
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 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.
Published October 11, 2019

Preparations are underway for a crash Brexit after British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson revealed a barely believable set of proposals for the
border through Ireland which appeared designed to be instantly rejected
by Dublin and the European Union.
Published October 5, 2019

US author Bonnie Greer has been credited with a significant intervention
in Britain’s Brexit debate by eloquently speaking out for Ireland and
the peace process on a BBC news talk show.
Published October 5, 2019

Suspicions are mounting that a former priest was allowed to sexually
abuse children in return for informing against republican families in
the north of Ireland.
Published October 5, 2019

Families suing over state collusion with a loyalist paramilitary gang behind dozens of
sectarian murders have secured a major breakthrough in their battle to
access documents.
Published October 5, 2019

A former British soldier charged with the attempted murder of a special
needs man shot dead in County Tyrone in 1974 attended a right-wing rally
in London last week despite claiming that he was too ill to attend court
hearings in Belfast.
Published October 5, 2019

A preliminary hearing into the death of a Derry man hit by a rubber
bullet has taken place in Belfast.
Published October 5, 2019

Warlike rhetoric and subtle threats of violence against MPs by British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson drew a furious response and threatened to
overwhelm the return of Westminster this week.
Published September 28, 2019

A political activist campaigning for a Six-County Border Poll on Irish
unity has been approached by the PSNI police to become an informer.
Published September 28, 2019

Four loyalist parades went ahead in Scotland last weekend after a ban
was dropped in fear that loyalist marchers would react violently if they
were not allowed to proceed.
Published September 28, 2019

An Irish citizen is set to go to the Supreme Court over being forced to
inform authorities about trips outside British jurisdiction.
Published September 28, 2019

The 26 County Attorney General has confirmed that fresh inquests will be
held into 48 deaths at the 1981 Stardust fire in Dublin.
Published September 28, 2019

The widow of murdered Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane has lodged
High Court proceedings in a fresh bid to get a public inquiry into her
husband’s killing.
Published September 28, 2019

Political parties across Britain and Ireland have urged British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson to resign following an unprecedented ruling today by the
Supreme Court in London that his suspension of the Westminster
parliament was unlawful.
Published September 24, 2019

After almost 48 years, the case of a British soldier accused of murder
during the Bloody Sunday massacre, the first and only prosecution for
the 1972 killing spree, finally began at Derry’s courthouse on
Wednesday. However, proceedings were adjourned until December.
Published September 21, 2019

The PSNI have been condemned after using draconian stop-and-search
legislation against a woman with special needs in Newry.
Published September 21, 2019

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled an investigation must be
carried out into the treatment of fourteen republican internees who were
tortured by the British Crown Forces in 1971.
Published September 21, 2019

The New IRA have claimed responsibility for an attempted mortar rocket
attack on a PSNI base in Tyrone earlier this month.
Published September 21, 2019

A review of legacy inquests involving a number of British state killings
and suspected collusion began at Belfast Coroner’s Court on Monday.
Published September 21, 2019

A Belfast lawyer has accused the PSNI of attempting to intimidate and
harass him as the Police Ombudsman upheld three of his complaints
against the force.
Published September 21, 2019

There were extraordinary scenes in the London parliament this week as
opposition MPs staged an angry protest against the suspension of
Westminster and accused the British Prime Minister of lying to the
English queen in order to secure the Crown’s authority for the shutdown.
Published September 14, 2019

After a meeting between the British Prime Minister and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
failed to make headway in resolving the dispute over the border,
Sinn Féin is to oppose any attempt by the DUP to veto the backstop at the
Stormont Assembly in Belfast.
Published September 14, 2019

Rioting erupted in the Creggan area of Derry this week as scores of PSNI
carried out raids in the area. Petrol bombs were thrown at a line of
police Landrovers on Monday in Creggan Heights.
Published September 14, 2019

Sinn Féin has signalled a willingness to co-operate with other
anti-Brexit parties to challenge unionist candidates if and when a
Westminster general election is called.
Published September 14, 2019

Lawyers for the mother of Eoin Morley, an alleged victim of an IRA informer, are
appealing a decision to deny them access to secret files in the
possession of the Police Ombudsman.
Published September 14, 2019

Soldiers of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment have been accused of
putting up a “virtual wall of silence” against an inquest into the shooting
of 10 people in Belfast.
Published September 14, 2019

The chief of the PSNI police is under pressure to resign after proposing
one of the most inhumane public control strategies of any Crown Force
leader in the past 50 years, the removal and detention of innocent
nationalist children.
Published September 7, 2019

The political parties in the North have put themselves on a general
election footing as continuing manoeuvres over Brexit at Westminster
mean that a poll may not take place until the end of November.
Published September 7, 2019

A Continuity IRA spokesman has claimed responsibility for recent bomb
attacks in north Armagh and south Fermanagh, warning that more attacks
are imminent as it has “regrouped and rearmed”.
Published September 7, 2019

Former Stormont education minister and Upper Bann Assembly
member John O’Dowd has said he is to run for the party’s deputy leader’s job. The
post is currently held by Mid-Ulster Assembly member and former Six
County Agricuture and Health Minister Michelle O’Neill.
Published September 7, 2019

In a u-turn demanded by unionists, photos of the English queen have once
again been hung on the walls of government offices in the north of
Ireland, two years after being removed.
Published September 7, 2019

A secret memo written by a British Army general during the early years
of the current conflict refers to Britain needing to find a way to
“gradually escape” from its involvement in the north of Ireland.
Published September 7, 2019

Amid continuing political turmoil at Westminster, Boris Johnson’s
control of the Brexit agenda has slipped along with his parliamentary
majority tonight.
Published September 3, 2019

The far-right Brexit ‘war cabinet’ under unelected Prime
Minister Boris Johnson has edged closer to outright fascism after it
secured a royal order to shut down the Westminster parliament in London
for over a month.
Published August 30, 2019

English and Scottish police could be sent into conflict situations in
the north of Ireland after Brexit, it has emerged.
Published August 30, 2019

Two Fermanagh women have said they were abused by members of the
anti-Catholic Orange Order when they were children and that the Order
has covered it up. They say their abusers are “powerful men” and that
the Orange Order has “protected them”.
Published August 30, 2019

A former British soldier accused of killing Aidan McAnespie more than 30
years ago has appeared in court.
Published August 30, 2019

