
The son of an infamous loyalist paramilitary is accused of involvement
in a major feud between different factions of the UDA (Ulster Defence
Association).
Published March 30, 2023

Efforts to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday peace
agreement have been complicated by a former MI5 agent’s claim that a
promise of British support for a united Ireland helped convince the
leadership of the Provisional IRA to agree to a ceasefire in 1994.
Published March 30, 2023

An inquest has heard allegations that the RUC murdered one of their own
members after he had uncovered the force’s collusion with unionist
paramilitaries.
Published March 30, 2023

The father of six-year-old Dáithí Mac Gabhann, who led a successful
campaign to reform organ donation laws in the north of Ireland, has
received sectarian hate mail accusing him of “extreme political views”
because of his Irish name.
Published March 30, 2023

More groups have been speaking out against the use of schools and
community centres by the Crown Forces of to promote a colonial agenda in
nationalist areas.
Published March 30, 2023

The DUP continue to defy the EU, the US government, their own government
in London and their own voters, as overwhelming support for a renegotiated Irish
Protocol of Brexit left them with no excuse for not ending their
boycott of powersharing in Belfast.
Published March 23, 2023

Efforts to mark the St Patrick’s weekend in the north of Ireland were
marred by provocative and sectarian UDA and Orange Order parades.
Published March 23, 2023

US tourists to Ireland could become the victims of a new fight over
border control measures as Tories seek to use new visa restrictions to
create an immigration border through Ireland.
Published March 23, 2023

An inquest has opened in Belfast into Crown Force collusion in the
murder of Sam Marshall by unionist paramilitaries as he left an RUC
police base in Lurgan in 1990.
Published March 23, 2023

Anti-Catholic slogans painted on the ground just yards from two Scottish
schools have been widely condemned. The graffiti targeted those from
Irish backgrounds on St Patrick’s Day.
Published March 23, 2023

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been criticised for backing a party
election candidate whose actions he admitted were “indefensible”.
Published March 23, 2023

A happy St Patrick to our subscribers, readers and all those who are
with us on our journey. Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig romhaibh uilig!
Published March 17, 2023

The British Crown Forces hid their role in the deaths of children
killed by rubber and plastic bullets during the conflict, it has
emerged.
Published March 16, 2023

There have been disturbances in Derry after British soldiers joined the
PSNI in searches near Magowan Park in the Creggan area of the city.
Published March 16, 2023

US President Joe Biden has confirmed he is set for a
multiple-destination trip to Ireland next month to coincide with the
25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Published March 16, 2023

Republican party Saoradh has revealed that MI5 texted the partner of a
member of the party’s executive to insist they were not trying to
recruit him after he was detained at a French airport.
Published March 16, 2023

Lawyers for a former republican prisoner have warned that regulations
which established a mile-wide control regime along the British border
through Ireland breach free movement rights for all members of the
public.
Published March 16, 2023

Opposition has grown to a move by the Dublin government to allow renters
to once again be evicted onto the streets amid the continuing housing
crisis.
Published March 16, 2023

PSNI claims that the New IRA collaborated with loyalists in a gun attack
against one of its senior figures has been widely ridiculed and rejected
by the armed group itself.
Published March 9, 2023

The British government has been warned against making unilateral changes
to the Good Friday Agreement in order to appease the escalating demands
of the DUP.
Published March 9, 2023

The funeral has taken place of senior Sinn Féin official Rita O’Hare,
who was described by party leader Mary Lou McDonald as an “unstoppable
force for Irish freedom”.
Published March 9, 2023

A doorbell recording of a casual extortion demand by a unionist
paramilitary gang has highlighted the openness with which these gangs
are now engaging in serious crime across the north of Ireland.
Published March 9, 2023

A preliminary hearing for the Clonoe inquest has heard that it is still
struggling to gather paperwork from the British Ministry of Defence
(MoD) and PSNI police, despite numerous hearings down the decades.
Published March 9, 2023

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD addressed the party’s centenary
commemoration in honour of the eight Republicans massacred by Free State
forces at Ballyseedy.
Published March 9, 2023

The DUP is under intense pressure to end their boycott of the
power-sharing institutions in the North of Ireland after British Prime
Minister Rishi Sunak admitted he was a “over the moon” at a deal agreed
with the EU to end seven years of tensions over the implementation of
Brexit.
Published March 2, 2023

A bitter conflict between the New IRA and British state forces has
deepened after the armed group claimed responsibility for a targeted gun
attack against a prominent and senior PSNI figure, John Caldwell.
Published March 2, 2023

A British soldier who fired a plastic bullet which partially blinded a
Catholic schoolboy in 1997 used “reasonable force”, a High Court judge
has ruled.
Published March 2, 2023

The vastly different approach of the British Crown Forces to loyalist
paramilitaries vis-a-vis republican armed groups has been condemned by
the Alliance Party.
Published March 2, 2023

Prominent Belfast republican Dee Fennell has been acquitted of
overseeing an illegal Easter procession.
Published March 2, 2023

A unionist-dominated council area faces potential legal action over its
refusal to introduce a policy on allowing dual language street signs.
Published March 2, 2023

EU president Ursula Von Der Leyen and British prime minister Rishi Sunak
have signed a long-awaited deal over post-Brexit trading arrangements
for the north of Ireland.
Published February 27, 2023

Proposals for a deal to finally end the dispute over the implementation
of Brexit in the north of Ireland have been derailed by the
intransigence of Tory and unionist extremists.
Published February 23, 2023

A senior member of the PSNI has been injured in a shooting in County
Tyrone which has been linked to republican armed groups.
Published February 23, 2023

The long-awaited Springhill/Westrock inquest commenced this week in
Belfast.
Published February 23, 2023

The family of two Catholic brothers shot dead by loyalists almost 30
years ago has called for a public inquiry into the series of sectarian
murders carried out at the time.
Published February 23, 2023

Attempts by racists and foreign instigators to take advantage of concern
in Ireland over immigration has been dramatically opposed by more than
ten thousand people who attended a public rally in Dublin last weekend.
Published February 23, 2023

Masks worn by the unionist paramilitary killers of three innocent
Catholics in a November 1992 massacre were recovered by the Crown Forces
the following day – but they were never tested and have since gone missing,
it has emerged.
Published February 23, 2023

Hardline unionists succeeded in winning approval for a provocative
monument to partition at Stormont on the day their boycott of the
Assembly blocked over a hundred organ transplants.
Published February 16, 2023

Tributes have been paid in Ireland to Scottish First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon, who announced on Wednesday that she is stepping down as leader
of the Scottish National Party and First Minister.
Published February 16, 2023

The British government has further postponed a scheduled Assembly
election for a year after hardline unionists successfully lobbied to
avoid a reckoning with the Six County electorate.
Published February 16, 2023

The first inquest into the 1998 murder of a County Derry man opened in
Belfast on Monday.
Published February 16, 2023

The rent crisis in Ireland is having a devastating impact on the lives
of an entire generation, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Published February 16, 2023

Legislation for a commission of investigation into decades of collusion
by the British state has passed through the first stage of the Dublin
parliament.
Published February 16, 2023

Unionists have failed in their legal attempts to force a renegotiation
of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement after the Supreme Court in London
unanimously dismissed a challenge to its new trading procedures.
Published February 9, 2023

Expectations are low that an official inquiry into the role of state
forces in the Omagh bomb will tackle the censorship and secrecy which have
grown up around the events of August 15, 1998.
Published February 9, 2023

The true nature of the anti-Catholic Orange Order has been exposed by
its decision to appoint a man convicted of killing his wife as a
‘Worshipful Master’ in Tyrone.
Published February 9, 2023

The sentencing of a British soldier for the 1988 killing of Aidan
McAnespie has met with a muted response, with most nationalists and
republicans condemning the suspension of the three-year sentence which
has ensured David Holden will not spend a day in prison for the crime.
Published February 9, 2023

A candlelit procession was among the events which were
held to mark the 50th anniversary of the killing of six men in the New
Lodge area of Belfast.
Published February 9, 2023

Saoradh has condemned a publicity stunt by armed PSNI police at a
Catholic school in Derry in which children were photographed holding
the force’s militaristic clothing and other equipment.
Published February 9, 2023

A decision by a non-jury court in Belfast to hand only a suspended
sentence to a former British soldier found guilty of the manslaughter of
23-year-old Tyrone man Aidan McAnespie at a border checkpoint 35 years
ago has been greeted with shock and disappointment.
Published February 2, 2023

Widespread disgust has greeted a sectarian sign which was placed by
loyalists outside a school for young children in Clough, County Down.
Published February 2, 2023

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted the 26 County State ‘didn’t have a
leg to stand on’ in relation to disability payments deliberately
withheld from people in care.
Published February 2, 2023

UDA gangsters smashed up a pub belonging to the daughter of a veteran
loyalist amid a broadening feud over loyalist crime rackets.
Published February 2, 2023

Nationalists and republicans joined in events to mark the anniversary of
the Bloody Sunday massacre and to renew demands for justice for the
victims.
Published February 2, 2023

The 90-year-old mother of a Catholic schoolboy brutally beaten and shot
dead by loyalists 50 years ago has told of how she strongly believes
there was British state collusion in his killing.
Published February 2, 2023

The son of a man killed by loyalists fifty years ago believes he was the
victim of a ‘counter gang’ set up by the British Army to carry out
atrocities.
Published February 2, 2023

An official report on an infamous arrest operation against two
journalists investigating collusion in 2018 has been withheld, with only
a small summary released into the public domain.
Published January 26, 2023

The British government could face court action if it “stalls and delays”
in calling a vote on Irish reunification, according to Sinn Féin leader
Mary Lou McDonald.
Published January 26, 2023

A BBC documentary on the ‘Hooded Men’ has cast a new light on the
treatment of the group of 14 innocent young men who were arrested,
interned and subjected to extreme and experimental cruelty by their
British Army captors.
Published January 26, 2023

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has written to British Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak and 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar asking that they call
an urgent summit on issues dealing the the past conflict.
Published January 26, 2023

A court action has been launched in a case in which a former 26 County
policeman escaped death in a border gun attack he describes as a murder
bid carried out by the British Army.
Published January 26, 2023

A candlelight vigil will be held on Friday to mark the anniversary of
the death of Fergal McCusker, shot dead as he made his way home from a
night out 25 years ago this week.
Published January 26, 2023

Reports that close-up images of the bodies of eight IRA Volunteers
postered the wall of a British Army training camp, and the tooth of one
of the victims extracted as a ghoulish souvenir, have been described as
“disgusting”.
Published January 19, 2023

New details have emerged about a human rights organisation allegedly set up
by an MI5 agent to penetrate and undermine Irish justice campaigns.
Published January 19, 2023

Ireland’s Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe is under
pressure to resign after it emerged he violated election law over
donations and concealed it for years.
Published January 19, 2023

A pledge by the leader of the British opposition, Labour Party leader
Keir Starmer, to repeal the Tory government’s controversial legacy
legislation has been widely welcomed.
Published January 19, 2023

A group of influential congressmen have introduced a resolution calling
for the full implementation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and
expressing hope for the “continued success” of the peace process amid
growing doubts over the commitment of hardline unionists to the North’s
powersharing institutions.
Published January 19, 2023

Republican Sinn Féin has said its activists have removed loyalist
posters which it said had been used “to stoke up sectarian fear”.
Published January 19, 2023

The British government has created a huge obstacle in efforts to restore
powersharing in the north of Ireland after it dramatically excluded Sinn
Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald from multi-party talks on Wednesday.
Published January 12, 2023

The handling by the authorities of a republican prisoner who tragically
lost his twin baby grandchildren last week ranks among the worst of any
stage of the conflict.
Published January 12, 2023

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has threatened to name all the British
soldiers who murdered civilians on Bloody Sunday if a controversial
legacy bill is passed in Britain.
Published January 12, 2023

A police double agent involved in the loyalist murder of an innocent
Catholic grandfather used his protected status to participate in
multiple killings and “criminal mayhem”, the High Court has heard.
Published January 12, 2023

The unionist paramilitary UDA has been blamed for a brutal attack which
left two men and a woman in hospital in a County Antrim town.
Published January 12, 2023

Plans by the Orange Order to hold a parade to “honour” a UDA member who
carried out deadly sectarian attacks 25 years ago are creating tensions
in southwest Belfast.
Published January 12, 2023

Newly released State papers from the 1990s have cast a new light on
efforts by unionists in Belfast and London to frustrate the peace process – and how much the
peace depended on the Sinn Féin leadership, particularly Gerry Adams
and Martin McGuinness.
Published January 5, 2023

British military intelligence has been using the holiday season to send
cards to nationalists in an effort to convince them to inform on their
own community.
Published January 5, 2023

A major Crown effort to imprison more than 40 republicans was
dismissed after all charges were thrown out at Newry Courthouse last
week.
Published January 5, 2023

Declassified state papers recorded the chaotic handling of the Drumcree
parade dispute, as nationalists in Portadown began
protesting against sectarian marches by the Orange Order and its
loyalist supporters.
Published January 5, 2023

The families of the Ballymurphy massacre victims have held their first
meeting with the police (RUC or PSNI) in an attempt to have a murder
investigation opened.
Published January 5, 2023

A ceremony has taken place over the Christmas period to mark the 50th
anniversary of a deadly loyalist bombing in Belturbet, County Cavan.
Published January 5, 2023

There have been calls for an internal investigation by the Dublin
government after a former British agent revealed that a senior Irish
official has been working for British military intelligence for more
than three decades.
Published December 22, 2022

A frequently overlooked massacre in Derry 50 years ago has been
marked with a vigil and wreath-laying ceremony at the scene
following a remembrance Mass.
Published December 22, 2022

The PSNI police have been urged to take action against the erection of
intimidatory posters of Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar against the
background of an image of the Dublin/Monaghan bombs.
Published December 22, 2022

The Finucane family have achieved another legal victory against the
British government in their campaign for justice.
Published December 22, 2022

The family of John Pat Cunningham, who was shot dead at a British Army
checkpoint nearly 50 years ago, have returned a letter of apology to the
British Ministry of Defence.
Published December 22, 2022

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has told a committee of the Dublin
parliament that the failure to plan for a united Ireland “beggars
belief”.
Published December 22, 2022

Joseph (Joe) Kennedy, a grandson of the late US presidential candidate
Robert Kennedy and grand-nephew of the late US President John F Kennedy,
has been confirmed in the role of new US Special Envoy to the north of
Ireland.
Published December 19, 2022

A report into one of the most controversial episodes of the conflict is
facing censorship by British state agencies even before it is published
in the new year.
Published December 15, 2022

Loyalist paramilitary organisations are targeting desperate food bank
users, according to a new investigation into UDA and UVF loan sharks
operating in Belfast.
Published December 15, 2022

A report by a top European human rights official has called on the
British government to withdraw its notorious legacy bill.
Published December 15, 2022

Several republican groups and societies have marked the centenary of the
summary execution by Free State forces of Liam Mellows and three other
prominent IRA figures who died as martyrs for the Republic.
Published December 15, 2022

Two of those who were beaten into making admissions about IRA attacks by
Crown Force interrogators 45 years ago have had mixed outcomes in the
battle to overturn their convictions.
Published December 15, 2022

An era of high-tech censorship could be on the cards for Ireland in the
wake of a new controversy involving Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar.
Published December 15, 2022

The passage of Irish language legislation into British law has been
welcomed as a “historic milestone” by campaigners who are now seeking
the implementation of the law, including the appointment of the north’s
first Irish language commissioner.
Published December 8, 2022

One hundred years on from the betrayal of the north of Ireland by a
partitionist cabal, the anti-Irish prejudice of their Fine
Gael successors has been encapsulated in an outrageous smear by a former
leader.
Published December 8, 2022

The continued delays in starting the inquest into the murder of County
Derry Gaelic sports official Sean Brown have been described as
“intolerable” and “devastating”.
Published December 8, 2022

A republican prisoner has obtained legal permission to challenge prison
authorities for subjecting him to strip searches around every court
attendance.
Published December 8, 2022

Those seeking truth and justice in the north of Ireland are facing a
wall of silence by state officials hiding state crimes behind data
protection legislation.
Published December 8, 2022

The 50th anniversary of a deadly bomb attack thought to have been the
earliest act of British/loyalist collusion south of the border has been
marked in Dublin.
Published December 8, 2022
The response of the London government to the conviction of a British
soldier for the death of a young Tyrone man has beeen described as
“shocking”.
Published December 1, 2022

The New IRA has claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on a PSNI
patrol in Strabane, County Tyrone on November 17.
Published December 1, 2022

A protest has taken place in Strabane, County Tyrone following a week of
intense Crown Force activity which has seen front doors smashed and
families forced out of their homes by late-night raids and bogus
‘security’ alerts.
Published December 1, 2022

Family members of republicans are being increasingly harassed and
coerced to provide information and collaborate with the Crown Forces.
Published December 1, 2022

The DUP have been accused of talking “from both sides of their mouth” on
the Brexit protocol after it was revealed former party leader Edwin
Poots lobbied to retain elements which benefit the largely unionist
farming community.
Published December 1, 2022

Up to a thousand people attended the Ulster Hall in Belfast on Wednesday
night for a meeting supporting Irish unity in a venue long associated
with unionism.
Published December 1, 2022

A guilty verdict in a case against the British soldier who killed Tyrone
man Aidan McAnespie in 1988 is of “exceptional poignancy” for his
family, according to justice campaigners.
Published November 25, 2022

A judgement by the Supreme Court in London that a Scottish independence
referendum cannot be held without the backing of the Westminster
parliament has made clear that the ‘United Kingdom’ is a union that
exists by force, not by democracy.
Published November 24, 2022

British forces may have believed their own propaganda in regard to the
status of IRA breakaway groups to judge by their shocked response to an
attack on a PSNI patrol in Tyrone last Thursday night, November 17.
Published November 24, 2022

Two former British soldiers are among a group of loyalists who have
appeared in court on weapons charges linked to the unionist paramilitary
UVF.
Published November 24, 2022

An advertising hoarding for Irish language channel TG4 has been defaced
with sectarian death threats in north Belfast.
Published November 24, 2022

‘Bin the Legacy Bill’ protests have been taking place in Derry, Belfast
and London as a bid to end conflict-related prosecutions and
investigations takes place at the Westminster parliament.
Published November 24, 2022

US political leaders continue to show strong support for the Irish cause
despite a change in the balance of power following mid-term elections there.
Published November 24, 2022

The son of an IRA Volunteer shot dead in the first of a series of
planned British ambushes forty years ago has said he will never give up
his fight for the truth.
Published November 16, 2022

More than one hundred forced strip searches have been carried out
against Republican prisoners in the past two weeks, despite new scanners
that make the infamous procedure redundant.
Published November 16, 2022

Many crossing the border from the south into the north of Ireland may
soon be required to submit biometric facial and fingerprint data to the
British government.
Published November 16, 2022

An event organised by a sectarian and criminal murder gang to mark
Remembrance Sunday has been condemned by its victims.
Published November 16, 2022

People in the north of Ireland overwhelmingly believe Dublin should have
a role in governing the region should unionists continue to block the
return of power-sharing, a new poll has shown.
Published November 16, 2022

Protestors at more than twenty regional events have called on the Dublin
government to tackle economic injustice and provide more help to people
struggling with soaring bills.
Published November 16, 2022

The British government has ripped up a requirement for
holding an election in the ‘New Decade, New Approach’ Stormont talks
deal.
Published November 10, 2022

A ‘charity’ linked to loyalist murder gangs is incredibly attempting to
win support for sectarian bonfires in schools in the North of Ireland.
Published November 10, 2022

A training mission conducted by Britain’s Royal Air Force has drawn
attention to the continuing and unwelcome presence of the British
military garrison in Ireland.
Published November 10, 2022

A heavy-handed raid by the British Crown Forces has taken place on the
home of a vulnerable 80-year-old woman in Portadown. The victim, a
lifelong Republican, has never previously been arrested or imprisoned,
leading to claims that the raid was an act of collective punishment
against the local nationalist community.
Published November 10, 2022

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been caught making a series of false
claims in an attempt to win support for the party’s position on the
Irish Protocol of Brexit.
Published November 10, 2022

The DUP has been accused of “having trouble respecting democracy” after
north Antrim MP Ian Paisley drafted a Westminster bill to increase the
majorities required for referendums on Irish unity and Scottish
independence.
Published November 10, 2022

Despite mixed messages from the British government, nationalists and
republicans are clear that new threats of political conflict by unionist
paramilitaries cannot be allowed to succeed.
Published November 3, 2022

The British government has been accused of ‘playing for time’ after
backing away from a legal requirement to hold an Assembly election in
the north of Ireland.
Published November 3, 2022

Belfast academic Colin Harvey continues to receive widespread support as
he endures an escalating unionist hate campaign.
Published November 3, 2022

Concerns have been raised regarding possible collusion involving a
former PSNI member who is facing charges over the use of a police
database “to obtain information on a series of individuals”.
Published November 3, 2022

The sectarian killing of two young Catholic girls in a loyalist bomb in
Belfast on Halloween has been remembered as one of the darkest days of
the conflict.
Published November 3, 2022

The family of Noah Donohoe have welcomed a Coroner’s decision that the
inquest into his disappearance and death should be held before a jury.
Published November 3, 2022

A Six County election appears set to be called on Friday as the DUP, the
main unionist party, continues to boycott the power-sharing institutions
of the Good Friday Agreement.
Published October 27, 2022

Demands are growing in the North for joint rule from Dublin and London
as unionist politicians continue to refuse to operate the power-sharing
institutions in Belfast.
Published October 27, 2022

Irish language activists have hailed another major step towards
comprehensive language rights as new legislation passed through its
final stages at Westminster.
Published October 27, 2022

Fermanagh Republican Peter Granaghan has been set free after enduring
three years of internment by remand.
Published October 27, 2022

Derry-born soccer player James McClean has accused English football
authorities of turning a blind eye to what he says is “eight years of
sickening abuse” over his nationality.
Published October 27, 2022

Claims by U2 frontman Bono that he was once targeted by the IRA have
been rejected.
Published October 27, 2022

Despite signs he knows little about Ireland, the selection of former
Chancellor Rishi Sunak as the next British Prime Minister has been
greeted as preferable to the return of Boris Johnson, who ended a bid
for a shock return to power last night.
Published October 24, 2022

British prime minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation after 44
disastrous days in office, becoming the shortest-serving British prime
minister in history.
Published October 20, 2022

Dundalk republican Liam Campbell, extradited to Lithuania earlier this
year, is back in Ireland after a court there terminated the criminal
case against him. It is likely the final chapter in a 12-year saga of
politically motivated state harassment directed against the prominent
republican.
Published October 20, 2022

A former senior member of the RUC has revealed he was instructed not to
question British soldiers about the planning of an infamous
shoot-to-kill ambush which resulted in the killing of three IRA
Volunteers in County Tyrone.
Published October 20, 2022

Testimony that English royal Louis Mountbatten sexually abused former
residents of a Belfast boys home with links to the Orange Order is due
to be aired in court, thanks to the bravery of a former
resident.
Published October 20, 2022

Derry continues to endure the brunt of attacks on political activists by
members of the British forces, including a rise in the tactic of
motorists being rammed by Crown Force vehicles.
Published October 20, 2022

Almost 100 former prisoners have issued proceedings against the current
British Direct Ruler in connection with their detention.
Published October 20, 2022

Loyalist graffiti appearing in County Antrim targeting actor James
Nesbitt has been condemned. The graffiti appeared on a wall in Portrush
on Wednesday, showing a crosshair image beside the star’s name.
Published October 20, 2022

Strong public acceptance of the legitimacy of Ireland’s fight against
British rule continues to frustrate those seeking to marginalise our cause.
Published October 13, 2022

The family of a republican shot dead by an alleged double agent inside
the Provisional IRA has launched legal action against the Police
Ombudsman after it refused to investigate the claim.
Published October 13, 2022

The PSNI are in breach of their duties to carry out an effective
investigation into a fatal loyalist gun attack on a village pub 30 years
ago, the High Court has ruled.
Published October 13, 2022

The United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets has hit out at the inaction
of Alliance Party leader Naomi Long over the issue of the use of deadly
plastic bullets by the PSNI.
Published October 13, 2022

Irish President Michael D Higgins has said that nobody who has suffered
from the conflict in Ireland wants to see an immunity from prosecution
for those responsible.
Published October 13, 2022

A slur by a DUP councillor on First Minister-designate Michelle O’Neill
has derailed a bid by the party to prevent port checks they claim amount
to an ‘Irish Sea Border’.
Published October 13, 2022

A major conference in Dublin last weekend brought more than 5,000 people
together to hear a debate on the subject of Irish unity and the way
forward for the island of Ireland.
Published October 6, 2022

