A deceptive police report into the McGurk’s Bar bomb atrocity is to be
quashed in its entirety, concluding a titanic legal battle between
victims of the atrocity and the PSNI.
The British government’s proposed Bill of Rights has been described as a
“power grab on an epic scale” that will violate the Good Friday
Agreement’s basic human rights guarantees.
A Catholic man who fled his east Belfast home with his injured partner
after being attacked by a loyalist mob has described the PSNI as a
“disgrace” after they ignored their pleas for help for over an hour.
Naturally all the responses to the British government’s anti-protocol
bill have emphasised the plans to enable British ministers to ditch
pretty well anything and everything in the protocol they want except
three sections, Articles 2, 3 and 11.
With plans well advanced in London for a hard border through Ireland and
a blanket amnesty for British war crimes, there is a consensus among
nationalists that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is under unprecedented
attack.
There are fears of trouble at a flashpoint in north Belfast in the
coming weeks after the letters KAT, which means ‘Kill All Taigs’, were
scrawled close to a notorious bonfire site.
Sinn Féin has condemned the decision by the British Home Secretary Priti
Patel to proceed with the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange to the US.
A hundred years ago this week, a group of leading republicans visited Bodenstown
churchyard to hear a stirring oration by Liam Mellows over the grave of
the father of Irish republicanism, where supporters of Irish freedom
now pay homage every year.
The full text of remarks By First Minister-Designate, Michelle O’Neill,
at Sinn Féin’s Wolfe Tone Commemoration, in Bodenstown, County Kildare
on Sunday, 19 June.
A notorious UVF paramilitary figure was on a peace scholarship backed by
the Dublin government when it is alleged he was involved in a dramatic
hoax car bomb attack on its Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney.
The European Commission has begun two new legal proceedings against
Britain after it introduced legislation to override the Brexit
Withdrawal Agreement in regard to the north of Ireland, and resumed
another challenge it had previously paused.
British officials expressed “grave concerns” over sensitive
documents linked to Bloody Sunday falling into the hands of lawyers
acting for relatives of the dead, it has been revealed.
Gardaí police this week forced entry to an abandoned homeless shelter to
evict activists seeking to tackle a crisis which has now prompted the
involvement the Irish President, Michael D Higgins.
Relatives of nine of those killed by the British Army in Ballymurphy,
west Belfast are to receive “significant” undisclosed damages as part of
settlements reached in their civil actions.
The Scottish government has set a date of October 2023 for a second
independence referendum. In a forward to a series of papers, Scottish
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has begun to set out the arguments in
favour of independence for Scotland.
Legislation has been published by the British government this evening
which overrides the post-Brexit trade arrangements for Ireland and
severely breaches both the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and international law.
A wave of revulsion at chanting about the murder of a young Catholic
bride on her honeymoon has brought pressure for the Orange Order to be
treated alongside other racist and supremacist groups.
The peace process in Ireland could be sabotaged by Boris Johnson’s
desperate attempts to regain the support of far-right backbenchers after
he narrowly survived a no-confidence vote of Tory MPs.
High-level protests are continuing over legislation currently being
fast-tacked through Westminster to shut down investigations and provide
an amnesty for Britain’s war criminals in Ireland.
Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill has expressed her respect and
admiration for the Queen of England as her party denounced criticism
from nationalists and republicans with the message “the haters are not
the future”.
A coroner examining the death of a man shot during a prison break has
expressed concern at the ongoing failure by the Attorney General in
London to respond to a request for files related to the case.
Sectarianism met misogyny on the outskirts of an east Belfast Orange
hall last weekend, and what unfolded far surpassed the worst stereotype
some regularly complain their opponents foist upon them.
Unionist indignation at the public use of the word ‘planter’ by visiting
US politician Richard Neal has highlighted their denial of the history
of settler colonisation in the north of Ireland.
Questions are being raised over the future of the Stormont Assembly
after unionists once again blocked the installation of an Assembly
Speaker and a First Minister.
An opinion poll has shown support for Sinn Féin in the 26 Counties has
surpassed the combined vote of the two main government parties, Fianna
Fáil and Fine Gael, for the first time.
Relatives of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by a British soldier in west
Belfast more than 50 years ago are suing the British Ministry of Defence
over the false claim that he was throwing a weapon.
Last weekend marked the centenary of a Donegal-Fermanagh border battle,
part of the doomed ‘Northern Offensive’ campaign said to have been
encouraged by Michael Collins to unite supporters and opponents of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty to challenge the partition of Ireland it helped to
bring about.
Boris Johnson's government are pursuing an anti-Agreement agenda which is disingenuously wrapped up in pro-Agreement rhetoric, writes First Minister-designate Michelle O’Neill.