A man who removed a loyalist hate banner which paid tribute to a
sectarian killer has been sent for trial on charges of theft.
Published August 30, 2019

The notion that a weighted majority should be necessary to secure Irish
unity in a border poll would “turn democracy on its head”, according to
Sinn Féin’s deputy leader.
Published August 30, 2019

A bomb which exploded less than a mile from the border on Monday has
delivered an IRA message about Britain’s plans to reinforce partition as
a result of Brexit. The blast was heard on both sides of the border.
Published August 23, 2019

A PSNI raid on the grieving home of a former IRA Volunteer a day after
his funeral has sparked considerable anger in west Belfast.
Published August 23, 2019

The French President Emmanuel Macron has said Irish reunification and
integration of the entire island in the EU “would solve all the
problems” of Brexit, “but it is not up to France”.
Published August 23, 2019

A vigilante group said to have links to former IRA members has threatened
criminals in what it says is an attempt to tackle an epidemic of drugs and anti-social
activity in north Belfast.
Published August 23, 2019

A famous public handshake by the late 26 County Taoiseach Albert
Reynolds with the Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and the SDLP leader
John Hume in Dublin was designed “to tie Adams into a process from which
he personally would not be able to escape”, according to previously
classified British government files released this week in Belfast.
Published August 23, 2019

The findings of a report by the 26 County Data Protection Commissioner
into the government’s ‘Public Services Card’ has vindicated the concern
of campaigners that it was geared towards a right-wing agenda of control
and dehumanisation.
Published August 23, 2019

There have been calls for sectarian parades to be banned from Derry
after an inflammatory display by a loyalist flute band led to three
nights of serious disorder this week.
Published August 17, 2019

Belfast Coroner’s Court has found that the fatal shooting of
19-years-old Seamus Bradley during Operation Motorman on July 31, 1972,
was ‘unjustified’.
Published August 17, 2019

Sinn Féin has said that the handling of a strongly opposed bonfire built
by nationalist youths which led to a riot in the New Lodge area of
Belfast last week was wrong and that ‘lessons needed to be learned’.
Published August 17, 2019

A brother of the first child killed in the conflict fifty years ago has
revealed how his dying father asked him to keep fighting for the truth.
Published August 17, 2019

Sinn Féin has called on the leaders of political unionism to condemn the
‘hatemongers’ who placed an image of the late Sinn Fein leader Martin
McGuinness on a bonfire.
Published August 17, 2019

A Derry republican has taken a video of a highly sinister attempt to
recruit him as an informer by British ‘military intelligence’ agency,
MI5.
Published August 17, 2019

At the annual hunger strike commemoration organised by Sinn Féin, party
MEP Martina Anderson told the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that
his government’s “days in Ireland are numbered”.
Published August 9, 2019

A decision to ban a march commemorating internment from reaching Belfast
city centre is to be resisted, according to the republicans involved.
They say they will hold a protest at Belfast City Hall at the time the
march was due to be held.
Published August 9, 2019

A debate about the details of a united Ireland has begun after the
26-County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that a new Ireland must be a
“different state” with a new constitution.
Published August 9, 2019

The campaigning mother of the last person killed by a plastic bullet in
the north has said she will continue her fight against their use in the
north of Ireland as they once again appeared on the streets of north
Belfast.
Published August 9, 2019

Aontú has condemned what it says is the British imposition of “one of
Europe’s most extreme abortion regimes” on the north of Ireland.
Published August 9, 2019

The oldest surviving member of the group of former internees known as the Hooded Men has
died.
Published August 9, 2019

Riot police have withdrawn from a republican area of north Belfast
following clashes today over their efforts to prevent a bonfire
constructed by local youths from being lit.
Published August 8, 2019

An attempt by hundreds of PSNI police to remove a bonfire in a
deprived republican area of north Belfast has erupted in a riot this
morning. Amid a standoff, one riot policeman has fallen to the ground
after being struck by stone-throwing youths.
Published August 8, 2019

A so-called War Cabinet has been formed by the new British prime
minister, Boris Johnson to aggressively force Ireland to accept a
hardening and reinforcement of Britain’s century-old border across the
island.
Published August 2, 2019

A memorial to two IRA Volunteers killed by the SAS has been destroyed in
a shocking large-scale attack in County Monaghan this week.
Published August 2, 2019

The juryless retrial of a man accused of IRA membership collapsed in
farcical scenes this week after a PSNI policewoman did not recognise a
vehicle licence plate from which she was supposed to have recovered DNA
evidence.
Published August 2, 2019

The new British government under Boris Johnson has already displayed its
contempt for the political process in Ireland by holding a private dinner with the DUP
ahead of meeting the other political parties, while new
Direct Ruler Julian Smith’s first message to the public was to express
his joy at seeing a picture of the English queen on his desk.
Published August 2, 2019

Saoradh has accused the PSNI of engaging in violent attacks and
detentions of republicans across Belfast in an intensifying campaign of
repression against their activists and their families.
Published August 2, 2019

A growing consensus is emerging that all-Ireland forum on Irish unity
should be convened as a step towards planning for the reunification of
Ireland.
Published August 2, 2019

The new British Direct Ruler, Julian Smith, has received a mixed
response from Sinn Féin ahead of his arrival in Belfast to take control
of British government operations in the north of Ireland.
Published July 26, 2019

The Republican Network for Unity has urged people to be vigilant
following a recent incident involving undercover Crown Force personnel
operating in North Belfast.
Published July 26, 2019

Britain’s incoming Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been the subject
of concerned editorials and heavy criticism in Ireland and Britain.
Published July 26, 2019

A victory by Ireland’s Shane Lowry in a major golfing event in County
Antrim has been hailed as a major triumph for Irish golf, but has
exposed the dire knowledge of geography among some members of the
British sports media.
Published July 26, 2019

A senior Sinn Féin politician has raised concerns about the
conviction of a men jailed for killing PSNI man Stephen Carroll a
decade ago.
Published July 26, 2019

Saoradh has criticised the continued refusal of the British
administration and the Six-County prison service’s to transfer young
republican Emmet McSheffrey to the republican wing at Maghaberry jail.
Published July 26, 2019

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed an over-the-top
cabinet of Brexiteer ultras and right-wing extremists. In the process,
he has also replaced Karen Bradley as Direct Ruler in the north of
Ireland with the former Tory Chief Whip, Julian Smith.
Published July 24, 2019