An apparent apology by a hardline Tory Brexiteer for Britain’s bad faith
in its dealings with Ireland and the EU has been given a cautious
welcome.
Published October 6, 2022

An inclusive garden of tribute in memory of local republicans who have
passed away over the past 50 years has been launched in Derry on Sunday.
Published October 6, 2022

The brother of a Belfast man murdered by a loyalist gang 50 years ago
has revealed that he needs to inform the PSNI every time he visits his
grave.
Published October 6, 2022

The son of former Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) leader Dominic
McGlinchey is seeking to have an inquest into his mother’s murder
reopened.
Published October 6, 2022

A file on the British soldier who shot dead mother-of-six Kathleen
Thompson as she stood in her garden in Derry has been sent to
prosecutors in a move welcomed by her family.
Published October 6, 2022

The release of census figures has removed any justification for the
British partition of Ireland.
Published September 29, 2022

The British Labour Party has said it would be prepared to call a
referendum on Irish reunification if it gets into power. Shadow British
Direct Ruler Peter Kyle has said he would set out his criteria for
calling a referendum.
Published September 29, 2022

Thousands turned out in protest on Saturday, September 24 to march
against the rising cost of living and increased hardship in both parts
of Ireland.
Published September 29, 2022

British secrecy and cover-up has increased ahead of the inquest into the
1997 murder of Seamus Dillon by a loyalist murder gang.
Published September 29, 2022

No one was brought to justice for the death of Harry Duffy. His family
fear new legacy legislation means no one ever will, but another
generation has vowed to continue the campaign regardless.
Published September 29, 2022

Lasair Dhearg has sent correspondence to every school and education
facility in the North about a British policing strategy which it says is
“aimed at grabbing the hearts and minds of our young people”.
Published September 29, 2022

The 2021 census results confirm that the number of Catholics in the North of Ireland has leapt above the number of Protestants for the first time since the border was drawn through Ireland a century ago to prevent such a situation.
Published September 22, 2022

Unionists have been attempting to play down the significance of the
results of the 2021 Census for the north of Ireland.
Published September 22, 2022

Two “shocking” anti-Catholic attacks have taken place in a mixed area of
east Belfast.
Published September 22, 2022

A protest march against the English monarchy took place in Dublin on
Monday as Irish republicans responded to the accession of King Charles
and the proclamation of his intent to rule over the north of Ireland.
Published September 22, 2022

The family of Loughlin Maginn, murdered as a result of collusion in 1989, have
demanded a proper inquest into the killing after their civil action
against the British Crown Forces was settled in their favour.
Published September 22, 2022

Recently deceased loyalist paramilitary Joe Coggle got away with murder,
says the daughter-in-law of a woman he killed nearly 40 years ago.
Published September 22, 2022

Liam Holden, who spent 17 years in prison after his wrongful conviction
for the killing of a British Army soldier died last Thursday, September
15. He was the last prisoner in the North to face the death penalty.
Published September 22, 2022

Sinn Fein’s participation in events to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth
and the accession to the throne of Charles has seen it continue to build
an ever closer relationship with the English royal family.
Published September 15, 2022

The PSNI have admitted an attack on four homes in County Derry was a
sectarian loyalist attack.
Published September 15, 2022

Widespread shock has greeted the news of the death of former Republican
prisoner, Blanketman and Derry nationalists’ rights campaigner Donncha
Mac Niallais.
Published September 15, 2022

Over a thousand people gathered in Belfast on Sunday, 11 September to
demand the scrapping of the British government’s plan to provide an
amnesty for British war criminals.
Published September 15, 2022

A British army shoot-to-kill in which three IRA Volunteers were shot
dead was set up after information was passed to Special Branch police,
an inquest has heard.
Published September 15, 2022

Nationalists have been viewing the installation of a new British
administration with alarm after two fanatical Brexiteers were appointed
to Belfast.
Published September 7, 2022

An inquest has found that a British soldier was “unjustified” in firing
a plastic bullet that killed a schoolboy.
Published September 7, 2022

The lack of condemnation of a loyalist paramilitary parade held in
tribute to a sectarian killer speaks volumes about the current double
standards in the north of Ireland.
Published September 7, 2022

Fiona Donohoe has filed a third complaint with the Police Ombudsman,
accusing the PSNI of leaking sensitive material on her sons’s
disappearance and death to social media.
Published September 7, 2022

Relatives of Bloody Sunday victims seeking the prosecution of three
former British soldiers have been denied permission to take their case
to the Supreme Court in London.
Published September 7, 2022

British military intelligence is continuing to engage in harassment and
recruitment bids on republicans and their family in Derry.
Published September 7, 2022

Liz Truss has been named as the new leader of the British Conservative
Party and Britain’s fourth prime minister in just over six years.
Published September 5, 2022

The PSNI have been accused of playing down a loyalist campaign of terror
in the Coleraine area after a series of petrol bomb attacks were blamed
on UDA paramilitaries.
Published September 1, 2022

Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss could be set to create an even greater
crisis over the Irish Protocol of Brexit if, as expected, she becomes
the next British Prime Minister on Monday.
Published September 1, 2022

Two republican activists including a former Blanketman are being held
without bail following a Crown Force operation in Belfast.
Published September 1, 2022

Israel has been forced to back down in the face of a wave of support for Palestinian
hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh after images emerged showing him close to
death.
Published September 1, 2022

An attack on a critically ill republican as he made his way to hospital
for emergency treatment has been condemned as “a new low”.
Published September 1, 2022

A giant flag pole erected by loyalists in County Down could be used to
fly the world’s largest Union Jack.
Published September 1, 2022

Seven in ten nationalists in the north of Ireland accept there was no
alternative to the “violent resistance” of republican armed groups to
British rule, according to an opinion poll.
Published August 25, 2022

Fianna Fáil minister of State Robert Troy has resigned ten days into a
mounting scandal over undeclared property dealings and his large
property portfolio.
Published August 25, 2022

British Direct Ruler Shailesh Vara was accused of ‘ducking and diving’
from protestors in Derry opposed to his government’s plans for an
amnesty covering Britain’s war crimes in the North.
Published August 25, 2022

The family of a vulnerable adult murdered by the British Army in cold
blood have hit out after a memorial was unveiled to his killer at a
British Army base.
Published August 25, 2022

The first Sinn Féin hunger strike Commemoration in three years took
place in Belfast on Sunday 21st August.
Published August 25, 2022

A controversial decision to suspend an Irish national angling team
because of ‘overzealous’ use of the Irish tricolour flag at a major
international competition has been reversed following a public outcry.
Published August 25, 2022

Several thousand people protested in Belfast city centre last weekend
against a secrecy order placed on investigations into the death of Noah
Donohoe.
Published August 18, 2022

Unionists have escalated a campaign to demonise Irish resistance to
British rule by falsely linking it to sectarianism.
Published August 18, 2022

The annual ‘Relief of Derry’ march by the loyalist Apprentice Boys’
organisation saw flags once again used to intimidate and insult the
overwhelmingly nationalist population of the city.
Published August 18, 2022

Sinn Féin has branded the arrival of the Tory leadership contest
‘totally insulting’ and said they have no regard for the people of the
north of Ireland.
Published August 18, 2022

A third senior figure from the PSNI (formerly RUC) police in the North
has been appointed directly into the top ranks of the Gardai police in
the 26 Counties.
Published August 18, 2022

A ‘March for Irish Unity and Independence’ which took place recently in
Coalisland, County Tyrone hosted by the 1916 Societies, is the first in
a series intended to boost the campaign for Irish freedom.
Published August 18, 2022

One of ten republican activists interned by remand following a
large-scale arrest operation in 2020 has been told by a judge he must
make a statement supporting a ‘shared island’ in order to be considered
for bail.
Published August 11, 2022

Unionist paramilitaries in north Down threatened to break the arms of
two teenage girls unless their families paid £2,000 to their bonfire fund.
Published August 11, 2022

Unionists have had to retract false claims that a Gaelic sports
tournament for children in County Tyrone was named in honour of a hunger
striker.
Published August 11, 2022

The death of Belfast teenager Dessie Healey has been marked with the
launch of a new family report documenting the circumstances of his
killing 51 years ago.
Published August 11, 2022

Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin TD has warned that the
Dublin government has ‘lost control’ of the housing market in the 26
Counties.
Published August 11, 2022

The besieged Gaza Strip has faced yet another devastating, deadly
Israeli attack but the world continues to ignore the endless trauma.
Published August 11, 2022

A wave of outrage has followed the decision by the new British Direct
Ruler to sign a secrecy order covering files on the death in 2020 of
14-year-old Catholic boy Noah Donohoe.
Published August 4, 2022

There have been calls for political action against the DUP after they
blocked a third attempt to elect a Speaker to the Belfast Assembly on
Wednesday.
Published August 4, 2022

A plaque has been unveiled at the spot where a Derry teenager was shot
dead by the British Army fifty years ago.
Published August 4, 2022

Almost half of the students at a new Irish language centre in east
Belfast are from a Protestant background, it has emerged, although a new
Gaelic sports club is facing loyalist opposition to its growth in the
area.
Published August 4, 2022

Attempts by unionists to escalate sectarian tensions have
included a series of wild claims and exaggerations.
Published August 4, 2022

Amid increased public interest following her historic election as Sinn
Fein’s First Minister-designate, Michelle O’Neill has been extensively
interviewed about her life and influences.
Published August 4, 2022

The latest poll results in the Six Counties point to a sharp decline in
support for unionism and the emergence of a clear majority in favour of
Irish reunification.
Published July 28, 2022

Although widely praised for his role in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement,
former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble will also be remembered for
his failure to deliver the leadership unionism needed in the years
following its signing.
Published July 28, 2022

A censorship order has been signed by the new British Direct Ruler
Shailesh Vara to prevent the release of information on the investigation
into Noah Donohoe’s disappearance and death.
Published July 28, 2022

The sudden death of a prominent UDA paramilitary in Scotland has brought
home the failure of the authorities to investigate the acts of collusion
he was involved in with British forces.
Published July 28, 2022

Tributes have been paid to human rights lawyer Pádraigín Drinan
following her death aged 75. She has been praised as someone who
“championed the rights of others throughout her entire life”.
Published July 28, 2022

A research charity has discovered that coded IRA warnings were not
heeded in a series of attacks in 1972 which became known as ‘Bloody
Friday’.
Published July 28, 2022

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has predicted a referendum on the
reunification of Ireland would take place “in this decade” and that
Ireland is “in the end days of partition”.
Published July 21, 2022

The brother of a man found murdered by unionist paramilitaries in 2020
has said the police in the North failed to inform him that his life was
under threat.
Published July 21, 2022

One of two members of the former ‘war cabinet’ of the ousted British Prime
Minister, Boris Johnson, is set to become his successor following an
ugly and dubious selection process by the party’s MPs.
Published July 21, 2022

Two members of the PSNI police saluted the funeral procession of
loyalist John Steele, who fell to his death while building a loyalist
paramilitary bonfire in Larne earlier this month.
Published July 21, 2022

Two political parties have condemned separate interrogations of their
members by unidentified ‘security’ personnel stationed at Belfast Airport.
Published July 21, 2022

The family and friends of Tobias Molloy have held a series of events to
mark the 50th anniversary of his death at the hands of a British soldier
on July 16, 1972.
Published July 21, 2022

The edging out of Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister this week has
raised hopes that his successor will end the multiple attacks of his
government on the Good Friday Agreement.
Published July 14, 2022

The complete failure of the authorities to tackle rampant hate crimes at
loyalist ‘Eleventh’ bonfires has brought demands for forceful action and
an end to the lip service which greets the scenes every year.
Published July 14, 2022

The PSNI has been accused of descending new depths of inhumanity after
it emerged members of the force shared perverted images of a suicide
victim’s body accompanied by sectarian anti-Catholic comments.
Published July 14, 2022

Children of republican prisoners attending a jail visit at Maghaberry
prison were told to use a “mop bucket” after requesting to use the
toilet.
Published July 14, 2022

Campaigners against legislation to give an amnesty to Britain’s war
criminals in the north of Ireland have said Boris Johnson’s departure as
Prime Minister could “be a window of opportunity”.
Published July 14, 2022

Relatives and friends gathered this week for a memorial march to
remember five Catholic people shot dead by the British army 50 years
ago.
Published July 14, 2022

Hundreds of loyalist bonfires have gone ahead tonight across the North
despite the death of a bonfire builder who fell to his death from one of the
pyres.
Published July 12, 2022

Controversy continues in London after British Prime Minister delivered a
resignation speech in Downing Street but insisted he would stay on as
British Prime Minister until a successor is appointed.
Published July 7, 2022

Britain’s Direct Ruler in Ireland Brandon Lewis has resigned from the
Cabinet as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now on the point of yielding
to the overwhelming pressure for him to go.
Published July 7, 2022

After one of the most bizarre days in British politics, Boris Johnson is
still clinging to power in London despite no fewer than 42 resignations
from his government, including a record 14 Ministers in one day.
Published July 6, 2022

The open involvement of a British minister in the release on bail of a
top loyalist paramilitary figure has hiked tensions in the north of
Ireland ahead of next week’s ‘Twelfth’ marches.
Published July 6, 2022

The British government has been accused of retraumatising victims of the
conflict after legislation for a broad amnesty for its war criminals in
the north of Ireland was rushed through the House of Commons.
Published July 6, 2022

The PSNI are increasingly facilitating British military intelligence in
their attempts to recruit nationalists as informers.
Published July 6, 2022

A new ‘patriotic’ book to promote the Queen of England has been
distributed to schools in the occupied north of Ireland.
Published July 6, 2022

Calls for Irish self-determination and Scottish independence look set to
grow amid the meltdown of Boris Johnson’s administration in London. Sinn
Féin TD for Cavan-Monaghan Matt Carthy called on the Tory government to
now “clarify the criteria” for an Irish unity poll.
Published July 6, 2022

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.
Published June 30, 2022

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.
Published June 30, 2022

A Derry mother was shot dead by a British soldier in her back garden in
circumstances which were “unjustified”, a coroner has ruled.
Published June 30, 2022

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.
Published June 30, 2022

Irish republican socialist James Connolly is back in vogue in Britain amid increasing signs of a new political awakening there.
Published June 30, 2022

A republican prisoner has won High Court permission to challenge strip
searches inflicted on him before and after attending a hospital
appointment.
Published June 30, 2022

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.
Published June 23, 2022

The chairman of Saoradh in Derry has been summarily jailed by order of
the British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis.
Published June 23, 2022

A former councillor has been arrested in Cork after challenging the
presence of a British Navy warship.
Published June 23, 2022

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.
Published June 23, 2022

The name of baby Martha O’Neill has been added to a memorial to mark the
British and loyalist bombings of Dublin in 1974.
Published June 23, 2022

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.
Published June 23, 2022

A notorious UVF paramilitary figure was on a peace scholarship backed by
the Dublin government when it is alleged he was involved in a dramatic
hoax car bomb attack on its Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney.
Published June 16, 2022

The European Commission has begun two new legal proceedings against
Britain after it introduced legislation to override the Brexit
Withdrawal Agreement in regard to the north of Ireland, and resumed
another challenge it had previously paused.
Published June 16, 2022

After a lifelong justice campaign, a report has finally confirmed that
the RUC forced false confessions from the ‘Derry Four’ in 1979.
Published June 16, 2022

British officials expressed “grave concerns” over sensitive
documents linked to Bloody Sunday falling into the hands of lawyers
acting for relatives of the dead, it has been revealed.
Published June 16, 2022

Gardaí police this week forced entry to an abandoned homeless shelter to
evict activists seeking to tackle a crisis which has now prompted the
involvement the Irish President, Michael D Higgins.
Published June 16, 2022

Relatives of nine of those killed by the British Army in Ballymurphy,
west Belfast are to receive “significant” undisclosed damages as part of
settlements reached in their civil actions.
Published June 16, 2022

Legislation has been published by the British government this evening
which overrides the post-Brexit trade arrangements for Ireland and
severely breaches both the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and international law.
Published June 13, 2022

A wave of revulsion at chanting about the murder of a young Catholic
bride on her honeymoon has brought pressure for the Orange Order to be
treated alongside other racist and supremacist groups.
Published June 9, 2022

The peace process in Ireland could be sabotaged by Boris Johnson’s
desperate attempts to regain the support of far-right backbenchers after
he narrowly survived a no-confidence vote of Tory MPs.
Published June 9, 2022

High-level protests are continuing over legislation currently being
fast-tacked through Westminster to shut down investigations and provide
an amnesty for Britain’s war criminals in Ireland.
Published June 9, 2022

Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill has expressed her respect and
admiration for the Queen of England as her party denounced criticism
from nationalists and republicans with the message “the haters are not
the future”.
Published June 9, 2022

A coroner examining the death of a man shot during a prison break has
expressed concern at the ongoing failure by the Attorney General in
London to respond to a request for files related to the case.
Published June 9, 2022

The Irish tricolour flag was used in a live televised video montage to
represent countries under British rule at Buckingham Palace on Saturday.
Published June 9, 2022

Unionist indignation at the public use of the word ‘planter’ by visiting
US politician Richard Neal has highlighted their denial of the history
of settler colonisation in the north of Ireland.
Published June 1, 2022

Questions are being raised over the future of the Stormont Assembly
after unionists once again blocked the installation of an Assembly
Speaker and a First Minister.
Published June 1, 2022

There are reports that a loyalist feud may have reignited in north
Belfast following the attempted murder of an associate of a prominent
loyalist.
Published June 1, 2022

An opinion poll has shown support for Sinn Féin in the 26 Counties has
surpassed the combined vote of the two main government parties, Fianna
Fáil and Fine Gael, for the first time.
Published June 1, 2022

The family of assassinated Belfast republican Larry Marley have
described a High Court date as a boost to the family’s campaign for
justice.
Published June 1, 2022

Relatives of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by a British soldier in west
Belfast more than 50 years ago are suing the British Ministry of Defence
over the false claim that he was throwing a weapon.
Published June 1, 2022

A new sense of empowerment was evident in the largest ever demonstration
for Irish language rights in Belfast last weekend, as up to 20,000
people demanded overdue legislation to protect the rights of Irish
speakers under British rule.
Published May 26, 2022

An international furore has erupted following the decision of Britain’s
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to introduce legislation at Westminster last
week to unilaterally alter the Brexit deal. The European Union has again
warned that “action calls for reaction”.
Published May 26, 2022

A coffin was carried to Downing Street by relatives of victims of the
conflict as protests increased at British government legacy plans which
amount to yet another breach of the Good Friday peace Agreement.
Published May 26, 2022

The daughter of a Catholic man killed by an undercover British army unit
50 years ago this month has said his killing tore her family apart.
Published May 26, 2022

The PSNI has strip-searched children on 34 occasions last year with the
overwhelming majority of the searches finding nothing, it has been revealed.
Published May 26, 2022

Homes and businesses in the Oldpark area of north Belfast have been
attacked by loyalists throwing bricks, bottles and timber.
Published May 26, 2022

Fears of a trade war and renewed conflict in the north of Ireland have
increased dramatically after the British government this week tore up
the Irish Protocol of Brexit in a flagrant breach of international law.
Published May 19, 2022

There has been intense anger at British government plans to introduce
an amnesty from conflict prosecutions from which former political
prisoners would be disbarred.
Published May 19, 2022

Louth republican Liam Campbell has been extradited to Lithuania after
being arrested by Gardai police on Monday. He was handed over to
Lithuanian authorities at Dublin Airport.
Published May 19, 2022

A stream of political posturing and grandstanding has masked the DUP’s
refusal to accept the result of this month’s election to the Stormont
Assembly, in which Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party.
Published May 19, 2022

The Sinn Féin vice president has said there is a need to fill in a grey
area of the Good Friday Agreement on the circumstances for holding a
referendum on constitutional change.
Published May 19, 2022

An alleged informer in Derry has been defended by his family who said he
had been coerced into collaborating with the British forces.
Published May 19, 2022

The British government has initiated the process of formally reneging on
the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with the introduction of unilateral
legislation to “disapply” parts of the protocol on trade in the north of
Ireland.
Published May 17, 2022

Rejectionist unionism continues to be indulged by the British
government, despite Sinn Féin winning the Stormont Assembly election and
nationalist parties outpolling unionist parties in a Six County election
for the first time.
Published May 12, 2022

A referendum on Irish unity must be held after the Assembly election
result showed there is “no majority for the union any more”, according
to a group of prominent nationalists.
Published May 12, 2022

Victims’ groups have hit out a British government reworking of a planned
amnesty plan as a “sinister denial of rights”.
Published May 12, 2022

Prominent republican Liam Campbell could soon be extradited to Lithuania
following a ruling by the 26 County Supreme Court in Dublin, despite the
fact he never set foot in the country.
Published May 12, 2022

Two prominent Tyrone republicans fined for attending the funeral of a
friend during the Covid-19 lockdown are to appeal the decision.
Published May 12, 2022

The families of victims of the McGurk’s Bar massacre have again been
refused a meeting by the PSNI.
Published May 12, 2022

As a Sinn Féin First Minister was historically elected to head the new
power-sharing Stormont Executive tonight, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson
has confirmed he will veto its formation.
Published May 7, 2022

With counting continuing, Sinn Féin and the Alliance Party remain the
big winners from the Stormont Assembly election, with Sinn Féin’s
Michelle O’Neill now certain to become First Minister-elect.
Published May 7, 2022

First election results across the north of Ireland show that nationalist
candidates have outvoted unionists in the Six Counties for the first
time, triggering a key requirement for a referendum on Irish
reunification.
Published May 6, 2022

Sinn Féin could be on its way to becoming the largest party in the
Stormont Assembly. If tallies from count centres are borne out in final
results from Thursday’s election, Michelle O’Neill is set to become
First Minister-elect and the first nationalist to lead a Six County
administration under British rule.
Published May 6, 2022

The increasing confidence of Irish nationalism and the declining power
of unionism has become clear in an election campaign marked by signs of
incremental but irreversible change.
Published May 5, 2022

There has been strong condemnation of a threat by the Crown Forces to
seize the election agent of IRSP West Belfast candidate Dan Murphy on
the eve of an Assembly election.
Published May 5, 2022

A cynical move to publicise an attempt by Sinn Féin to contact Saoradh
as part of a peace effort has seen overwhelming public support for the
gesture.
Published May 5, 2022

More Irish than British passports have been issued in the north of
Ireland for the first time since partition.
Published May 5, 2022

Left-wing activists have occupied a vacant former youth hostel in Dublin
in order to provided housing to those in need.
Published May 5, 2022

Fifty years ago this week a ten-year-old schoolboy, Richard Moore, was
blinded by a British soldier’s rubber bullet in Derry.
Published May 5, 2022

Posters seeking justice for schoolboy Noah Donohoe have been attacked in
a predominately unionist area of north Belfast.
Published April 28, 2022

A violent arrest of a 13-year-old boy in Coalisland, County Tyrone on
the 19th of April is the latest abuse alleged to have been carried out
by the PSNI against Catholic children.
Published April 28, 2022

There has been outrage in Strabane after the PSNI police attacked a
funeral of a prominent member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
(IRSP) in the Tyrone town and arrested some of the mourners.
Published April 28, 2022

The British government has indicated it will announce legislation in a
speech by the English queen to allow it to formally renege on sections
of the Withdrawal Agreement of Brexit, with the Irish Protocol set to be
the main target.
Published April 28, 2022

A mother and family members of two other collusion victims have separately passed
away this week without seeing justice for their loved ones.
Published April 28, 2022

An attack on the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Magherafelt,
County Derry is the second such incident in the last year.
Published April 28, 2022

A PSNI arrest operation at a major Easter commemoration in Derry
resulted in scenes of violence and renewed a controversy over the
force’s handling of traditional republican parades in the north of
Ireland.
Published April 21, 2022

The New IRA has said it will not abandon its armed resistance, while
another republican armed group, Óglaigh na hEireann, has warned it would
respond to loyalist paramilitary attacks.
Published April 21, 2022

The main Facebook page of the Irish Republican Socialist Party has been
deleted in its entirety, just two weeks before its first Stormont
Assembly election.
Published April 21, 2022

The family of Official IRA commander Joe McCann have marked the 50th
anniversary of his death.
Published April 21, 2022

The leader of Sinn Féin has sought “partnership” with unionists to help
bring about the party’s objective of a united Ireland.
Published April 21, 2022

A border poll and Irish unity could follow quickly after the Assembly
election in two weeks time – that’s according to unionist politicians
who have been ramping up sectarian fears ahead of the vote.
Published April 21, 2022

A mini-riot erupted in Derry today after a violent PSNI arrest operation
was launched against an Easter commemoration attended by thousands of
republicans.
Published April 18, 2022

