Irish Republican News: Archives

September 27, 2026

Breaking: People power wins the day - for today

Thousands of people rallied to the Garvaghy Road on Sunday and stopped an anti-Catholic march that had been given permission to pass through the nationalist Portadown community for the first time in 28 years.

Breaking: Appeals for support as Drumcree march is blocked

An anti-Catholic march on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown was stopped this Sunday morning by a large crowd of protesters who gathered in the road to prevent the parade going ahead.

Breaking: Garvaghy Road protest expects PSNI assault

Protestors on the Garvaghy Road have linked arms and are standing their ground as PSNI vehicles swarm ahead of an expected attack to clear a route for a sectarian parade though the nationalist enclave in Portadown this morning.

Breaking: Crisis mobilisation underway as Drumcree injunction is overturned

Residents have blocked the Garvaghy Road and police are reportedly mobilising with water cannons after a court ruling allowing an Orange Order march through the nationalist area was overturned late tonight, reversing an earlier injunction which had halted the infamous parade.

September 26, 2026

Breaking: Garvaghy residents win temporary injunction against Drumcree march

Garvaghy Road residents have won their challenge to a decision to allow a march by the anti-Catholic Orange Order through the nationalist district in Portadown for the first time in 28 years, after the High Court heard warnings that the PSNI had supplied false information to the Parades Commission.

September 25, 2026

Breaking: Shock as Garvaghy march gets go ahead after 28 years

The Parades Commission has announced that a planned Orange Order parade is to be allowed on the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown on Sunday.

September 24, 2026

Don’t play along with genocide

Ireland’s football players have been urged to refuse to take the field against Israel by 163 Irish athletes, as protests against the controversial fixtures continue and pressure mounts on the FAI to reverse its decision to play the games.

Orange Order ‘victory’ parade could reignite anger

The proposed return of an inflammatory anti-Catholic parade to the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown could unravel hard-won deals at former parading flashpoints across the north, residents’ groups have warned.

Death of Pól de Buitléir

Lifelong activist, former Sinn Féin Assembly member and justice campaigner Pól de Buitléir (Paul Butler) has died suddenly at the age of 69.

Veterans remembered as Billy ‘Blue’ Kelly is honoured

The funeral of IRA Volunteer Billy ‘Blue’ Kelly was marked with an honour guard of republicans who carried his coffin through west Belfast.

Gardaí under scrutiny over conflict cases and RUC role

The controversial tenure of former Garda Police Commissioner and head of RUC/PSNI Special Branch, Drew Harris, is back under scrutiny as the 26 County state faces legal action over its failure to investigate Garda misconduct during the conflict, alongside fresh allegations about the role of another former RUC figure within the Gardaí.

2,500 Irish artists sign pledge to boycott Israel

More than 2,500 Irish artists have signed a pledge refusing to perform or exhibit in Israel or accept funding from institutions linked to the Israeli government.

Diarmuid O’Neill to be remembered

Diarmuid O’Neill was a London-born Irish republican and IRA Volunteer who was shot dead in a shoot-to-kill operation by militarised police in west London on 23 September 1996. He was 27 and was later confirmed by the Provisional IRA as one of its Volunteers.

The articulate SF councillor assassinated, 35 years ago

On the morning of Monday, 16 September 1991, four days after his 38th birthday, Belfast-born Bernard O’Hagan drove into the car park at Magherafelt College in south County Derry.

September 17, 2026

Trump piles pressure for action on Irish Unity

For the first time, a sitting US President has backed calls for Irish unity. Donald Trump’s repeated calls for Irish reunification have pushed the demand for a border poll onto the global agenda and sparked new energy within the Irish diaspora.

Hamill inquiry exposes RUC’s obstruction of justice

Almost 30 years after Robert Hamill was kicked to death by a unionist mob in Portadown, the long-delayed final report of a public inquiry has exposed a catalogue of wrongful acts, negligence and deliberate obstruction by members of the police.

PSNI failures undermine Noah’s inquest

The PSNI made 13 investigative errors which affected the ability of an inquest jury to establish what happened to 14-year-old Noah Donohoe, whose body was found in a north Belfast storm drain six days after he disappeared.

Joining the dots between Robert Hamill and Noah Donohoe

There is a disturbing continuity between the Robert Hamill case and the death of Noah Donohoe. They are separated by 23 years and arose in different circumstances, but both have left families confronting a question which should never have been necessary: what happened to the state’s responsibility to protect the innocent and to find the truth?

Finucane inquiry hears shocking initial statements

The public inquiry into the murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane in 1989 has opened its main hearings in Belfast with an appalling admission: the core question is the extent to which his killers were encouraged, assisted, protected or directed by the British state.

