Seven in ten nationalists in the north of Ireland accept there was no
alternative to the “violent resistance” of republican armed groups to
British rule, according to an opinion poll.
Fianna Fáil minister of State Robert Troy has resigned ten days into a
mounting scandal over undeclared property dealings and his large
property portfolio.
British Direct Ruler Shailesh Vara was accused of ‘ducking and diving’
from protestors in Derry opposed to his government’s plans for an
amnesty covering Britain’s war crimes in the North.
The family of a vulnerable adult murdered by the British Army in cold
blood have hit out after a memorial was unveiled to his killer at a
British Army base.
A controversial decision to suspend an Irish national angling team
because of ‘overzealous’ use of the Irish tricolour flag at a major
international competition has been reversed following a public outcry.
The annual ‘Relief of Derry’ march by the loyalist Apprentice Boys’
organisation saw flags once again used to intimidate and insult the
overwhelmingly nationalist population of the city.
Sinn Féin has branded the arrival of the Tory leadership contest
‘totally insulting’ and said they have no regard for the people of the
north of Ireland.
A third senior figure from the PSNI (formerly RUC) police in the North
has been appointed directly into the top ranks of the Gardai police in
the 26 Counties.
A ‘March for Irish Unity and Independence’ which took place recently in
Coalisland, County Tyrone hosted by the 1916 Societies, is the first in
a series intended to boost the campaign for Irish freedom.
Liz Truss has been wrecking the Good Friday Agreement by carrying out the actions the ERG has insisted on and which they insist on the DUP also obeying.
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.