Final results from the North’s latest elections have confirmed Sinn Féin
as again the big winner, with its share of the vote jumping almost 8% to
31%, and winning 144 of the 462 council seats available, up 39 on the
2019 result.
The only surviving son of INLA figures Dominic and Mary McGlinchey has
launched a court bid in an attempt to compel Gardaí police to reopen the
investigations into their murders six years apart.
A hoax bomb attack at pitches used by a Gaelic sports team is just the latest
incident in a campaign of intimidation against Irish culture in east Belfast.
Speaking in Milford, Donegal, President Michael D Higgins
delivered an address for the official commemoration
of the Great Hunger by the 26 County state. President Higgins’ address in full.
Imagine people in Britain were told Brexit would not happen because only
a narrow majority had voted for it? That the issue was so divisive it
required a supermajority of 60 percent before it passed?
Local election results show that Sinn Féin continues to power its way to
become the largest party in the north of Ireland at council level, ahead of the
unionist DUP, with some commentators suggesting that nationalist voters
could now outnumber unionist voters for the first time.
Sinn Féin are on course to become the largest party at council level in
the North as the party looks set to repeat its success in last year’s
Assembly elections.
After a low key campaign, today’s council elections in the north of
Ireland could turn the dial against unionist misrule and boost efforts
to tackle inequality and discrimination at council level.
A complete collapse in the Dublin government’s immigration policy has
led to homeless asylum seekers being attacked in the streets and a
makeshift camp getting burned out by racists.
Robert ‘Rab’ Kerr, who spent three years ‘on the blanket’ in the
H-Blocks and took part in the republican prisoners’ escape in 1983,
passed away suddenly in hospital on Sunday, May 14.
Britain’s role in the Nakba, the Palestinian displacement of 75 years
ago, is not restricted to its actions in the 20th century, writes Leanne
Mohamad, a British Palestinian human rights activist based in London.
In a rare interview the brothers and sisters of Adrian Carroll have told
how they continue to “remember him every day” despite the passing of
four decades.
A hostile reaction to Sinn Féin’s attendance at the coronation of King
Charles last weekend could change the political landscape ahead of local
council elections in the North.
Weeks of stonewalling by the Dublin government and the mainstream media
are at an end after Gardaí said they are investigating allegations that
26 Minister of State Niall Collins corruptly assisted the purchase of
public land by his wife.
The mother of an unarmed IRA Volunteer shot dead more than 30 years ago
has said she is disappointed by a decision not to prosecute the RUC man
who killed him.
The British government is pressing ahead with plans for an overarching
cover up of its war crimes in the north of Ireland after it emerged that
it is recruiting a British citizen to head a new ‘investigation unit’.
A leading lawyer has warned that an inquiry “looms large” over the role
of two suspected British agents operating in the County Down area in the
1990s.
Inequality in the treatment of republicans and loyalists when it comes
to receiving bail was highlighted this week when a loyalist charged with
possession of an assault rifle and large quantities of drugs and cash,
and two others accused of forcing a young Catholic family to flee their
home, were all quickly released on bail.
They have been commemorating the wrong anniversary. Instead of
celebrating the partition of Protestants and Catholics into two separate
groups in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, would it not be more
appropriate to commemorate one of the few historical occasions when
political unity overcame sectarian division?
A shocking attempt by loyalist thugs to force out a Catholic family in
Lurgan, County Armagh has raised tensions ahead of local elections in
the north of Ireland.
A request by the new King of England to his claimed subjects to
collectively pledge their allegiance has raised the temperature of a
debate over Sinn Féin’s vice-president Michelle O’Neill attendance at
King Charles’s Coronation in London.
A Mayo man described as a committed socialist and republican has died
while fighting as part of international resistance to the Russian
occupation of Ukraine.
The widow of independent councillor Patsy Kelly has described a report
into the murder of her husband as the ‘start of closure’ for the family
after it moved closer to uncovering the details of Crown force
involvement in the killing.
The niece of a County Fermanagh republican whose murder in 1974 was
claimed by loyalists has said it is “disgraceful” that a Police
Ombudsman’s investigation into the killing will not begin before 2027.
Black flag vigils are taking place in Dublin and elsewhere on Friday to
mark the anniversary of the death of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands.
The following piece by Sands was originally published in 1978.
Like any other Republican I would rather stand on a terraced street in
silence with an unbowed and unbroken Republican family as they remember
their husband, father and grandfather than stand in the presence of the
enemy that murdered him as they crown their next leader.