Irish Republican News: Archives

April 24, 2025

PSNI ‘lash out’ after Easter commemoration

Two republican activists were arrested by the PSNI amid heightened tensions in the city over a 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration in Derry.

Opinion poll could lead to Irish unity vote - Minister

A British Minister’s comments have been taken as the first indication of the criteria to bring about a vote on Irish reunification.

Unionists mock Pope’s death

The death of Pope Francis has been mocked at an Apprentice Boys parade in Lisburn attended by DUP Stormont minister Paul Givan and other senior party figures.

Heavily pregnant woman forced out by loyalists

A Catholic woman forced out of her home in what the PSNI have admitted is a sectarian hate crime has been left with nothing and has nowhere to go.

‘Heavy Gang’ victim calls for torture inquiry

A man wrongly convicted of a role in the 1976 Sallins train robbery has said he believes that the Dublin government is not holding an independent public inquiry into the investigation because it would lift the lid on a state policy of using torture to secure false confessions from innocent republicans.

Bill to include North in Presidential election

A unionist MP has told Irish citizens in the Six Counties to move south if they want to access the right to vote for an Irish President.

Rising commemorated with defiance and purpose

A “large-scale, anti-Republican operation” was reported as the Crown Forces deployed across Belfast ahead of several Easter commemorations in the city over the weekend.

Easter statements 2025

A collection of orations, addresses and statements issued by republican organisations over the Rising commemorative period.

April 17, 2025

Martin backs away from peace deal unity poll

Micheál Martin has been accused of “gutting” Fianna Fáil of its “last drop” of republicanism after he dismissed the idea of a referendum for Irish reunification in 2030.

A catalogue of collusion in Ardyone killings

The families of two men who were killed by loyalists in 1988 were “failed” by the RUC police, the police ombudsman has said, although she declined to openly accuse those responsible of colluding with the killers.

PSNI doubles down on double standards

A prominent republican was convicted of attending a funeral while wearing an ‘illegal’ jacket, a day after the PSNI escorted an openly paramilitary loyalist parade in Tyrone which glorified a sectarian killer.

British govt to draw up ‘official history’ of the conflict

Plans for the London government to draft its own history of ‘the Troubles’ are moving ahead despite criticism from historians and the broader community.

Stadium rebuild is equality issue

In a historic protest through west Belfast, several thousand Gaelic games players and supporters marched to the derelict Casement Park stadium in west Belfast to demand its redevelopment.

Easter commemorations 2025

A list of Easter commemorations taking place across the country this weekend, with thanks to the Republican Memorial Tributes account. Other local events may be planned, contact your local organisation for details.

The vision that Ireland might be free

We republish a day-by-day account of the 1916 Rising, by the late Shane MacThomáis, chief historian of Glasnevin cemetery.

The next step in our island’s journey

The British and Irish Governments are the co-guarantors of the Agreement and in many ways, America is the third guarantor.

April 10, 2025

Horror of Gaza cannot be hidden

The role of the West in the destruction of the Palestinian people is being slowly drawn into the open.

Britain shamed by its treatment of Bridie Brown

The elderly widow of Sean Brown has urged British Direct Ruler Hilary Benn “to do the right thing” and finally set up a public inquiry into the role of state collusion in her husband’s murder.

Doherty inquest frustrated by Dublin

The 26 County government has been accused of dodging its legal responsibilities after more than seven years of an inquest into the death of a prominent republican were “wasted”.

Extradition setback for Sean Walsh

Lawyers for Cork republican Sean Walsh, whose extradition to British jurisdiction has been brought before the European courts, have issued a stinging rebuke to a judgment handed down at the Luxembourg Courts.

Crime gangs are ‘lowest form of humanity’

An attack on the family of a former republican prisoner has raised concerns that a criminal gang operating in the Armagh area is out of control.

Step change for debate on Irish Unity

The organisers of a debate on reunification in Derry’s Fountain estate have been praised for an event that brought together a huge cross-section of political opinion.

Dan Mulvihill

The memoirs of IRA commander and life-long Kerry republican Dan Mulvihill, an aide to anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff, Liam Lynch, reveals the anger of many of his former comrades about developments in the early years of the conflict in the Six Counties.