Irish Republican News: Archives

November 30, 2024

Flash: Sinn Féin open to coalition talks with all parties

Sinn Féin are open to forming a new coalition government with anyone, and expect everyone to talk with them, a returning TD has indicated, as early general election results started coming in this afternoon.

November 29, 2024

Sinn Féin tops exit poll but next government unclear

Sinn Féin has won the most support of the three main parties in the 26 County general election, according to the result of a major national exit poll, but only slightly ahead of the main coalition parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

November 28, 2024

War Criminal

The complicity of the coalition parties in the genocide of Palestinians has been fully exposed by the decision of the International Criminal Court to bring charges against Israeli leaders Benjamin Natanyahu and Yoav Gallant for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.

Sinn Féin, Aontú seen surging as ‘bluffer’ Harris stumbles

The 26 county general election is neck-and-neck between the three main parties following a 6% drop in the support for Fine Gael and a steady increase for Sinn Fein.

Trial hears of British collusion to import and hide weapons

The British Crown forces permitted loyalist death squads to import and distribute a shipment of weapons for use in a series of sectarian murders across the north of Ireland, the High Court has heard.

Political repression in Tyrone

No less than five PSNI police vehicles were deployed to harass those attending a political party meeting in east Tyrone, with at least one possession “vindictively” damaged in searches, according to those at the receiving end.

Children of man killed 50 years ago speak out

The family of a Catholic man murdered by loyalists 50 years ago has spoken of their life-long hurt.

New govt should press London to “set out their stall” on unity

Legally challenging the British government over Irish unity votes is an option, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has said.

General election 2024 - the battleground constituencies

The key constituencies and candidates that could signal what way the result of the election is going to go, followed by a list of the republican candidates.

Sinn Féin’s appeal is rooted in our republicanism

The choice in this election is crystal clear – another government led by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil – or a new government led by Sinn Féin.

November 21, 2024

A chance for change

A rare opportunity for Ireland to end the hegemony of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments looms closer as the 26 County general election campaign enters its final stretch.

Police clampdown on Palestine protests

Both the Six and 26 County statelets have resorted to violence to suppress protests over the Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon.

British inventing new strategies for infiltration

Saoradh has described how a sports stadium’s public address system was used by MI5 as a part of increasingly wild and random attempts to recruit informers.

Fresh campaign for justice for Mid-Ulster murders

Relatives of people killed by a loyalist death squad believed to include British soldiers have called for their inquests to be reinstated.

Lawyer battles governments for withholding key information

The High Court in Dublin has granted leave for a judicial review brought against the Irish authorities over their failure to provide information about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings to the Police Ombudsman in the North of Ireland.

McDonald vows election boost for unity agenda

Mary Lou McDonald said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his government needs to indicate the ‘tipping point’ for a referendum on Irish unity.

‘Thatcher would have known’

Geraldine Finucane, the widow of murdered Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, was interviewed this week by the Guardian in her Belfast home.

An assertive republicanism could still win this election

Attacks on the Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil as representing a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fine but Sinn Féin needs to demonstrate, in a clear and easily understood way, that it is radically different from these parties.

November 13, 2024

Anger as O’Neill honours British Army dead

Sinn Féin’s leader in the North, Michelle O’Neill has come in for widespread criticism after she became the first Sinn Féin leader to attend an event to commemorate British military forces.

Government re-election campaign insults teachers

Derogatory remarks at a Fine Gael election event could be the ‘Black and Tan’ moment of this year’s 26 County general election.

Israel bulldozes part of Irish peacekeeper camp

Israeli forces used excavators and a bulldozer to destroy part of a fence and concrete structure at an Irish peacekeeping position in southern Lebanon

Republican ‘must be released’ as extradition case bounces again

There have been calls for the immediate release of Cork republican Seán Walsh on the back of a decision to refer his extradition case back to the European courts for a second time.

James McClean ‘will never bend the knee’

Irish international footballer James McClean has said he will never “bend the knee” in response to the latest furore over his decision not to wear a poppy for the British Army’s Remembrance Day.

Prison warder recruitment campaign opposed

Members of Belfast’s cumann of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement have been removing recruitment posters for the prison service from bus shelters across the city over the past week.

Tyrone families hit out at Remembrance Day attendance

The following statement was signed by family members of those who died as a result of British Crown Force killings and collusion in County Tyrone, in protest at the attendance of Sinn Féin First Minister Michelle O’Neill at a Remembrance Day commemoration in Belfast.

Escape from Portlaoise

An account of a famous IRA escape in 1974, adapted from a feature published earlier this year by Laois Today.

November 7, 2024

General election set for November 29

The Dublin government is to officially call a general election on Friday as it pushed €400m into bank accounts in a bid to convince voters to ignore deepening crises in housing, inequality, health, child welfare, immigration, political greed and corruption.

Remembrance Day plan adds to republican tensions

Victims of British Army atrocities in Ireland have denounced a decision by Sinn Féin’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill to attend a Remembrance Sunday event in Belfast this weekend.

Loyalist intimidation fails to block Gaelscoil project

Construction work has begun at an east Belfast Irish language school site despite a loyalist campaign of intimidation which has seen hate banners erected.

Government fails to enact Palestine measure

The refusal of the Dublin government to use parliament time offered up by the opposition parties to pass long-delayed legislation on Palestine ahead of the general election has been condemned as “disgraceful”.

Sinn Féin’s HR debacle to face election test

Laois will see a showdown between former Sinn Féin TD, now independent republican Brian Stanley, and the party’s new candidate, Maria McCormack, after a disastrous internal inquiry erupted into the open in the midlands county, just weeks before the 26 County general election.