Politics in the north of Ireland is facing a period of transition as unionist extremist and religious fundamentalist Edwin Poots emerged as the most likely person to take over the helm of the DUP.
A DUP councillor has been condemned after he suggested Sinn Féin deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, “will be put back in her kennel” by the new leader of the DUP, who he expects will be Edwin Poots.
Willie ‘Mr Muscles’ Young, a well known loyalist paramilitary figure, was shot through the door of his home in north Belfast on Saturday evening in the latest murderous attack linked to loyalist crime gangs.
As Ireland approaches the 100th anniversary of its partition, Lasair Dhearg in the Six Counties has launched a campaign to highlight what it describes as “the real story of this rotten little statelet”.
Four people were arrested after garda police violently removed several workers who were staging a peaceful sit down protest outside a former Debenhams store in Dublin last week.
Bobby Sands died on 5 May, 1981, 40 years ago this week. This article for IRIS recounts how he became inspired to join the Irish republican struggle and to lead the 1981 hunger strike against the criminalisation of political prisoners.
Arlene Foster is to step down as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and as Six County First Minister. She made the statement after news emerged yesterday of a number of letters drawn up by DUP elected representatives expressing no confidence in the party leadership.
As a new poll pointed to a clear demand across Ireland for a vote on
Irish reunification, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week
effectively ruled one out, saying there will be no such referendum for
“a very, very long time to come”.
Despite some backtracking, a form of apology by Sinn Féin leader Mary
Lou McDonald for a 1979 IRA attack in which senior British royal Lord
Mountbatten was killed has raised the possibility of a broader
statement of regret for the Provisional IRA’s role in the conflict.
Of all the wonderful escapes and rescues of Irish political prisoners
from British dungeons down through the years none was as remarkable as
the rescue of six Fenian prisoners from the penal settlement of Western
Australia in 1876, 145 years ago this week.
Boris Johnson has told the British parliament final
preparations were being made to a draft bill that would in effect
provide protection from prosecution for British soldiers that served in
the North of Ireland.
A loyalist paramilitary crime gang in County Antrim has “ordered” the removal of Catholic families from housing estates in the latest episode of sectarian violence in the north.
The Special Criminal Court in Dublin has admitted that the case of a County Louth man who spent more than a year in prison for IRA membership constitutes a miscarriage of justice.
The mother of a north Belfast teenager who was severely beaten in a sectarian attack is to launch a legal action against the PSNI over investigative failures and their ‘breach of duty of care’ to the schoolboy.
The family of a Catholic man murdered by the UDA has called for the Police Ombudsman report on ‘Operation Achille’, withheld since 2019, to be published.
Sinister efforts to involve nationalists in the current wave of loyalist violence are continuing after a week of some of the worst disturbances seen in the north of Ireland in over eight years.
The British authorities in Ireland are coming under pressure to finally dismantle the loyalist drugs gangs behind the current wave of street violence and cease the state funding that supports them.
A potential All-Ireland soccer league could be on the cards with the two football associations in both parts of Ireland working on it, according to reports.
Donegal Council Councillors have unanimously backed a call for truth and justice for the murder of Eddie Fullerton as the 30th anniversary of his death approaches.
Members of the Dublin parliament have suggested that the tricolour’s status as the national flag could be reconsidered as part of efforts to secure a united Ireland.
Bobby Sands’ victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone 40 years ago this week gave the republican movement a “victory that not even countless IRA military operations could have achieved”, according to a former prisoner in the H-Blocks.
The imposition of Brexit by the Tories, with absolutely no regard for its impact on the north and our economy, has led to many people asking questions and considering new options and opportunities.
An attempt by the PSNI police to draw nationalist youths into conflict near a tense west Belfast interface failed tonight thanks to the efforts of community leaders.
Another night of intense loyalist rioting has been criticised by politicians including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, although DUP leader Arlene Foster blamed Sinn Féin as “the real law breakers” over a lack of social distancing at a Sinn Féin funeral last year.
An attempt by unionists to weaponise Covid-19 regulations to demand
prosecutions of leading members of Sinn Féin over the funeral last June
of party colleague and IRA veteran Bobby Storey appear to have failed.
Crowds of loyalist youths clashed with PSNI police on Friday night
following appeals for “protests” on loyalist social media pages. The
trouble erupted at locations where demonstrations had been orchestrated
on Facebook, primarily in Belfast.
An annual PSNI operation to harass and disrupt Irish republicans ahead
of events for the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising has seen raids
in three counties.
On the 30th anniversary of the brutal murders of Eileen Duffy,
Katrina Rennie and Brian Frizzell, families attended a quiet
memorial for them in Craigavon last weekend.
A court hearing in the long-running trial of three well-known
republicans heard doubts about the prosecution’s evidence amid questions
over the analysis of alleged covert audio recordings and the role of
British military intelligence.
A number of organisations have said that commemorations and
wreath-laying ceremonies in honour of the 1916 Rising must again be
restricted due the Covid-19 situation.