Irish Republican News: Archives

March 25, 2026

Adams ‘defended the Republican cause’

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the collapse of a London civil action against him following a politically driven attempt at a backdoor legacy inquiry targeting the armed struggle.

Loyalist threat over flags at playground

Threatening graffiti warning that “anyone who touches these flags does so at their own risk” scrawled beside a children’s playground in east Belfast is the latest example of loyalist intimidation dressed up as “culture”.

New political party condemns harassment

Glór na hÓglaigh, a new “revolutionary” republican party, has slammed recent PSNI stop-and-searches and airport interrogations of its members as blatant state intimidation designed to silence political dissent.

Irish language activists making strides for equality

Queen’s University Belfast students have delivered a crushing mandate for Irish language equality, with 91% of over 5,000 voters backing bilingual signage and an official Irish language policy – a resounding rejection of decades of unionist efforts to block Ireland’s native tongue from university life.

Cuba in focus as Irish call for peace

Kneecap have helped lead an international aid convoy to Cuba to confront a brutal oil blockade and show Irish solidarity with the island’s “resilient people” in the face of a siege by US President Donald Trump.

Fianna Fáil ‘sidestepping’ Irish unity challenge

Sinn Féin has sharply criticised Taoiseach Micheál Martin and his coalition government for stalling progress on Irish unity, accusing them of “hesitation, avoidance and a refusal to lead”.

Irish reporter survives Israeli assassination bid

War journalist Steve Sweeney, an Irish citizen, was reporting from Lebanon when he and his cameraman were targeted in an Israeli rocket attack. The camera captured a missile exploding just metres from his filming location in southern Lebanon. Both were injured and narrowly avoided being killed.

100 years of the Easter Lily

The Easter Lily turns one hundred this year, a symbol born in the crucible of 1916 and sharpened in the struggles that followed. From the very beginning it was never just a flower on a lapel; it was a declaration of allegiance to the Irish Republic, to those who died for it.

March 20, 2026

Adams wins as civil case is halted early

A civil case in London seeking to hold Gerry Adams personally responsible for three IRA attacks in England has ended in victory for the former Sinn Féin President.

March 19, 2026

Trump’s silver lining after White House horror show

An expression of support for Irish unity by US President Donald Trump was a pleasant surprise at the end of an enervating day in Washington DC which will be remembered for Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s kowtowing to Trump at the annual St Patrick’s Day shamrock ceremony.

Britain ‘was handed peace process on a plate’ - Adams

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has mounted a robust defence in London’s High Court, rejecting a politically driven attempt to rewrite history rather than a serious search for truth.

Crown Force raids in Derry

Saoradh said it “utterly condemns” the “latest provocative incursion” by heavily armed British Army personnel into nationalist communities in Derry.

PSNI’s high-tech war on Irish public

The PSNI are under growing pressure over a secret seven-year £5.5 million contract with an unnamed Israeli security firm. Campaigners warn that the “tools of apartheid” have been used to wage a high-tech war on political activism in the northeast.

Starmer’s contempt on show as genocide expands

In an unheralded visit to Belfast and Cork this week, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought to normalise his government’s colonial relationship with Ireland while making an absurd swipe at the “intolerable” politics of Irish-language rap trio Kneecap.

Court of Appeal fails to halt controversial extraditions

The Court of Appeal in Dublin has upheld a decision to extradite two republicans, now both in their 70s, to British jurisdiction for offences related to an INLA attack on the Crown Forces over 50 years ago.

The Hillcrest Bar bomb

James Kane still remembers the moment it happened. Fifty years ago, he was about to sit down for dinner when a massive explosion shook the ground. Instantly, he knew: it had to be a bomb.

Tom Smith

Dublin Brigade 2nd Battalion IRA Volunteer Tom Smith was born on the 22nd of March 1948 in Dublin’s southside close to the banks of the industrial waterway, the Grand Canal.

March 16, 2026

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 12, 2026

Kneecap defeat last-gasp censorship

Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has vowed that the group “will not be silent” after a London court ruling confirmed he will not face a new trial over allegations he displayed an illegal flag at a London gig.

Adams facing spurious show-trial

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has vowed to defend himself as a civil case in London seeks a court ruling that he was a leading member of the Provisional IRA and personally liable for attacks over three decades.

Finucane inquiry advances amid state secrecy fights

The London government has published terms of reference for a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane by British state agents at his north Belfast home.

‘No Shamrock for Trump’ campaign grows

A strong intervention by President of Ireland Catherine Connolly over the US–Israeli war on Iran has sparked an escalating political clash in Dublin, Belfast and Washington over violations of international law.

‘Clear’ case of collusion spelled out in uncovered documents

An on-duty member of the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment used his own car to deliver a death squad that killed a republican in County Tyrone. Later, he flew in a British army helicopter as part of the follow-up ‘security’ operation.

Questions over MI5 activity in Spanish jurisdiction

An Irish republican political party has warned that British military intelligence approached and attempted to intimidate one of its members while he was on a family holiday in Spain.

Clonard Street Martyrs

The Clonard Street Martyrs are remembered in republican history as four young Volunteers of Óglaigh na hÉireann who gave their lives in active service in the heart of their own community, Clonard in West Belfast, on 9 March 1972.

Sinn Féin will not be complicit in Middle East war

The decision by the United States, alongside Israel, to launch unprovoked military operations against Iran, is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and International Law.

March 5, 2026

‘Epstein war’ condemned

A sudden and unprovoked US/Israeli aerial bombing campaign against Iran has erupted into a giant war stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.

UVF issues mural ‘enforcement order’

UVF unionist paramilitaries have issued a warning to anyone who might damage a mural at the home of Irish soccer team Crusaders.

Serial-killing UDR battalion admitted Cappagh ambush

A former British Army intelligence officer has revealed that locally recruited British soldiers were directly involved in the 1991 ambush of three young Irish Republican Army Volunteers in Cappagh, County Tyrone.

‘No Fenians need apply’ - grant conspiracy exposed

A number of British government departments secretly worked together to block an arts grant to the Belfast rap trio Kneecap because of their identity as northern nationalists.

Republicans in direct action protests

Lasair Dhearg activists visited the ‘Famine Queen’ statue of England’s Queen Victoria, which stands within the grounds of the hospital named after her on Belfast’s Falls Road, on Friday afternoon.

Campaign grows for release of Niall Sheerin

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) has launched a national campaign calling for the immediate release of republican prisoner Niall Sheerin.

Bobby Sands

Bobby Sands began his hunger strike, 45 years ago this week. A brief account of his life and death in struggle, by the Seán Heuston 1916 Society.

The failures of royalty

All human beings have the right, as a birthright, to be treated equally. I am for a rights-based, citizen-centred society in which citizens fulfil their obligations for the common good.