Hardline unionists have been blamed for a shocking incident that saw a
noose placed around the neck of an image of Ulster Unionist Party leader
Doug Beattie.
Published April 14, 2022

The PSNI has been condemned over its recruitment of child informers,
details of which they have again refused to disclose.
Published April 14, 2022

State bodies who are still directing cash to loyalist paramilitary
groups stand accused of operating a form of collusion, 24 years after
the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Published April 14, 2022

The Irish Republican Socialist Party candidate for West Belfast Dan
Murphy has described the ongoing harassment of party election workers in
the constituency by the Crown Forces “as an attack on democracy and an
attack on the West Belfast electorate”.
Published April 14, 2022

A sudden escalation in the online censorship of republican groups is
being seen as an attempt by anti-republican forces to shut down this
year’s Easter Rising commemorations.
Published April 14, 2022

A former republican prisoner who took part in the 1981 hunger strike has
died. Dungiven man Liam McCloskey survived 55 days without food when he
was forced to end his hunger strike in September 1981.
Published April 14, 2022
The 26 County Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, has been
funding organisations linked to unionist paramilitaries who have been
threatening to assassinate him, it has emerged.
Published April 7, 2022

A huge number of PSNI police are signed-up members of sectarian
Protestant or Masonic groups, it has emerged.
Published April 7, 2022

A Sinn Féin focus on the cost of living in the Stormont election has
sparked controversy, with the DUP, the SDLP and the Irish Republican
Socialist Party all rowing in to criticise the temporary
downgrading of the party’s Irish unity agenda.
Published April 7, 2022

The anniversary of the murder of a County Antrim man as he slept
beside his wife and baby daughter has brought fresh calls for an inquest
into the the circumstances of the killing and the role of the Crown
Forces in the attack.
Published April 7, 2022

More than 1,000 people have signed a letter expressing their “deep
concerns regarding the persisting failure” to introduce the Irish
Language Act following decades of delay.
Published April 7, 2022

Two former republican prisoners beaten behind bars as teenagers are to
receive five-figure compensation payouts via an unusual route.
Published April 7, 2022

Questions are being raised over the role of unionist politicians and
media in motivating a hoax bomb attack at an event in north Belfast on
Friday morning, 25 March.
Published March 31, 2022

A trial in Belfast of a former British soldier has heard that his claim
that his finger “slipped” when he killed 23-year-old nationalist Aidan
McAnespie at a border checkpoint was “not credible”.
Published March 31, 2022

An admission by the British government that it has no immediate plans to
introduce Irish language legislation in the north of Ireland has been
angrily condemned by Irish language speakers.
Published March 31, 2022

A year-long republican campaign in Armagh appears to have succeeded in
its bid to stop the city being branded as a “UK City of Culture”.
Published March 31, 2022

A legal challenge has been launched after the PSNI police said it would
neither confirm nor deny if alleged paedophile priest Malachy Finegan
was an informer for the force.
Published March 31, 2022

A parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order past a Catholic church went
ahead in Glasgow on Sunday, 27 March, amid a new focus on the failure of
the authorities in Scotland to limit sectarian marches in the city.
Published March 31, 2022

A plan by the British government to restrict movements of non-Irish
citizens of the European Union on the island of Ireland has come under
renewed criticism following a vote in the Westminster parliament.
Published March 24, 2022

Lawyers acting for the families of the victims of the Bloody Sunday say
prosecutors must now immediately resume proceedings against ‘Soldier F’
after a decision to drop charges against him was quashed by the High
Court.
Published March 24, 2022

US President Joe Biden has responded to continuing unionist and British
efforts to use Brexit to reinforce the partition of Ireland with a
warning that the Good Friday Agreement “cannot change”.
Published March 24, 2022

The 32 County Sovereignty Committee has condemned the participation of
Sinn Féin in a ceremony at the Belfast Assembly to mark the 70th
anniversary of Elizabeth Windsor’s coronation as Queen of England.
Published March 24, 2022

A journalist who led the campaign to expose the Birmingham Six
miscarriage of justice will not have to hand over his notes to police in
England after they launched a legal bid to require him to reveal his
sources.
Published March 24, 2022

A Ukrainian translation of the IRA’s ‘Green Book’ for military planning
has been distributed to soldiers in the war-ravaged country to help them
engage in guerrilla conflict, according to a report in the Sunday World.
Published March 24, 2022

A decision to drop murder charges against a former British soldier in
connection with Bloody Sunday is to be quashed, the High Court in
Belfast ruled today.
Published March 23, 2022

In solidarity with all our readers on our national day.
Published March 17, 2022

An official report into the murder of Denis Donaldson, an MI5 informer
operating at the highest ranks of Sinn Fein, has not quelled speculation
over his killing.
Published March 17, 2022

Unionists will be in short supply at the traditional White House
celebrations for St Patrick’s Day after DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and
UUP leader Doug Beattie both pulled out.
Published March 17, 2022

A small republican armed group, Arm na Poblachta, has said it was
responsible for an attack on a PSNI patrol in County Derry using an
improvised explosive device.
Published March 17, 2022

There has been an angry reaction in Newry after a 13-year-old girl with
mental health needs and a friend were harassed by an “aggressive” police
patrol in the centre of the town on Thursday, March 10.
Published March 17, 2022

Recruitment posters for the British Army cadets which have appeared on
Belfast’s Falls Road have been taken down.
Published March 17, 2022

Six former internees are to have their convictions for escaping from
Long Kesh in the 1970s quashed, the Court of Appeal ruled on Monday.
Published March 17, 2022

Efforts to exploit the invasion of Ukraine to push for an end to
Ireland’s military neutrality have been condemned.
Published March 10, 2022

The Dublin government has rejected English calls to ‘close the Irish
Border’ over its decision to offer asylum to Ukrainians fleeing the
Russian invasion.
Published March 10, 2022

In response to a demand by British forces in the north of Ireland, a
Cork-based republican has been brought before a court for an extradition
hearing.
Published March 10, 2022

The British Labour Party in Scotland has been accused of promoting
anti-Catholic hate after it named a former Orange Order leader as a
local election candidate for the party.
Published March 10, 2022

The war in Ukraine has overwhelmed plans by the British government to
trigger a showdown with the European Union, according to reports in the
London media.
Published March 10, 2022

British Army killers of six Catholic men in north Belfast may be dead
before the case is allocated for a PSNI investigation, the Court of
Appeal in Belfast has heard.
Published March 10, 2022

In full support of peace and freedom for the people of Ukraine, Irish
nationalists and republicans have been leading calls for a reassertion
of Ukraine’s national sovereignty and for an end to military expansions
across the world.
Published March 3, 2022

The family of murdered Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan are to sue
the PSNI for withholding information which could have prevented his
murder.
Published March 3, 2022

Anger has greeted news that Fiona Donohoe has been required to attend a
PSNI base for questioning over police claims a walk in support of her
family may have breached Covid restrictions.
Published March 3, 2022

A Sinn Féin TD has dramatically quit the party as its organisational
crisis once again erupted onto the front pages.
Published March 3, 2022

Three independent councillors in Derry and Strabane have supported
republican prisoners who are campaigning for visiting arrangements
introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to be relaxed.
Published March 3, 2022

Alan Kelly has resigned as leader of the Irish Labour Party following a
sudden heave against him by his fellow party TDs. The colleagues who
forced him out stood uneasily in the background as the Labour leader
made an emotional resignation speech to the media on Wednesday evening.
Published March 3, 2022

Irish political leaders have been joining international condemnation of a Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.
Published February 24, 2022

A Dublin man has called for an end to the Special Criminal Court after
describing his ordeal of being falsely jailed for IRA membership as
“horrific”.
Published February 24, 2022

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has said the days of democracy in the north
of Ireland “on the terms of unionism alone” are over as speculation
persists that the DUP will block a return of power-sharing if Sinn Féin
becomes the largest party in May’s election to the Stormont Assembly.
Published February 24, 2022

Loyalist preparations for the Stormont election have been hampered by
public infighting and a lack of interest in their protests against
Brexit-related port checks.
Published February 24, 2022

Unionists stand accused of hypocrisy after they criticised a memorial at
a Gaelic sports club to former members of the club who died as IRA
Volunteers in the line of duty.
Published February 24, 2022

English journalist Chris Mullin, who exposed the Birmingham Six
miscarriage of justice, has accused police there of going “for the guy
who blew the whistle” after they sought a court order requiring him to
reveal his sources.
Published February 24, 2022

With evidence piling up of systematic collusion by the British Crown
Forces in the murders of more than a thousand innocent Irish civilians,
US political leaders have vowed to help stop London passing a blanket
amnesty.
Published February 17, 2022

Tory extremists and unionists are exploiting the weakness of British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “a renewed opportunity” to push for a
hard Brexit and a remilitarisation of the border through Ireland,
according to reports.
Published February 17, 2022

A statement by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald congratulating Queen
Elizabeth on a “lifetime of service” has renewed a controversy over the
party’s relationship with the English royal family.
Published February 17, 2022

Two former republican prisoners have had false convictions against them
quashed by the Spanish Supreme Court.
Published February 17, 2022

The family of a Catholic man killed by the British Army in north Belfast
almost 50 years ago has renewed its call for an apology.
Published February 17, 2022

Fiona Donohoe, whose young son was found dead in a loyalist area of
north Belfast two years ago, has launched a petition to the PSNI Chief
Simon Byrne to release four secret files on the case.
Published February 17, 2022

The publication of a detailed report on the extensive collusion between
RUC police and loyalist death squads in south Belfast in the 1990s could
mark a turning point in the campaign for truth and justice in the north
of Ireland.
Published February 10, 2022

Pressure is mounting to stop British plans for an amnesty and to ensure
full accountability for its forces’ actions.
Published February 10, 2022

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson met with a loyalist paramilitary umbrella
group just days before he moved to end power-sharing at Stormont,
raising fears that crime gangs continue to wield significant influence
with his party.
Published February 10, 2022

The father of a 13-year-old schoolboy handcuffed during a
stop-and-search by the PSNI says his son has been left shaken and
distressed.
Published February 10, 2022

An infamous memorial in Dublin which commemorated members of the British
forces who died trying to defeat Irish independence is to be taken down.
Published February 10, 2022

With Covid restrictions being removed and a sense of normality
returning, republican prisoners at Maghaberry jail have called for
prison visits to be reinstated to the same format as they were.
Published February 10, 2022

The DUP’s Paul Givan has resigned as First Minister of the north
of Ireland with effect from midnight tonight, putting a question mark
over a scheduled election in which his party was expected to poll badly.
Published February 3, 2022

Several thousand people marched behind the slogan, ‘There is no British
Justice’ as the campaign for those killed and injured by the British
Parachute Regiment in Derry on Bloody Sunday marked its 50th year.
Published February 3, 2022

There was a new display of unity in Derry on Sunday as different
campaigns aligned to call for justice for the families of the peaceful
protesters killed by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday.
Published February 3, 2022

A serious miscarriage of justice could be returned to the Court of
Appeal as a result of the actions of undercover MI5 agent, Dennis
McFadden.
Published February 3, 2022

A move by DUP Minister Edwin Poots to order an end to Brexit-related
checks at ports in the north of Ireland has been strongly condemned by
nationalists but supported by the Tory government in London.
Published February 3, 2022

A chaotic late night PSNI assault on a group of nationalists in
Stewartstown, County Tyrone has been described as “crazed”.
Published February 3, 2022

An infamous member of the British Army’s Military Reaction Force, Clive
Graham Williams, has died, it has been reported.
Published February 3, 2022

The Irish President, Micheal D Higgins, Taoiseach Michael Martin, and
former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn are among those set to
take part in events this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody
Sunday.
Published January 27, 2022

Flags of the British Army regiment responsible for Bloody Sunday have
been flown in loyalist areas of Derry ahead of the 50th anniversary of
the massacre.
Published January 27, 2022

The Dublin government is being condemned for its failure to respond to
the recent collusion report by the Police Ombudsman, which found damning
evidence of British Crown Force involvement in the murder of 19 Irish
citizens.
Published January 27, 2022

As polls show it is on the cusp of becoming the largest party at the
Belfast Assembly, Sinn Féin has called on the unionist parties to make
it clear if they will take part in the Stormont Executive alongside a
Sinn Féin First Minister.
Published January 27, 2022

Two leading members of the Lasair Dhearg organisation were followed for
several hours by the PSNI in Belfast city centre before being subjected
to a forced stop and search this week.
Published January 27, 2022

Several hundred people attended a Sinn Fein ceremony in the Creggan in Derry on Sunday afternoon for a rededication of the local monument to fallen IRA Volunteers.
Published January 27, 2022

A self-censored report by the Police Ombudsman has played down what it
described only as ‘collusive behaviour’ and ‘collusive activity’ by the
Crown Forces in the murders of 19 civilians by the North West UDA
between 1988 and 1994.
Published January 20, 2022

Republican activists Dee Fennell and Patrick McGrath have been acquitted
of all charges related to an “illegal” Easter commemoration in 2019
after their political persecution ended in an abrupt manner.
Published January 20, 2022

A Tory attempt to throw DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson a political
lifeline with the temporary restoration of ‘double jobbing’ has failed
in the face of the united opposition of the other Assembly parties.
Published January 20, 2022

The South Antrim UDA have been blamed locally for a pipe bomb which
caused a major alert in a nationalist area of the county this week.
Published January 20, 2022

Sinn Féin spokesperson on Justice Martin Kenny has called for an apology
by the state and a full independent inquiry into the policing and
judicial system in the 26 Counties following an exposé of the Garda
‘Heavy Gang’ in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Published January 20, 2022

There has been an angry reaction to the issuance of planning permission
by Dublin City Council for the redevelopment of an area of the city that
was a key rebel stronghold during the 1916 Rising against British rule.
Published January 20, 2022

Deepening chaos at the top of the Conservative government in London has
increased uncertainty ahead of key talks on the north of Ireland.
Published January 13, 2022

Gardaí police set upon republicans in County Monaghan this week as a
commemoration was taking place in honour of Fergal O’Hanlon.
Published January 13, 2022

The DUP’s endorsement of a loyalist rant against nationalist activists
who “dominate professional vocations” has set the scene for a polarising
and bitter Stormont Assembly election campaign.
Published January 13, 2022

The last man to receive the death penalty in the Six Counties has begun
an action against the British government for using torture to extract a
false confession from him.
Published January 13, 2022

A British soldier who handled ‘Stakeknife’, an infamous IRA informer,
also gave spy tips to east African wildlife rangers whose shoot-to-kill
anti-poaching policy killed dozens of innocent Kenyans, it has emerged.
Published January 13, 2022

Interviewed for his upcoming authorised biography, Pogues singer Shane
MacGowan said that the conflict in the north of Ireland “has preoccupied
(his) mind since childhood”.
Published January 13, 2022

There were celebrations for Irish speakers on New Year’s Day as the
Irish language became an official language of the European Union, but it
has piled on pressure for the implementation of rights for speakers in
the north of Ireland.
Published January 6, 2022

A 16-year-old boy was attacked on Wednesday by a number of youths in the
Lower Oldpark area of Belfast in an anti-Catholic hate crime.
Published January 6, 2022

Brexiteers are endangering the North of Ireland because of their hard
ideological beliefs, according to the man who was Britain’s chief
negotiator during the Irish peace process.
Published January 6, 2022

Economic data has revealed that some 300,000 people in the 26 Counties
are facing impoverishment as a direct result of the housing crisis
there.
Published January 6, 2022

Nearly 50 years after their mother was shot on Bloody Sunday, the family
of Peggy Deery have said it feels like it happened “yesterday”.
Published January 6, 2022

A round-up of the statements issued by republican organisations to mark
the New Year.
Published January 6, 2022

British military intelligence escalated its efforts to target Irish
political activists in border areas over the Christmas period.
Published December 30, 2021

The resignation of London’s double-dealing Brexit Minister ‘Lord’ David
Frost has raised hopes of a new direction for Britain and an end to its
refusal to honour its critical agreements with the EU on the north of
Ireland.
Published December 30, 2021

In an interview given before his death, a former IRA PoW said he
believed the chemicals to which he was exposed by the authorities in
Long Kesh prison caused the disease that claimed his life.
Published December 30, 2021

The widow of a murdered Gaelic sports official has received a trial date
in her legal action against the British Crown Forces over the protection
given to the loyalist killers.
Published December 30, 2021

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the creation of a Citizen’s
Assembly on reunification will be a top priority if her party is in a
position to form the next government in Dublin.
Published December 30, 2021

There have been accolades in Ireland to the late Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, who famously fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa
and against oppression around the world.
Published December 30, 2021

A historic legal victory has been achieved with a ruling at the Supreme
Court in London against the PSNI police for its refusal to investigate
the torture of a group of civilians known as the ‘Hooded Men’.
Published December 18, 2021

A survivor of the Miami Showband massacre has spoken out against British
lies as he and other victims of the atrocity agreed to a historic
settlement of £1.5m in damages for Britain’s collusion with loyalist
paramilitaries in the massacre.
Published December 18, 2021

Prominent Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin is being urged to withdraw an attack
on former party leader Gerry Adams and other party colleagues who he has criticised for being unapologetic for causing “hurt or pain or trauma”.
Published December 18, 2021

Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, the Palestinian Scottish doctor imprisoned
since August 2020 on political charges in a British jail in the north of
Ireland, was released on bail on Monday, 13 December after 15 months of
imprisonment.
Published December 18, 2021

Hundreds gathered on Tuesday for a Mass and a candlelit vigil in
Coalisland, County Tyrone to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder of
Martin McShane, a 16-year-old boy shot in the back by the British Army.
Published December 18, 2021

An internal PSNI review into the death of a young Catholic boy in 2020
has revealed that police chiefs cited “financial constraints” and
“missing person fatigue” in connection with their response to his
disappearance.
Published December 18, 2021

A British government plan for ‘electronic visas’ could be one of the
most significant attempts to enforce its control on the north of Ireland
since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Published December 11, 2021

A Palestinian doctor caught up in an MI5 bid to intern senior members of
Irish republican political group Saoradh is expected to be granted bail
after a judge accepted that his life is in danger at Maghaberry prison.
Published December 11, 2021

Close to double the number of Catholics as Protestants were arrested and
charged by the police over a five-year period in the Six Counties,
according to new statistics.
Published December 11, 2021

The United Nations should publicly support the “immediate
implementation” of an Irish language act for the north of Ireland, a
language rights body has told an international forum.
Published December 11, 2021

A British information tribunal has ruled that a review of ‘dirty war’
tactics in the north of Ireland compiled by British intelligence at the
height of the conflict nearly 50 years ago should stay secret.
Published December 11, 2021

A man injured in a massacre by a unionist death squad has been dismayed
by a decision that two members of the Crown Forces who falsely arrested
him while commemorating victims of the massacre will not be prosecuted.
Published December 11, 2021

The US government is to use tariffs on British steel as part of an
international push to force the British government to honour its treaty
obligations towards Ireland, it has been reported.
Published December 3, 2021

Survivors and families of the victims of the Glenanne Gang have called
for justice for the victims of British collusion and have denounced a
proposed amnesty for British state crimes in the north of Ireland.
Published December 3, 2021

A grandson of 1916 hero Michael Joseph O’Rahilly has warned that
Dublin’s coalition government is standing by while private developers
prepare to tear up the Moore Street area where he died fighting for
Ireland.
Published December 3, 2021

The family of a County Armagh teenager shot dead by loyalists almost 30
years ago are to sue the PSNI, the British Ministry for Defence and the
British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis.
Published December 3, 2021

For the 50th anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar massacre, victims’ families
have launched a new website which commemorates those who died, the
survivors and their families, and will be the platform to their fight
for the truth.
Published December 3, 2021

There were international celebrations as the Caribbean island of
Barbados ended the reign there of Britain’s monarchy on Monday after 364
years.
Published December 3, 2021

Hundreds gathered in North Belfast this week to mark to call on the PSNI to come clean about Noah Donohoe’s death on what would have been his 16th birthday.
Published November 26, 2021

Dozens of workers have been forced to abandon a construction site in the loyalist Rathcoole estate in Newtownabbey after sectarian death threats against them were sprayed on nearby hoardings.
Published November 26, 2021

The DUP has been condemned for blocking a committee tasked with delivering on a key aspect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, a Bill of Rights for the north of Ireland.
Published November 26, 2021

No action has yet been taken against a member of the PSNI who was filmed plainly punching a man in the face in the predominately nationalist town of Moy, County Tyrone, it has emerged.
Published November 26, 2021

Republican Sinn Féin has condemned Garda police in the 26 Counties for “vicious” actions on Tuesday and Wednesday, when approximately 30 members of the Special Detective Unit and other militarised police carried out searches and the destruction of farmland in West Cavan.
Published November 26, 2021

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the death of a young Fermanagh woman shot and killed by an off-duty British soldier.
Published November 26, 2021

The group Border Communities Against Brexit will protest at five
locations on the border on Saturday, November 20, in support of the Irish Protocol
and to stop the London government from moving to collapse the Brexit
accords.
Published November 20, 2021

There are fears Irish politicians have again been tricked by false
British promises on the Irish language, fifteen years after Irish
speakers in the North first received a commitment of action to protect
their rights.
Published November 20, 2021

MI5 double agent Dennis McFadden may have been linked to a network of
spies within Sinn Féin before he began to spy on Saoradh and other
republican organisations, according to reports.
Published November 20, 2021

A plan by the British government to craft its own “official history” of
the conflict is being described as an Orwellian attempt to cover up the
truth of its actions in Ireland.
Published November 20, 2021

Despite confirming that the unionist paramilitary UVF was involved in
the hijacking and burning of at least one bus this month, the PSNI has
refused to confirm that the organisation is not on ceasefire.
Published November 20, 2021

US Congress members have called on the US Secretary of State to publicly
oppose a massive British government cover-up plan which would end
prosecutions of members of the British Crown Forces and their agents for
their actions in the conflict in Ireland.
Published November 20, 2021

An international effort is coming together to try to stop the British government from collapsing the Irish Protocol of Brexit and causing potentially catastrophic damage to the peace process.
Published November 13, 2021

The PSNI’s approach to loyalist violence and their efforts to incite nationalist youths in west Belfast is the subject of continuing controversy.
Published November 13, 2021

The family of a footballer shot dead by loyalists almost 50 years ago are set to launch a legal action against the British state over his death.
Published November 13, 2021

The families of two victims of killer British soldiers are to make a last-ditch plea against the plans for an overarching amnesty.
Published November 13, 2021

After a British Army killer received an exaggerated and politicised military funeral in England on Thursday, there are calls for people to remember his innocent victim, John Pat Cunningham, by holding up a simple sign and photographing it.
Published November 13, 2021

A number of relatives of seven IRA men who made a famous escape from Spike Island prison in County Cork attended a special commemoration on Tuesday night to mark the occasion exactly 100 years on.
Published November 13, 2021

A spokesperson for one of the main loyalist organisations has said he no
longer supports the 1998 peace Good Friday Agreement in a statement
which could further set the scene for a move by London to trigger the
collapse of the Brexit accords.
Published November 8, 2021

Children in loyalist areas are again being manipulated by unionists and Tories to provide the illusion of ‘street chaos’ for their own selfish political agenda.
Published November 6, 2021

Sinn Féin has come in for sustained criticism after it broke with republican tradition by dropping its outright opposition to the use of non-jury courts and other special legislation used to suppress the struggle for Irish reunification in the 26 Counties.
Published November 6, 2021

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association has condemned the treatment of republican prisoner, Paddy McDaid, at Maghaberry prison following his return from a visit to see his dying father.
Published November 6, 2021

The PSNI’s use of a gag or secrecy order has raised concerns of a potential cover-up of a state role in the disappearance and death of Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe in June of last year.
Published November 6, 2021

The PSNI (formerly RUC) police have marked the 20th anniversary of their rebranding by attempting to provoke some nationalist youths into violence, while at the same time recruiting others to act as spies.
Published November 6, 2021

A Belfast walking tour celebrating the birthplaces of Irish democracy in the late 1700s has welcomed a descendant of the family of legendary Irish leader Theobald Wolfe Tone.
Published November 6, 2021

A motion before Sinn Féin’s annual conference to rescind the party’s opposition to the Special Criminal Court could be key to unlocking its access to government in Dublin.
Published October 30, 2021

Sinn Féin’s Vice President Michelle O’Neill has said she is not worried by the failure of the British government to honour its commitment to legislate for the Irish language by the end of October.
Published October 30, 2021

Despite a senior British minister claiming that a no-deal Brexit would only affect a few Irish farmers “with turnips in the back of their trucks”, huge amounts of trade between Ireland and the EU are now taking place by sea around the island of Britain.
Published October 30, 2021

