Sinn Féin is struggling to convince republicans that it has not broken
away from its roots after it agreed to send First Minister-elect,
Michelle O’Neill, to attend the Coronation of Charles as King.
The report of the Police Ombudsman into the assassination of independent
nationalist councillor Patsy Kelly has found that the actions of the
Crown Forces was indicative of “collusive behaviour” and that his family
were “failed”.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has upheld a complaint that the
PSNI failed to provide information regarding a secret British agreement
to blame the victims of the McGurk’s Bar massacre for the loyalist bomb
attack in which 15 people were killed.
The largest ever number of nationalist candidates are standing in
council elections in the north of Ireland, will all three main
nationalist parties fielding additional candidates.
The speech delivered by Caoimhe Ní Loingsigh at the Easter commemoration in Carrickmore organised by the Tyrone National Graves
Association and the 1916 Societies.
Following the reported death of Freddie Scappaticci, Anthony McIntyre
recalls the bitter divisions over the ‘Stakeknife’ allegations that the
head of the Provisional IRA’s Internal Security Unit was a British
agent. For The Pensive Quill.
Two prominent hardline unionists who serially obstructed the peace
process in the north of Ireland have absurdly been hailed as
‘peacemakers’ at events organised by Queen’s University, Belfast.
The visit to Ireland by US President Joe Biden provoked a bout of
anti-Irish and anti-American xenophobia in the English media which has
confirmed the country’s increasingly insular and backward outlook.
The British prison authorities at Maghaberry have been accused of
“laying down a marker” by abusing new body scanners intended to
replace strip searches.
Several black taxi drivers in Belfast are set to take legal action
following a memo issued by security firm responsible for a leading tech
conference which suggested they are operated by the IRA.
A quarter century on from the Belfast Agreement, we look to the next 25
years, committed to work together to build a better, more prosperous
future for all the people of this island.
Britain’s ‘dirty tricks’ department has been accused of planting bogus
devices at Derry city cemetery in order to attract international
condemnation for the New IRA.
US President Joe Biden delivered a significant speech on Wednesday in
support of the political process, addressed to the North’s young people
as much as its deadlocked political leadership.
There were big attendances for events to mark the Easter Rising across
Ireland, including parades at which colour parties defiantly wore
traditional combat-style clothing.
The PSNI stood and watched last week as a mob of 50 masked loyalists
attacked murals and plaques belonging to a rival outfit in the ongoing
feud among unionist paramilitary gangs in north Down.
The family of an unarmed Catholic man shot dead by the British Army have
expressed their anger after a decision was taken not to prosecute the
British soldier who fired the shots that killed him.
An interview given by former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to Freya
McClements of the Irish Times to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good
Friday Agreement.
As we approach 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement
(GFA) it is worth reflecting and challenging some of the false
narratives that have been peddled since then.
Petrol bombs have been thrown at PSNI vehicles who descended on an
estate in Derry where an Easter commemoration linked to traditional
republicans was being held.
Confirmation that US President Joe Biden is to visit Ireland next week
to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement will
bring international attention to the unionist boycott of the political
institutions set up under the peace deal.
The prosecution of prominent republican Alex McCrory has been condemned
as a “farce” after the former internee was found not guilty almost ten
years after he was detained along with two other prominent republicans.
A car belonging to a feuding loyalist gang which was seized by the PSNI
was destroyed, along with evidence of criminality, when it was left
outside a PSNI station in north Down. The incident has renewed fears of
continuing collusion between the police and unionist paramilitaries.
Three young men were subjected to a “vicious” sectarian attack in
Belfast city centre after one was discovered to be wearing a Gaelic
sports top, a court has heard.
Ireland is facing an almost unprecedented wave of evictions, but the
Dublin government has chosen to deal with the problem by deflecting
attention away from the issue.
Ahead of the 107th anniversary of the Easter Rising,
Saoradh has called on the British forces not to again use violence against
republican commemorations of Ireland’s patriot dead.
Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, died one
hundred years ago this week. He was killed whilst trying to escape an
encirclement by pro-Treaty forces in south Tipperary.