Boris Johnson has won a final Tory leadership runoff, defeating his
opponent Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt with the support of more than two
in three of the Conservative Party membership.
Published July 23, 2019

A savage sectarian attack in County Down has left a man fighting for his
life.
Published July 19, 2019

The new chief of the PSNI, Simon Byrne, has said his force is “not in
cahoots with the UVF” after details emerged of a series of meetings with
well-known loyalist leaders over the handling of a bonfire in east
Belfast.
Published July 19, 2019

A north Belfast mother of two children has been subjected to “persistent
and aggressive” attempts by the PSNI to recruit her as an informer.
Published July 19, 2019

Five Derry men were forced to attend Strand Road PSNI base to sign a
so-called “terror register” in what Saoradh believes will become a
conveyer-belt approach to the imprisonment of their activists.
Published July 19, 2019

The family of a Derry city man who died after he was attacked by police
50 years ago has renewed calls for files about his death to be released.
Published July 19, 2019

The failure to establish a university in Derry has been described as a
“sectarian scandal” by Labour peer Andrew Adonis, who has raised the
matter in the House of Lords.
Published July 19, 2019

An amendment has been made to legislation at Westminster which prevents
a crash Brexit coming about by the suspension of the London parliament
unless Stormont is restored.
Published July 18, 2019

The UVF’s reign of terror in east Belfast appears intact after it forced
a humiliating climbdown by Belfast City Council over an illegal bonfire
which had forced the closure of a leisure centre.
Published July 12, 2019

Full Direct Rule from London is a step closer after the
British goverment unexpectedly allowed moves at Westminster to bring
same-sex marriage and abortion to the north of Ireland.
Published July 12, 2019

The idea of a new ‘Irish Union’ has gained traction with unionists
following comments by actor James Nesbitt.
Published July 12, 2019

The main anti-Catholic parades of the year are currently taking place
across the north of Ireland. Although there is relatively little trouble
expected for the ‘Twelfth’ this year, petrol bombs were thrown at the
PSNI in west Belfast on Thursday night and tension remains high going
into the weekend.
Published July 12, 2019

Fine Gael has been defeated in the Dublin parliament on a beef trade
deal after furious Irish farmers made their presence known in a protest
outside the Dáil.
Published July 12, 2019

A Donegal republican wanted in the Six Counties is to take his challenge
against an attempted extradition to the Supreme Court.
Published July 12, 2019

Amid a standoff over an illegal bonfire in east Belfast, the PSNI police
have told Belfast City Council that they fear the unionist paramilitary
UVF could open fire if they attempt to remove bonfire material.
Published July 10, 2019

Following a damning judgement at the Court of Appeal in Belfast earlier
today [Friday], the PSNI has been forced into establishing an
independent investigation into the British state’s role in a killing
machine that left more than a hundred people dead.
Published July 5, 2019

The new PSNI chief Simon Byrne has had a controversial start to his
period as head of policing in the north of Ireland as he oversaw the
isolation of a nationalist community in east Belfast in order to
facilitate a sectarian parade.
Published July 5, 2019

Loyalist flags which have again appeared in a middle class area of east
Belfast have goaded Belfast City Council to pass a motion to bring legal
action against the Six County government at Stormont.
Published July 5, 2019

Three boys have been stabbed at one of the more controversial parades of
the Orange Order’s marching season.
Published July 5, 2019

The family of Sean Downes, who was killed by a plastic bullet almost 35
years ago, has asked the Six County Attorney General John Larkin to hold
an inquest. It comes after concerns were raised about the role of top
Sinn Féin informer Denis Donaldson in events leading up to the August
1984 killing.
Published July 5, 2019

A threat to Maghaberry prison warders warning them to “beware (the) IRA”
has appeared on a wall in Derry. A target sign has also been painted
beside the three names on the wall in the Bligh’s Lane area of Creggan.
Published July 5, 2019

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams delivered the graveside
oration at the funeral of the former chief of staff of the Provisional
IRA, Kevin McKenna, who passed away earlier in the week at the age of
74. In his address, Mr Adams hailed the pivotal figure as “a
republican soldier who had the politics to know when to fight, and the
political vision to know when to talk”.
Published June 28, 2019

A former senior military figure who was a commander in the Parachute
Regiment during the Ballymurphy massacre in West Belfast has told an
inquest that he has no recollection of the regiment shooting ten people
dead.
Published June 28, 2019

Sinn Féin has said unionist flags and banners are being used by loyalist
paramilitaries to mark out territory as homes in east Belfast came under
attack ahead of the anti-Catholic marching season.
Published June 28, 2019

Attention has returned to the issue of corruption in the north of
Ireland after it emerged that DUP veteran MP Ian Paisley could be
suspended from Westminster for a second time over his lavish
foreign-funded vacations.
Published June 28, 2019

The children of some former IRA Volunteers are being barred from
entering the United States because of their parents’ background.
Published June 28, 2019

A campaign to secure a new investigation into a gun attack by a loyalist
paramilitary death squad on a village pub has received a boost after a
judge included it in a group to be advanced through the courts.
Published June 28, 2019

There has been a welcome in Ireland for the result of a survey of
Britain’s ruling Conservative Party which revealed that most of its members would be willing to
see Irish reunification if it meant that England could leave the
European Union. The poll puts the Tories completely at odds with their DUP
allies in the London government.
Published June 22, 2019

As tensions rise over the case, it has been confirmed that the only
British soldier to be charged with a crime in relation to Bloody Sunday
will be summonsed to appear at Derry courthouse next month.
Published June 22, 2019

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has said British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley
has “failed left, right and centre” after politicians in the five main
parties were bizarrely invited to a “summer drinks reception” at
Stormont. The invitation came as talks Bradley was chairing had stalled
and now appear set to be suspended for the summer.
Published June 22, 2019

A council in the north of Ireland has threatened a pensioner with a
conviction and fine for placing the Irish name for her estate on a sign
beside the one with the English language version.
Published June 22, 2019

Despite new evidence that the massacre was the subject of disinformation
by the British state, families of fifteen people killed in a Belfast
bomb attack have begun a legal challenge against a decision not to order
an independent investigation.
Published June 22, 2019

