A Palestinian doctor and political activist has been charged under the
“Terrorism Act”, alongside nine Irish republicans as part of a major Crown Forces
operation to imprison leading members of the Saoradh political party.
Saoradh have said the family of Dennis McFadden have ended their
associations with the recently identified MI5 agent, and they should
face no hostility or recrimination for his actions.
Belfast woman Christine Connor has been sentenced to 20 years in jail
over an alleged plot to encourage online acquaintances to carry out
attacks against the PSNI, despite a judge’s admission that she suffers
from “significant” mental ill-health.
The erection by loyalists of a banner in Dungannon referring to the GAA
(Gaelic Athletics Association) as the “sporting wing of the IRA” has
been condemned by Sinn Fein.
The shooting of a member of Britain’s Royal Irish Constabulary 100 years ago sparked weeks of anti-Catholic violence. An
account of an infamous episode in the town’s history which became known
as ‘The Burnings’.
Irish EU Commissioner Paul Hogan resigned on Thursday, the latest
casualty of a golf outing that showed how the class system works in
Ireland. A look at an ongoing story by Paulie Doyle, for Tribune
magazine.
A man presenting himself as a lifelong republican activist, Dennis McFadden, has been accused of working with British military intelligence to help imprison leading members of Saoradh.
Raids have taken place over four days across three jurisdictions in one of the largest actions in recent years by state forces against a legal political party.
The daughter of a female IRA Volunteer killed along with her sister almost 50 years ago is set to launch legal action against the Six County Attorney General after a new inquest was refused.
Loyalist paramilitaries are being effectively shielded by Six County PSNI police while passing on racist threats to their targets, judging from a recent case in south Belfast.
Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has reluctantly agreed to progress a one-sided compensation scheme for victims of the past conflict after a judge ruled that an ongoing delay was unlawful.
Gaza’s electricity supply has been cut to around three hours a day as Israeli bombing of the besieged Palestinian enclave has continued for ten consecutive days.
A Minister in the Dublin government has resigned this morning for
attending a parliamentary jolly with more than 80 people, including
several other politicians and ‘elite’ figures, which breached Covid-19 regulations.
Fiona Donohoe, the mother of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe, has begun a
justice campaign and is seeking public assistance for an investigation
into the unexplained death of her son in June of this year.
The discriminatory nature of the Stormont authorities’ approach to bonfires was
laid bare last weekend as nationalist areas were flooded with riot PSNI
police in order to remove small amounts of materials ahead of relatively
tiny nationalist events, while a giant pyre saw loyalists cheer the
sectarian burning of Irish flags and symbols.
Plans to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland have received a
mixed reaction from Irish politicians after British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson said that the division of the island was “obviously” a cause for
“celebration”.
The 26 County Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said he is increasingly
concerned that Irish unity may come about sooner rather than later, and
possibly quite suddenly.
Republican political prisoner Luke O’Neill was viciously assaulted by
warders at Maghaberry jail last week before being removed to an
isolation unit, according to fellow prisoners.
The father of one of the teenagers who was with schoolboy Thomas Devlin
on the night he was murdered by loyalists has spoken for the first time
about the events of 15 years ago that changed the lives of three
families forever.
Mickey Devine, from the Creggan in Derry city, was the tenth and final hunger striker to die in the 1981 fight against the criminalisation of Irish republican prisoners.
Violence, arrests, prosecutions and incarcerations are all avoidable
if we have clear and equal policing of both sides of the divide to
include managing illegal bonfires.
Vehicles were hijacked and burned and the PSNI were attacked with petrol
and paint bombs in three nights of disturbances in Derry this week following
brutal police raids in the city.
The IRSP has slammed what it said was an “anti-community” PSNI operation
in the republican Divis area of Belfast to seize a small amount of wood
gathered for a traditional August bonfire.
Mourners from across the political spectrum attended and paid their
respects at the funeral of John Hume, the former SDLP leader whose death
prompted international tributes on Wednesday.
A republican prisoner has won a High Court battle to secure access to
library books. Sean McVeigh is currently being held within the
segregated regime at Maghaberry Prison.
John’s contribution to Irish politics cannot be underestimated. When
others talked endlessly about peace John grasped the challenge and
helped make peace happen.
Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams says John Hume’s decision to meet
him for talks in 1986 “was a breakthrough moment in Irish politics” and
described the Good Friday Agreement as “a landmark moment for both of
us”.
It has been announced this morning that the former SDLP leader and Noble Peace Prize
winner John Hume passed away late last night. He died after a short
illness at the age of 83 after suffering from dementia for many years.