Government politicians who paid tribute to healthcare workers this week have been accused of hypocrisy over their failure to supply enough equipment to protect the workers or to take care of the ill.
The Stormont administration faces a mounting crisis over what has been described as an “abject” determination by unionists to follow the Tory government’s disastrous lead on the coronavirus epidemic.
The death has taken place of Toni Carragher, a well-known campaigner against British army militarisation along the border, and the former secretary of the South Armagh Farmers and Residents’ Committee.
Draconian new powers introduced at Westminster in the name of protecting the public are already being abused in the north of Ireland, according to republicans in Derry.
Prosecutors have refused to ask the PSNI police to reopen an investigation linked to the murder of three Catholics killed by unionist paramilitaries almost 30 years ago, despite never having received a file on the cases against four suspects, including a man identified as the killer.
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD has said that her party’s planned Easter commemorations have been cancelled in their entirety due to the deterioration of the coronavirus situation.
Amid warnings that health care systems in Britain and the north of Ireland were facing a potentially catastrophic meltdown, both Tories and unionists in Ireland have ended their hands-off approach to the coronavirus health crisis.
After delivering an inspirational but ultimately vacuous speech on the implications of the Coronavirus crisis, the caretaker 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to take more practical action to protect lives and livelihoods across Ireland.
Prison warders at Maghaberry have prevented a family visit with Paul McIntyre for a second time after he was refused bail and incarcerated at Maghaberry earlier this month.
Having carried out a costly 12 month long forensic investigation into
the Renewable Heat Initiative or ‘Cash for Ash’ scandal, Patrick Coghlin
has failed to identify any individual responsible for the fiasco.
The British government has been accused of using the cover of the
Coronavirus health crisis to renege on its commitments under the 2014
Stormont House Agreement and introduce an effective amnesty for most state
war crimes.
Today is a day to celebrate being Irish. But it doesn’t feel
like that when so many of us are concerned for the well-being of our
families and ourselves.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said on Monday evening that the rise in cases of
coronavirus in Ireland “cannot be stopped”. The administrations in both
parts of Ireland are looking to secure intensive care equipment ahead of
an expected surge in the numbers of critically ill.
Efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus have become dangerously split across the island of Ireland after a division emerged between governments in Dublin and London on how quickly the virus should be allowed to spread.
An official report into Stormont’s infamous RHI ‘cash for ash’ scheme has been described as a whitewash on social media after it blamed only “errors and omissions” for the runaway exploitation that collapsed the Stormont Executive in early 2017.
Several hundred people took to the streets of Dublin last weekend to object to a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition plan to remain in power. Many expressed concern that Ireland’s two right-wing parties are attempting to form the next government under the cloak of the coronavirus.
Two members of Saoradh have said they were harassed by the British military intelligence to turn informer when returning from a conference in Britain, while Republican Sinn Féin said they are bringing a similar case to the Police Ombudsman.
The family of a former republican prisoner shot dead while under British Army surveillance 30 years ago believe the British Army’s Force Research Unit may have been involved.
The British government should drop its territorial claim over Lough Foyle before it causes any further economic and ecological damage, Sinn Féin’s Martina Anderson has said.
The admissions by former members of the secret, plain-clothes ‘Military Reaction Force’ suggest they were responsible for killing Irish civilians in the 1970s, writes Richard Rudkin.
All St Patrick’s Day parades in Ireland have been cancelled in a bid to
curb the spread of the Coronavirus. After weeks of delay, the news was
leaked ahead a meeting of the acting Cabinet in Dublin on Monday. Multi-party
meetings to deal with the crisis have also been announced.
Concern within the British Crown Forces over MI5’s involvement in a
killing campaign has emerged in a report released to families of the
victims of the Cappagh killings. It is the first time a state report
has confirmed collusion, according to a lawyer for the families.
A new poll putting Sinn Féin support at an unprecedented 35% in the 26
Counties has added to public pressure for Mary Lou McDonald’s party to
be involved in the next coalition government in Dublin despite the
refusal of the leaders of Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael to countenance the
idea.
A Catholic mother-of-four has been driven out of her home in north
Belfast following a campaign of terror which culminated in her
windows getting smashed in.
The PSNI chief has said he is in the dark about plans for a new police
unit to deal with investigations into unresolved cases from the past
conflict, despite a looming deadline for its formation.
A protest at an official visit to Ireland by British royals William and
Kate Windsor (‘Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’) was organised by
republicans this week despite harassment from uniformed Garda and
Special Branch police.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has revealed her children attend a school
in Dublin where the second case of the coronavirus in Ireland was
confirmed yesterday.