The father of two Catholic brothers murdered by loyalists acting for the British state has accused the British government of “blocking every avenue in getting to the truth”.
Published October 30, 2021

The PSNI police in the north of Ireland are using a new method to try to block an investigation into the murders of 12 people killed in a series of loyalist atrocities.
Published October 30, 2021

An eviction gang reportedly involving loyalists from the north of Ireland were backed up by Garda police after they descended on a building in Dublin on Wednesday to evict a community group.
Published October 30, 2021

A large security operation failed to prevent republicans protesting against a provocative commemoration of the partition of Ireland which took place in Armagh on Thursday.
Published October 23, 2021

There are fears a long-standing British strategy to delay legal actions against state killers is succeeding after two soldiers were reported to have died within a week, leaving their victims’ loved ones without justice or closure.
Published October 23, 2021

Republican prisoner Davy Jordan has described the prison treatment of fellow Maghaberry internee and heart-attack victim Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat as “tantamount to attempted murder”.
Published October 23, 2021

A brother of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by the British Army in 1972 has welcomed the end of British efforts to overturn a coroner’s finding that his killing was “unjustified”.
Published October 23, 2021

The family of Michael Leonard has won the support of Fermanagh and Omagh council in its efforts to secure truth and justice for the unarmed innocent civilian who was shot dead on his way to cross the border to his County Donegal home.
Published October 23, 2021

Far-right British nationalist Nigel Farage has been pranked into issuing pro-IRA messages on three successive occasions for his for-hire video request service.
Published October 23, 2021

A large-scale British military operation is underway in the town of Armagh ahead of a provocative commemoration of the partition of Ireland involving Prime Minister Boris Johnson. England’s Queen Elizabeth has announced she has withdrawn from tomorrow’s event, citing ill health.
Published October 20, 2021

The British soldier on trial for the killing of John Pat Cunningham, Dennis Hutchings, is reported to have died this evening in a Belfast hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.
Published October 18, 2021

There is a growing belief that the Tory government in London is manipulating Brexit tensions for electoral purposes, regardless of the mounting political crisis in the north of Ireland.
Published October 16, 2021

Glenanne Gang member Garfield Beattie has been found guilty of sending a threatening letter to the daughter of one of his murder victims, Aontú Deputy Leader Denise Mullen.
Published October 16, 2021

British prison authorities in Ireland are using a heart attack suffered by a Palestinian remand prisoner as an excuse to reduce his access to the outside world, his family have warned.
Published October 16, 2021

Flagrant efforts by the British Army and the PSNI to influence and recruit children from nationalist areas have been denounced.
Published October 16, 2021

Relatives of a County Down man shot dead by British soldiers 50 years ago this month have requested a new inquest.
Published October 16, 2021

Best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney is standing with Palestinians by respecting their call to boycott Israel. She is refusing to allow an Israeli company buy the Hebrew translation and publication rights for her latest novel.
Published October 16, 2021

Despite planned EU concessions, the British government has moved to sabotage a round of talks intended to deal with unionist objections to Brexit’s Irish Protocol by raising a new “red line” barrier in the negotiations.
Published October 10, 2021

Fine Gael’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and Fianna Fáil’s Chief Whip Jack Chambers are to represent the Dublin government in an event to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland and the creation of a unionist-dominated statelet in the North.
Published October 9, 2021

A trial of a British soldier in the north of Ireland has heard evidence that he intentionally shot and killed an innocent and vulnerable man who posed no threat whatsoever.
Published October 9, 2021

The British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis is attempting to “run down the clock” in a legal challenge over collusion in the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane, the High Court has heard.
Published October 9, 2021

A provocative ‘centenary parade’ by the anti-Catholic Orange Order was stopped from marching through a leafy suburban area of Belfast last weekend in a sign of growing opposition to loyalist parades across the North.
Published October 9, 2021

Republicans marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the 1981 hunger strike last weekend at events across the North and elsewhere.
Published October 9, 2021

The operation of the 26 County state as a haven for greedy tech multinationals and the super rich is being strongly challenged by the international efforts of whistleblowers and tax justice campaigners.
Published October 9, 2021

A unionist election deal could be forming around a plan to pull down Stormont if the Brexit Protocol is not scrapped, or if Sinn Féin becomes the largest party after the next Assembly election.
Published October 1, 2021

Pressure is growing over conflict killings in which informers are implicated after the Office of the Police Ombudsman was accused of consistently protecting those involved.
Published October 1, 2021

More than a dozen Saoradh members have now been rounded up and charged with a variety of offences in what the party believes is new initiative by Britain to increase its grip in the north of Ireland.
Published October 1, 2021

While there is anger in Britain over empty shelves, staff shortages and a fuel crisis, the north of Ireland is avoiding almost all the negative effects of Brexit thanks to the special status afforded by the Irish Protocol.
Published October 1, 2021

The last Provisional IRA Volunteer killed during the conflict “continues to inspire us”, former Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has said.
Published October 1, 2021

Nationalists in Derry’s Waterside have condemned a loyalist parade which featured the emblems of the unionist paramilitary UDA last weekend, Saturday 25 September.
Published October 1, 2021

London’s refusal to honour its treaty obligations towards Ireland have been called out by Joe Biden in a major setback for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his first meeting with the new US President.
Published September 25, 2021

Irish republican groups are being forced to fight for the right to free speech this week after scores of social media accounts were shut down and removed by Facebook in a one-sided act of repression.
Published September 25, 2021

Eugene Reavey, who has campaigned for justice since his three brothers were shot by members of a notorious pro-British death squad in January 1976, has hailed the news that a member of the British Crown Forces is expected to face prosecution for the killings.
Published September 25, 2021

A British plan to impose a statute of limitations on all war crimes committed in the north of Ireland could be in breach of international law, a European human rights commissioner has said.
Published September 25, 2021

The former 26 County Taoiseach John Bruton is under pressure to withdraw his comments and step down from the body that advises Irish Presidents following a torrent of false and demeaning criticism against the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins.
Published September 25, 2021

There have been appeals for a Parades Commission to be set up in Scotland following a weekend of provocative sectarian displays by Orange Order marchers at the weekend.
Published September 25, 2021

The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, has hit out at those who have insisted he attend an event to publicly celebrate the partition of Ireland.
Published September 18, 2021

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has issued a veiled threat to the stability of the north of Ireland if his demands on the Brexit protocol are not met.
Published September 18, 2021

The Ballymurphy Massacre Families have spoken of their pain following revelations that the retained organs and other body tissue parts of five of the deceased were retained from their original postmortems in 1971.
Published September 18, 2021

A Belfast family has been forced out of their home after receiving sectarian threats from unionist paramilitaries.
Published September 18, 2021

The BBC in the north of Ireland has been condemned over its refusal to accord coverage to Gaelic sports after Tyrone won the All-Ireland senior football final.
Published September 18, 2021

Relatives of a teenage girl shot dead when British soldiers opened fire in west Belfast nearly 50 years ago have settled legal actions taken against Britain’s Ministry of Defence.
Published September 18, 2021

The DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has set an agenda for political turmoil in the north of Ireland with a threat to pull out of the North’s political institutions if his demands on the Irish protocol are not met.
Published September 11, 2021

The scandalous actions of senior Fine Gael Ministers, and the lack of any action against them, are provoking anger among the government’s own supporters.
Published September 11, 2021

Heavily armed PSNI members raided the headquarters of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) in West Belfast this week using a chainsaw to remove the front door.
Published September 11, 2021

An anti-internment parade in support of republican prisoners last weekend heard a call for the full resumption of prison visits.
Published September 11, 2021

British government plans for a blanket cover-up on conflict-related prosecutions are more sweeping than the amnesty introduced in Chile by the country’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet, a new report has found.
Published September 11, 2021

Victims and their families have held a protest outside the Police Ombudsman’s Office in Belfast City Centre calling for the immediate publication of legacy reports, some of which have now been completed for over three years.
Published September 11, 2021

Anti-racism charities in Scotland have condemned the police there for not intervening while a group of over 100 soccer fans marched through Glasgow city centre singing the anti-Irish tune ‘The Famine Is Over, Why Don’t You Go Home’.
Published September 4, 2021

A heavily fortified PSNI base in south Armagh could be shut down and lands returned to a Gaelic sports club as the force makes a new bid to win support in the strongly republican area.
Published September 4, 2021

Representatives from all the major parties in Ireland, north and south, have signed a document outlining their rejection of proposals by the London government to draw a veil over legacy killings.
Published September 4, 2021

Prosecutors have been accused of ‘dragging their feet’ on the prosecution of five British soldiers who shot a young man six times in the back.
Published September 4, 2021

Disturbing new hoarding featuring masked UVF gunmen has appeared next to the home ground of Crusaders Football Club.
Published September 4, 2021

A long-delayed compensation scheme is set to bring official recognition for many of those who suffered permanent disablement in the conflict. After years of political and legal disputes, the scheme opened for applications this week.
Published September 4, 2021

A loyalist paramilitary group in the Dungannon area has posted an image
of a masked gang alongside a caption threatening “foreign nationals” who
they said were “from the nationalist end of the town”.
Published August 27, 2021

The PSNI has received loyalist death threats against more than 30
prominent nationalists and republicans but failed to pass them on, it
has emerged.
Published August 27, 2021

Unionist protests against the Irish protocol of the Brexit Withdrawal
Agreement appear to be petering out after less than fifty people
gathered for a high profile rally in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh on
Wednesday, 25 August.
Published August 27, 2021

A new inquest into the death of a 10-year-old boy in Belfast in 1975
has heard his injuries were “consistent” with being shot at by British
soldiers firing plastic bullets.
Published August 27, 2021

The GAA has been condemned after it published advertising for the Crown
Forces in a match programme for the All-Ireland hurling final at Croke
Park in Dublin last weekend.
Published August 27, 2021

Members of the family of Mickey Devine took part in an unveiling for
his 40th anniversary last weekend. Irish National Liberation Army
Volunteers fired a volley of ten shots in salute to their comrade and the other nine hunger strikers
who died in 1981.
Published August 27, 2021

The daughter of a member of the RUC (now PSNI) police killed in a Provisional IRA action in 1990 is to take an unprecedented lawsuit over allegations the killing took place as part of a British ‘psy-ops’ intelligence agenda.
Published August 21, 2021

There has been a welcome for a judge’s ruling that there are sufficient grounds that a former British soldier accused of killing Aidan McAnespie in County Tyrone in 1988 should stand trial.
Published August 21, 2021

Loyalists opposed to Brexit’s Irish trade Protocol have put up threatening posters bearing the image of infamous sectarian serial killer Billy Wright.
Published August 21, 2021

Loyalist parades and bonfires have continued across the Six Counties ahead of the ‘Last Saturday’ parades by the Royal Black Preceptory, the senior organisation associated to the anti-Catholic Orange Order.
Published August 21, 2021

The family of Eamon McDevitt, who was shot dead by the British Army in Strabane, in 1971 have described the last half century as ‘50 years of injustice’.
Published August 21, 2021

Dozens of republicans joined members of his family this week to pay tribute to Eamonn Lafferty, the first IRA Volunteer killed by British forces in the conflict in Derry.
Published August 21, 2021

Allegations of institutional sectarianism at the BBC have resurfaced
after it aired a clip during its primetime Newsline TV news programme
which included the obscene sectarian slogan ‘F*ck the Pope’.
Published August 14, 2021

UN human rights experts have expressed “grave concerns” over a plan by
Britain to provide an effective amnesty to those who carried our
killings and other crimes on its behalf in the north of Ireland.
Published August 14, 2021

British Crown Forces raided the family home of the late Irish National
Liberation Army Volunteer James McWilliams only two days after his
tragic passing this week.
Published August 14, 2021

The 50th anniversary of the deaths of ten innocent people who were shot
and killed in a British Army operation in Ballymurphy was marked in
Belfast on Sunday, August 8.
Published August 14, 2021

Wreaths have been laid at the grave of Gerry McKerr in County Armagh to
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of internment.
Published August 14, 2021

There were no significant bonfires to mark the anniversary of the
introduction of internment in west Belfast this year, although a
confrontation with PSNI police in Dungannon, County Tyrone led to a
night of trouble there.
Published August 14, 2021

The disdain for Covid-19 rules by Irish political figures has brought about a loosening in the regulations to combat the disease as the Dublin coalition struggles to quell public anger over a rule-breaking party linked to a crony appointment.
Published August 7, 2021

Drug-dealing loyalist paramilitaries are running riot in east Belfast
and engaging in a shocking litany of crimes with little interference
from the PSNI, according to a report drafted by the paramilitaries
themselves.
Published August 7, 2021

A unionist election candidate has described the Bloody Sunday massacre
as a “successful operation” and praised the British soldiers who killed
fourteen innocent civil rights demonstrators in Derry in 1972.
Published August 7, 2021

The family of murdered independent councillor and civil rights activist
from Tyrone, Patsy Kelly, have taken to social media to express their
outrage and trauma at British government plans to introduce a blanket
amnesty for the conflict.
Published August 7, 2021

Voters in Britain who support the reunification of Ireland outnumber
those who support the union by three to one, according to a new poll.
Barely one in ten oppose Irish unity, while more than half failed to
express an opinion.
Published August 7, 2021

One of two imprisoned victims of a miscarriage of justice is threatening
legal action in a bid to force prison authorities to transfer him out of
the high-security Maghaberry jail used for political prisoners.
Published August 7, 2021

There has been a shocked reaction across Ireland and abroad to news that an Irish language nursery school due to open in East Belfast has been forced to relocate as a result of loyalist pressure.
Published July 31, 2021

Victims groups have said international action is needed to put pressure of the British government to change course on its planned law of impunity for war crimes committed by its forces in the north of Ireland.
Published July 31, 2021

The decision of an appeal court in Dublin to uphold a “cosmopolitan” extradition of a Dundalk republican to Lithuania, a country he has never visited, has been condemned by justice campaigners.
Published July 31, 2021

The 26 County Minister for Foreign Affairs has been accused of misappropriating public funds after he quietly created a highly paid job and awarded it to a political ally after she urged him to do so.
Published July 31, 2021

The unionist paramilitary UDA are a focus of the impunity bid being planned by the British government, it has been alleged.
Published July 31, 2021

New figures suggest that none of the north’s Six Counties has an outright unionist electoral majority.
Published July 31, 2021

The British government has said it will “take time” to consider its options after a judge called for an inquiry into state actions in connection with a bomb which was allowed to detonate on a street in Omagh, County Tyrone in August 1998, killing 29 people.
Published July 24, 2021

A damning report by the North’s Police Ombudsman on state collusion in the 1993 murder of Damien Walsh shows why the British government wants to “lock the doors of the courts” to those still fighting for justice in unresolved conflict cases, according to lawyers in the case.
Published July 24, 2021

Victims of British state atrocities in the north of Ireland have made clear their opposition to Tory plans to ban legal actions related to the killings.
Published July 24, 2021

The European Union has rebuffed a move by the London government to renege on Brexit and the protocol which could see it reimpose a hard border through the north of Ireland.
Published July 24, 2021

A factory worker whose 1972 murder was blamed on the IRA was shot dead by the British Army, newly uncovered military documents reveal.
Published July 24, 2021

Former Fine Gael leader John Bruton was “as good a taoiseach as we are likely to get”, according to a senior British civil servant in 1997.
Published July 24, 2021

The British government’s move to block official investigations into its history of war crimes in the north of Ireland has unleashed unprecedented anger at a historic act of British bad faith.
Published July 17, 2021

The ‘festival of hate’ around the anti-Catholic July 12 marches across the North every year may be rechristened the ‘festival of stupidity’ after two giant bonfires toppled over into a crowd and two others resulted in serious injuries to bonfire builders.
Published July 17, 2021

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has said he has received death threats after naming a former British soldier who has faced multiple murder charges over his involvement in the Bloody Sunday massacre.
Published July 17, 2021

The annual Twelfth of July parades, the highlight of the summer marching season by the Protestant Orange Order, passed with relatively little incident this year despite the weekend of bonfire mayhem which preceded it.
Published July 17, 2021

Sinn Féin’s Deputy First Minister in the north of Ireland was among a group of dignitaries who were the subject of a loud protest in Dublin on Saturday, July 10 as they took part in a wreath-laying ceremony for British soldiers.
Published July 17, 2021

The British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is facing pressure within his party after he said he would campaign for the north of Ireland to remain under British rule if there was a referendum on reunification in his lifetime.
Published July 17, 2021

British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis has today announced a unilateral statute of limitations in the Westminster parliament to end all conflict-related prosecutions, including all killings perpetrated by the British Crown forces and loyalist death squads.
Published July 14, 2021

Despite large numbers of offensive and provocative displays at loyalist ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires, a weekend of the sectarian events passed without serious trouble, easing tensions ahead of anti-Catholic marches later today by the Orange Order.
Published July 12, 2021

The PSNI police have won a judge’s backing for their decision to ignore Stormont Ministers in relation to a violent loyalist bonfire gang.
Published July 10, 2021

Loyalists held a protest parade in South Belfast on Thursday evening against the post-Brexit Irish Protocol. Many wore masks in a gangster style as they walked behind a traditional loyalist flute band.
Published July 10, 2021

A brother of one of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday has secured High Court permission to challenge the decision to drop murder charges against a former British soldier accused of taking part in the massacre.
Published July 10, 2021

In a major campaign of loyalist intimidation, flags have appeared all over towns and cities in the north of Ireland, three to a lamppost in many places.
Published July 10, 2021

A series of tributes to the ten Irish men who died on hunger strike in 1981 have been appearing around New York City in recent months.
Published July 10, 2021

A device believed to be a military grade British listening device has been found in a working class housing estate in Lurgan, County Armagh.
Published July 10, 2021

A by-election in the constituency of Dublin Bay South has been won by
Labour’s Ivana Bacik in a vote which saw Fianna Fáil suffer its worst
ever election result and saw Fine Gael shut out of the constituency for
the first time in its history.
Published July 9, 2021

The families of victims of killer British soldiers will continue to fight for justice after Crown prosecutors announced they are discontinuing proceedings against the only soldier to face charges for the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, as well as those soldiers involved in the murder of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty.
Published July 3, 2021

An attempt to reignite the Drumcree parade dispute could be the next move by loyalists seeking to escalate sectarian tensions over Brexit.
Published July 3, 2021

Unionists have been outraged by a Belfast High Court ruling that Brexit implicitly repeals part of the Acts of Union, which legislated for the annexation of Ireland by Britain in 1800 following the defeat of the United Irishmen rebellion two years earlier.
Published July 3, 2021

The DUP has lost its status as the largest party in the Belfast Assembly as the party continues to disintegrate following the affirmation of Jeffrey Donaldson as the new party leader.
Published July 3, 2021

The British government’s proposed Legacy Bill has been denounced as “totally unacceptable” as a campaign ramped up this week to demand London “honour its own word” and respect people’s “basic human rights”.
Published July 3, 2021

An appalling vista has opened up for policing in the north of Ireland after the PSNI reportedly ignored a confession that a 14-year-old mixed-race Catholic boy, Noah Donohoe, was abducted and murdered in a loyalist area of Belfast.
Published July 3, 2021

Anger and disbelief have greeted a decision by Crown Prosecutors to summarily collapse cases against those involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre and the Operation Motorman atrocity, both perpetrated by the British Army’s Parachute Regiment in Derry in 1972.
Published July 2, 2021

A Lurgan mother-of-three has spoken out after an intimidating encounter with MI5 left her feeling “stalked” by British military agents.
Published June 26, 2021

There have been calls for an investigation into a ‘peace-building charity’ after it emerged one of its board members is a loyalist spokesperson who has been linked to recent threats of violence.
Published June 26, 2021

Outgoing DUP leader Edwin Poots has admitted that unionists have been exaggerating their grievances and that Irish language legislation being opposed by his party is balanced and moderate.
Published June 26, 2021

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has called for a loyalist bonfire in the New Lodge area of Belfast to be removed from a sectarian interface after golf balls were fired from the site aimed at houses and vehicles in nationalist areas.
Published June 26, 2021

Sinn Féin and the Green Party have faced widespread condemnation after they failed to oppose the renewal of the ‘Special Criminal Court’, a court dating from 1939 which is used to deprive republicans and others of the right to a fair trial by jury.
Published June 26, 2021

New legislation is being put forward to give police in the 26 Counties the power to search through private phones and other electronic devices, even as it emerged the Gardaí been ignoring more than a thousand emergency phone calls for help every month.
Published June 26, 2021

Jeffrey Donaldson has been named as the next leader of the DUP. It emerged today that he was the only candidate to replace Edwin Poots, who announced his resignation following an internal party revolt last week.
Published June 22, 2021

A second collapse of the leadership of the largest unionist party, in the face
of Irish language speakers receiving a commitment that their rights will
be protected, marks a further loosening of the grip on northern politics
by the DUP’s extremists.
Published June 19, 2021

There has been a cautious welcome among nationalists and republicans to
a speech by Fine Gael leader and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar in which he said
Irish unification should be part of his party’s mission.
Published June 19, 2021

Loyalist paramilitaries have issued a veiled threat to the Dublin
government that its Ministers “are no longer welcome” in the north of
Ireland.
Published June 19, 2021

A secret defence pact with London has allowed British RAF fighter jets
to operate with complete freedom in sovereign Irish airspace, it has
emerged.
Published June 19, 2021

A 13-year-old girl was struck with a bicycle by a PSNI man as republican
activists confronted the British police force at a recent publicity
event in south Armagh.
Published June 19, 2021

The bizarre antics of two of its MPs has provided further evidence of
the disarray within the DUP.
Published June 19, 2021

Edwin Poots has said he will stand down as the leader of the DUP following an internal party revolt against him. He was ratified as party leader less than three weeks ago.
Published June 17, 2021

The North of Ireland has a new First Minister, although with no increase in political stability, after DUP leader Edwin Poots defied his own party to go ahead with nominating colleague Paul Givan as First Minister this afternoon.
Published June 17, 2021

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has expressed delight early this Thursday morning after receiving a commitment from the British government to legislate for Irish language protections.
Published June 17, 2021

Scores of masked paramilitaries took part in illegal loyalist parades
this week ahead of a key Brexit deadline for EU safety checks on goods
traded from Britain into the north of Ireland.
Published June 12, 2021

US President Joe Biden has made a dramatic intervention in the Brexit
dispute as one EU official accused the British government of acting as a
“coloniser” against Ireland and its place in the EU.
Published June 12, 2021

Irish language activists are piling pressure on Sinn Féin not to proceed
with the confirmation of the DUP nominee for First Minister, Paul Givan,
until an unstoppable process is set in train for legislation to protect
the rights of Irish speakers.
Published June 12, 2021

The British appointment of a minor unionist celebrity as “Northern
Ireland’s special envoy to the United States” is the latest evidence
that the London government is determined to flout the Good Friday
Agreement, and to cause maximum offence in doing so.
Published June 12, 2021

The wife of a Catholic building contractor brutally assaulted in County
Down two years ago said his family are fearful of going into the town
after his attacker escaped jail.
Published June 12, 2021

A mural has been erected in north Belfast ahead of the 40th anniversary
of the killing of a schoolboy by a British soldier.
Published June 12, 2021

A decision by the London government to rechristen a village in County Down in honour of the English royal family is the newest British humiliation to be directed at the nationalist people of occupied Ireland.
Published June 5, 2021

The son of a loyalist paramilitary shooting victim is set to mount a High Court challenge against the PSNI police over its failure to return his father’s clothes for an extraordinary 23 years after the massacre bid.
Published June 5, 2021

A republican activist from Derry suffered two invasive searches of his vehicle and was dragged away from his hotel to a Crown Force barracks as a night away with his wife was wrecked by British state harassment this week.
Published June 5, 2021

On the 30th anniversary of his death, Sinn Féin has called for an independent public inquiry into the killing of party councillor Eddie Fullerton in County Donegal, in 1991.
Published June 5, 2021

A protest took place in Dublin on Monday to protest against the refusal by the 26 County authorities to provide Covid-19 vaccines to republican political prisoners in Portlaoise.
Published June 5, 2021

An upcoming by-election in Dublin is set to be dominated by the escalating cost and scarcity of housing in the city.
Published June 5, 2021

A vote by the Dublin parliament to adopt a Sinn Féin motion condemning the annexation of Palestinian lands by Israel has been hailed as a historic recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.
Published May 29, 2021

An allegation by DUP leadership contender Jeffrey Donaldson that the UDA threatened some of his team while he was campaigning to become party leader has brought a new focus to the long history of links between loyalist paramilitaries and DUP extremists.
Published May 29, 2021

Three British cameras and a transmitter hidden on a hillside and looking down on one of the north’s busiest roadside inns are believed to have been used to spy on republicans in the Tyrone area for months or even years.
Published May 29, 2021