Building a conflict resolution process - Adams

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams this week addressed the 36th Desmond Greaves Summer School in Dublin. Gerry Adams’ address in full.

A comfortable narrative upended

Organised by the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, a commemoration was held earlier this month to mark the 14th anniversary of Vol. Alan Ryan’s murder at the hands of state backed criminals. The main oration below was read by John Murphy of Cork 32CSM.

2,000 Searches. One Unchanged Reality

The latest figures exposing the dramatic escalation in the use of “terrorism” stop-and-search powers by the PSNI should come as no surprise to anyone who understands the true nature of British policing in Ireland.

September 14, 2026

Breaking: Celtic leaders jointly announce British rule ‘coming to an end’

In a historic declaration this morning, the leaders of Sinn Féin, the SNP in Scotland and Plaid Cymru in Wales have united to demand that the British government prepare for and facilitate constitutional change, declaring that “Westminster’s time is coming to an end”.

September 12, 2026

Flash: Trump says united Ireland will happen

US President Donald Trump has said he would “love to see” a united Ireland and predicted that reunification is “going to happen eventually”, putting the issue directly into the centre of his visit to Ireland.

September 10, 2026

Britain’s referendum contradictions mount

The new British prime minister has indicated that both an Irish unity referendum and a Scottish independence referendum could take place if public opinion polls show a demand for them - which they already do.

Tensions rise as memorial attacked

A memorial to the five people murdered in the Sean Graham’s bookmakers massacre has been attacked with paint amid escalating tensions over attempts to revive an Orange Order parade along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

IRPWA condemns harassment of republican prisoner

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) has condemned the “targeted harassment and petty vindictiveness” directed at Derry republican prisoner Kevin Brady by the MI5-led Maghaberry administration.

British military recruitment confronted

A row has broken out over the presence of British Army and RAF recruitment stalls at a jobs fair in Derry, with republican and anti-war groups accusing councillors of undermining their own stated opposition to militarism, while ignoring the legacy of the Bloody Sunday massacre and other British Army atrocities in the city.

Family of murder victim win settlement

The British Ministry of Defence has settled a civil action brought by the family of Thomas Burns, an unarmed north Belfast civilian shot dead by the British Army in 1972.

Sinn Féin joins growing consensus on citizenship, immigration

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has admitted the party had “put our hands up” after communities told it they were “not hearing enough” from her party on migration, as it backed moves towards tighter immigration and citizenship controls.

Protests planned for Trump visit

Sinn Féin will join protests against US President Donald Trump when he visits Ireland on Saturday, with demonstrations planned in Dublin, Shannon and Doonbeg over US support for Israel and the war in Palestine.

Fifty years since the Blanket Protest began

Fifty years ago on Monday, a young republican prisoner entered the newly built H-Blocks of Long Kesh and refused to accept the British government’s attempt to redefine him as a common criminal.

September 3, 2026

Burnham sets fire to the GFA

The new British Prime Minister has faced a furious backlash after declaring that a referendum on Irish unity was “off the table” during his first official visit to the north of Ireland.

Former British PM insists a united Ireland is inevitable

Discussion of the prospects for Irish unity is at fever pitch despite efforts by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to claim that the issue is “off the table”.

Garvaghy residents stand firm amid parades storm

Unionists have been accused of seeking to turn back the clock to again generate fear and conflict in Portadown by demanding a triumphalist anti-Catholic parade be forced through the Catholic part of the town.

Fifty years on, Dempsey family still denied justice

Fifty years after unionists burned a young Catholic family to death in one of the most horrific attacks of the conflict, the family of Joe, Jeanette and baby Brigeen Dempsey are still waiting for answers.

PSNI refuse to act against Billy Wright flags

The PSNI has again been accused of sectarian policing after refusing to remove flags erected for the north’s worst serial killer from the streets of Dungannon.

Stormont crisis deepens as O’Neill insists SF will not walk away

Sinn Féin First Minister Michelle O’Neill has insisted her party is “not walking away” from Stormont despite mounting dysfunction within the Six County political institutions, including the failure to agree a budget and the continued breach of a legal obligation to implement an Irish language strategy.

Britain will not dictate Ireland’s future

Andy Burnham’s attempt to put Irish unity ‘off the table’ betrays a limp imperial reflex towards a democratic reckoning that Britain can no longer postpone. By Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard (for tribunemag.co.uk)

The poll that will never come

How a party that once fought to remove the British built its entire strategy on a clause the British wrote, the British control, and the British have now told us in writing they have no intention of ever using. By Saoradh Belfast chairman Séamus Fitzsimons.