The chairman of a County Antrim Gaelic sports club has resigned after it
voted to remove entrance gates dedicated to the memory of two Irish War
of Independence martyrs in order to secure a grant from a
unionist-controlled council.
A dispute over a sectarian loyalist parade through the mainly
nationalist town of Rasharkin last week is being linked to the “leak” of
private messages targeting Sinn Fein Assembly member Daithi McKay.
The Police Ombudsman has been urged to review an investigation into the
suspicious death of a republican while in PSNI custody after an
investigator linked to the case resigned.
Recently released government papers dating from 1985 have again reopened
a debate about negotiations which took place during the 1981 hunger
strike which some have argued could have prevented the deaths of six of
the ten republican prisoners who died.
The Bloody Sunday families have called on the PSNI to state whether or
not they intend recommending that the soldiers responsible for the 1972
killings are prosecuted.
A priest has spoken about God’s “perfect timing” after he officiated at
the joint funeral mass of a man murdered by British soldiers and the
wife who campaigned in his memory, despite them dying exactly 45 years
apart.
This week a peace agreement represents the first time that Colombia will
be at peace since 1948, and includes comprehensive agreements that
encompass many aspects of Colombian life.
Senior Sinn Fein political figure Daithi McKay, who worked to expose
wrongdoing in the murky world of Ireland’s NAMA property deals, could
end up being the only direct casualty of the scandal following his
forced resignation this week.
The main Apprentice Boys of Derry parade of the year infuriated
residents after loyalist band members were seen to lead inflammatory
chanting and sectarian singing at the heart of the overwhelmingly
nationalist city.
Thousands attended this years anti-internment bonfires, traditionally
held on the feast day of the Assumption, and which have become public
displays of nationalist dissatisfaction with the Stormont administration
and British rule.
Irish corruption is again the subject of international media attention
following the arrest of the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland
(OCI) Pat Hickey as part of a Brazilian police investigation into an
insider ticket touting scandal.
Michael Devine, known to his friends as Micky, died 35 years ago this
week after 60 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. A look
back at a life of struggle and a heroic death.
A look at the case of Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, now on
hunger strike for more than 66 days, in a cause which has striking
parallels with those of Irish republicans.
The Six County administration in Belfast has been accused of sustaining
loyalist criminality following the murder of a former UDA leader by a
rival loyalist gang.
Tributes have been paid following the death of the former Bishop of
Derry, Edward Daly, who attended to the victims on Bloody Sunday at the
risk of his own life. However, his memory has also been subjected to a
sickening sectarian attack by a former member of the British Crown
forces who claimed to have been present at the massacre.
Palestinians have expressed dismay that representatives of Sinn Féin
have been hosting delegations from Likud, the party of Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Historians involved in advising the decade of centenaries for the Dublin
government have revealed how they were asked to provide pro-British
propaganda for use in the north of Ireland, but refused “point blank”.
Three years of nightly loyalist disturbances in north Belfast appear to be at an end after a group of Orangemen said they have suspended
their attempts to march into the republican Ardoyne area.
A large PSNI operation is expected to be put in place to prevent
a civil rights parade by the Anti-Internment League reaching Belfast
city centre on Sunday.
The PSNI is facing allegations of double standards on hate crimes as
they refused to answer questions about a provocative poster of a
loyalist killer gloating over a murderous attack.
Hundreds gathered in Dungiven South Derry last Sunday, 31st July, to
march in commemoration of INLA Volunteer and H-Block martyr Kevin Lynch,
who died after 71 Days on Hunger Strike, on August 1st 1981.
Wednesday marked one hundred years since the execution
in London of the Irish Patriot and international humanitarian, Roger Casement. A look at how he lived the final days of his
life.