Britain’s secret murder campaign in Ireland has been further exposed after a court found one of its alleged loyalist agents murdered three civilians in a shop in Drumbeg, Craigavon in 1991.
Published May 29, 2021

The Irish National Liberation Army performed a gun salute to hunger striker Patsy O’Hara with a volley of shots close to his family home in the Bishop Street area of Derry last weekend.
Published May 29, 2021

There have been calls for resignations at the nationalist-controlled Newry, Mourne and Down council after a historian was fooled into taking part in pro-British propaganda exercise during a recent visit of England’s Prince Charles.
Published May 29, 2021

The use of violence in response to port checks is ‘not off the table’, a 19-year-old linked to loyalist paramilitary gangs told Westminster MPs in an extraordinary meeting on the consequences of Brexit.
Published May 22, 2021

The head of the PSNI police in Derry and Strabane has been criticised by councillors after he refused to attend a meeting to discuss anger at sectarian and political policing in the area.
Published May 22, 2021

A formal ‘apology’ by Boris Johnson in the House of Commons to the families of the Ballymurphy massacre victims has been condemned as partial and insincere.
Published May 22, 2021

Fresh evidence has been uncovered which proves the British Army was active in an area of west Belfast where a 13-year-old girl was shot and killed during the conflict.
Published May 22, 2021

Relatives of people murdered by an ‘elite’ British Army unit in targeted operations have said those who carried out the killings should be held to account for their actions.
Published May 22, 2021

Members of the Dublin parliament have been briefed on the murder of two Catholic teenagers in which collusion is alleged between the British state and unionist paramilitaries.
Published May 22, 2021

The families of the Ballymurphy massacre victims have rejected a British letter of apology and have called for the disbandment of the regiment responsible for the slaughter of their loved ones.
Published May 15, 2021

Irish groups have joined others around the world in expressing their shock and condemnation at escalating Israeli acts of war and war crimes against Palestinian communities.
Published May 15, 2021

‘Turkeys voting for Christmas’ is how some have described the DUP’s decision to elect unionist extremist and religious fundamentalist, Edwin Poots, as its new leader.
Published May 15, 2021

Sinn Féin has said the British government needs to clarify whether it retains a “cosy relationship” with illegal armed criminal gangs after senior British ministers met with representatives of the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando on Monday.
Published May 15, 2021

The family of former Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson have accused the party of “publicly humiliating” her.
Published May 15, 2021

Following a landslide vote for her party in national elections, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has declared “it is the will of the country” for Scotland to have a second independence referendum.
Published May 15, 2021

After fifty years of British state lies and cover-ups, a coroner has finally ruled today that those killed in the Ballymurphy massacre were entirely innocent.
Published May 11, 2021

A move by the British government to halt prosecutions for any and all crimes committed by the British Crown forces in the North of Ireland has provoked widespread shock and anger.
Published May 8, 2021

Sinn Féin’s former MEP for the north of Ireland, Martina Anderson, is to stand down from electoral politics after being asked to do so by the party leadership.
Published May 8, 2021

There were tributes far and wide to IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands on Wednesday on the 40th anniversary of his death, after 66 days on hunger strike in Long Kesh prison.
Published May 8, 2021

PSNI chief Simon Byrne has been urged to at least issue a public apology over the deaths of a boy and three men in Belfast after a finding by the Police Ombudsman of “significant operational and investigative failures”.
Published May 8, 2021

The DUP is set for its first-ever leadership contest after MP Jeffrey Donaldson announced he will run for the leadership against the Stormont Minister for Agriculture Edwin Poots.
Published May 8, 2021

Extreme unionist columnist Eoghan Harris has been sacked by the Sunday Independent after he admitted he was involved in a misogynistic and abusive Twitter account under the name Barbara J Pym.
Published May 8, 2021

The family of Joe McCann have said their campaign for justice will not end with a court ruling which today ended the murder trial of two British soldiers and has all but confirmed effective immunity for his killers.
Published May 4, 2021

Politics in the north of Ireland is facing a period of transition as unionist extremist and religious fundamentalist Edwin Poots emerged as the most likely person to take over the helm of the DUP.
Published April 30, 2021

A DUP councillor has been condemned after he suggested Sinn Féin deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, “will be put back in her kennel” by the new leader of the DUP, who he expects will be Edwin Poots.
Published April 30, 2021

Two former British soldiers were not legally justified in opening fire on an Official IRA Volunteer as he ran away from them, a court has heard.
Published April 30, 2021

Willie ‘Mr Muscles’ Young, a well known loyalist paramilitary figure, was shot through the door of his home in north Belfast on Saturday evening in the latest murderous attack linked to loyalist crime gangs.
Published April 30, 2021

As Ireland approaches the 100th anniversary of its partition, Lasair Dhearg in the Six Counties has launched a campaign to highlight what it describes as “the real story of this rotten little statelet”.
Published April 30, 2021

Four people were arrested after garda police violently removed several workers who were staging a peaceful sit down protest outside a former Debenhams store in Dublin last week.
Published April 30, 2021

Arlene Foster is to step down as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and as Six County First Minister. She made the statement after news emerged yesterday of a number of letters drawn up by DUP elected representatives expressing no confidence in the party leadership.
Published April 28, 2021

A vulnerable Derry man has been left fighting for his life after the
PSNI used CS nerve spray against him before shooting him at point-blank
range.
Published April 24, 2021

Loyalist street violence dissipated this week as attempts by loyalist
leaders to hold peaceful protests also failed to attract significant
interest.
Published April 24, 2021

As a new poll pointed to a clear demand across Ireland for a vote on
Irish reunification, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week
effectively ruled one out, saying there will be no such referendum for
“a very, very long time to come”.
Published April 24, 2021

Despite some backtracking, a form of apology by Sinn Féin leader Mary
Lou McDonald for a 1979 IRA attack in which senior British royal Lord
Mountbatten was killed has raised the possibility of a broader
statement of regret for the Provisional IRA’s role in the conflict.
Published April 24, 2021

A sinister loyalist paramilitary mural has appeared which gloats about the mass
murder of innocent Catholics.
Published April 24, 2021

Ireland’s homelessness crisis has been exposed in a striking photograph
of a four-year-old girl sitting on the street eating at a soup kitchen.
Published April 24, 2021

A loyalist paramilitary crime gang in County Antrim has “ordered” the removal of Catholic families from housing estates in the latest episode of sectarian violence in the north.
Published April 17, 2021

A gun and ammunition possibly used by a collusion gang and handed into a PSNI station last week went ‘missing’ at the station for four days.
Published April 17, 2021

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin has admitted that the case of a County Louth man who spent more than a year in prison for IRA membership constitutes a miscarriage of justice.
Published April 17, 2021

The family of the only woman to be shot on Bloody Sunday, are to be awarded nearly £270,000 in damages.
Published April 17, 2021

The mother of a north Belfast teenager who was severely beaten in a sectarian attack is to launch a legal action against the PSNI over investigative failures and their ‘breach of duty of care’ to the schoolboy.
Published April 17, 2021

The family of a Catholic man murdered by the UDA has called for the Police Ombudsman report on ‘Operation Achille’, withheld since 2019, to be published.
Published April 17, 2021

Sinister efforts to involve nationalists in the current wave of loyalist violence are continuing after a week of some of the worst disturbances seen in the north of Ireland in over eight years.
Published April 10, 2021

The British authorities in Ireland are coming under pressure to finally dismantle the loyalist drugs gangs behind the current wave of street violence and cease the state funding that supports them.
Published April 10, 2021

A member of Republican Sinn Féin was arrested at an Easter Monday commemoration for refusing to speak to Gardaí in English.
Published April 10, 2021

A potential All-Ireland soccer league could be on the cards with the two football associations in both parts of Ireland working on it, according to reports.
Published April 10, 2021

Donegal Council Councillors have unanimously backed a call for truth and justice for the murder of Eddie Fullerton as the 30th anniversary of his death approaches.
Published April 10, 2021

Members of the Dublin parliament have suggested that the tricolour’s status as the national flag could be reconsidered as part of efforts to secure a united Ireland.
Published April 10, 2021

An attempt by the PSNI police to draw nationalist youths into conflict near a tense west Belfast interface failed tonight thanks to the efforts of community leaders.
Published April 8, 2021

Another night of intense loyalist rioting has been criticised by politicians including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, although DUP leader Arlene Foster blamed Sinn Féin as “the real law breakers” over a lack of social distancing at a Sinn Féin funeral last year.
Published April 8, 2021

Petrol bombs have been thrown at the PSNI for a second night in County Antrim as loyalist paramilitaries have continued to orchestrate violence.
Published April 4, 2021

An attempt by unionists to weaponise Covid-19 regulations to demand
prosecutions of leading members of Sinn Féin over the funeral last June
of party colleague and IRA veteran Bobby Storey appear to have failed.
Published April 2, 2021

Crowds of loyalist youths clashed with PSNI police on Friday night
following appeals for “protests” on loyalist social media pages. The
trouble erupted at locations where demonstrations had been orchestrated
on Facebook, primarily in Belfast.
Published April 2, 2021

An annual PSNI operation to harass and disrupt Irish republicans ahead
of events for the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising has seen raids
in three counties.
Published April 2, 2021

On the 30th anniversary of the brutal murders of Eileen Duffy,
Katrina Rennie and Brian Frizzell, families attended a quiet
memorial for them in Craigavon last weekend.
Published April 2, 2021

A court hearing in the long-running trial of three well-known
republicans heard doubts about the prosecution’s evidence amid questions
over the analysis of alleged covert audio recordings and the role of
British military intelligence.
Published April 2, 2021

A number of organisations have said that commemorations and
wreath-laying ceremonies in honour of the 1916 Rising must again be
restricted due the Covid-19 situation.
Published April 2, 2021

A north Belfast man has received a five-figure compensation pay out from
the British Ministry of Defence over serious assault and torture almost
50 years ago.
Published March 27, 2021

The continued indulgence of loyalist paramilitaries by the British
government is being challenged with a legal action to force London to
admit that their organisations are no longer maintaining “complete and
unequivocal” ceasefires.
Published March 27, 2021

A unionist threat to block recognition of the Irish language in the
north of Ireland has been condemned.
Published March 27, 2021

The PSNI stands accused of exaggerating the significance of an object
found in County Armagh for its own purposes.
Published March 27, 2021

Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar remains mired in scandal after damning new
revelations are to be added to a criminal investigation into his leaking of a
valuable government document to a friend.
Published March 27, 2021

Sports commentator and political analyst Joe Brolly was disconnected
from an interview on a high profile television talk show, Claire Byrne
Live, after he attempted to address the sectarianism and racism of the
DUP.
Published March 27, 2021

A policing operation in Derry in which two Creggan women were assaulted by the PSNI as part of a day of state violence has drawn intense criticism.
Published March 20, 2021

US President Joe Biden has expressed his strong support for continuing efforts to prevent a reinforced border through Ireland as a result of Brexit.
Published March 20, 2021

A decision to ban media from reporting on court proceedings against the only ex-British army paratrooper to face murder charges arising from the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre has been condemned by families of the victims and journalists alike.
Published March 20, 2021

Sinn Féin has agreed to support a series of events to mark the centenary of partition in 1921.
Published March 20, 2021

The Continuity IRA (CIRA) has claimed responsibility for an attack on Enniskillen PSNI base in Fermanagh on Monday, March 15.
Published March 20, 2021

The mother of a north Belfast teenager who was beaten in a sectarian attack which left him with a serious head injury has described how she has been let down by the PSNI investigation.
Published March 20, 2021

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid a galling visit to the north of Ireland on Friday as part of a Tory onslaught to preserve the union. Rubbing elbows with occupying British soldiers at a helicopter base, Johnson’s visit appeared designed to deliberately infuriate nationalists.
Published March 13, 2021

The home of Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has been attacked, just days after his constituency office was targeted with a bomb threat.
Published March 13, 2021

The son of murdered defence lawyer Pat Finucane has welcomed a decision by the Council of Europe to reopen his father’s case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Published March 13, 2021

It has emerged that a single assault rifle was used by loyalists, likely including members of the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment, to kill up to 12 people between 1988 and 1994.
Published March 13, 2021

A US advertising campaign supported by a number of Irish-American groups and sponsored by Sinn Féin is seeking to mobilise support for a border poll on Irish unity.
Published March 13, 2021

The Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has been forced to apologise for a comment about the religious denomination of Sinn Féin TDs in the Dublin parliament.
Published March 13, 2021

Loyalists paramilitaries are acting in concert with hardline Brexiteers to try to intimidate the European Union with the potential of violence in the north of Ireland.
Published March 6, 2021

The British government has been accused once again of displaying “extreme bad faith”, this time over its unilateral extension of grace periods in the Irish Protocol of Brexit.
Published March 6, 2021

On the anniversary of the murder of four men in County Tyrone 30 years ago this week, new information has emerged which appears to confirm long-held suspicions that British-trained soldiers were involved in the ambush.
Published March 6, 2021

The PSNI has been condemned for ransacking the home of two political activists in the Bone area of North Belfast and arresting a heavily pregnant woman in front of her young children to take her to Musgrave Interrogation Centre.
Published March 6, 2021

The 26 County Garda police Commissioner Drew Harris has used an attack on his own men during a right-wing riot in Dublin to smear republicans and socialists.
Published March 6, 2021

A list of Irish surnames used by a British holiday parks company to block “undesirable guests” has highlighted an increase in anti-Irish bigotry in everyday British life.
Published March 6, 2021

The DUP has “given cover” to the ongoing crimes of the loyalist paramilitary UVF and UDA after a high-level meeting took place between the party and representatives of the two organisations.
Published February 27, 2021

A British military intelligence agent was spotted placing a listening device in an allotments area of west Derry on Tuesday, leading to the recovery of a sophisticated surveillance device.
Published February 27, 2021

Britain’s failure to deal with loyalist paramilitaries in the early 1970s has been exposed by recently uncovered British military files which prove that the Crown Forces worked with an extensive database of suspected loyalist paramilitaries.
Published February 27, 2021

The father of two brothers murdered by loyalist paramilitaries has been refused a judicial review seeking a public inquiry into suspected Crown force collusion with the killers.
Published February 27, 2021

A former hospital porter has secured High Court permission to challenge the lawfulness of having his phone seized by the PSNI.
Published February 27, 2021

Ireland’s police forces have given unconvincing explanations about why they are cooperating with an Israeli ministry implicated in torture and war crimes.
Published February 27, 2021

Irish soccer international James McClean has welcomed widespread support after speaking out about anti-Irish abuse directed towards him and his family in England.
Published February 20, 2021

DUP politicians have been condemned for again talking up the potential for loyalist violence against new port regulations whilst engaging in political stunts to defeat what they describe as the ‘Irish Sea border’.
Published February 20, 2021

The murder of two Catholic men in County Armagh once wrongly blamed on the IRA is being reviewed as part of an investigation into the series of killings by the pro-British death squad known as the Glenanne Gang.
Published February 20, 2021

A former British Army soldier has been accused of “choosing not to help” an inquest into the killing of a Derry mother shot dead in her garden, while another claimed former soldiers were being “persecuted” over state killings.
Published February 20, 2021

The increasingly desparate efforts of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to save the union has seen his proposed sea tunnel between Ireland and Scotland branded as ‘hallucinogenic’.
Published February 20, 2021

Attempts to demonise a young Wexford-born IRA Volunteer who died tragically at the age of 21 when a device he was transporting exploded prematurely in London have been condemned.
Published February 20, 2021

An egregiously insensitive example of PSNI harassment has led to a surge in nationalist support for disbandment of the hated police force.
Published February 13, 2021

A decision to order a new inquest into the killings of six men shot dead in one night in Belfast in 1973 has been widely welcomed.
Published February 13, 2021

The DUP Minister for Agriculture used port staff as “pawns” in efforts to whip up a reaction against new Brexit trade rules, Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd has said.
Published February 13, 2021

A plan by the North’s Electoral Office to remove all registered voters from the Electoral Register has been condemned as outrageous by Sinn Fein West Belfast MP Paul Maskey.
Published February 13, 2021

There was widespread condemnation following the latest loyalist threat to shoot a journalist. Graffiti has appeared in a number of locations in east Belfast with the name of reporter Patricia Devlin along with cross hairs.
Published February 13, 2021

DUP MP Gregory Campbell has denied he is a racist after he criticised a gospel singing show for not including more white people.
Published February 13, 2021

A weak response to the controversial inclusion of a reference to Brexit’s Irish Protocol in preliminary EU legislation for vaccine exports has encouraged unionist extremists to believe they can force a renegotiation of Brexit’s protocol on Ireland.
Published February 6, 2021

There has been no claim of responsibility for an attack in which a former British soldier accused of infiltrating an IRA breakaway group was killed.
Published February 6, 2021

A victim of the Sean Graham bookmakers atrocity has spoken out after he was arrested while he and other relatives laid flowers at a memorial to their loved ones.
Published February 6, 2021

A loyalist community centre that delivers food parcels has been closed due to threats delivered by a unionist paramilitary gang on Tuesday which were overseen by the PSNI.
Published February 6, 2021

A Catholic church in Limavady has been the target of a disturbing hate crime.
Published February 6, 2021

Saoradh has said it is enduring a second censorship attempt by the British State in conjunction with social media corporations.
Published February 6, 2021

A small and quiet wreath-laying by relatives of innocent civilians killed in the Ormeau Road bookmakers atrocity was attacked today by the PSNI, who arrested one of the survivors of the 1992 mass shooting.
Published February 5, 2021

People are being urged to remain calm in the face of attempts by unionists and loyalists to force a reversal of Brexit’s Irish Protocol, which they say has created a border down the Irish Sea and could lead to increasing economic unity on the island of Ireland.
Published February 2, 2021

An acknowledgement by the head of Britain’s government in Ireland that there should be a ‘conversation’ about Ireland’s constitutional future has been welcomed.
Published January 30, 2021

A group of loyalist paramilitary representatives have held a meeting with British officials to demand an end to the Irish Protocol of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, raising questions over London’s attitude to loyalist paramilitary violence.
Published January 30, 2021

Loyalist serial killer Michael Stone has been released from prison despite warnings he could resume sectarian attacks against nationalists and republicans.
Published January 30, 2021

The DUP MP Ian Paisley has doubled down on an absurd remark in which he compared the Nazi Holocaust to the actions of the “Catholic IRA”.
Published January 30, 2021

The family of Derry IRA veteran Eamon ‘Peggy’ McCourt have denounced politicians who criticised his republican funeral and made insensitive allegations that it had broken Covid-19 restrictions.
Published January 30, 2021

The sister of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by the British Army has called for tighter regulation after images of his remains were repeatedly posted online.
Published January 30, 2021

A clamour for a realignment of borders in the aftermath of Brexit has seen the most senior figure in David Cameron’s former Tory Cabinet join increasing numbers of unionists in admitting that Ireland could soon be reunited.
Published January 23, 2021

A deployment of British Army paramedics to hospitals in occupied Ireland has angered nationalists, particularly among families of those killed and injured by British soldiers.
Published January 23, 2021

The family of Paddy McElhone, who was aged 24 when he was shot and killed by a British soldier near his Tyrone home, have said the truth of his 1974 murder has finally been heard at an inquest.
Published January 23, 2021

The Continuity IRA have issued a second statement with specific details of a gun attack on a PSNI helicopter last week.
Published January 23, 2021

A north Belfast community activist has won High Court permission to challenge a decision by the PSNI to detain and interrogate him at an airport.
Published January 23, 2021

Top health officials in Ireland provided doses of Covid-19 vaccine to their own family members and friends ahead of frontline workers, care home residents and other vulnerable people, according to reports this week.
Published January 23, 2021

A high powered gun attack took place against a Crown Forces helicopter on Thursday near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. The attack took place in the border area near where the Continuity IRA launched a booby-trap attack in 2019.
Published January 16, 2021

Unionists have claimed they been “screwed over” by a new regulatory border in the Irish Sea, with senior MPs hitting out at the Tory government in London over shortages of some items in foodstores, and calling for some Brexit regulations to be scrapped.
Published January 16, 2021

A lawyer acting for a group of republican activists held after an MI5 entrapment operation has said that British military intelligence “appears to be ignorant of the rule of law”.
Published January 16, 2021

Eight PSNI vehicles, including six armoured Land Rovers, swarmed a family home in west Belfast on Thursday night, and harassed mourners attending a wake.
Published January 16, 2021

A Commission of Investigation has established that some 9,000 babies and children died over eight decades in Irish ‘Mother and Baby’ homes, but a limited report and an official State apology have only increased demands for full redress for a history of murderous neglect and misogyny.
Published January 16, 2021

A major policy change by Belfast City Council will make Irish language street signs easier to erect.
Published January 16, 2021

The Dublin government is being urged to help facilitate the increasing reality of Irish unity following the end of the Brexit transition period and the creation of an Irish Sea border.
Published January 9, 2021

A convoy of over a thousand vehicles took place around Belfast in support of the family of teenager Noah Donohoe on Thursday night as concerns mount over PSNI failings and possible collusion in the stalled investigation into his death.
Published January 9, 2021

British authorities have been urged to abandon their claim to the remote rocky outcrop of Rockall after an awkward incident on Monday in which a Scottish patrol boat boarded an Irish fishing vessel.
Published January 9, 2021

As concern grows over a dangerous new English strain of the coronavirus, the determination of unionists to fit the deepening Covid-19 crisis into a sectarian agenda has reached a new low point.
Published January 9, 2021

Hundreds of people have been taking part in daily protests outside Blanchardstown Garda station in Dublin after a man with mental illness was shot dead in a hail of gunfire this week by Gardai in the garden of his own home.
Published January 9, 2021

Political leaders in Ireland universally condemned the invasion of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by extremist supporters of Donald Trump.
Published January 9, 2021

Former Provisional and Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt has died following a long battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Bernadette Sands McKevitt, sister of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.
Published January 2, 2021

A short note to wish you all a Happy New Year.
Published January 1, 2021

Drug-dealing loyalist paramilitaries have ordered a grandmother and her family out of their homes over Christmas for daring to speak out against them over the murder of her son.
Published December 30, 2020

Unionist paramilitaries in north Derry have targeted the homes of nationalists in the town of Coleraine with four hoax bombs planted in the town on Christmas Eve.
Published December 30, 2020

On the centenary of the enactment of the Government of Ireland Act, which partitioned Ireland under British law, and with Brexit just days away, the former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has called for the Dublin government to do more to remove the border from the island.
Published December 30, 2020

Information passed by prison chaplains to the Dublin government in 1990 that the Provisional IRA did not want Sinn Féin directly involved in negotiations with the British government about a ceasefire was misinterpreted in state papers released in Dublin this week.
Published December 30, 2020

Veteran republican Kieran ‘Zack’ Smyth has been granted leave to seek a judicial review of a British order to revoke his prison release and intern him earlier this year.
Published December 30, 2020

PSNI chief Simon Byrne has failed to acknowledge institutionalised bigotry within the force after the Police Ombudsman admitted that Black Lives Matter protestors had been discriminated against.
Published December 30, 2020

A comprehensive deal for Britain’s departure from the EU has been agreed by negotiators from the London government and the European Union, concluding years of talks marked by British bad faith and political uncertainty, particularly in the north of Ireland.
Published December 24, 2020

A new and more dangerous strain of coronavirus which has emerged in the southeast of England has resulted in a flight ban from Britain to the 26 Counties, but the Stormont Executive in the North has so far refused to take part.
Published December 21, 2020

The inability of the Six-County Executive at Stormont to govern effectively has been highlighted by the announcement on Friday of a hard ‘lockdown’ for six weeks as well as a week-long 8pm curfew to begin on St Stephen’s Day.
Published December 19, 2020

A new TV documentary has pointed to collusion between loyalists and the British Army in a bomb attack in Belturbet, in which two teenagers were killed.
Published December 19, 2020

The British government has attempted to colonise the legacy of Irish poet Seamus Heaney in support of the partition of Ireland by using his image as part of a campaign to mark its centenary.
Published December 19, 2020

The wife of a member of a republican political group has narrowly escaped injury in a gun attack on her home in Dungiven.
Published December 19, 2020

An attempt to stop the prosecution of a former British soldier for the murder of a child in Derry 48 years ago has been rejected.
Published December 19, 2020

A woman has been cleared of murdering her own baby after 35 years in a case which raised serious questions about the culture of the Garda Síochána and the treatment of unmarried mothers in Irish society.
Published December 19, 2020

Concessions by the British government have boosted hopes that a remilitarised border through Ireland can be avoided after Brexit, although overall negotiations on a trade deal with the EU could still fail.
Published December 11, 2020

A spate of heavy-handed operations in Derry by the PSNI has followed in a grim Crown Force tradition of Christmas-time raids in republican areas and the seizure of family gifts and children’s toys.
Published December 11, 2020

