The resignation of London’s double-dealing Brexit Minister ‘Lord’ David
Frost has raised hopes of a new direction for Britain and an end to its
refusal to honour its critical agreements with the EU on the north of
Ireland.
In an interview given before his death, a former IRA PoW said he
believed the chemicals to which he was exposed by the authorities in
Long Kesh prison caused the disease that claimed his life.
The widow of a murdered Gaelic sports official has received a trial date
in her legal action against the British Crown Forces over the protection
given to the loyalist killers.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the creation of a Citizen’s
Assembly on reunification will be a top priority if her party is in a
position to form the next government in Dublin.
There have been accolades in Ireland to the late Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, who famously fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa
and against oppression around the world.
A historic legal victory has been achieved with a ruling at the Supreme
Court in London against the PSNI police for its refusal to investigate
the torture of a group of civilians known as the ‘Hooded Men’.
A survivor of the Miami Showband massacre has spoken out against British
lies as he and other victims of the atrocity agreed to a historic
settlement of £1.5m in damages for Britain’s collusion with loyalist
paramilitaries in the massacre.
Prominent Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin is being urged to withdraw an attack
on former party leader Gerry Adams and other party colleagues who he has criticised for being unapologetic for causing “hurt or pain or trauma”.
Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, the Palestinian Scottish doctor imprisoned
since August 2020 on political charges in a British jail in the north of
Ireland, was released on bail on Monday, 13 December after 15 months of
imprisonment.
Hundreds gathered on Tuesday for a Mass and a candlelit vigil in
Coalisland, County Tyrone to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder of
Martin McShane, a 16-year-old boy shot in the back by the British Army.
An internal PSNI review into the death of a young Catholic boy in 2020
has revealed that police chiefs cited “financial constraints” and
“missing person fatigue” in connection with their response to his
disappearance.
Sunday, December 12 marked the 101st anniversary of the Egyptian Arch
ambush in Newry. An account by local republicans of a fateful night in which three IRA volunteers,
William Canning, Peter Shields and John Francis O’Hare, lost their lives.
The victim impact statement delivered by Stephen
Travers at Belfast High Court on Monday, 13 December, at the conclusion
of the legal action against the British state for its role in the
Miami Showband massacre.
A British government plan for ‘electronic visas’ could be one of the
most significant attempts to enforce its control on the north of Ireland
since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
A Palestinian doctor caught up in an MI5 bid to intern senior members of
Irish republican political group Saoradh is expected to be granted bail
after a judge accepted that his life is in danger at Maghaberry prison.
Close to double the number of Catholics as Protestants were arrested and
charged by the police over a five-year period in the Six Counties,
according to new statistics.
The United Nations should publicly support the “immediate
implementation” of an Irish language act for the north of Ireland, a
language rights body has told an international forum.
A British information tribunal has ruled that a review of ‘dirty war’
tactics in the north of Ireland compiled by British intelligence at the
height of the conflict nearly 50 years ago should stay secret.
A man injured in a massacre by a unionist death squad has been dismayed
by a decision that two members of the Crown Forces who falsely arrested
him while commemorating victims of the massacre will not be prosecuted.
One hundred years ago this week, a deal forced upon Irish negotiators
under the threat of an immediate and terrible war, brought about
the disastrous partition of Ireland. A historical account by Des Dalton.
Marking the centenary of the signing of the treaty, Sinn Féin Leader
Mary Lou McDonald writes that a new and United Ireland is within sight
and that we will see the ending of partition and the unification of all
of our people, in our time.
The US government is to use tariffs on British steel as part of an
international push to force the British government to honour its treaty
obligations towards Ireland, it has been reported.
Survivors and families of the victims of the Glenanne Gang have called
for justice for the victims of British collusion and have denounced a
proposed amnesty for British state crimes in the north of Ireland.
A grandson of 1916 hero Michael Joseph O’Rahilly has warned that
Dublin’s coalition government is standing by while private developers
prepare to tear up the Moore Street area where he died fighting for
Ireland.
The family of a County Armagh teenager shot dead by loyalists almost 30
years ago are to sue the PSNI, the British Ministry for Defence and the
British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis.
For the 50th anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar massacre, victims’ families
have launched a new website which commemorates those who died, the
survivors and their families, and will be the platform to their fight
for the truth.
One of the most important meetings of an Irish Cabinet took place on
December 3, 100 years ago this week, when the negotiations which led to
the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the partition of Ireland were being
discussed.