There have been calls for an internal investigation by the Dublin
government after a former British agent revealed that a senior Irish
official has been working for British military intelligence for more
than three decades.
A frequently overlooked massacre in Derry 50 years ago has been
marked with a vigil and wreath-laying ceremony at the scene
following a remembrance Mass.
The PSNI police have been urged to take action against the erection of
intimidatory posters of Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar against the
background of an image of the Dublin/Monaghan bombs.
The family of John Pat Cunningham, who was shot dead at a British Army
checkpoint nearly 50 years ago, have returned a letter of apology to the
British Ministry of Defence.
Mary Lou McDonald’s grand-uncle was one of the Grey Abbey Martyrs killed
by the Free State 100 years ago. The Sinn Fein leader delivered a speech
at the Heritage Centre in Kildare town last weekend to mark the
anniversary.
People campaigning for justice will have exchanged knowing looks after
last week’s announcement of ‘an independent judicial inquiry’ into the
SAS killings of 54 Afghan civilians in 2010-11.
Joseph (Joe) Kennedy, a grandson of the late US presidential candidate
Robert Kennedy and grand-nephew of the late US President John F Kennedy,
has been confirmed in the role of new US Special Envoy to the north of
Ireland.
A report into one of the most controversial episodes of the conflict is
facing censorship by British state agencies even before it is published
in the new year.
Loyalist paramilitary organisations are targeting desperate food bank
users, according to a new investigation into UDA and UVF loan sharks
operating in Belfast.
Several republican groups and societies have marked the centenary of the
summary execution by Free State forces of Liam Mellows and three other
prominent IRA figures who died as martyrs for the Republic.
Two of those who were beaten into making admissions about IRA attacks by
Crown Force interrogators 45 years ago have had mixed outcomes in the
battle to overturn their convictions.
Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more
lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea
combined.
The passage of Irish language legislation into British law has been
welcomed as a “historic milestone” by campaigners who are now seeking
the implementation of the law, including the appointment of the north’s
first Irish language commissioner.
One hundred years on from the betrayal of the north of Ireland by a
partitionist cabal, the anti-Irish prejudice of their Fine
Gael successors has been encapsulated in an outrageous smear by a former
leader.
The continued delays in starting the inquest into the murder of County
Derry Gaelic sports official Sean Brown have been described as
“intolerable” and “devastating”.
A republican prisoner has obtained legal permission to challenge prison
authorities for subjecting him to strip searches around every court
attendance.
Those seeking truth and justice in the north of Ireland are facing a
wall of silence by state officials hiding state crimes behind data
protection legislation.
The 50th anniversary of a deadly bomb attack thought to have been the
earliest act of British/loyalist collusion south of the border has been
marked in Dublin.
Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll were killed 40 years ago this week as the
car they were driving was fired on by the RUC at Armagh in what has
become known as ‘The Mullacreevie Park Massacre’.
The current Irish republican prisoner list for December 2022, as
collated by Irish Republican Prisoner News Facebook page from public
lists by prisoner welfare groups and family/friends of independent
prisoners. Its tips on writing to prisoners are included.
A protest has taken place in Strabane, County Tyrone following a week of
intense Crown Force activity which has seen front doors smashed and
families forced out of their homes by late-night raids and bogus
‘security’ alerts.
The DUP have been accused of talking “from both sides of their mouth” on
the Brexit protocol after it was revealed former party leader Edwin
Poots lobbied to retain elements which benefit the largely unionist
farming community.
Up to a thousand people attended the Ulster Hall in Belfast on Wednesday
night for a meeting supporting Irish unity in a venue long associated
with unionism.
An oration read by Francie Mackey, national chairperson
of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, at an event last weekend to
remember IRA Volunteer Patsy Duffy in Derry.