A country farmhouse in County Roscommon became a battle zone last week
after a brutal and illegal eviction of a farming family by hired
loyalist mercenaries was dramatically overturned by a “flying column”
of anti-eviction activists. The perpetrators were beaten or put to
flight, and their vehicles torched.
North Belfast woman Christine Connor has won an appeal against a 16-year
prison sentence in one of a clutch of legal setbacks for the British
occupation in the north of Ireland.
Victims of the worst single massacre of the conflict have secured an
order for disclosure of secret state documents in a major legal action
over British state collusion with a loyalist murder gang.
Unionist councillors in Country Antrim have generated a seasonal news
absurdity by complaining over the use of Irish in the annual Mayor’s
Christmas card.
Retired Garda policeman Kevin Taylor has spoken about the background to
the raid by a loyalist eviction gang at the McGann family home in
Roscommon, who attacked him with the support of serving Gardai.
Some British politicians have grown resentful of Ireland’s influence
throughout Brexit talks, says the BBC, as fears mount that a deal that will
prevent a remilitarisation of the border will not be agreed in time.
There have been tributes to Sean Garland, a former IRA leader who helped
to bring about the 1972 ceasefire by the Official IRA. He died on
Thursday at his home in County Meath after a long illness.
In what is said to be is the first case of its kind, a Belfast court has
found a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party guilty of
carrying an Irish National Liberation Army flag during an Easter Sunday
commemoration.
The Ballymurphy massacre inquest has heard details of the murder of John
McKerr, a 49-year-old joiner from nearby Andersonstown who had been
working at Corpus Christi Church in west Belfast on August 11 1971 when
he was shot.
Cork City Council has been humiliated after it emerged that it spent
almost 6,000 euros on polishing door handles at city hall to prepare for
a one-day stop by British royals Charles and his wife, Camilla.
The afterlife of the Nelson Pillar on O’Connell Street is every bit as
interesting as its lifespan, and from the late 1960s onwards various
committees and campaign groups lobbied with the aim of placing a
monument in the location where Nelson had stood.
The timing for making an argument for a Border Poll or as its now being
called a Unity Referendum has become a bone of contention. The
negativity about the timing of holding one is creating negativity at the
very time we need to examine the issue positively.
Anglo-Irish relations are at their worst in decades after a senior
British Tory MP suggested using the possibility of food shortages in
Ireland to coerce negotiators into dropping their opposition to the
remilitarisation of the border area after Brexit.
A witness to one of the killings of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre, who
has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since, has given his
first-ever statement on the atrocity to the coroner of the current
inquest.
It has emerged that the British Army raided the pub which was the
original target of the McGurk’s Bar bombers, two nights before the
massacre in which collusion is strongly suspected.
DUP leader Arlene Foster is under renewed pressure to quit politics
after acknowledging that some of her sworn evidence to a public
corruption inquiry is likely false.
The 47th Bloody Sunday march has been launched with the focus returned
to the issue to making those ultimately responsible for the slaughter of
13 innocent civilians accountable for their actions.
A debate on abortion legislation in the Dublin parliament has seen a
bitter attack by Sinn Fein TDs against former comrades as a potentially
damaging split in the party continues to grow.
Families of those killed in a notorious loyalist/Crown force massacre
have welcomed a judge’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge against
the Police Ombudsman’s finding that the police colluded with the
killers.
Loyalist paramilitaries “have the run of the town” in County Antrim,
according to the owner of a repair business in Carrickfergus whose cars
have repeatedly been torched.
Derry City and Strabane council is set to be the first council in the
north of Ireland to allow staff members to honour Ireland’s war dead by
wearing an Easter Lily, a symbol with its roots in the 1916 Easter
Rising.
Relatives for Justice have launched a report into the killings of Jim
Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna amid outstanding questions about the
shoot-to-kill policy of targeted state assassinations which was
responsible for their deaths.
A speech delivered last weekend by Peadar Toibin TD at
the annual commemoration for former Sinn Fein Vice President Frank
Driver at Ballymore Eustace in County Kildare.
The families of those killed and injured in the Heights Bar have
official vindication of the fact that RUC collusion facilitated the
murder of their loved ones.