Irish Republican News: Archives

March 27, 2025

Judge claims ‘public interest’ in extraditing escapees

Two men who escaped from Long Kesh jail in a dramatic tunnelling breakout nearly 50 years ago are set to be extradited into British jurisdiction.

Stakeknife charade exposed

There have been calls for a public inquiry after evidence emerged of a bizarre conspiracy involving British agent Freddie Scappaticci, senior British officials and top members of its military and judiciary.

Locked-up republicans vow to fight injustice

Two republican prisoners were informed at a hearing on Wednesday that their internment without trial is to continue for at least six more months, while separately a key challenge is being heard at the Supreme Court in London.

Garbled threats rejected by Lisburn residents

Threatening and sectarian leaflets from unionist paramilitaries have been pushed through letterboxes of homes in a mixed area of County Antrim.

Mixed messages from British government on inquests

Families of those killed in a British Army ambush have been told by the British government that an inquest into the massacre will be allowed to proceed, while a positive outcome of another inquest is to be appealed.

Online censorship linked to criminalisation agenda

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has hit out after moves by the Google LLC to implement anti-republican censorship on its YouTube platform.

Reject the welfare cuts

Cuts announced this month by the British government Minister Rachel Reeves are set to push thousands of people in the north of Ireland into poverty and have been opposed across the political spectrum.

Chipping away at partition

Carl Duffy, a candidate for Aontú in the last general election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, lays out a possible ‘inch-by-inch’ approach towards a United Ireland.

March 20, 2025

Glenanne gang prosecution raises new questions

An RUC ‘whistle-blower’ is to be the first to be prosecuted in an investigation by the North’s Police Ombudsman into the Glenanne Gang, a collaboration between unionist paramilitaries and members of the British Crown Forces which carried out at least 125 sectarian murders.

White House fallout continues

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has said she is proud of the stance she took in staying away from Washington DC last week because of attacks on innocent Palestinians.

Details emerge of Colum Marks shoot-to-kill

The British Army’s SAS and MI5 and at least two RUC Special Branch units were involved in an operation in which an unarmed IRA Volunteer was killed, a Police Ombudsman report has revealed.

Sectarian agenda feared behind road carnage

Most of the victims of the deadly crashes on the most dangerous road in Ireland or Britain are from the Catholic and nationalist community.

It’s ‘The King and Irish’ as the occupation goes emerald green

England’s King Charles and Queen Camilla were welcomed by Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill in the Irish language for an official visit to the British-ruled north of Ireland on Wednesday.

1916 Societies forms alliance with Éirígí

A “strategic alliance” between two republican groups has resulted in the emergence of a new ‘Republican Bloc’, according to one of those involved.

The smell of death returns in Gaza

We are in a terrifying new reality, writes Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta (for the Electronic Intifada).

Tom Smith remembered

Volunteer Tom Smith, Dublin Brigade, Irish Republican Army was shot dead by Free State soldiers during an escape attempt from Portlaoise jail on 17th of March 1975, 50 years ago this week.

March 16, 2025

Please donate for Irish Unity

Every year we reach out for support to those who may be willing to support the Irish cause. Our national day is only once a year, but your support would make a difference every day of the year.

March 13, 2025

Martin tugs the forelock for Trump

Micheál Martin’s bid to appease a vain and erratic US President at a White House event for St Patrick’s Day has been hailed as a diplomatic triumph by Ireland’s right and rejected as a humiliating act of submission by Ireland’s left.

PSNI whistle-blowers confirm force’s sectarianism

Calls for the reform of policing in the north of Ireland have increased following the news that four current or former Catholic members of the PSNI are taking High Court action against the force over sectarian discrimination.

Britain ‘locking up Republicans up and throwing away the key’

One of the longest serving republican internees, who has spent a total of six years held without trial, has been prevented from making a bail application for over three months.

Good news for Irish language and music

Progress is continuing to preserve traditional Irish culture in the north of Ireland despite the British occupation.

Hypocrisy on tributes rejected

Former Six County Economy Minister Conor Murphy has hit out at the “double standard” he says he faces when paying tribute to veteran republicans when they die.

UDA’s drug addiction on display

The unionist paramilitary UDA has been publicly shamed after one member was seen snorting cocaine at an event outside Belfast as children were being urged to cheer on the group’s youth wing.

Remembering Joey Clarke

Fifty years ago this week, Joey Clarke died from gunshot wounds he received when he went to answer a knock at the door of his home off the Ormeau Road. By Anthony Neeson (for belfastmedia.com)

Quotes by Bobby Sands

In March 1981, Irish patriot Bobby Sands embarked on hunger strike at Long Kesh prison. We publish a brief collection of quotes, some famous, some less well known.

March 6, 2025

Work starts on Irish unity plan

The Irish government has started the process of working out the implications of a united Ireland as a new poll showed 53% of voters in the occupied Six Counties support reunification, with 41% calling for it to take place immediately.

Ceasefire reports are ‘disinformation’

Saoradh has hit out at recent media reports which have claimed that republican prisoners are being used as a bargaining chip in talks about a potential ceasefire by the New IRA.

PSNI spying on Noah investigator

The PSNI’s hostile treatment of the nationalist community has been brought home with the news that a journalist examining the force’s handling of the death of 14-year-old schoolboy Noah Donohoe has been subjected to intrusive and direct surveillance.

Death of Derry man highlights fate of informers

A British agent inside the New IRA has died – Derry man Billy Elliot had been under the protection of the Crown Forces since fleeing his home in May 2022.

Govt told to get approval of Irish people for military adventure

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has been urged to call a referendum after he called for Irish ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine in a sudden drive to scrap Irish neutrality and play a role in its three-year war with Russia.

MRF gang members to go on trial

The prosecution of four former members of a British Army death squad is to go ahead, despite legislation intended to draw a veil over British war crimes in the north of Ireland.

Thatcher’s executions

An account of how former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally oversaw an SAS shoot-to-kill ambush that claimed the lives of three republicans in Gibraltar in 1988, 37 years ago this week.

Taking a stand

The decision by Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill not to attend the St. Patrick’s Day events in the White House and the Speakers lunch on Capitol Hill, will undoubtedly upset some of our friends across Irish America. This is very understandable.