In a new blow to Irish neutrality, the Dublin government is planning to
send 14 ‘special operations’ soldiers into an African war zone in
support of a French post-colonial agenda.
Published June 22, 2019

Thousands lined the streets of west Belfast today as republicans from
across Ireland gathered to pay tribute to Provisional IRA founder Billy
McKee, a man who dedicated most of his life to the cause of freedom and
lead the defence of the nationalist people at a time of their greatest
need.
Published June 15, 2019

Boris Johnson is on the cusp of becoming the new British Prime Minister
and Conservative Party leader following an initial ballot of the party’s
MPs.
Published June 15, 2019

Several thousand people took the streets of Belfast city centre last
Saturday to call for action on dealing with the legacy of the past.
Families bereaved by the actions of the British state told a rally that
they deserve the right to truth and justice.
Published June 15, 2019

The PSNI police were accused of helping to erect a banner in support of
killer British soldiers of the Parachute regiment at a busy junction in
Armagh this week.
Published June 15, 2019

A man who was shot after a British Army spy targeted him for murder is
to receive £90,000 in damages. Eamon Heatley was shot up to five times
by a death squad at his home in north Belfast in August 1988 in a
state-planned assassination, but survived.
Published June 15, 2019

More than 4,000 people aged over 75 endured distressing waits of more
than 24 hours in crowded hospital emergency departments in the first
three months of this year alone, according to figures released by the 26
County Health Service Executive (HSE).
Published June 15, 2019

A true legend of the Irish Republican Army, Billy McKee, has passed away at the age of 98.
Published June 12, 2019

Two investigative journalists have accused the PSNI of “malicious
intent” after a bogus case against them in relation to a documentary on
collusion in the north of Ireland was finally dropped.
Published June 8, 2019

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has called for greater planning and
an accommodation with unionists ahead of a referendum on Irish unity
which he says he is confident will take place.
Published June 8, 2019

The New IRA has claimed responsibility for an attack against a member of
the PSNI last weekend in which a device was planted on the underside of
a vehicle.
Published June 8, 2019

County Tyrone Republican Brian Carron has had false charges against him
dropped a week before his trial was to be scheduled, and after more than
a year on very strict bail conditions.
Published June 8, 2019

A court has upheld a council decision to re-route Orange Order parades
in Glasgow away from a Catholic church, leading to the parades being
cancelled entirely by the Orange Order.
Published June 8, 2019

The Dublin government is being urged to defend Irish fishing vessels
from a Scottish threat that it will take action against them in the area
around Rockall, a rock which protrudes in the middle of the north
Atlantic.
Published June 8, 2019

Addressing a press conference at Shannon Airport today alongside the
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, US President Donald Trump told the Irish media
the crisis over Britain’s withdrawal from the EU is “going to work
out... with your wall, with your border”. He also said claimed to know
most Irish-Americans personally, declaring: “We love the Irish”.
Published June 5, 2019

A claim that the British Army “don’t do conspiracies” by one its most
infamous liars, General Mike Jackson, drew derision and frustration in
equal measure at the inquest into the Ballymurphy massacre this week.
Published June 1, 2019

The High Court in Belfast has ruled that warrants for the police raids
which led to the arrest of two journalists last August were
“inappropriate” and should be quashed, and that all material seized
during raids on their homes and offices should be handed back.
Published June 1, 2019

The death has taken place this week of Seamus McGrane, a leader of the
breakaway IRA group known as Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH). Mr McGrane died
in captivity at Portaloise jail on Saturday last from a suspected heart
attack.
Published June 1, 2019

The former ‘first lady of the DUP’ has expressed support for a united
Ireland in a groundbreaking statement from a figure who would have been
seen as a staunch unionist.
Published June 1, 2019

Sinn Féin has said it wants to focus attention on the rights of Irish
language speakers at multi-party talks in Belfast which the two
governments have said are due to intensify next week.
Published June 1, 2019

A plea for calm has been made following a spate of attacks on republican
murals and monuments in north Armagh. A memorial erected to commemorate
the anniversary of the Easter Rising was also attacked.
Published June 1, 2019

Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy has been elected to the European Parliament in
the last count in Midlands/North/West (MNW) tonight, although the
party faces a recount to hold on to Liadh Ní Riada’s seat in Ireland
South.
Published May 29, 2019

Counting has been suspended in Dublin amid a legal dispute over
procedure and the technical order of victory of the successful
candidates following the elimination of Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan.
Published May 28, 2019

Counting is taking place in elections in the North and South of Ireland
today, with Martina Anderson’s performance in the Six Counties a
highlight for Sinn Fein.
Published May 27, 2019

There is growing speculation of a general election in the 26 Counties
later this year after Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin appeared open to
forming a coalition with the Green Party following Friday’s local
elections.
Published May 26, 2019

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has conceded that her party will
suffer some losses in the local elections, but she said: ‘Beidh lá eile
againn’ [We will have another day].
Published May 25, 2019

Several thousand people attended the west Belfast funeral of leading
republican socialist ‘Marty Mac’ Martin McElkerney on Wednesday. A
former PoW, Mr McElkerney was closely involved in the IRSP’s peace
strategy after being released from Long Kesh prison in 2000 under the
terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Published May 25, 2019

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has warned that the resignation of
the British Prime Minister and the Tory leadership contest should not
distract from the threats posed by Brexit or derail efforts to restore
the Six County Assembly at Stormont.
Published May 25, 2019

Belfast’s new Mayor John Finucane has been warned that loyalists are
planning to attack him at his home after the Sinn Féin councillor
received the chains of office on Tuesday.
Published May 25, 2019

The family of a Catholic man shot dead by the RUC police has been
re-traumatised after the force seemed to admit his killing was a murder
-- and then changed their minds.
Published May 25, 2019

A well-known figure in Gaelic sports in the North says he fears for his
life after MI5 pursued him to become an informer.
Published May 25, 2019

Donald Trump is expected to face unprecedented security and protests
when he flies into Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland on June 5th. A
state visit by the US President was finally confirmed this week.
Published May 25, 2019

An official RTE-TG4-Red C exit poll following today’s 26 County
elections at 10pm tonight predicted Sinn Féin is in a battle to hold
onto its three seats in the European Parliament, while the Green party
is in surprise contention to win up to three seats.
Published May 24, 2019

Theresa May will step down as leader of the British Conservative Party
on 7 June and will remain in office as British Prime Minister until her
successor is selected, she announced today.
Published May 24, 2019

