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‘Mo Chara’ court appearance makes Britain look panicked

kneecapcourt.jpg Kneecap have said the British authorities are “already on the back foot” after rap singer Mo Chara was released on unconditional bail by a court in London on Wednesday, pending another court appearance on August 20.

Published June 19, 2025



Poll positions

opinionsireland.jpg Real votes are a more credible guide than opinion polls, writes Kevin Meaghar. However, it’s now becoming clear that whatever metric you present, the prospect of Irish unity is getting closer all the time.

Published June 19, 2025



Nationalists doubt Dublin’s commitment to Irish unity

boundarycommissionreport.jpg Northern nationalists felt betrayed by Dublin 100 years ago, after the collapse of the Boundary Commission in December 1925. It left the border unchanged despite their hopes that it would make unification inevitable. Many of their descendants still feel that way.

Published June 12, 2025



Where is the outrage over the Winkie Irvine case?

masked.jpg The exceptional story of the arrest, treatment and sentencing of Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine warrants considerably greater attention and protest than has so far been the case.

Published June 5, 2025



The Great Hunger

faminememorial2.jpg An introduction to the history of the famine in Ireland, by the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.

Published June 5, 2025



How do we chart a path to a Border Poll and win it?

kevinmeaghar.jpg We are at the cusp of a great historical inflection point. The opportunity is seized, or it is not, according to author Kevin Meaghar.

Published May 29, 2025



Kneecap row shows desperation of Kemi Badenoch

kneecapsmiling.jpg One third of the Irish republican rap trio is facing police action over something that shouldn’t be the British state’s concern.

Published May 29, 2025



Israel is starving us in Gaza

starvinggaza.jpg 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.

Published May 8, 2025



Bridie Brown’s fight for justice

bridiebrown3.jpg 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.

Published May 1, 2025



The vision that Ireland might be free

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

Published April 17, 2025



The next step in our island’s journey

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

Published April 17, 2025



Dan Mulvihill

danmulvihill.jpg 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.

Published April 10, 2025



Hunter was right: Unionists have a coloniser mindset

carahunter2.jpg The English carried out such cultural suppression whenever they took over any part of these islands.

Published April 10, 2025



How the Rising was planned

ira1916a.jpg A look at the background to the IRA's heroic fight for independence in 1916, by Mark Duncan.

Published April 3, 2025



A courageous advocate for Palestinians

albanese.jpg Ms. Francesca Albanese is the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations in the Palestinian territories. She is a remarkable champion for human rights and international law whose moral integrity and deep rooted humanity are an inspiration.

Published April 3, 2025



Reject the welfare cuts

rachelreeves.jpg 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.

Published March 27, 2025



Chipping away at partition

reunitedireland.jpg 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.

Published March 27, 2025



The smell of death returns in Gaza

gazabodies2.jpg We are in a terrifying new reality, writes Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta (for the Electronic Intifada).

Published March 20, 2025



Remembering Joey Clarke

joeyclarke.jpg 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)

Published March 13, 2025



Thatcher’s executions

gibraltar1200.jpg 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.

Published March 6, 2025

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