Irish Republican News: Archives

May 8, 2025

Bobby Sands remembered with statue

Bobby Sands was hailed as a “beacon of light for freedom loving people” as a statue to the IRA hunger striker was unveiled in his native west Belfast.

Stakes rise as Brown cover-up goes on

The 87-year-old widow of Sean Brown has said she is terrified by the secrets the British government is hiding after Direct Ruler Hilary Benn indicated he will take her husband’s case to the Supreme Court in London in a desperate bid to conceal the truth about his murder.

‘Drive-by’ intimidation in Belfast, Lisburn

At least one Catholic family has been forced out of a mixed area of north Belfast this week as a result of loyalist terror.

Prison nightmare follows criminalisation of commemoration

A Derry republican, Tommy Moore, the latest victim of a campaign to criminalise republican commemorations, is being subjected to abuse at Maghaberry prison, according to the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association.

Anger mounts over state collusion in genocide

Former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has become the most high profile victim of a clampdown against protests when he appeared in court this week charged with taking part in a demonstration against Israel’s ethnic slaughter of Palestinians.

Unchecked bigotry on display in Scotland

An investigation has been urged into the Scottish Football Association (SFA) after the latest sectarian incidents at a Scottish Premiership march passed without any intervention by the organisation.

Israel is starving us in Gaza

It feels as though the Gaza Strip is no longer part of this world, as if we’re living in some distant, forgotten galaxy. Our lives are marked by suffering and strangeness, while the rest of the world carries on as if our reality doesn’t exist.

Óglach Bobby Sands

The address delivered by Pat Sheehan MLA at the unveiling of the statue of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands in Twinbrook, Belfast.

May 1, 2025

‘Kneecap is not the story’

A wave of solidarity has built in support of young Irish rap band Kneecap amid a concerted witch-hunt to destroy the group over its outspoken opposition to the genocide in Gaza.

Vicious attacks in Derry’s Waterside

A young autistic man who was injured in a series of sectarian attacks in Derry is too afraid to return home following the assault, his mother has said.

John O’Hare’s killers were protected by the RUC

Yet another catalogue of failings pointing to a police cover-up has been confirmed in the murder of a Catholic taxi driver by loyalists in Belfast in 1991.

Adams defends reputation against BBC smear

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams took to the stand this week in his defamation action against the BBC over the false allegation that he ‘sanctioned’ the murder of British spy Denis Donaldson in 2006.

Political harassment follows Easter events

A new bid to criminalise and intimidate republicans is being seen behind a trend of targeting individuals attending commemorations.

Claims constitutional discussion ‘divisive’ rejected

Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s insistence on a vague ‘reconciliation’ in the north of Ireland as a precondition for Irish reunification has been dismissed across the political spectrum.

Bridie Brown’s fight for justice

A plan by the British government to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling directing a public inquiry into the murder of Sean Brown has been greeted with a wave of anger in Ireland.

Kneecap statement

A response by the Irish rap band to the media storm over its denunciations of Israel at a US music festival