After an election in which the nationalist share of the vote overtook
the unionist one for the first time, a senior DUP figure has admitted it
could be an “ice age” before powersharing ever returns to Belfast.
The failures of the RUC/PSNI to properly investigate the sectarian
murder of a north Belfast woman 47 years ago are “shocking and
disgraceful”, the High Court has ruled.
One of the survivors of the infamous 1975 Miami Showband massacre has
said he has been retraumatised after a British government victims board
assessed his suffering at “3.8 out of 10” and offered him “insulting”
compensation.
Final results from the North’s latest elections have confirmed Sinn Féin
as again the big winner, with its share of the vote jumping almost 8% to
31%, and winning 144 of the 462 council seats available, up 39 on the
2019 result.
The only surviving son of INLA figures Dominic and Mary McGlinchey has
launched a court bid in an attempt to compel Gardaí police to reopen the
investigations into their murders six years apart.
A hoax bomb attack at pitches used by a Gaelic sports team is just the latest
incident in a campaign of intimidation against Irish culture in east Belfast.
One hundred years ago this week, the Civil War came to an end. Peace
settled on the country, but the conflict left a bitter legacy that not
only divided the country politically but also broke families apart — and
the effects reverberated through generations.
Frankly, there will be an audible sigh of relief in Westminster if it
looks like Northern Ireland will be voted out of existence in the next
few years.
Speaking in Milford, Donegal, President Michael D Higgins
delivered an address for the official commemoration
of the Great Hunger by the 26 County state. President Higgins’ address in full.
Imagine people in Britain were told Brexit would not happen because only
a narrow majority had voted for it? That the issue was so divisive it
required a supermajority of 60 percent before it passed?