Two separate attempts to smear and damage Sinn Féin TDs with embarrassing old social media posts have followed supposedly controversial statements about the Provisional IRA.
Published December 11, 2020

Wales will be offered an independence referendum within five years if the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, commands a majority at next May’s Welsh Parliament elections, the party’s leader Adam Price has said.
Published December 11, 2020

The coalition government in Dublin has come under fire for agreeing to increase wages and pensions for judges and politicians while refusing to pay student nurses.
Published December 11, 2020

Hugh McMonagle has been described as “an unsung and courageous hero of Bloody Sunday” after he sadly passed away on Thursday at the age of 75.
Published December 11, 2020

Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) founder Billy Wright was a state-sponsored agent, Belfast Crown Court has heard. It was alleged that the man known as ‘King Rat’ was just one of a number of unionist paramilitary bosses on the British payroll.
Published December 4, 2020

A controversy over a tweet by Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has been allowed to overshadow the centenary of the Kilmichael Ambush, one of the most significant military blows to British rule in Ireland in Irish history.
Published December 4, 2020

A Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled that the British Crown Forces fabricated admissions in 1978 to secure the conviction of a teenager which saw him locked away for ten years of his early adulthood.
Published December 4, 2020

The mother of a Catholic gun attack victim fears her son will be killed by the UDA after he was blasted on his doorstep in Coleraine in a savage sectarian attack.
Published December 4, 2020

A man who was forced to endure colleagues calling Catholics ‘Fenians’, wishing him ‘Happy King Billy’s Day’ and draping a a Union Jack over his work van has settled a case against the North’s Housing Executive.
Published December 4, 2020

Shane MacGowan, the former lead singer of the Pogues, says he felt guilty for “not having the guts” to join the I.R.A. in a new documentary.
Published December 4, 2020
The British government has again refused to establish a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, the 39-year-old defence lawyer shot dead in front of his family in Belfast in 1989 by paramilitaries acting on the direction of the British Armed Forces.
Published November 30, 2020

Monday has become a day of reckoning as the date a court was told Britain will finally make a decision known on a public inquiry into the assassination of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published November 27, 2020

US President-elect Joe Biden has again spoken out against the prospect of a remilitarised border through Ireland and Britain’s moves to violate the Good Friday Agreement and international law.
Published November 27, 2020

The two leaders of the 26 County government have been condemned for hypocrisy for piously marking the centenary of the 1920 Bloody Sunday massacre in Croke Park despite previously commemorating those who carried out the atrocity.
Published November 27, 2020

In a settlement which could set a marker for other claims against the Crown Forces, huge damages have been paid to journalists falsely arrested by the PSNI in 2018.
Published November 27, 2020

The UDA shot a man in Coleraine, planted three pipe bombs in a nearby village and threatened to kill a journalist this week amid an ongoing crime spree by the unionist paramilitary organisation and its drug-dealing gangs.
Published November 27, 2020

Racist and sectarian graffiti has appeared on walls in a loyalist area of north Belfast, not far from where 14-year-old Noah Donohoe disappeared in June.
Published November 27, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the biggest expansion of the British military since the Cold War, calling for Britain to go on the offensive and end an “era of retreat” in the aftermath of Brexit.
Published November 20, 2020

Leaders of two loyalist paramilitary groups are said to be at the point of feuding over drug dealing on Belfast’s Shankill Road.
Published November 20, 2020

Republicans are taking to the courts to fight attempts by British forces to abuse the law in order to oppress and marginalise normal political activity.
Published November 20, 2020

Protests have been organised over an apparent collaboration between the British Army and Irish sportswear firm O’Neills, the primary manufacturer of Gaelic sports jerseys and school sports kits in Ireland.
Published November 20, 2020

The discriminatory treatment of cultural symbols in rural areas of the north of Ireland continues as loyalist flags and emblems go untouched, while visible signs of Irish republicanism are often threatened and removed.
Published November 20, 2020

Envelopes of cash have been sent to a County Fermanagh home in an effort to recruit a member of Republican Sinn Féin, one of several attempts to infiltrate the party.
Published November 20, 2020

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has accused the DUP of exploiting Covid-19 as an ‘orange versus green’ issue in a week she described as ‘shameful and depressing’.
Published November 14, 2020

A power struggle at Downing Street that ended on Friday with Boris Johnson’s top advisor Dominic Cummings walking out of Number 10 may mark the beginning of the end for a no-deal Brexit and a hard border through Ireland.
Published November 14, 2020

Fine Gael launched its most bitter attack on Sinn Féin in years this week in a desperate response to a cronyism scandal which has now expanded to include the position of shamed Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe.
Published November 14, 2020

John Taylor, the former Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has made headlines around the world after describing US vice president-elect Kamala Harris as “the Indian”.
Published November 14, 2020

Sinn Féin has called for a review after a Poppy Day wreath for the unionist paramilitary UVF was laid at Belfast City Council’s cenotaph in the Garden of Remembrance at City Hall.
Published November 14, 2020

A slur against a peace campaigner that remained on the record of the London parliament for 21 years has finally been corrected.
Published November 14, 2020
The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has led Irish congratulations to Joe Biden after his success in becoming the US President.
Published November 7, 2020

The new US President-elect Joe Biden could make a visit to Ireland’s border area as part of an intervention on Brexit, according to reports.
Published November 7, 2020

Sinn Féin is to table a motion of no confidence in Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar after he offered no real defence for leaking a confidential medical contract to a friend involved in negotiations for a rival group.
Published November 7, 2020

The mother of a Catholic teenager who was chased, attacked and robbed by loyalist youths this summer has spoken out over the PSNI’s refusal to properly investigate the death of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe.
Published November 6, 2020

There are fears the London government could seek to prevent referendums on Irish unity and Scottish independence for decades in light of recent statements by its most senior representatives in both countries.
Published November 6, 2020

The parallel systems of policing in the north of Ireland have been highlighted by the treatment of two members of the PSNI who were released despite pleading guilty to opening fire at a house party.
Published November 6, 2020

A proposal to erect a statue dedicated to US abolitionist and activist Frederick Douglass has been passed by Belfast City Council. Douglass, a former slave, visited Belfast in 1845 as part of his lecturing tour of Ireland.
Published November 6, 2020

There has been sporadic unrest in Derry over three days as a provocative
Crown Force operation took place in the area of Racecourse Road,
Greenhaw Road, Glengalliagh Road and Fern Road.
Published October 31, 2020

New evidence has emerged in the murder of 13-year-old Martha Campbell in
Belfast in 1972, which puts a British Army unit in the area and shooting
at the time she was shot and killed.
Published October 31, 2020

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accepted the resignation of party
Senator Elisha McCallion as a new financial scandal erupted in the North
this week.
Published October 31, 2020

A decision of the North’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to
prosecute one of their own members for perjury relating to the
‘Stakeknife’ double-agent has come as no surprise, according to legal
representatives of his victims.
Published October 31, 2020

‘Plastic Justice’, an extensive report on the history, legacy and the
deadly impact of the plastic bullet in the north of Ireland, was
launched by Relatives for Justice last weekend.
Published October 31, 2020

Lasair Dhearg activists said they have carried out a “new
guerilla marketing strategy” throughout Belfast to highlight the
ongoing British occupation of the north of Ireland.
Published October 31, 2020

This weeks marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1980 hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, as well as the centenary of the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. It is also an important week for the Irish cause in 2020. That is because it is now widely believed that the British government has delayed key Brexit negotiations until after the US Presidential election.
Published October 27, 2020

An adoption rights activist born in one of Ireland’s notorious ‘mother
and baby’ homes has described a move to seal records about the
institutions for thirty years as a denial of justice.
Published October 23, 2020

A refusal by Micheál Martin to say if a border poll will ever take place
and a statement that Irish reunification is not a priority has put the
Taoiseach at odds with a broad swathe of Irish public opinion, including
his own party.
Published October 23, 2020

A deeply-rooted prejudice of DUP minister Edwin Poots emerged in
scandalous fashion this week when he issued a series of bigoted remarks
in connection with Covid-19, peaking with the incredible claim that they
weren’t sectarian as “most Sinn Féin leaders don’t attend the Catholic Church on a regular basis”.
Published October 23, 2020

Lawyers representing two men jailed in a miscarriage of justice say
there are new grounds for their convictions to be deemed unsafe due to
the sinister involvement of MI5 double agent Dennis McFadden.
Published October 23, 2020

The family of a County Tyrone man murdered by loyalists 30 years ago has
called for an independent investigation to be carried out after
receiving an anonymous letter containing significant new information.
Published October 23, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has outlined how he will
work with Irish-America and Ireland if he is elected US president.
Published October 23, 2020

After weeks of vacillation and infighting, the Dublin government has
responded to inexorably rising levels of the coronavirus in Ireland with
a stringent, six-week ‘level 5’ lockdown.
Published October 19, 2020

Post-Brexit Europe will see a border between Scotland and England if the
result of the latest poll, which found 58% of Scots now support
independence, is borne out in a referendum.
Published October 16, 2020

The failure to agree a joint all-island strategy on tackling the
Covid-19 pandemic has led to a blame game on both sides of the border as
the numbers of new cases and deaths have once again spiralled upwards.
Published October 16, 2020

Large-scale surveillance installations used by British forces to spy on
the nationalist population in the north of Ireland are the focus of a
new campaign by republican activists.
Published October 16, 2020

A year after a breakthrough documentary was broadcast on the case, the
father of two brothers killed by loyalists almost 30 years ago has
confirmed that the PSNI failed to take any action on the new
information.
Published October 16, 2020

A Belfast man has begun a High Court action over the British Army’s use
of torture techniques to extract a false confession used to secure a
death sentence against him at trial.
Published October 16, 2020

A forum set up by the British government to look at how to mark next
year’s ‘Centenary of Northern Ireland’ is being boycotted by
nationalists and republicans. The Centenary Forum was announced by
British prime minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Ireland in
August.
Published October 16, 2020

An attack on human rights lawyers by the British Prime Minister has been described as “appalling” and “ shameful”.
Published October 9, 2020

A 61-year-old woman has been left fighting for her life after a unionist paramilitary gun attack in Coleraine, County Derry. Sally Cummings is in a critical condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after being struck in the head by one of eight shots.
Published October 9, 2020

A member of the notorious ‘Glenanne Gang’ death squad is being investigated after a shocking death threat was made against Aontú councillor Denise Mullen, the daughter of a man previously murdered by the gang.
Published October 9, 2020

An armed Garda support unit is to be permanently deployed to the border in a decision which appears to confirm plans for a cross-border remilitarisation of the area.
Published October 9, 2020

Political activists in Derry occupied the local branch of the Santander bank in an action over the freezing of bank accounts and welfare benefits of those targeted by the PSNI.
Published October 9, 2020

Amnesty International is helping organise a campaign for justice for Majella O’Hare, a girl who was shot in the back on her way to church by a British soldier and then ‘treated like a piece of meat’, according to an eyewitness.
Published October 9, 2020

The house of the O’Rahilly, a famous historical landmark once home to the 1916 Easter Rising leader Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, was tragically and deliberately demolished in the early hours of Tuesday morning, September 29.
Published October 2, 2020

An independent inquiry report into the mistreatment of PoWs in the H-Blocks and Armagh Women’s Jail in the period between 1976 and 1981 has exposed the systematic abuse and torture of prisoners during the prison protests.
Published October 2, 2020

Sinn Féin has come in for stinging criticism for its meeting this week with Prince Charles, the head of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment, less than 24 hours after it was announced that no further charges will be brought over the Bloody Sunday massacre.
Published October 2, 2020

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the “erratic” and “dangerous” Boris Johnson cannot be trusted on Brexit. She said Johnson has forfeited credibility by unpicking the Withdrawal Agreement, negotiated earlier this year, and now cannot be believed when he says he wants a trade deal.
Published October 2, 2020

An extraordinary attack by the former 26 County Minister for Justice, Charlie Flanagan on a documentary film on collusion has been described as an attack on nationalist victims of the conflict.
Published October 2, 2020

Sinn Féin Assembly member Gerry Kelly has said he remains proud of his involvement in the 1983 mass breakout from Long Kesh prison despite British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis describing his memories of the event “disgraceful”.
Published October 2, 2020

There was disappointment in Derry today after Crown Prosecutors
confirmed that they will not prosecute 15 British soldiers in connection with
Bloody Sunday.
Published September 29, 2020

A hunger protest by republican prisoners ended today after Palestinian
prisoner Dr Issam Hijjawi was transferred to Roe House, the section of
Maghaberry jail where political prisoners are housed.
Published September 29, 2020

Protests in support of hunger striking prisoners are due to take place
in Belfast and outside Maghaberry Prison on Saturday, where a
solidarity camp is to be established.
Published September 25, 2020

The family of Seamus Ludlow, who was shot dead in County Louth in 1976,
have announced that an independent police investigation is to take place
into his murder.
Published September 25, 2020

The people of the North are being used as pawns in a political game
by the British government, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill
has warned.
Published September 25, 2020

Legislation introduced at Westminster is set to shore up the legality of
murders and other crimes committed by state agents and informers in
Britain and the north of Ireland.
Published September 25, 2020

An attempt to boost the reputation of the former Fianna Fáil
leader Charles Haughey with an allegation that former IRA leader Seán
Mac Stiofáin was a double agent has been rejected by a former colleague.
Published September 25, 2020

There are fresh protests against the institutional sectarianism of the
BBC in Ireland as infamous radio and TV presenter Stephen Nolan
continues to generate intense anger among nationalists.
Published September 25, 2020

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association have said they are
gravely concerned at the “medieval” behaviour of the Maghaberry prison
regime towards Palestinian prisoner Dr Issam Hijjawi.
Published September 19, 2020

A transatlantic war of words has broken out over the British
government’s move to break the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and its
protections for peace in the north of Ireland.
Published September 19, 2020

A historic turning point in the long battle against state censorship in
the 26 Counties was reached this week when ‘Unquiet Graves’, the story
of the loyalist Glenanne Gang and their links to the British Crown
Forces, was finally aired by state broadcaster RTE.
Published September 19, 2020

A west Belfast Catholic woman has described how the unionist
paramilitary UDA turned up at her door in March to force her out after
her housemate became involved in a dispute with neighbouring residents.
Published September 19, 2020

Countries around the world are re-examining their post-colonial identity
after Barbados moved to remove the English queen as the head of state.
The island has said that it is planning to become a republic as it moves
to withdraw from the Commonwealth and “leave its colonial past behind”.
Published September 19, 2020

There is concern that far-right groups are taking advantage of the
coronavirus crisis to build support for bogus ‘patriot’ organisations
involving fascists, loyalists and English Brexiteers.
Published September 19, 2020

The political clock has been turned sharply back as the world grapples
once again with a British government acting in bad faith on Ireland and
blithely reneging on peace deals.
Published September 11, 2020

A prominent former British MP has hit out at the use of entrapment by
MI5 in Ireland and their attempts to criminalise lawful political
activity.
Published September 11, 2020

A mother-of-three has had to leave her home in south Belfast after being
assaulted by loyalists when she refused to hand over her child’s
Catholic friends for a punishment shooting.
Published September 11, 2020

A coroner has spoken out over delays by the Crown Forces in providing
information to the inquest of a teenager shot dead by British soldiers
in 1975.
Published September 11, 2020

Four years on from his death, the family of a man who died following his
arrest in Belfast city centre have been calling for the truth.
Published September 11, 2020

Protests are being organised nationwide in support of Dundalk republican
Liam Campbell, who is facing extradition to Lithuania on arms charges
despite never having been to the country.
Published September 11, 2020

The British government has been accused of creating a “rogue state” as
it published a bill to violate the Irish protocol of the Brexit
Withdrawal Agreement, an international treaty.
Published September 9, 2020

Reports that legislation is to be introduced by the British government
to “eliminate the legal force” of parts of the Brexit Withdrawal
Agreement, and specifically in relation to the border through Ireland,
have sent shock waves around Europe.
Published September 7, 2020

The latest proposals for dual Irish and English language street signs in Belfast were voted down this week as the leader of the supposedly cross-community Alliance Party claimed that the sight of the Irish language in public is “contentious”.
Published September 4, 2020

Just days after a senior member of Saoradh was named as an MI5 agent, a republican activist revealed three individuals who identified themselves as members of the “security services” had tried to recruit him.
Published September 4, 2020

A secret behind a British Army log sheet that went ‘missing’ has been uncovered thanks to the detective work of an archive researcher.
Published September 4, 2020

The DUP and other unionists have been endorsing Donald Trump to win the US Presidential election in November.
Published September 4, 2020

Relatives for Justice have appealed for information to help a family who were targeted in a sectarian fire bomb in 1976 in which three lives were lost.
Published September 4, 2020

Efforts are underway to save a building which played a pivotal role in the Easter Rising and the War of Independence in Dublin, the home of the 1916 martyr known as ‘The O’Rahilly’.
Published September 4, 2020

A Palestinian doctor and political activist has been charged under the
“Terrorism Act”, alongside nine Irish republicans as part of a major Crown Forces
operation to imprison leading members of the Saoradh political party.
Published August 28, 2020

Saoradh have said the family of Dennis McFadden have ended their
associations with the recently identified MI5 agent, and they should
face no hostility or recrimination for his actions.
Published August 28, 2020

Petrol bombs were thrown in Lurgan on Sunday night following PSNI
searches and a bomb alert.
Published August 28, 2020

The Hooded Men are to take Britain’s refusal to investigate legacy state
crimes in the conflict to the Supreme Court in London.
Published August 28, 2020

Belfast woman Christine Connor has been sentenced to 20 years in jail
over an alleged plot to encourage online acquaintances to carry out
attacks against the PSNI, despite a judge’s admission that she suffers
from “significant” mental ill-health.
Published August 28, 2020

The erection by loyalists of a banner in Dungannon referring to the GAA
(Gaelic Athletics Association) as the “sporting wing of the IRA” has
been condemned by Sinn Fein.
Published August 28, 2020

A man presenting himself as a lifelong republican activist, Dennis McFadden, has been accused of working with British military intelligence to help imprison leading members of Saoradh.
Published August 24, 2020

Raids have taken place over four days across three jurisdictions in one of the largest actions in recent years by state forces against a legal political party.
Published August 21, 2020

Micheál Martin’s coalition government has been deeply rocked by the fall-out from an anniversary dinner of the Dublin parliament’s Golf Society.
Published August 21, 2020

The daughter of a female IRA Volunteer killed along with her sister almost 50 years ago is set to launch legal action against the Six County Attorney General after a new inquest was refused.
Published August 21, 2020

Loyalist paramilitaries are being effectively shielded by Six County PSNI police while passing on racist threats to their targets, judging from a recent case in south Belfast.
Published August 21, 2020

Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has reluctantly agreed to progress a one-sided compensation scheme for victims of the past conflict after a judge ruled that an ongoing delay was unlawful.
Published August 21, 2020

A new campaign to reinter the remains of Easter Rising leader Roger Casement has been launched in West Belfast.
Published August 21, 2020

A Minister in the Dublin government has resigned this morning for
attending a parliamentary jolly with more than 80 people, including
several other politicians and ‘elite’ figures, which breached Covid-19 regulations.
Published August 21, 2020

Fiona Donohoe, the mother of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe, has begun a
justice campaign and is seeking public assistance for an investigation
into the unexplained death of her son in June of this year.
Published August 14, 2020

The discriminatory nature of the Stormont authorities’ approach to bonfires was
laid bare last weekend as nationalist areas were flooded with riot PSNI
police in order to remove small amounts of materials ahead of relatively
tiny nationalist events, while a giant pyre saw loyalists cheer the
sectarian burning of Irish flags and symbols.
Published August 14, 2020

Plans to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland have received a
mixed reaction from Irish politicians after British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson said that the division of the island was “obviously” a cause for
“celebration”.
Published August 14, 2020

The 26 County Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said he is increasingly
concerned that Irish unity may come about sooner rather than later, and
possibly quite suddenly.
Published August 14, 2020

Republican political prisoner Luke O’Neill was viciously assaulted by
warders at Maghaberry jail last week before being removed to an
isolation unit, according to fellow prisoners.
Published August 14, 2020

The father of one of the teenagers who was with schoolboy Thomas Devlin
on the night he was murdered by loyalists has spoken for the first time
about the events of 15 years ago that changed the lives of three
families forever.
Published August 14, 2020

Vehicles were hijacked and burned and the PSNI were attacked with petrol
and paint bombs in three nights of disturbances in Derry this week following
brutal police raids in the city.
Published August 7, 2020

The IRSP has slammed what it said was an “anti-community” PSNI operation
in the republican Divis area of Belfast to seize a small amount of wood
gathered for a traditional August bonfire.
Published August 7, 2020

Mourners from across the political spectrum attended and paid their
respects at the funeral of John Hume, the former SDLP leader whose death
prompted international tributes on Wednesday.
Published August 7, 2020

A new Gaelic sports club set up in east Belfast with the goal of uniting
communities has already been targeted by loyalists.
Published August 7, 2020

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has called for the campaign for a united
Ireland to be stepped up.
Published August 7, 2020

A republican prisoner has won a High Court battle to secure access to
library books. Sean McVeigh is currently being held within the
segregated regime at Maghaberry Prison.
Published August 7, 2020

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams says John Hume’s decision to meet
him for talks in 1986 “was a breakthrough moment in Irish politics” and
described the Good Friday Agreement as “a landmark moment for both of
us”.
Published August 3, 2020

It has been announced this morning that the former SDLP leader and Noble Peace Prize
winner John Hume passed away late last night. He died after a short
illness at the age of 83 after suffering from dementia for many years.
Published August 3, 2020

The culmination of weeks of outrage over the new Dublin government’s
attempts to seize new powers and perks, while stripping benefits from
newly unemployed citizens, saw this session of parliament culminate in
an angry walk-out by several parties.
Published July 31, 2020

The RUC have “gotten away with the murder of a 9 year old child” after a
decision was taken not to prosecute anyone in relation to the case,
according to his family.
Published July 31, 2020

A legal challenge is being mounted over a new quasi-militarised border
zone being planned by the British government.
Published July 31, 2020

DUP MP Gregory Campbell has been widely condemned after he reprised an
infamous incident in which he mocked the Irish language.
Published July 31, 2020

Asylum seekers at one of Ireland’s most notorious direct provision
centres are to be relocated after ending a hunger strike in protest at
the conditions of their disease-ridden accommodation in County Kerry.
Published July 31, 2020

Saoradh have called the immediate release of former political prisoner
Ciarán ‘Zack’ Smyth and an end to the use of internment against
republicans.
Published July 31, 2020

A veteran Sinn Féin politician has created a storm after he expressed
his personal concern that the public had been cheated by the Good Friday
Agreement.
Published July 24, 2020

The lifespan of the new government in Dublin appears to be shortening as
unrest within the three-party coalition has begun to manifest itself.
Published July 24, 2020

The partition of Ireland is once again endangering lives as divergent
strategies on the coronavirus make it easier for the disease and disease
carriers to bypass restrictions on either side.
Published July 24, 2020

North Belfast MP John Finucane says he will not be intimidated after he was
asked to leave a protest by alleged loyalist paramilitary commander
Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine.
Published July 24, 2020

The family of a Catholic teenager shot dead by an RUC policeman 40 years
ago say they never got “any justice” for his killing.
Published July 24, 2020

Tributes have been paid to veteran republican Tom Mitchell who died in
his native Dublin at the age of 88.
Published July 24, 2020

Loyalist bands defied public appeals to call off marches because of the coronavirus on Monday and insisted on holding hundreds of parades to mark a sectarian battle victory.
Published July 17, 2020

The London government is pushing a unionist agenda by using Brexit to commandeer powers which should be returned from Brussels to administrations in Belfast and Edinburgh, it has been claimed.
Published July 17, 2020

A protest took place against police harassment outside Strand Road PSNI barracks in Derry last Saturday.
Published July 17, 2020

Football federations are being urged to do more to combat anti-Irish racism following allegations of a growing disparity in the handling of abuse in professional soccer.
Published July 17, 2020

A British nuclear submarine almost collided with a ferry sailing out of Belfast after naval commanders under-estimated the speed of the Stena ferry.
Published July 17, 2020
Apple Inc. has been told it will not have to pay €13bn ($15bn) in back taxes to the 26 County state after winning an appeal at the European Union’s second-highest court.
Published July 17, 2020

The incoming Dublin government may have already struck an iceberg after Taoiseach Micheál Martin suddenly fired his Agriculture Minister Barry Cowen in connection with motoring offences dating from four years ago.
Published July 15, 2020

An illegal loyalist bonfire burned through a sectarian interface into
the nationalist New Lodge last night, terrifying residents and provoking
further clashes between nationalist youths and the PSNI police.
Published July 12, 2020