Rioting took place in Derry on Thursday night as polls closed in the
election to the European Parliament and as British Prime Minister
Theresa May was said to be preparing to announce her resignation over
the collapse of support for her party.
Published May 24, 2019

Sinn Féin’s John Finucane, son of assassinated defence lawyer Pat
Finucance, has been elected as mayor of Belfast.
Published May 21, 2019

Sinn Féin’s European election candidate in the Six Counties, Martina
Anderson, clashed with hardline unionist Jim Allister on live
television as campaigning for the European elections to be held across
Ireland reached a climax.
Published May 18, 2019

A former member of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment has admitted
that anyone on the streets of Ballymurphy in west Belfast during the
introduction of internment was considered to be associated with the IRA
and liable to be shot.
Published May 18, 2019

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Dublin city centre for a protest
today [Saturday] as reports shows that homelessness has reached a new
record, and that Irish rental housing and the cost of living are more
expensive than ever.
Published May 18, 2019

A former Official IRA Volunteer has been questioned about an attack on
the British Crown Forces which took place almost 60 years ago after he
wrote a historic account of the incident.
Published May 18, 2019

An MI5 report on policing compiled at the height of the conflict in the
early 1970s must remain secret, a British official has ruled.
Published May 18, 2019

Saoradh has raised a number of questions after members of the media
appeared to pro-actively take part in a PSNI police raid on the homes of
republicans in Derry last week.
Published May 18, 2019

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she believes an agreement
can be reached after round-table five-party talks began in Belfast this
week for the first time in more than a year.
Published May 11, 2019

A former British soldier, who has written about his experiences in the
Parachute Regiment, has said the skull of one of their victims was used
as an ashtray by members of the regiment after he was shot dead.
Published May 11, 2019

The proliferation of loyalist banners supporting killer British Army
soldiers has been denounced as a hate crime.
Published May 11, 2019

The offices of political party Saoradh in Derry have once again been
raided as MI5 are reportedly under orders to ‘bring down’ Thomas Ashe
Mellon, a 43-year-old republican activist who is a leading figure in
the party.
Published May 11, 2019

The family of a County Donegal teenager murdered by loyalists in 1973
ago has started a legal action over suspected Crown Force collusion
surrounding his killing.
Published May 11, 2019

Former members of the Provisional IRA are understood to have fired a
volley of shots in memory of their comrade Peter ‘Pepe’ Rooney, who was
buried last Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Published May 11, 2019

Counting has been completed in the local elections in the north, with
Sinn Féin picking up last minute gains on Belfast City Council.
Published May 4, 2019

A second day of counting in the local elections has confirmed that the
traditional unionist vote is well down across the Six Counties, while the
moderate Alliance Party are the main beneficiaries of the election.
Published May 4, 2019

Relatives of people killed in the McGurk’s Bar bomb have called for an
infamous British Army general to be questioned by an independent police
force after evidence was unearthed that he was in charge of the brigade
which disseminated the lie that the attack was an IRA ‘own goal’.
Published May 4, 2019

A Belfast woman has described looking out of her bedroom window as a
British soldier shot two people as they lay on the ground during the
Ballymurphy Massacre.
Published May 4, 2019

Saoradh has hit out at what it has described as unprecedented censorship
and said the group and its members are being denied their civil rights.
Published May 4, 2019

Footage has emerged of a masked Continuity IRA member firing a gun
salute at an Easter commemoration in County Tyrone.
Published May 4, 2019

A Catholic church in the West End of Glasgow has been attacked in a
series of anti-Catholic and anti-Irish incidents in the city.
Published May 4, 2019

A strong performance by the Alliance Party and the Greens is one of the major
trends of the local elections in the Six Counties, according to first
results this Friday. The overall unionist vote is down, thanks to a poor
performance by fringe unionist groups, while on the nationalist side,
independent republicans and newcomers Aontú have made a significant
breakthrough.
Published May 3, 2019

Voting has closed in local elections in the Six Counties after a quiet
campaign which was overshadowed by non-local issues, mainly the crisis
over Brexit, the political stalemate, and recent rioting in Derry.
Published May 2, 2019

The ‘New IRA’ has admitted it was behind the gun attack on the PSNI that
led to the death of journalist Lyra McKee during a riot in Derry last
week.
Published April 27, 2019

Political leaders in the North and the Dublin and London governments
have been publicly humiliated by an angry condemnation from the pulpit
at the funeral of journalist Lyra McKee, who died during a riot in Derry
last week.
Published April 27, 2019

Scottish voters should be given the opportunity to vote again on
independence before the next elections to the Edinburgh parliament in
2021, Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said.
Published April 27, 2019

The Trump administration has granted a six-month stay on the deportation
of former political prisoner Malachy McAllister, who has been threatened
with expulsion since seeking asylum in New York in 1996.
Published April 27, 2019

A commemoration to mark the 25th anniversary of the murder of a west
Belfast man killed by loyalists took place today [Saturday] in very wet
weather.
Published April 27, 2019

A DUP council candidate has denied being a supporter of the loyalist
paramilitary UDA, despite attending an event glorifying the paramilitary
gang and wearing a t-shirt branded with the UDA logo.
Published April 27, 2019

There have been appeals for calm following the tragic death of a
journalist during heavy rioting in a republican area of Derry on
Thursday night.
Published April 20, 2019

Tributes have been paid to the young freelance journalist, Lyra McKee,
who lost her life during rioting in Derry on Thursday night after she
was struck by a bullet aimed at police vehicles.
Published April 20, 2019

Files on the deaths of nationalist children at the hands of plastic
bullets have been closed for a further 50 years for reasons the British
government have refused to disclose.
Published April 20, 2019

A US Congressional delegation visiting Ireland has vowed to use its
influence to stop Brexit from undermining the Good Friday Agreement.
Published April 20, 2019

A former British soldier will be prosecuted for the murder of
15-year-old Daniel Hegarty, according to Crown prosecutors.
Published April 20, 2019

The election to the European Parliament in the North of Ireland on May
23 could be a historic one if two out of three seats are won by
nationalists.
Published April 20, 2019

A journalist has been killed amid heavy rioting in the Creggan area of
Derry on Thursday night as Crown Force police raided the nationalist
area of the city ahead of republican Easter commemorative events.
Published April 19, 2019

