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The smell of death returns in Gaza

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

Published March 20, 2025

Remembering Joey Clarke

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

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

Taking a stand

The decision by Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill not to attend the St. Patrick’s Day events in the White House and the Speakers lunch on Capitol Hill, will undoubtedly upset some of our friends across Irish America. This is very understandable.

Published March 6, 2025

It’s the end game for Irish unity, but Dublin won’t play

Neither Micheál Martin nor Simon Harris has the slightest intention of lifting a finger to advance reunification. It would upset the applecart.

Published February 20, 2025

The extradition of Martin McCauley

A message shared on social media from Christine McCauley, the wife of veteran republican Martin McCauley, who was extradited to the north of Ireland last week.

Published February 13, 2025

The Clonoe Inquest

The 1916 Societies on the verdict that the use of force by the SAS in the killing of the four Clonoe Martyrs was ‘not justified’.

Published February 13, 2025

Unity is the Irish state’s constitutional imperative

Tánaiste Simon Harris and Taoiseach Micheál Martin are ignoring the central point of the peace deal they trumpet.

Published February 6, 2025

The north can never be a nation

The failure of previous attempts to wash away the name of something unpleasant, as illustrated with Windscale, Long Kesh and the protocol, only leads to ridicule.

Published January 16, 2025

Where is the border poll?

At the halfway point in what has been termed the ‘decade of opportunities’, an assessesment of the chances of securing a border poll by 2030.

Published December 30, 2024

Red faces for ‘peace’ group funders

A widely hailed loyalist ‘peacemaker’ is convicted of possessing guns and ammunition. You just couldn’t make this stuff up.

Published December 12, 2024

Irish republican prisoner list

An updated Irish Republican Prisoners List for 2024, with addresses for sending Christmas greetings.

Published December 5, 2024

Sinn Féin’s appeal is rooted in our republicanism

The choice in this election is crystal clear – another government led by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil – or a new government led by Sinn Féin.

Published November 28, 2024

‘Thatcher would have known’

Geraldine Finucane, the widow of murdered Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, was interviewed this week by the Guardian in her Belfast home.

Published November 21, 2024

An assertive republicanism could still win this election

Attacks on the Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil as representing a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fine but Sinn Féin needs to demonstrate, in a clear and easily understood way, that it is radically different from these parties.