One of ten republican activists interned by remand following a
large-scale arrest operation in 2020 has been told by a judge he must
make a statement supporting a ‘shared island’ in order to be considered
for bail.
The death of Belfast teenager Dessie Healey has been marked with the
launch of a new family report documenting the circumstances of his
killing 51 years ago.
To conflate the modern-day GAA with the IRA and a battle for Irish unity
is typical of the whataboutery, the pathetic attitude and lack of
leadership that exists within political unionism.
A wave of outrage has followed the decision by the new British Direct
Ruler to sign a secrecy order covering files on the death in 2020 of
14-year-old Catholic boy Noah Donohoe.
Almost half of the students at a new Irish language centre in east
Belfast are from a Protestant background, it has emerged, although a new
Gaelic sports club is facing loyalist opposition to its growth in the
area.
Amid increased public interest following her historic election as Sinn
Fein’s First Minister-designate, Michelle O’Neill has been extensively
interviewed about her life and influences.
An essay written by Bobby Sands in 1979 while protesting against the
criminalisation of republican prisoners. Because protesting prisoners
were not allowed books or writing materials, this essay was composed on
a square of toilet paper and smuggled out of the prison.
On August 1, 1922, Irish revolutionary Harry Boland succumbed to wounds received at the Grand
Hotel in Skerries, County Dublin at the hands of pro-Treaty
forces, 100 years ago this week.