The PSNI have taken to using saws and battering rams in raids on the
homes of republican activists in Derry following appeals by Sinn Fein
for “tangible action” against armed groups in the city.
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has provoked outrage among
republicans after she deliberately used the plantation name
“Londonderry” for Derry at an event in the city on Wednesday.
Britain’s ‘Brexit’ Minister was secretly parachuted in and out of
Ireland for a photo-opportunity at the border this week in a humiliating
exercise for the British Crown.
A bizarre graffiti attack at St Colmcille’s Church, Carrickmore, County
Tyrone is being linked to next Thursday’s by-election to the Westminster
parliament in the West Tyrone constituency.
Divisions among republicans on the issue of abortion have become
painfully exposed by the current debate on the referendum to repeal the
Eighth Amendment of the 26 County constitution.
The British Empire is a bit like the Cheshire cat in Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland: over the years it has faded until all you’re left
with is a bland smile.
A new ‘Border Force’ recruitment drive is being seen as the latest sign
that the British government is planning to impose a hard border across
Ireland after Brexit, and the manner of its implementation is in line
with the extreme right-wing policies of the British government’s Home
Office.
A claim that Catholics could soon outnumber Protestants in the Six
Counties has been highlighted by nationalist parties to convince those
with a unionist background to feel “at home” in a new, united Ireland.
Twenty years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, republicans
who were jailed for activities related to the conflict have said they
are still facing barriers to employment and travel.
A new set of “principles” to commemorate the late Six County Deputy First
Minister Martin McGuinness have been advanced by Sinn Fein with the
support of a prominent US politician.
Sean McNeela and Tony D’Arcy died on hunger strike against the
criminalisation of republican prisoners at St Bricin’s Military
Hospital in Dublin, 78 years ago this week.
The headquarters of the Irish Republican Socialist Party were raided by
the PSNI police on Friday in the latest show of strength by the Crown
forces against republicans in Belfast and Derry.
Saoradh has vowed to resist the criminalisation of republicans
following a heavy-handed police arrest operation at offices shared by
the small political party on Monday.
The nationalist SDLP has been condemned after it threatened to
discipline its councillors in Newry who failed to support moves to
rename a park in the town named for local hunger strike hero Raymond
McCreesh.
Sinn Fein’s Mayor of Dublin, Micheal Mac Donncha, has caused a furore
over his attendance at a conference in Palestine after Israel failed to
prevent him from attending and which the Israeli prime minister then
denounced as anti-semitic.
Major media outlets and prominent politicians have been taken in by a
bogus statement and photograph claiming to represent a new Irish
republican armed group.
Low-level corruption and incompetence have emerged as the defining
characteristics of the Six County Executive’s handling of the notorious
RHI scandal as the inquiry into the affair began addressing the issue
of political leadership this week.
Elephants filled Queen’s University’s Whitla Hall this week where a
major media event was organised to mark the 20th anniversary of the
1998 Good Friday Agreement.
A 76-year-old woman injured during a Crown Force operation to disrupt an
Easter 1916 commemoration in Lurgan has come to symbolise the defiance
of republicans against a new effort to disrupt republican Easter parade
colour parties.
A former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has suggested loyalist
paramilitaries could mount attacks against the Dublin government over
its efforts to prevent a ‘hard border’ through Ireland.
More than 40 members of the North Down UDA mounted a display of
paramilitary power in Bangor, County Down following police searches of
loyalist Dee Stitt’s home and two other properties.
Senior unionist politicians have been accused of engaging in racist
commentary amid a controversy over the distribution of fascistic
leaflets against immigrants.
The disgusting scenes from the British Armed Police in Lurgan
today are enough to shock anyone; it is a throw back to what middle of
the road mediocre pundits would call “the dark old days”. But to look at
what happened in Lurgan today we must understand why it happened.
Confrontations at Easter 1916 events across the North erupted in a
mini-riot in Derry today as the annual march by the 1916 Commemoration
Committee, supported by Saoradh, gathered in the Creggan estate in the
city.