An extraordinary incident involving Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has
forced the Dublin government to confirm that heavily armed members of the
British Crown Forces are routinely making incursions into all areas of
the 26 Counties without any checks or controls.
Published April 13, 2019

A former British military medical assistant has told the inquest into
the Ballymurphy Massacre that a senior figure in the British Army asked
him to plant bullets on two innocent civilians he had treated. It is
thought to be one of the first incidents of British Crown Forces in
Ireland attempting to falsely portray civilians as combatants.
Published April 13, 2019

One of the pillars of the British establishment in Ireland, former
Alliance Party leader John Alderdice, has joined growing criticism of
British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley.
Published April 13, 2019

The DUP in north Belfast has won the competition for the most outrageous
pre-election news story after it emerged that their candidates’
nomination papers have been signed by a convicted cocaine dealer, as
well as another infamous loyalist convicted of driving at speed into a
crowd of nationalists.
Published April 13, 2019

Corruption in the world of Irish sport is in the spotlight after the
former CEO of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), John Delaney,
refused to answer questions about the organisation’s finances or a
mystery six figure payment he made to the soccer body, for what he said
were legal reasons.
Published April 13, 2019

A devastating report has been published on the national children’s
hospital that identified “significant failings” in planning and
budgeting which is set to lead to a one billion euro cost overrun.
Published April 13, 2019

European Union leaders have agreed to a request by British Prime
Minister Theresa May for an extension to the Brexit date. They have
agreed to a ‘flexible’ extension to October 31, subject to certain
conditions, including one which calls for elections to the European
Parliament to take place in Britain and the north of Ireland next month.
Published April 11, 2019

The British government has provoked anger after it said Irish citizens
born in the north of Ireland cannot vote in a unity border poll or any
other referendum under British law, and cannot have the same rights as
other EU citizens.
Published April 6, 2019

With just days to go before the April 12 deadline for Britain’s
departure from the European Union, the island of Ireland is bracing for
the reinforcement of a land frontier through the island between EU and
British jurisdictions.
Published April 6, 2019

Plans to give former British soldiers immunity from historic prosecution
have been described as “an affront to justice and an insult to grieving
families”.
Published April 6, 2019

A former British soldier has told the Ballymurphy inquest he saw
paratroopers shooting and killing civilians.
Published April 6, 2019

The North’s Attorney General has ordered a new inquest into the British
state killing of Patsy Duffy, widely regarded to be the first example of
a shoot-to-kill operation by the British Army in the North.
Published April 6, 2019

Sinn Féin and Saoradh have clashed over the cancellation of a police
‘youth engagement’ event in Derry following criticism by the hardline
republican political party.
Published April 6, 2019

The people of the border communities in Ireland are today demonstrating
against the demands of the unionist far right as Britain moves closer
to a crash exit from the European Union and a remilitarisation of the
border area across Ireland from April 12.
Published March 30, 2019

A “mass rally” in support of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment in
Belfast next month is set to be opposed by republicans.
Published March 30, 2019

The PSNI has been stung into action against the unionist paramilitary
UVF following a public demonstration led by the daughter of UVF murder
victim Ian Ogle.
Published March 30, 2019

Two separate sectarian attacks by loyalists last weekend saw a
15-year-old boy beaten with metal bars in north Belfast while another
boy of the same age was clubbed, kicked and punched as he walked home
in a separate attack in the same area.
Published March 30, 2019

A member of Republican Network for Unity discovered a sophisticated GPS
tracking and recording device hidden within his car earlier this week.
The discovery triggered a violent early morning raid on his home by
armed Garda police.
Published March 30, 2019

The 26 County Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy is again being urged to
resign after his own manipulated statistics show that there are now more
than 10,000 people in Ireland officially living in emergency
accommodation.
Published March 30, 2019

A huge protest against Brexit in London today is thought to
be one of the biggest in British history.
Published March 23, 2019

A banner carried in the annual St Patrick’s Day parade in New York has
become a battle line in the upcoming elections in Ireland.
Published March 23, 2019

In an important breakthrough for collusion victims, the Court of Appeal
in Belfast has accepted that the PSNI police is too biased to be in
charge of an investigation into the drive-by shooting of a west Belfast
woman by plain-clothed British soldiers in 1972.
Published March 23, 2019

Sinn Fein is to face competition from three republican political
parties, Eirigi, Republican Sinn Fein and newcomer Aontu, in the local
elections in May.
Published March 23, 2019

British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley has extended the shutdown of Stormont
and creeping Direct Rule from London, already more than two years old,
until August.
Published March 23, 2019

The trial of the 12 Catalan political prisoners is underway, with the
state prosecutor asking for sentences of between 11 and 25 years. The
body in charge of passing judgment is the supreme court, which will
consider the accusations presented by the prosecutor’s office of
rebellion, sedition and embezzlement. Their crime: having organised the
1 October 2017 referendum on Catalan independence.
Published March 23, 2019

The British government is seeking to maintain a cover-up of the Bloody
Sunday massacre after it was announced that only one soldier will be
prosecuted for the killings.
Published March 16, 2019

A return of loyalist violence in the north of Ireland could help Britain
wriggle out of its international treaty obligations in regard to the
border and the Good Friday Agreement, according to its Attorney
General.
Published March 16, 2019

British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley is facing further criticism after she
praised the “courage and distinction” of British soldiers following the
Bloody Sunday decision to prosecute one of them for murder.
Published March 16, 2019

The family of a murdered County Louth man has won the right to challenge
a decision not to prosecute British soldiers and loyalist paramilitaries
identified as suspects.
Published March 16, 2019

A brother-in-law of Martin McGuinness has said he was approached by
MI5.
Published March 16, 2019

The DUP is facing criticism over its attitude towards housing after it
issued an election leaflet calling for “local homes for local people”.
Another of its political efforts sought to block the construction of
housing near a Catholic area in north Belfast.
Published March 16, 2019

Families of the Bloody Sunday victims have been left angry and upset after Crown
Prosecutors claimed today there is sufficient evidence to prosecute
only one one the seventeen soldiers known to have been involved in the
massacre.
Published March 14, 2019

In a day of dramatic developments, the Westminster parliament has
rejected leaving the European Union without a deal under any
circumstances. It is a heavy defeat for British Prime Minister Theresa
May, just as her government sought to threaten Ireland and the EU with
that very scenario.
Published March 14, 2019

