Irish Republican News

McGurk’s Bar report quashed after seven year fight

A deceptive police report into the McGurk’s Bar bomb atrocity is to be quashed in its entirety, concluding a titanic legal battle between victims of the atrocity and the PSNI.

‘Epic’ power grab seen in London’s unilateral actions

The British government’s proposed Bill of Rights has been described as a “power grab on an epic scale” that will violate the Good Friday Agreement’s basic human rights guarantees.

Inquest exposes murder as legacy fight continues in London

A Derry mother was shot dead by a British soldier in her back garden in circumstances which were “unjustified”, a coroner has ruled.

Shocking sectarian attack ignored by PSNI

A Catholic man who fled his east Belfast home with his injured partner after being attacked by a loyalist mob has described the PSNI as a “disgrace” after they ignored their pleas for help for over an hour.

British ruling class faces new resistance

Irish republican socialist James Connolly is back in vogue in Britain amid increasing signs of a new political awakening there.

Republican prisoner challenges strip searches

A republican prisoner has won High Court permission to challenge strip searches inflicted on him before and after attending a hospital appointment.

Peace under sustained attack

With plans well advanced in London for a hard border through Ireland and a blanket amnesty for British war crimes, there is a consensus among nationalists that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is under unprecedented attack.

Prominent republican interned

The chairman of Saoradh in Derry has been summarily jailed by order of the British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis.

Activist arrested as British Navy ignores Irish neutrality

A former councillor has been arrested in Cork after challenging the presence of a British Navy warship.

Sectarian tensions mount ahead of ‘Twelfth’

There are fears of trouble at a flashpoint in north Belfast in the coming weeks after the letters KAT, which means ‘Kill All Taigs’, were scrawled close to a notorious bonfire site.

Name added to bomb memorial

The name of baby Martha O’Neill has been added to a memorial to mark the British and loyalist bombings of Dublin in 1974.

Assange extradition move condemned

Sinn Féin has condemned the decision by the British Home Secretary Priti Patel to proceed with the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US.

The start of the Irish Civil War

The Irish Civil War began a century ago this week with an attack on republicans at the Four Courts in Dublin, the centre of the Irish judicial system.

Goalposts being moved as unionism slides into minority

Naturally all the responses to the British government’s anti-protocol bill have emphasised the plans to enable British ministers to ditch pretty well anything and everything in the protocol they want except three sections, Articles 2, 3 and 11.

The Wolfe Tone commemoration of 1922

A hundred years ago this week, a group of leading republicans visited Bodenstown churchyard to hear a stirring oration by Liam Mellows over the grave of the father of Irish republicanism, where supporters of Irish freedom now pay homage every year.

Sinn Féin address at Bodenstown

The full text of remarks By First Minister-Designate, Michelle O’Neill, at Sinn Féin’s Wolfe Tone Commemoration, in Bodenstown, County Kildare on Sunday, 19 June.

Saturday, July 2, 2022