A range of politicians and mainstream media have jumped on a loyalist bandwagon to stigmatise mourners at the funeral of legendary figure Bobby Storey, and mount a political attack on Sinn Fein.
Published July 11, 2020

Tensions are escalating in north Belfast as loyalists prepare for the biggest sectarian displays of the marching season.
Published July 11, 2020

Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey have said the PSNI should apologise after the Court of Appeal spelled out why it had quashed a search warrant used to mount shocking heavy-handed raids against them in 2018.
Published July 11, 2020

The head of the new coalition government in Dublin, Fianna Fáil leader Michel Martin, has moved his party further away from its republican roots after casting doubt on a referendum on Irish unification as contained in the Good Friday Agreement.
Published July 11, 2020

Fermanagh has become the first county in Ireland to pass a motion in support of Dundalk republican Liam Campbell as a campaign grows to halt his extradition to Lithuania, a country he has never even stepped foot in.
Published July 11, 2020

The brother of a schoolgirl shot and killed in 1976 is calling for an independent investigation ahead of the anniversary of her death.
Published July 11, 2020

Thousands of people watched the funeral procession take place in west Belfast on Tuesday, of the late Bobby Storey, Sinn Féin’s chairperson in the Six Counties and a renowned Provisional IRA figure who died last Sunday week.
Published July 3, 2020

There is anger in republican circles at a cynical attempt by unionists and others to turn the funeral of IRA veteran Bobby Storey into a stick with which to beat Sinn Féin.
Published July 3, 2020

The Parades Commission has received more than 140 applications for sectarian marches to mark ‘the Twelfth’, the anniversary of a Protestant battle victory over Catholics, despite the Orange Order advising its members not to do so due to the coronavirus.
Published July 3, 2020

The composition of the new 26-County cabinet is being criticised for contining the ongoing marginalisation of both the north and the west of Ireland.
Published July 3, 2020

A protest is to take place in Dublin on Saturday against the impending extradition of republican Liam Campbell, set to be sent to Lithuania for a trial on arms charges despite never having set foot in the country.
Published July 3, 2020

A County Tyrone man has won the legal right to challenge oppressive new powers directed at former republican prisoners.
Published July 3, 2020

President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has officially confirmed Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin as the new 26 County Taoiseach at Áras an Uachtarán this afternoon after he was elected Taoiseach by 93 votes to 63, with three abstentions.
Published June 27, 2020

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party have voted overwhelmingly to enter into a three-party coalition in Dublin which they say will “stand up” for Ireland at this time of crisis, but which republicans and socialists believe will only preserve the hegemony of a privileged minority.
Published June 26, 2020

For the first time since Sinn Féin entered the Dublin parliament, the party has abstained in a vote on the renewal of the infamous Offences Against the State Act. The legislation, which dates from 1939, facilitates the imprisonment of any individual which the 26 County government believes could pose a threat to ‘state security’ for any reason.
Published June 26, 2020

Children are being singled out for abuse and intimidation by loyalists in north Belfast if they are perceived to be nationalist or Catholic.
Published June 26, 2020

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has released a personal tribute to the former political prisoner and former party chairman Bobby Storey following his death at the age of 64.
Published June 26, 2020

The National Graves Association (NGA) has praised an outpouring of concern by the public following an attack on a monument in Dublin in honour of former IRA Chief of Staff Sean Russell.
Published June 26, 2020

Signs honouring deceased republicans including Maire Drumm, Bobby Sands and 1916 Rising leader James Connolly were erected around Belfast this week as part of what organisers Lasair Dhearg say is a campaign to highlight British State colonialism, and historic figures associated with it, in Ireland.
Published June 26, 2020

Republicans everywhere have expressed their shock and sadness at the death of legendary Belfast republican, Bobby Storey, at the age of 64.
Published June 21, 2020

Nationalists and republicans have been left disappointed by the
Programme for Government presented by the leaders of three potential
coalition partners in Dublin.
Published June 19, 2020

There are calls for the Dublin government to provide “push back” against
the increasingly perfidious actions of London over the Brexit Withdrawal
Agreement and its protocol for the north of Ireland.
Published June 19, 2020

A sectarian banner was erected in a Belfast public park to denounce the
GAA as “anti-British” and proclaimed the Gaelic Athletics Association is
“not welcome”. The sign was later removed by council workers.
Published June 19, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said said it would not be right
to remove the statue of Oliver Cromwell despite the fact he “killed so
many thousands of people in Ireland”.
Published June 19, 2020

A Belfast republican has said the US government has “thrown a wrench”
into the Good Friday Agreement after he was deported after more than
twenty years.
Published June 19, 2020

One of the organisers of the original Bloody Sunday march has said the
report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry did not get to the full truth of the
massacre.
Published June 19, 2020

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has urged voters to “not give in”
following a decision by the parliamentary parties of Fine Gael, Fianna
Fáil and the Green Party to support the formation of a coalition
government in Dublin which would see FF leader Micheál Martin become the
next Taoiseach.
Published June 16, 2020
After four months of negotiation, a proposed Programme for Government between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party could give the 26 County state the largest right-wing government it has seen for decades.
Published June 15, 2020

There has been a surge of pressure for an end to Britain’s trade in plastic and rubber bullets following disturbing scenes of serious injuries to Black Lives Matter protestors in the US.
Published June 12, 2020

The chairperson of Saoradh in Derry has called on those protesting against racism and oppression around the world to address the issues of discrimination and repression in Ireland.
Published June 12, 2020

An attempt by the Boundary Commission in the north of Ireland to drastically reshape constituencies has been declared unlawful by the Court of Appeal in Belfast.
Published June 12, 2020

The family of a young west Belfast woman shot dead almost 50 years ago have appealed for members of the public who may have information to contact them, including former IRA Volunteers or former members of the British Crown Forces.
Published June 12, 2020

The daughter of a loyalist murder victim has called for a Belfast soccer club to withdraw a new kit which has the same colours and a similar design to the flag used by the paramilitary group which killed her father
Published June 12, 2020

Irish republican prisoners at Portaoise have this Friday, June 12, begun a 72 hour fast in support of Basque prisoners and political prisoners around the world. They have issued the following statement.
Published June 12, 2020

A former Irish political prisoner who fought deportation for over two
decades after fleeing loyalist death threats with his family is believed
to have been put on a plane back to Ireland by US authorities.
Published June 10, 2020

The British government once again stands accused of reneging on its commitments after it insisted on a legal definition of a victim which would exclude thousands of nationalists and republicans.
Published June 5, 2020

More than 5,000 people gathered on the streets of Dublin on Monday afternoon as demonstrations too place around the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign.
Published June 5, 2020

A woman who wasn’t even born when her big brother was killed by a plastic bullet in Derry says she wants to know why a secret file into his death has to remain closed until she is nearly 80 years old.
Published June 5, 2020

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has called upon Irish-American supporters to begin lobbying for a referendum on the unification of Ireland.
Published June 5, 2020

Tributes have been paid to former British soldier John Turnley who campaigned for Irish republican prisoners before being shot dead by a loyalist paramilitary death squad linked to the British Army’s SAS regiment.
Published June 5, 2020

The Church of England has been accused of anti-Irish racism after it refused to allow an Irish language inscription on a gravestone on the basis that Gaelic ‘can cause intense feelings’.
Published June 5, 2020

On the day it emerged that the most senior British military figure linked to the killing has died, an Irish court has served to maintain an official cover-up of the murder of Louth man Seamus Ludlow.
Published May 29, 2020

A violent Crown Force operation to arrest four Derry men ended with all four being released without a single shred of evidence being put forward, according to the men’s lawyers.
Published May 29, 2020

As part of a newspaper interview, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the IRA’s armed struggle was “justified” and there is “every chance” she would have taken up arms during the conflict.
Published May 29, 2020

The Six Counties currently have the highest rate of transmission of the coronavirus in either Britain or Ireland but is facing a new danger this week as lockdowns weaken on both sides of the border.
Published May 29, 2020

Republicans have been removing dozens of PSNI symbols across north and west Belfast as part of a campaign against Britain’s ‘normalisation’ of the PSNI and other state forces.
Published May 29, 2020

Prominent peace campaigner Eugene Reavey is to take on defamatory statements made about him on the internet by suing Google and Facebook.
Published May 29, 2020

The Continuity IRA, which says it has been recruiting and regrouping in the Fermanagh area, has released pictures of one of its armed patrols along a border road. It has claimed the organisation “can operate at any time day or night in south Fermanagh”.
Published May 22, 2020

A row has erupted after DUP MP Gavin Robinson said people born in the north of Ireland have to be British first before they can be Irish.
Published May 22, 2020

Republican Sinn Féin have said a heavy-handed police raid on one of its member’s homes in west Belfast involved a specialist unit from the 26 Counties.
Published May 22, 2020

Irish republican groups have been expressing their support for Basque political prisoner Patxi Ruiz, who has been hospitalised with kidney failure after a hunger and thirst strike which began on May 11.
Published May 22, 2020

A Catholic church in County Antrim has been targeted in a loyalist paint bomb attack.
Published May 22, 2020

The chief of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma has welcomed Irish donations to help two tribes suffering in the Covid-19 pandemic as a sign of the solidarity between the two nations which dates back more than 170 years.
Published May 22, 2020

Every person born in the north of Ireland is currently regarded as a European Union citizen for immigration purposes after the British government backed down in the face of a marathon campaign by a Derry woman and her US-born partner.
Published May 15, 2020

Hundreds of those interned without trial in the 1970 could see convictions quashed or receive compensation as a result of a ruling of the Supreme Court in London in favour of Gerry Adams.
Published May 15, 2020

There have been conflicting signals over how Britain intends to implement the special status for the north of Ireland in the wake of Brexit.
Published May 15, 2020

A Catholic teenager who was attacked by loyalists in north Belfast on Sunday evening has recounted a savage sectarian assault as he was out for a cycle.
Published May 15, 2020

The PSNI have said loyalist paramilitaries are behind threats against a number of journalists and politicians, and told one journalist he could be the target of an under-car booby trap attack.
Published May 15, 2020

Four sectarian parades are being planned by loyalists despite the continuing coronavirus lockdown in the north of Ireland.
Published May 15, 2020

Convictions against Gerry Adams dating from the 1970s have been overturned by the Supreme Court in London in a judgement which could have consequences for many others who were interned without trial.
Published May 13, 2020

The conviction of one of those who escaped Long Kesh in 1983 and who settled in the USA, Kevin Barry Artt, has been quashed two decades after the British government ended its efforts to extradite him.
Published May 8, 2020

Political anxiety overcame caretaker Taoiseach, Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar in the Dublin parliament this week when he suddenly lashed out at Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald, who he accused of being “two-faced”.
Published May 8, 2020

A medical expert has said that with infection rates in decline, the island of Ireland now has an opportunity to eliminate the coronavirus.
Published May 8, 2020

A funeral for lifelong republican Jim Scullion, who led IRA prisoners in Long Kesh at the height of the conflict, has provoked criticism from unionists.
Published May 8, 2020

A whistleblower in a Dublin nursing home where a significant number of patients have died from a coronavirus infection has made serious allegations of failings leading to the deaths of 24 clients.
Published May 8, 2020

A new US Special Envoy to the north of Ireland, Mick Mulvaney, has been sworn into office. Mr Mulvaney is an Irish-American with family roots in County Mayo.
Published May 8, 2020

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has spoken out about the danger of having two jurisdictions in Ireland in the current health crisis, saying it is wrong to have an all-island approach to animal care, but not human healthcare.
Published May 1, 2020

Prominent republican Colin Duffy, currently on bail awaiting trial, has overcome a cynical attempt by the PSNI to return him to jail over an alleged breach of his bail conditions.
Published May 1, 2020

The British government has been accused of “foot dragging and vague promises” amid calls for urgent action on preparations on Brexit, including new customs posts to carry out checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea.
Published May 1, 2020

The 32 County Sovereignty Committee has said appointments of two senior figures from Britain’s PSNI police to An Garda Síochána represent a strengthening of direct control of the police in Ireland by British intelligence.
Published May 1, 2020

A Westminster committee has launched an inquiry to consider British government proposals on legacy, but it does not have the confidence of victims and relatives of people killed as a result of British state violence and collusion.
Published May 1, 2020

The coronavirus was used as an excuse to break up protests by retail workers this week as they sought their legal redundancy rights, despite the protestors adhering to social distancing requirements.
Published May 1, 2020

Three Irish republicans once accused of training rebels in Colombia’s civil war
have been granted an amnesty nearly two decades after they were
arrested.
Published April 24, 2020

There have been calls for a criminal investigation into the failure to
protect residents of Irish nursing and care homes from the coronavirus
disease after a prominent County Dublin doctor resigned from the Irish
Medical Council over the government’s mishandling of the
crisis.
Published April 24, 2020

A growing disparity between the coronavirus death rates in the north and
south of Ireland is proof that two different approaches to the crisis
are causing lives to be lost, according to academics.
Published April 24, 2020

A republican healthcare worker from County Tyrone has died from
coronovirus following a 40-year career saving lives as a nurse.
Published April 24, 2020

Prominent Belfast lawyer and campaigner Niall Murphy has paid tribute to
the medical staff who helped save his life after he became infected with
the Coronavirus.
Published April 24, 2020

The best-known flag of the Easter Rising is not the Tricolour that flew
over the GPO in 1916 but the Irish Republic one currently on display by
the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin, in an exhibition that can be viewed online.
Published April 24, 2020

In an Easter statement, the New IRA has said it remains committed to
bringing the British government’s undemocratic rule in occupied Ireland
to an end. It dismissed the idea of a border poll in the aftermath of Brexit, and
warned the British establishment listens only to “physical force”.
Published April 17, 2020

There are fears the Coronavirus could be used as a cover for the renewed
deployment of British soldiers on the ground in the north of Ireland.
Published April 17, 2020

It has emerged that two in three of coronavirus deaths in Ireland have
taken place in residential homes at a rate significantly higher than
anywhere else in the world.
Published April 17, 2020

A historic but deeply unpopular coalition government between Fianna Fáil
and Fine Gael appears to be on the cards after the Green Party failed to
reject a bizzare manifesto issued in a desperate plea for support to
prop up the improbable alliance.
Published April 17, 2020

A unionist paramilitary double agent who admitted the murders of five people and a
catalog of other atrocities has had his prison sentence nominally
increased by three-and-a-half years.
Published April 17, 2020

Republican Prisoners at Maghaberry prison have said that prison warders
have been caught deliberately spitting on doors during night checks.
Saoradh has demanded an end to what it said was a “barbaric activity”
which has threatened a coronavirus outbreak.
Published April 17, 2020

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has tested positive for coronavirus, she has confirmed in a statement today.
Published April 14, 2020

Police in the 26 Counties have been given unprecedented powers as state
efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being displaced by an
authoritarian crackdown set to last well into the summer.
Published April 10, 2020

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has marked the anniversary of the
Good Friday Agreement with a rebuke of continuing efforts by right-wing
politicians in Dublin to exclude his party from office.
Published April 10, 2020

A British Army unit responsible for the murders of five unarmed Catholic
civilians, including a 13-year-old schoolgirl, handed a loyalist gunman
over to the UDA, according to a report published last weekend in the
Sunday World.
Published April 10, 2020

The Catholic church has backed calls for the PSNI to stop policing
funerals after a colour party at a republican funeral was targeted for
the novel crime of marching too close together.
Published April 10, 2020

The former Canadian Supreme court judge who led an investigation into
allegations of British state collusion with unionist paramilitary death
squads has died. He passed away in Canada on Tuesday aged 94.
Published April 10, 2020

After years of criticism for excluding the Six Counties, the Irish
weather forecasting service is to include all of Ireland on its weather
warning maps.
Published April 10, 2020

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions across Ireland, many republican and community organisations have abandoned plans for commemorations to mark the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 9, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently being treated in an intensive care unit with the coronavirus after being rushed to a London hospital last night.
Published April 6, 2020

The North’s political leaders must depart from the British government’s coronavirus strategy and urgently harmonise with the South, a leading medical professor has said.
Published April 3, 2020

The Dublin government is being urged to come clean about the situation in the South’s nursing homes after it was revealed that four deaths have taken place in just one out of the dozens of care homes contaminated by the coronavirus.
Published April 3, 2020

A member of Saoradh, a former prisoner, has been summarily returned to jail, apparently for the offense of meeting other Saoradh members.
Published April 3, 2020

The PSNI police has been told “defending the indefensible is no longer acceptable” after a report was published into its failure to disclose important information in relation to a case of alleged collusion between its predecessor, the RUC, and unionist paramilitaries.
Published April 3, 2020

Former Sinn Féin MP, Elisha McCallion, has been elected to Seanad Éireann to serve on the senate’s Industrial and Commercial panel, while the party’s former MEP Lynn Boylan has returned to political life by taking a seat on the Agricultural panel.
Published April 3, 2020

A huge effort will see more than 1,000 food parcels distributed across west Belfast in the coming days.
Published April 3, 2020

Government politicians who paid tribute to healthcare workers this week have been accused of hypocrisy over their failure to supply enough equipment to protect the workers or to take care of the ill.
Published March 27, 2020

The Stormont administration faces a mounting crisis over what has been described as an “abject” determination by unionists to follow the Tory government’s disastrous lead on the coronavirus epidemic.
Published March 27, 2020

The death has taken place of Toni Carragher, a well-known campaigner against British army militarisation along the border, and the former secretary of the South Armagh Farmers and Residents’ Committee.
Published March 27, 2020

Draconian new powers introduced at Westminster in the name of protecting the public are already being abused in the north of Ireland, according to republicans in Derry.
Published March 27, 2020

Prosecutors have refused to ask the PSNI police to reopen an investigation linked to the murder of three Catholics killed by unionist paramilitaries almost 30 years ago, despite never having received a file on the cases against four suspects, including a man identified as the killer.
Published March 27, 2020

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD has said that her party’s planned Easter commemorations have been cancelled in their entirety due to the deterioration of the coronavirus situation.
Published March 27, 2020

In televised addresses, both the premiers in Dublin and London have announced stronger measures in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Published March 24, 2020

Amid warnings that health care systems in Britain and the north of Ireland were facing a potentially catastrophic meltdown, both Tories and unionists in Ireland have ended their hands-off approach to the coronavirus health crisis.
Published March 20, 2020

Republican prisoners in both Portlaoise and Maghaberry prisons have voluntarily stopped visits with family as a result of the Coronavirus.
Published March 20, 2020

After delivering an inspirational but ultimately vacuous speech on the implications of the Coronavirus crisis, the caretaker 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to take more practical action to protect lives and livelihoods across Ireland.
Published March 20, 2020

A national government of unity could bring help to those in need during the current health crisis, Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Published March 20, 2020

Plans for an independence referendum in Scotland this year have been “paused” by the Scottish Government as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Published March 20, 2020

Prison warders at Maghaberry have prevented a family visit with Paul McIntyre for a second time after he was refused bail and incarcerated at Maghaberry earlier this month.
Published March 20, 2020

The British government has been accused of using the cover of the
Coronavirus health crisis to renege on its commitments under the 2014
Stormont House Agreement and introduce an effective amnesty for most state
war crimes.
Published March 18, 2020
Today is a day to celebrate being Irish. But it doesn’t feel
like that when so many of us are concerned for the well-being of our
families and ourselves.
Published March 17, 2020

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said on Monday evening that the rise in cases of
coronavirus in Ireland “cannot be stopped”. The administrations in both
parts of Ireland are looking to secure intensive care equipment ahead of
an expected surge in the numbers of critically ill.
Published March 17, 2020

Efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus have become dangerously split across the island of Ireland after a division emerged between governments in Dublin and London on how quickly the virus should be allowed to spread.
Published March 13, 2020

An official report into Stormont’s infamous RHI ‘cash for ash’ scheme has been described as a whitewash on social media after it blamed only “errors and omissions” for the runaway exploitation that collapsed the Stormont Executive in early 2017.
Published March 13, 2020

Several hundred people took to the streets of Dublin last weekend to object to a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition plan to remain in power. Many expressed concern that Ireland’s two right-wing parties are attempting to form the next government under the cloak of the coronavirus.
Published March 13, 2020

Two members of Saoradh have said they were harassed by the British military intelligence to turn informer when returning from a conference in Britain, while Republican Sinn Féin said they are bringing a similar case to the Police Ombudsman.
Published March 13, 2020

The family of a former republican prisoner shot dead while under British Army surveillance 30 years ago believe the British Army’s Force Research Unit may have been involved.
Published March 13, 2020

The British government should drop its territorial claim over Lough Foyle before it causes any further economic and ecological damage, Sinn Féin’s Martina Anderson has said.
Published March 13, 2020

All St Patrick’s Day parades in Ireland have been cancelled in a bid to
curb the spread of the Coronavirus. After weeks of delay, the news was
leaked ahead a meeting of the acting Cabinet in Dublin on Monday. Multi-party
meetings to deal with the crisis have also been announced.
Published March 9, 2020

Concern within the British Crown Forces over MI5’s involvement in a
killing campaign has emerged in a report released to families of the
victims of the Cappagh killings. It is the first time a state report
has confirmed collusion, according to a lawyer for the families.
Published March 6, 2020

A new poll putting Sinn Féin support at an unprecedented 35% in the 26
Counties has added to public pressure for Mary Lou McDonald’s party to
be involved in the next coalition government in Dublin despite the
refusal of the leaders of Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael to countenance the
idea.
Published March 6, 2020

A Catholic mother-of-four has been driven out of her home in north
Belfast following a campaign of terror which culminated in her
windows getting smashed in.
Published March 6, 2020

The final oral evidence has been heard in a fresh inquest into the fatal
shootings of 10 people in west Belfast almost 50 years ago.
Published March 6, 2020

The PSNI chief has said he is in the dark about plans for a new police
unit to deal with investigations into unresolved cases from the past
conflict, despite a looming deadline for its formation.
Published March 6, 2020

A protest at an official visit to Ireland by British royals William and
Kate Windsor (‘Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’) was organised by
republicans this week despite harassment from uniformed Garda and
Special Branch police.
Published March 6, 2020

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has revealed her children attend a school
in Dublin where the second case of the coronavirus in Ireland was
confirmed yesterday.
Published March 2, 2020

Efforts by the establishment in Dublin to demonise Sinn Féin have
reached unprecedented levels in the aftermath of their performance in
the 26 County general election, with politicians going so far as to
compare a series of Sinn Féin public meetings to the Nuremburg rallies
of Nazi Germany.
Published February 28, 2020

The shambolic attitude of the Dublin
government to the Coronavirus epidemic has been exposed after the first case of the disease
presented itself in Ireland.
Published February 28, 2020

A Derry republican is set to sue the PSNI for compensation after the
Court of Appeal agreed that his human rights had been breached by four
years of harassment directed against him.
Published February 28, 2020

A County Tyrone man has been jailed over a Provisional IRA action more
than two decades ago. Paul Campbell from Coalisland was sentenced on
Tuesday to seven and a half years in connection with an attack in the
town in 1997.
Published February 28, 2020

The daughter of a man killed by the Glenanne Gang has criticised the
leader of the Catholic church in Ireland after he encouraged young
people to consider a career in the PSNI police.
Published February 28, 2020

A powerful loyalist ordered a hit on a republican prisoner currently
serving a sentence in Maghaberry Prison, it has been revealed.
Published February 28, 2020

Efforts by the right in Ireland to counter and undermine Sinn Féin’s
advance in the recent 26 County general election have reached
extraordinary levels of desperation following an intervention by the
Garda police Commissioner, Drew Harris.
Published February 21, 2020

Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald received the most votes in the Dublin
parliament to become Taoiseach on Thursday, the first time a TD not
supported by either of the two main parties has done so in the history
of the 26 County state.
Published February 21, 2020

Attempts are being made to engineer further division among republicans
after bogus claims emerged that the New IRA is planning to attack
members of Sinn Féin.
Published February 21, 2020

The police in the 26 Counties considered including the murderous Royal
Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in the force’s museum as part of a
commemoration for the centenary of Ireland’s War of Independence.
Published February 21, 2020

A magazine described as one of the English language’s most influential
publications has dedicated its latest issue to the debate around Irish
unity.
Published February 21, 2020

A new report has found Catholics in the north of Ireland are still experiencing
sectarianism.
Published February 21, 2020

Garda police Commissioner Drew Harris has accused Sinn Fein of being
directed by an IRA ‘Army Council’ which he claims continues to exist,
despite the organisation having disbanded its structures 15 years ago.
Published February 21, 2020

A sense of crisis has gripped the Irish ruling classes after Sinn Féin nearly tripled its vote in last weekend’s election to Leinster House and took the first steps in the formation of a new government in Dublin.
Published February 14, 2020