Widespread revulsion has greeted a statement by the British Direct Ruler
Karen Bradley that killings by members of the Crown Forces in the north
of Ireland are “not crimes”.
Published March 9, 2019

A decision on Bloody Sunday prosecutions is due to be issued on
Thursday, and the day will mark a key moment in a 47-year-old campaign
for justice.
Published March 9, 2019

An eyewitness has told the Ballymurphy inquest how he heard the last
words of mother-of-eight Joan Connolly after she was shot in the face.
Published March 9, 2019

Donegal republican John Downey is to appeal against a decision to
extradite him to the North of Ireland.
Published March 9, 2019

A group of residents have called for mass demonstrations along the Irish
border the day after Brexit, when Britain leaves the European Union and
takes the north of Ireland with it.
Published March 9, 2019

A culture of anti-Catholic hate was rife among staff at Belfast City
Hospital in recent years but senior health officials chose not to take
action against the perpetrators, it has emerged.
Published March 9, 2019

The Supreme Court in London has unanimously backed the appeal by the
family of Pat Finucane against the refusal of the British government to
carry out a proper inquiry into his 1989 murder by state agents.
Published March 2, 2019

Two Belfast-based journalists arrested after investigating collusion in
the North have complained that the PSNI tried to censor them over what
they can say about it.
Published March 2, 2019

A priest called the British Army to plead for help to protect Catholics
in Ballymurphy from attacks from their Protestant neighbours, just half
an hour before he was shot dead, the inquest into the Ballymurphy
Massacre has heard.
Published March 2, 2019

A former loyalist paramilitary murdered last week died as a result of a
power-struggle among loyalists associated with the UVF, according to
reports which indicated he was killed with an illegal shotgun the UVF
had previously taken from him.
Published March 2, 2019

A County Antrim couple have been issued death threats after loyalists
targeted them because they have “Catholic sounding names”. Graffiti was
daubed outside their home with their names telling them they have “24
hours to get out”.
Published March 2, 2019

More than 150 trade unionists have signed a declaration calling on the
labour movement to advocate for a united Ireland and a new all-Ireland
constitution with workers’ rights at the heart of it.
Published March 2, 2019

A film which exposes a horrific plot to massacre Catholic children and
nuns at a school has premiered in Belfast. It also reveals the
rationale behind MI5’s most shocking target.
Published February 23, 2019

A member of the Saoradh executive is being held indefinitely on the
back of an MI5-directed arrest operation, despite the existence of
video and social media evidence which should have meant his immediate
release.
Published February 23, 2019

A row has erupted over the future leadership of the PSNI (formerly RUC)
following revelations last week that collusion-related documents in
PSNI archives continue to be withheld from investigators.
Published February 23, 2019

A former republican prisoner has said there will be “massive
recruitment” by republican armed groups in the event of a hard Brexit
and a British remilitarisation of the border in Ireland.
Published February 23, 2019

Letters from the North’s Electoral Office warning people who consider
themselves Irish that they would not be allowed to cast their vote in
forthcoming elections were ‘a mistake’, according to the chief
electoral officer.
Published February 23, 2019

Éirígí activists have voted to append ‘For A New Republic’ to the party
name at the party’s recent annual conference. The amended name has been
approved by the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties at the
Dublin parliament, meaning that Éirígí For A New Republic” will appear
on ballot papers in the 26 County local elections in May.
Published February 23, 2019

PSNI chief George Hamilton stands accused of subverting justice in
regard to dozens of loyalist killings in the late 1980s and early 1990s
after secret police documents relating to collusion unexpectedly came
to light.
Published February 16, 2019

With time running out to avert a disastrous crash Brexit, there is a
growing consensus in Ireland and Europe that British Prime Minister
Theresa May is not sincere about negotiating a deal with the European
Union, and probably cannot be trusted to honour one in any event.
Published February 16, 2019

The SDLP, the second largest nationalist party in the north of Ireland
led by Colum Eastwood, is at risk of rapid disintegration following a highly
controversial decision to enter into “partnership” with the 26 County
Fianna Fáil party, led by Micheal Martin.
Published February 16, 2019

The Derry branch of republican party Saoradh have hit out at an
intensive campaign of arrests and intimidation in the city which has
seen the vice-chair of the party arrested twice in one week.
Published February 16, 2019

Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane was murdered to silence other
lawyers, his son said in a moving event to mark the 30th anniversary of
Mr Finucane’s murder.
Published February 16, 2019

In some of its frankest criticism of the North’s political process in
recent years, Sinn Féin has accused the British government of indulging
in a “sham” and a “merry-go-round”.
Published February 16, 2019

There are signs of a growing acceptance in London that a referendum on
unity in the Six Counties will be required in the circumstances of
Britain’s departure from the EU.
Published February 9, 2019

Pressure is mounting on the 26 County Minister for Health Simon Harris to resign
after he stood accused of misleading parliament about when he was told
about the ballooning cost of a new children’s hospital in Dublin.
Published February 9, 2019

Britain’s Attorney General for the Six Counties has directed that a
fresh inquest be carried out into the killing of an unarmed Tyrone man
who was shot in the back by the British Army in August 1974.
Published February 9, 2019

Paratroopers “just opened up” on a group of people standing near a
church hall which had they taken over as a British Army base, the
Ballymurphy Inquest has heard.
Published February 9, 2019

A committee to protect the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has been
established by a group of leading Irish Americans in the wake of what
they describe as the erosion of the deal by Tories, “almost to the
point of dismissing it as irrelevant even though it is a binding
international peace agreement”.
Published February 9, 2019

The town of Newry is being considered as a location to dispose of
British nuclear waste in a move which is being met with incredulity in a
border town already bracing for the impact of Brexit.
Published February 9, 2019

US Congressmen could once again be called on to act in support of peace
in Ireland after the British government openly reneged on a deal to
prevent a hard border after Brexit.
Published February 2, 2019

Loyalist paramilitaries have been blamed for the murder of prominent
east Belfast loyalist Ian Ogle, who was killed following a long vendetta
with the east Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force.
Published February 2, 2019

The new IRA has said it carried out a bomb attack on the courthouse in
Derry last weekend. In a statement issued to the media, they said “the
IRA won’t be going anywhere”.
Published February 2, 2019

