Irish Republican News: Archives

January 30, 2025

Attack leaves pensioner clinging to life

The UVF has been blamed for a shocking attack at the home of an elderly woman in Antrim in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Fears ‘appalling vista’ of Omagh will remain hidden

Family members of the victims of the Omagh bomb have expressed concern that a public inquiry, which opened this week, will fail to uncover the truth of state involvement in the August 1998 attack in which 29 people were killed.

Storm damage to coalition’s reputation

The Dublin government’s weak response to a devastating winter storm has renewed anger over the role of corruption and croneyism in the maintenance of national infrastructure.

Loyalist disturbances in Belfast

Nationalists are living in fear after loyalist violence at a flashpoint area at the weekend, a community group has warned.

Protest at extraditions to British jurisdiction

A demonstration is to be held next Saturday to stop the extradition of Cork Republican Sean Walsh and to call for an immediate end to the extradition of all Irish Republicans.

Cross-border harassment of republicans

Saoradh has accused police in the 26 Counties of direct political harassment after armed members of a ‘Special Detective Unit’ (SDU) entered the house of a party member and seized phones and other electronic devices.

Bloody Sunday March for Justice events

Palestine is to be a key focus of the Bloody Sunday March Committee’s programme of events this year, with Eamonn McCann noting there is ‘a Bloody Sunday every day of the week’ in Gaza or the West Bank.

Ted Howell

Gerry Adams penned this obituary for his late friend and comrade, Ted Howell, who died earlier this month (for Leargas).

January 23, 2025

Armagh man could be extradited to Colombia

Martin McCauley, one of the ‘Colombia 3’ who were arrested in South America in 2001, believes the British are plotting to send him back there after a court ordered his extradition to the north of Ireland.

Protests as Taoiseach-elect made to wait for Seal of Office

A blistering row over speaking time in the Dublin parliament has frustrated the new government’s attempt to approve its revamped political agenda, including a controversial plan to dishonour its pre-election promises on the issue of Palestine.

Shock new allegations against MI5 date back to 1960s

A former English career criminal has described how he was recruited to murder five people in the north of Ireland on behalf of MI5 in the earliest days of the recent conflict – and worked with an agent who carried out the 1974 Birmingham bombings.

Relief in Castlewellan as convictions upheld

Three members of a loyalist death squad have failed to overturn their convictions for stabbing a Catholic teenager to death.

Vigil for Paul ‘Kelso’ Kelly

The family of a West Belfast man shot dead by a soldier from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) have held a vigil in his memory to mark his 40th anniversary.

Call for ‘pragmatic’ solution to Brexit block on tourists

Stormont’s Economy Minister Conor Murphy is warning that new British government red tape will have a “devastating impact” on tourism in Ireland.

Leonard Peltier granted clemency

Outgoing US President Joe Biden granted clemency to lifelong political prisoner and Indigenous rights campaigner Leonard Peltier in a surprise move in the final minutes of his presidency.

Irish people must be free to choose their own future

The Matt Fitzpatrick 1916 Society held a commemoration for Volunteers Fergal O’Hanlon and Sean South at Altawark in Fermanagh earlier this month. Councillor Barry Monteith give the main oration.

January 16, 2025

End in sight for genocide

Ireland has been welcoming a ceasefire agreement to end the slaughter in Gaza after 15 months of horror during which Israel killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and launched waves of attacks against several other countries.

‘Step change’ for Sinn Féin as Lowry seals deal

As a new coalition government was being formed in Dublin without her party, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she should not be underestimated, and promised to enter government after the next general election.

MI5 disguised as police at Hannaway funeral

Members of the British Army’s intelligence gathering unit disguised themselves as police as they harassed and surveilled mourners returning from the wake of Hooded Man Kevin Hannaway last week, it has emerged.

Protest for justice for the Brown family

A protest is taking place this (Thursday) morning at Belfast High Court where the London government is seeking to appeal a coroner’s ruling that it must order a public inquiry into the collusion killing of Gaelic sports official Sean Brown.

Adams is Tory hate figure over legacy claims

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has warned of a need for caution regarding reports that the Labour government in London is to put forward an alternative to the notorious Legacy Act passed by the previous Tory administration.

Francie Green a victim of ‘cruel and calculated assassination’

Fifty years after the murder of a senior IRA Volunteer in County Monaghan, Sinn Féin has accused the British government of “hiding behind a veil of secrecy”.

Free Derry – Free Palestine

This year’s Bloody Sunday anniversary events are being dedicated to the people of Gaza. The following is an analysis and introduction ot this year’s programme by the Bloody Sunday March committee.

The north can never be a nation

The failure of previous attempts to wash away the name of something unpleasant, as illustrated with Windscale, Long Kesh and the protocol, only leads to ridicule.

January 9, 2025

Another cheap shot at a grieving widow

The British government continues to deny the 88-year-old widow of Sean Brown the truth of its collusion killing of her husband by appealing a judge’s mandatory order that it hold a public inquiry into the murder.

Sinn Féin mourns death of legendary party figure

Ted Howell, a lifelong republican activist who became one of Sinn Fein’s most senior and trusted officials, is being deeply mourned by his comrades, friends and family.

Truth begins to emerge about SAS actions in the Middle East

A public inquiry into British war crimes has heard that the SAS continues to believe it has a “golden pass” from the British government “allowing them to get away with murder”.

Paddy Hill, an anger that never faded

Paddy Hill, who spent 17 years in prison after being smeared, tortured and wrongly convicted by a racist British establishment, has been remembered as “an amazing man”.

Impatience grows on Irish unity

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has insisted that referendums on Irish unity “must happen in this decade” and called on the Dublin and London governments to “play a leading role in fostering a mature and positive conversation about the future”.