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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.