 52%
to 48%.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is predicted to resign after
results from his referendum on EU membership show it pulling Britain and
the north of Ireland out of the European Union by a total vote of an
estimated 51.7% to 48.3%.
The British political system has lurched into crisis following the
murder of a progressive MP and embittered exchanges ahead of this
weeks’s referendum on EU membership. Campaigning in the referendum,
which could have profound significance for Ireland and Scotland, has
been suspended.
British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers has refused to withdraw comments
she made about the Loughinisland massacre, following a report last week
which found that British state forces had indeed colluded in the
murders.
A court has decided that it was wrong to stop former republican prisoner
Martin Neeson from working as a groundsman. A judge this week quashed a
decision preventing former republican PoW Martin Neeson from working for
a conservation charity.
In the aftermath of the damning Loughinisland Police Ombudsman report,
further questions are being asked about a massive arms shipment linked
to dozens of loyalist murders.
Up to 15,000 loyalists are expected to take part in a parade through
Belfast later today [Saturday] as thousands of nationalists will be
making their way to the city centre to watch the Irish national soccer
team take on Belgium in European Championship soccer.
Loyalties are divided among Irish republicans over the ‘Brexit’
referendum as a new battle over Britain’s place in Europe brings the
potential for a period of significant political change in Ireland and
Britain.
There are fresh calls in the north of Ireland for a much stronger
approach to the issue of state collusion following confirmation that it
played a significant role in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre.
There has been a very cautious welcome for the news that a new police
investigation is to be set up into the activities of British army agent
Stakeknife, thought to have been the highest ranking British double
agent within the IRA during the conflict.
Evidence of British state collusion in a paedophile ring at a notorious
Belfast care home will not be examined fully by the Historical
Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA), currently underway in Banbridge,
County Down, it has been confirmed.
An inquest into a gun attack against Protestant workmen in 1976 has had
to be halted following the bizarre claim that a match has been found for
a palm print, forty years after it was taken from the scene of the
attack.
It is poignantly fitting that the truth about Loughinisland has emerged
at this precise time as people gather in their local pubs for the start of Euro
2016.
Families of six men murdered in the Loughinisland massacre have welcomed
an Ombudsman’s investigation that has finally exposed significant state
collusion with the killers.
Masked gangs are now evicting people from their homes in the 26 Counties
at the behest of international vulture funds, who have ordered a wave of
repossessions to extract profit from their newly acquired loan books.
Republican Sinn Fein man has hit out at the “arbitrary arrest and
internment” of twelve of its members following the opening of a
republican Garden of Remembrance in Lurgan, County Armagh last weekend.
Republicans in north Belfast have described how the PSNI police
descended on a house within minutes of a spying device being discovered
by builders doing work on the property in the Ardoyne area.
The wife of a County Armagh man shot dead by a member of the Parachute
regiment more than 40 years ago has welcomed the findings of a fresh
inquest saying “the world has seen that he was innocent”.
The DUP has blocked funding for a community centre indefinitely
because of the appearance of the names of the two Irish War of
Independence heroes on nearby gates to the site.
A miscarriage of justice victim has spoken out following the
announcement by Birmingham’s senior coroner that she is to reopen the
inquest into the 1974 bombings in the city, in which 21 people died.