Republicans have been celebrating a history-making election which saw forty TDs from the tradition sign into Leinster House this week, erasing the concept of the two-party state in the process.
Published February 14, 2020

Loyalists have been blamed for bomb hoaxes at a primary school and at a Sinn Féin constituency office in north Belfast.
Published February 14, 2020

Three members of the PSNI accused of lying to a court in a harassment case have been suspended and are expected to face charges.
Published February 14, 2020

Saoradh has hit out at the detention of an activist they describe as a political hostage following a number of military-style PSNI raids in Derry.
Published February 14, 2020

A banner erected on the external fence of the offices of a local newspaper in West Belfast is the latest indication of a deepening rift in republican areas over the status of the PSNI police.
Published February 14, 2020

British Direct Ruler Julian Smith has been sacked by Boris Johnson, just over six months since he took up the post. He has been replaced with Brandon Lewis, a former chair of the Conservative Party and most recently, a Security Minister in Johnson’s cabinet.
Published February 13, 2020

With the make-up of the Dáilcomplete, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou
McDonald has said she could well be the next Taoiseach after winning the
popular vote and after electing as many TDs as any other party.
Published February 10, 2020

While seats continue to fill in the 26 County general election, the
swing to Sinn Fein has already spawned a struggle to understand the
changed political circumstances in Ireland.
Published February 10, 2020

Sinn Féin has heaped on more election success tonight, electing two TDs on the first count in both Donegal and Louth, and also looking highly likely to win two seats in Cavan-Monaghan, and continuing to top polls across the state.
Published February 9, 2020

There have been scenes of jubilation in count centres across Ireland as
a number of poll-topping Sinn Fein candiates have been decalred elected
on the first count.
Published February 9, 2020

In a complete upending of the political establishment in the 26 Counties, Sinn Féin is being confirmed as the most popular party following the completion of tallies in yesterday’s general election.
Published February 9, 2020

First results from tallies in the 26 County election point to a historic
day for Sinn Féin and Irish politics generally. Sinn Féin look set to
top every poll in Dublin and could see the vast majority of their
candidates win election across the state.
Published February 9, 2020

The three main parties in the 26 Counties have polled the same vote
share of just over 22 per cent in today’s general election, according to
an exit poll released as polling closed this evening.
Published February 8, 2020

A brisk turnout has been reported in many areas in the election to the
Dublin parliament since voting began at 7am this morning.
Published February 8, 2020

With Sinn Fein topping opinion polls in the 26 Counties for the first
time, an ambush of party leader Mary Lou McDonald by state broadcaster
RTE over a comment by a party colleague 13 years ago has jeopardised
what is still widely expected to be a good election for the party.
Published February 7, 2020

The attendance of Sinn Féin politicians at a PSNI police recruitment
drive in the Six Counties has angered republican groups.
Published February 7, 2020

Miami Showband survivor Stephen Travers has told the annual Bloody
Sunday march that the victims and their families have always inspired
him to keep up his fight for justice.
Published February 7, 2020

Republican legend Francie Brolly has been honoured as a man of integrity
following his sudden death. The 82-year-old died at his family home near
Dungiven, County Derry in the early hours of Thursday. It is believed he
may have suffered a heart attack.
Published February 7, 2020

Sinn Féin Stormont minister Conor Murphy has apologised to the family of
murder victim Paul Quinn for comments he made 13 years ago after the
young man’s death.
Published February 7, 2020

A statement reportedly made in the name of the Continuity IRA claimed
responsibility for a device found on a lorry trailer in County Armagh
last week. The statement said the device had been timed to coincide with
Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Published February 7, 2020

State-run broadcaster RTÉ has been forced to include Sinn Féin leader
Mary Lou McDonald in a final televised leaders’ election debate as its
historic surge in polls continues.
Published February 3, 2020

Britain is set to formally quit the European Union late Friday, closing the chapter on nearly half a century of integration with its European neighbours and leaving the north of Ireland in a limbo between two powerful economies
Published January 31, 2020

Speaking at a protest against Brexit on the Irish border on the day Britain leaves the EU, taking the northeast of Ireland with it, the Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said preparations for constitutional change on the island “needed to start”.
Published January 31, 2020

Two former British soldiers who fired on Official IRA man Joe McCann have failed to stop their trial for the murder of the Belfast father of four from going ahead.
Published January 31, 2020

A row over the nature of Sinn Féin’s top management has dominated the second week of the 26 County general election campaign.
Published January 31, 2020

A gun attack on a well-known Belfast republican has raised fears of the
return of a grudge-type dispute in east Belfast which in 2015 claimed
the lives of two former members of the Provisional IRA, Jock Davison and
Kevin McGuigan.
Published January 31, 2020

The widow of murdered defence lawyer Pat Finucane has won permission at
Belfast’s High Court to challenge the continuing failure of the British
government to carry out an effective investigation.
Published January 31, 2020

Shocking new documents have disclosed that British Army intelligence officer Robert Nairac was responsible for the planning and execution of the Miami Showband Massacre, in which three innocent band-members were killed.
Published January 24, 2020

Sinn Féin could be on the cusp of a breakthrough in the 26 Counties as polls show a sharp jump in support for the party and a corresponding decline in support for the main party of government, Fine Gael.
Published January 24, 2020

Sinn Féin has called for a referendum on Irish unity within five years in tandem with a ‘Green New Deal’ for climate change as part of its election launch at Dublin’s Mansion House.
Published January 24, 2020

Ahead of the anniversary of the British Army’s massacre of 14 civil rights demonstrators in Derry, families say they will fight “tooth and nail” to prevent the only Bloody Sunday murder case from being moved out of the city.
Published January 24, 2020

Despite the deferral of a commemoration for members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), plans remain in place for the names of members of the British Crown Forces who died in Ireland up to 1921, including the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, to be etched on a commemorative wall in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
Published January 24, 2020

Irish speakers face “a battle a day” to get services in the language despite featuring in a new multi-party agreement to restore the Six County political institutions, according to language activists.
Published January 24, 2020

The 26 County election campaign has had the most shocking start
imaginable after body parts of a murdered 17-year-old boy were found in
a bag in north Dublin.
Published January 17, 2020

Disingenuous and almost sarcastic comments by British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson on his first visit to the Belfast Assembly have underlined
a sense that politicians at Stormont have been left to fend for
themselves despite a new effort to ‘make Northern Ireland work’.
Published January 17, 2020

Sinn Féin has described the decision by the state-run broadcaster RTE to
hold a one-to-one election debate between the leaders of Fine Gael and
Fianna Fail as an “utter joke”.
Published January 17, 2020

A man shot in an SAS ambush as the Provisional IRA engaged Crown Forces
in Coalisland 23 years ago has been convicted of involvement in the
attack, and jailed ahead of sentencing -- despite the incident taking place
before the Good Friday peace Agreement.
Published January 17, 2020

The family of the first child to be killed by a British Army armoured
vehicle have been recalling the tragedy, fifty years after it took
place.
Published January 17, 2020

Former British prime minister John Major stepped in to stop plans for a
service commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger in 1996,
according to state papers dating from that time.
Published January 17, 2020

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to seek a dissolution of the Dublin parliament
from President Michael D Higgins to allow for a 26 County general
election on Saturday February 8.
Published January 14, 2020

The DUP’s Arlene Foster has returned as Stormont First Minister and Sinn
Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has taken up the post of deputy First Minister
as the main political parties moved quickly today to restore the Six
County institutions and take up Ministerial appointments.
Published January 11, 2020

Three years after they collapsed, Sinn Féin has made a decision to
return to the partitionist institutions at Stormont, with party leader
Mary Lou McDonald stating that it is the “responsibility of every
party to ensure the Executive meets”.
Published January 10, 2020

One of the most extraordinary displays of contempt by an Irish
government for its own people -- a plan to hold an official state
commemoration for those who oppressed and terrorised Ireland for a
century -- has been “deferred” following a huge public outcry.
Published January 10, 2020

The unionist paramilitary UDA has been linked to the murder of
Carrickfergus man Glenn Quinn, a former barman who had no paramilitary
connections. His death was due to a severe beating he received after he
fell out with a senior figure from the South East Antrim UDA.
Published January 10, 2020

A former British soldier is to stand trial for the 1988 killing of a
Catholic man at a Crown Force checkpoint. Aidan McAnespie, 23, was
walking through a border checkpoint on his way to a Gaelic football
match when he was struck in the back by gunfire.
Published January 10, 2020

Amid an unprecedented crisis in Irish hospitals and with the Dublin
government staggering towards an inevitable election, a group of
independent TDs have put down a motion of no confidence in the Minister
for Health Simon Harris.
Published January 10, 2020

The New IRA has issued a New Year statement in which it said it looked
forward to a consolidation of the struggle against the British
occupation and “vowed to meet force with force”.
Published January 10, 2020
A new draft Stormont talks agreement has been presented tonight by the

Dublin and London governments which outlines new measures to reform the
Stormont institutions and calls for support for Irish and Ulster-Scots
culture in the north of Ireland, but falls short of an Irish Language
Act.
Published January 9, 2020

More than 1,000 files on the Guildford Four, Maguire Seven and
Birmingham Six, notorious miscarriage of justice cases involving
innocent Irish civilians living in England, are to remain secret almost
a century longer than they were supposed.
Published January 3, 2020

Revelations around a British government minister’s claim that some
lawyers in the north of Ireland were “unduly sympathetic to the IRA”
have further highlighted the need for a full public inquiry into the
murder of Pat Finucane.
Published January 3, 2020

PSNI Chief Simon Byrne is to meet a group of Armagh political
representatives amid continuing anger over a picture he published on
Christmas morning of himself posing alongside heavily armed PSNI men
outside their Crown Force base in the village of Crossmaglen.
Published January 3, 2020

With a growing consensus around the need for a border poll to reunite
Ireland in accordance with the Good Friday Agreement, right-wing
politicians in the 26 Counties have been using the Christmas period to
attempt to silence the calls and urge a return of the partitionist
institutions at Stormont instead.
Published January 3, 2020

State papers from the 1990s have shown that the British government’s
Northern Ireland Office sought to suppress and counteract the
increasingly effective use of the media by republicans, including the
world wide web emerging at the time.
Published January 3, 2020

A Championship soccer match in England had to be stopped this week
following an outbreak of anti-Irish racism directed against Irish
international and Stoke City player James McClean.
Published January 3, 2020

PSNI Chief Simon Byrne has been strongly criticised after releasing a
propaganda photograph of himself in the company of heavily-armed Crown
Force gunmen on Christmas Day.
Published December 26, 2019

The DUP have come under pressure to relinquish their veto over political
change at Stormont following round-table talks over the future of the
Belfast Assembly this week. Both the London and Dublin governments
accused the party of blocking a pre-Christmas deal on restoring the
North’s suspended political institutions.
Published December 21, 2019

A tribunal in England has confirmed that British military intelligence
has the legal power to direct unlimited criminal offences by its agents,
including torture, bombings and political assassinations.
Published December 21, 2019

Increasing numbers of mainstream political and media figures have said
they believe a united Ireland could come about within the next decade as
a result of Brexit and other recent political developments.
Published December 21, 2019

The new Conservative government in London has set out its intention to
block future investigations into British soldiers who murdered civilians
in the north of Ireland -- even as a jailed republican was found liable
for a 1982 IRA attack.
Published December 21, 2019

Two new Irish nationalist MPs have made protest statements while
swearing allegiance to the British Crown in the House of Commons, a
process required before they are allowed to speak in debates, vote or
receive their salary at the Westminster parliament.
Published December 21, 2019

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has officially begun the
process of holding an independence referendum, calling on the London
government to transfer the power to do so.
Published December 21, 2019

The north of Ireland has voted for more nationalists than unionists in a
Westminster parliamentary election for the first time after two hardline
unionists were voted out.
Published December 14, 2019

Brexit is unionism’s “biggest ever own goal” and it may lead to the
break-up of the United Kingdom, former Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike
Nesbitt has admitted.
Published December 14, 2019

The Scottish National Party pulled off a resounding general election
victory in the Westminster election on Thursday, pushing open the door
to finally ending their union with England and staying within the EU.
Published December 14, 2019

As the DUP lost its influential position of holding the balance of power
at Westminster, the leader of British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has
signaled his intention to stand down as Labour leader in early 2020.
Published December 14, 2019

Sinn Féin has presented a dossier on the homelessness scandal to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy. Party leader Mary Lou McDonald said Leo Varadkar was
living in a ‘Tory Boy’ bubble over the housing crisis.
Published December 14, 2019

A Saoradh member has described a heavy-handed home invasion by
British Crown Forces during which himself and his brother were detained
and hauled off to Musgrave Interrogation Unit.
Published December 14, 2019

Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew has retained her Fermanagh and South
Tyrone seat by a narrow margin of 57 votes following a recount.
Published December 13, 2019

John Finucane has taken the north Belfast Westminster seat from the
DUP’s Nigel Dodds in a stunning victory for Sinn Féin and a historic
election for nationalism in the north of Ireland.
Published December 13, 2019

Polling stations have now closed in the Westminster general election and
a major exit poll in Britain has predicted a large working majority for the
Conservative Party and a landslide for the SNP in Scotland.
Published December 12, 2019

Turnout is high so far in the Westminster general election in both
the north of Ireland and in Britain, where pollsters have been predicting a
very slim Tory majority in the House of Commons or a hung parliament
following today’s vote.
Published December 12, 2019

The north of Ireland appears set for an extended period of unionist
protest after an event took place on Friday night at the Ulster Hall,
the latest in a series of meetings organised by loyalists which have
echoed with the word ‘betrayal’.
Published December 7, 2019

The US House of Representatives has backed a resolution outlining
support for the Good Friday Agreement as US support for Ireland in the
face of Brexit continues to grow.
Published December 7, 2019

A spate of sectarian attacks have taken place against Catholics due to
move into a new social housing development in north Belfast. Windows
were smashed and a flag was hung from a drainpipe at a property in the
loyalist Ballysillan area, one of three recent attacks.
Published December 7, 2019

The Continuity IRA has claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on
the PSNI in west Belfast last Wednesday.
Published December 7, 2019

Eoghan Murphy has started a rot which is spreading through the
government, according to one of his colleagues, after the Minister for
Housing narrowly survived a motion of no confidence.
Published December 7, 2019

A Derry woman who is challenging restrictions on her right to legally
identify as Irish has called for Dublin to support
efforts to uphold the rights of nationalists under the Good Friday
Agreement.
Published December 7, 2019

Thousands of people took to the streets of County Donegal and County
Tyrone last weekend to demand a united Ireland.
Published November 30, 2019

Sinn Féin’s candidate Mark Ward has been elected to the Dáil following a
poll-topping result in the Dublin Mid-West by-election which could
represent a change in fortunes for the party following the setback of
the local elections in the 26 Counties.
Published November 30, 2019

Representatives of the unionist paramilitary UDA have openly called for
a vote for the DUP to ensure “no abstentionist MPs [Sinn Féin] are
elected, nor their cohorts in the SDLP”.
Published November 30, 2019

A west Belfast man has won his appeal against a conviction on arms
charges over flawed forensic evidence. Judges directed that Ballymurphy
man Kevin McLaughlin should be freed immediately.
Published November 30, 2019

Lawyers representing the families of nine of those massacred by the
British Army on Bloody Sunday have asked for a review of a decision not
to prosecute nine soldiers in Derry in 1972.
Published November 30, 2019

Efforts to restore Stormont following the Westminster election on
December 12 have accelerated despite election campaigning.
Published November 30, 2019

Unionist banners have been erected by the UDA targeting the family of
Pat Finucane, the Belfast defence lawyer who in 1989 was assassinated by
a UDA paramilitary death squad in collusion with British military
intelligence.
Published November 23, 2019

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has urged the Dublin government to
convene a forum on Irish unity ahead of a border poll within the next
five years.
Published November 23, 2019

Tomorrow, Sunday November 24, a ‘March for Irish Unity’ is due to take
place between Lifford in County Donegal and Strabane in County Tyrone.
Published November 23, 2019

The mother of a County Down woman who died when an undercover British
agent allegedly became involved in an IRA attack is taking a case
against the PSNI police chief and the British Ministry of Defence.
Published November 23, 2019

The PSNI (formerly RUC) is to take a ruling that the police force lacks
the independence to investigate a killing by the British Army to the
Supreme Court in London.
Published November 23, 2019

Fine Gael has been branded a “safe house for right-wing politics” after
a series of controversies over bigotry, including a by-election
candidate who claimed asylum seekers need to be “deprogrammed” when they
seek refuge in Ireland.
Published November 23, 2019

Sinn Féin has accused the DUP of forming electoral alliances with active
paramilitaries and demonising republicans and nationalists in an attempt
to provide itself with cover.
Published November 16, 2019

The DUP has been accused of treating Brexit like an “embarrassing
relative” by failing to make any mention of it in the party’s election
broadcast for next month’s Westminster poll.
Published November 16, 2019

A Tory vow to amend British law to protect former British soldiers from
prosecutions relating to their crimes in the north of Ireland has been
condemned as an attempt to use the conflict in Ireland for electoral
gain.
Published November 16, 2019

The Sinn Féin Ard Fheis has heard this weekend that the Stormont
Assembly could be restored in the New Year.
Published November 16, 2019

The family of a Catholic man shot dead by loyalists almost 50 years have
vowed to continue their fight for justice following the publication of a
report by Relatives for Justice. Joseph McCrystal was shot as he
returned to his home in Newtownabbey on November 12, 1972. He died the
following day.
Published November 16, 2019

A former political prisoner who sought asylum in the US again hears he
will be deported after being ordered to report to US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Newark Airport.
Published November 16, 2019

A decision by the Ulster Unionist Party to stand aside in North Belfast
following loyalist threats of violence has been condemned, despite the
insistence of the party’s new leader Steve Aiken that the move was not
connected to the threats.
Published November 9, 2019

An SDLP decision to stand aside in north Belfast as a result of the
UUP’s pact with the DUP in the constituency has triggered a reciprocal
arrangement with Sinn Féin which now also includes the Green Party.
Published November 9, 2019

The headquarters of Saoradh in Derry, Junior McDaid House, has been
targeted in yet another PSNI raid on Thursday morning, this time in
connection with a fundraising raffle.
Published November 9, 2019

Republicans have been paying tribute to IRA veteran Richard ‘Dickie’
Glenholmes, who died on Monday after a lengthy illness, as well as Fr
Des Wilson, who passed away on Tuesday.
Published November 9, 2019

Four by-elections in the 26 Counties are to go ahead on 29 November --
two in Dublin, one in Cork and one in Wexford.
The by-elections follow the recent election of four TDs to the European
Parliament, requiring them to relinquish their seats at Leinster House.
Published November 9, 2019

Queen’s University Belfast is once again being accused of discriminating
against nationalists after a Law Professor at the university revealed he
had come under pressure to end his involvement in a public debate on
Brexit and Irish reunification.
Published November 9, 2019

Loyalist paramilitaries have issued threats against the Ulster Unionist
Party (UUP) in a bid to force it to withdraw from the Westminster
election in north Belfast against Nigel Dodds, the Deputy leader of the
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Published November 2, 2019

The home of a Sinn Féin TD has come under firebomb attack after he
defended the rights of immigrant asylum-seekers. Party leader Mary Lou
McDonald condemned what she said was a “very deliberate and targeted
attack” which she described as a “deeply serious and sinister
development.”
Published November 2, 2019

Sinn Féin is set to contest all 18 Westminster constituencies after its
efforts to form a pact of parties opposed to Brexit failed to get a
positive response from other party leaders.
Published November 2, 2019

Sinn Féin has hit out after a 63-year-old woman was arrested by the PSNI
police on Thursday following an early-morning operation in the Creggan
area of Derry. Sadie Callan, an active Sinn Féin party member, was taken
to Belfast for interrogation under new “terror” legislation.
Published November 2, 2019

The Police Ombudsman in the north of Ireland has again delayed
publication of three reports on loyalist murders after previously
undisclosed files were uncovered. The material was found due to a recent
computer upgrade, according to the PSNI.
Published November 2, 2019

Overcrowding at University Hospital Waterford has been described as
unacceptable after photographs emerged this week of dire conditions in
the psychiatric unit.
Published November 2, 2019

Legislation for an early British general election on Thursday, December
12 has been passed by the House of Commons. It brings down the curtain
on a deeply divided parliament in which the hardline unionist DUP held
the balance of power for almost two and a half years.
Published October 29, 2019

The deadline for Britain to leave the EU has been extended until January
31st, or earlier if the Westminster parliament passes legislation to
implement the Withdrawal Agreement.
Published October 28, 2019

The leaders of a number of loyalist paramilitary factions have held
talks to discuss how to force the British government into a u-turn over
a draft Brexit deal agreed this month between British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson and the European Union.
Published October 26, 2019

The issue of a unionist veto over political change has become central to
politics in the north of Ireland after attempts were made by unionists
to include it in the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Published October 26, 2019

A failure of Westminster MPs to support British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson’s timetable for passing legislation on a Brexit deal has left
the project in a new limbo, although one which is likely to be resolved
this coming week.
Published October 26, 2019

There is growing concern about a draconian new registration procedure for
former republican prisoners which requires those targeted to notify the
Crown Forces of an extensive list of personal details, activities and
movements.
Published October 26, 2019

British military intelligence withheld documentary footage from 1972 of
the late Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness engaging in IRA activity,
according to an investigation by the BBC Spotlight team.
Published October 26, 2019

New photographs of hunger striker Bobby Sands have been discovered in an
archive of French photojournalist Gérard Harlay. Taken at a rally in
August 1976, they are believed to be the last photographs taken of him before his arrest and imprisonment at Long Kesh.
Published October 26, 2019

A bizarre publicity event organised by the hardline unionist DUP at the
defunct Stormont Assembly ended quickly today when an attempt to revive its lawmaking
powers failed.
Published October 21, 2019

The British government has been accused of deliberately failing to
implement the provisions of Good Friday Agreement in its domestic law
following an appeals court ruling which found that an Irish woman from
County Derry is legally British and not Irish.
Published October 18, 2019

The treatment by the PSNI of a Donegal pensioner has been widely
condemned after he was seen to be dragged around in handcuffs following
his extradition into British jurisdiction last week.
Published October 18, 2019

Escalating anti-Catholic attacks in a ‘shared’ housing development in
south Belfast have left a disabled man fearing for his life as well as
the life of his four-year-old son.
Published October 18, 2019

The police in the north of Ireland provided unionist paramilitary kingpin
Billy Wright with information to help his murder gang target Catholics,
one of his former associates has admitted.
Published October 18, 2019

Images have emerged of a show of strength by an apparent INLA unit amid
increasing tension in the Derry area.
Published October 18, 2019

Unionists are to gather at the mothballed Stormont Assembly chamber in a
symbolic attempt to revive the collapsed Six County institutions. They
intend to discuss the implementation of Direct Rule legislation for
abortion, due to become law on Monday.
Published October 18, 2019

A draft agreement has been reached on Brexit between the European Union
and the British government. However, following consultations with
loyalist paramilitaries earlier this week, the DUP continue to reject
the planned deal.
Published October 17, 2019

Ivor Bell, an 82-year-old veteran republican, has been found not guilty
of involvement in the 1972 IRA execution of informer Jean
McConville.
Published October 17, 2019

The New IRA has said any border infrastructure developed as a result of
Britain’s withdrawal of the north of Ireland from the EU will be
considered a legitimate target for attack.
Published October 16, 2019

The British government and the European Union are being urged to seize
the moment to prepare for peaceful Irish unification after Brexit
negotiators shied away from a disastrous agenda to reinforce partition.
Published October 12, 2019

Willie Frazer, a prominent loyalist who in recent years described
himself as a ‘victims campaigner’, secretly helped funnel weapons to
loyalist paramilitary groups in the early 1990s, according to a BBC
television news investigation.
Published October 12, 2019

British military intelligence removed and destroyed the files of a judge
who was investigating Crown Force involvement in the 1989 murder of
Belfast defence lawyer Patrick Finucane, according to a BBC documentary
aired this week.
Published October 12, 2019

A County Tyrone man has recounted a “horrific” attempt by British MI5 intelligence to recruit him as an informer.
Published October 12, 2019

Members of a colour party in Saoradh’s National Hunger Strike
Commemoration in Newry last weekend were stopped and searched by armed
PSNI police.
Published October 12, 2019

The Dublin government has been slammed for a “do less” Budget despite the
crisis over growing social inequality and homelessness.
Published October 12, 2019

Donegal republican John Downey, who is being pursued in connection with an IRA action in
1972 in which two British soldiers died, handed himself in to Gardaí
police earlier today, according to a report this evening by the Press
Association.
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