Saoradh has protested against the detention of its chairperson, national
organiser and two Belfast activists, after they were seized in early
morning raids on Thursday.
Gerry Adams has said efforts to rescue the political institutions in the
north of Ireland are struggling because unionist leaders have not
adapted to a rights-based society.
In a significant legal development, a High Court judge has admitted that
a group of 14 Irish nationalist internees were tortured by British state
forces in 1971.
A judge in Dublin has warned that a republican facing extradition to
British jurisdiction could be subjected to inhuman and degrading
conditions in Maghaberry Prison.
An Irishman facing prosecution for alleged IRA actions and gunrunning
should not be surrendered to Lithuania because of concerns over whether
he would receive a fair trial, the High Court has heard.
The 26 County state has said it will not recognise Catalonia’s
declaration of independence from Spain, according to the Department of
Foreign Affairs in Dublin.
Given the present animosity between Varadkar's government and Sinn Fein it
seems inconceivable that they could meet and hammer out a common Irish policy for the north.
Fine Gael leader and 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has suggested the
north of Ireland should remain under British rule in the short term,
even if there a majority in favour of unification with the south.
Leaders of two of the main pro-independence organisations in Catalonia
have been sent to prison without bail on charges of “sedition” by the
Spanish government as fears grow that Madrid is on a course to ignite
civil war.
One of loyalism’s most notorious mass murderers has been protected by
the British state, according to a new documentary, as the former
British soldier was named for the first time.
The PSNI police has insisted that unionist paramilitary flags are
“historic” and break no laws -- but that a sign reading “F**k the DUP”
constitutes a hate crime.
New investigations into the criminal actions of Irish bankers during the financial crisis have
revealed that some of their customers committed suicide after being
swindled out of their homes in a mortgage fraud.
Nationalists must begin any discussion
about the future possibility of reunification from a position of respect
for unionist fears about the future in a reunified Ireland.
A woman in her 20s has been killed by a falling tree as hurricane force
winds began hitting every county today in the worst storm Ireland has
seen in fifty years.
Another loyalist ‘supergrass’ case has collapsed with the news that not
one of the loyalists or Special Branch police named in court by informer
Gary Haggarty will face prosecution.
The PSNI police in the north of Ireland has refused to release a report
on policing reform in the 1970s written by a British intelligence
officer with openly racist views.
Members of the Catalan parliament have signed a declaration of
independence from Spain but have agreed to suspend its implementation
pending talks with the Madrid government.
The Dublin government has set aside five million euro for a new public
relations department but said it has no funds to pay thousands of
pensions blocked by a rule described by the Minister for Finance
himself as ‘bonkers and unbelievable’.
The Society of United Irishmen, founded in 1791, embraced Catholics,
Protestants and Dissenters in its aim to remove English control from
Irish affairs.
Sinn Fein could be facing a damaging split over its internal party
management, according to reports. A number of rows and expulsions in
recent months has seen some members already link up in a potential new
national structure.
With only weeks left until a British-imposed deadline for a deal on
power-sharing talks, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill and the DUP leader
Arlene Foster have clashed in an unusual public event.
Scores of polling station workers and voters alike have been injured in
Catalonia as an official referendum on independence today was violently
suppressed by the Spanish authorities in Madrid.