Four Derry men wrongly accused of killing a British soldier have
accepted an out-of-court settlement from the PSNI after four decades of
fighting for the truth about police brutality, threats and a shocking
conspiracy to pursue a miscarriage of justice.
Published February 2, 2019

A ‘civic nationalism’ event has drawn an estimated audience of 1,500 to
a conference in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall to discuss a response to
Brexit.
Published February 2, 2019

A crowd of thousands took to the streets in this year’s annual Bloody
Sunday march in Derry, supported by a range of republican and civil
rights and justice groups.
Published February 2, 2019

Some 40,000 nurses have gone on strike in the 26 Counties over salary
scales that are believed to be the lowest among paid workers in Ireland
with degree status.
Published January 30, 2019

A spectacular bomb attack at Derry courthouse last weekend followed by a
series of hoaxes appears designed to deliver a message about the
continuing ability of the ‘new IRA’ to carry on its armed campaign.
Published January 26, 2019

The 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that British soldiers
could return to the border through Ireland in the event of a crash
Brexit in March. He also said that in such an event, Britain would have to
reach a new deal with the 26 County state in order to honour its
obligations under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Published January 26, 2019

A bill to outlaw trade in goods from Israeli settlements in Palestine
has been passed by the lower house of the Dublin parliament, a major
step on its journey into law.
Published January 26, 2019

The family of one of those killed on Bloody Sunday has called for a
final decision to be made about prosecutions after one of the British
Army paratroopers who carried out the 1972 massacre died this week.
Published January 26, 2019

A republican prisoner who is appealing his conviction is also taking a
legal action against the 26 County state in defense of his right to use
the Irish language after the Special Criminal Court in Dublin refused to
provide a transcript of proceedings in the Irish language.
Published January 26, 2019

The first casualty of the Irish War of Independence on the IRA side was
Volunteer Dan McGandy, who died 100 years ago this week.
Published January 26, 2019

Derry city courthouse has been apparently targeted tonight in a car bomb
attack. The shock bombing in Bishop Street is being linked to the ‘new
IRA’, its first such attack in years.
Published January 19, 2019

Plans are in train to send British Army Reservists to the north of
Ireland to deal with the consequences of a crash Brexit at the end of
March.
Published January 19, 2019

A new republican and pro-life political party being set up by former
Sinn Fein politician Peadar Toibin is set to become a significant force
in Irish politics after founding over 20 cumainn [branches] across
Ireland, including six in the north.
Published January 19, 2019

Flags of the British Army’s infamous Parachute Regiment have once again
been erected by loyalists in County Derry in an attempt to inflame
tensions ahead of a march for justice on the anniversary of the Paras’
Bloody Sunday massacre.
Published January 19, 2019

One of the most prominent anti-eviction activists in Ireland, Ben
Gilroy, has been given a three month jail term in Mountjoy prison.
Published January 19, 2019

The site of the former Andersonstown RUC barracks in west Belfast has
been renamed Groves Reilly Corner, in honour of Clara Reilly and her
late friend, plastic bullet victim Emma Groves.
Published January 19, 2019

A 21-year-old republican man has lodged a complaint with the Police
Ombudsman after Special Branch PSNI police tried to recruit him as an
informer during a trip to England.
Published January 19, 2019
With the continuing support of the DUP, Theresa May has defeated a vote
of no confidence in her Tory government at Westminster by 325 votes to
306, less than 24 hours after she failed to win parliamentary approval
for her Brexit deal by a historic margin.
Published January 16, 2019

British Prime Minister Theresa May has tonight lost a motion in the
House of Commons on Britain’s deal on withdrawal from the European
Union by a large margin of 432 votes to 202.
Published January 15, 2019

Britain’s departure from the European Union without a deal would make a
united Ireland and the break-up of the United Kingdom more likely,
Theresa May has told MPs.
Published January 14, 2019

A coroner has somehow found no evidence of collusion in the notorious
murder of a nationalist pensioner who was shot dead by loyalists as her
home was being actively surveilled by the British Army.
Published January 12, 2019

The 1998 Good Friday peace agreement could become unsalvageable, Sinn
Fein has said, as Brexit and other unresolved issues continue to shutter
the institutions which were set up under the agreement.
Published January 12, 2019

Former senior British Army General Frank Kitson is one of several high
profile British establishment figures facing legal action brought by two
members of the group known as the Hooded Men.
Published January 12, 2019

The South East Antrim UDA have been holding families to ransom, it has
emerged, as the growing loyalist paramilitary group continues to flex
its muscles.
Published January 12, 2019

Belfast City Council has agreed to set aside half a million pounds for a
controversial bonfire scheme which will see funds again directed to
groups with links to loyalist paramilitaries.
Published January 12, 2019

A suspected arson attack at a centre for asylum seekers is the second in
six weeks and has provoked fears of a violent campaign by the extreme
right in the 26 Counties.
Published January 12, 2019

British intelligence knew in advance about the Enniskillen bombing of
1987 and altered the timing to kill civilians and create a “massive
backlash” against the IRA, according to an anonymous letter by an MI5
agent, written 30 years ago and declassified this week in Dublin.
Published January 5, 2019

The Dublin government secretly reassured the British in 1988 it would
not take a case to the European Court of Human Rights over the SAS
ambush and summary execution of three unarmed IRA Volunteers in
Gibraltar.
Published January 5, 2019

A thousand additional police from England and Scotland are to be trained
for conflict in Ireland as part of preparations for the remilitarisation
of the border, it has emerged.
Published January 5, 2019

The 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has backed vulture funds who have
bought distressed mortgages and are pursuing evictions despite protests
against the violent eviction of a Roscommon County family last month.
Published January 5, 2019

The significance of Bill Clinton’s decision to grant former Sinn Fein
leader’s Gerry Adams a visa is laid bare in state papers which reveal
that the British government was shaken by the move.
Published January 5, 2019

The safe arrival of a major civil rights march into Derry, after it had
come under repeated attack by the B-Specials, inspired Liam Hillen to write
one of the most famous slogans of the conflict. Liam passed away this
week, almost 50 years to the day after those historic events.
Published January 5, 2019

A country farmhouse in County Roscommon became a battle zone last week
after a brutal and illegal eviction of a farming family by hired
loyalist mercenaries was dramatically overturned by a “flying column”
of anti-eviction activists. The perpetrators were beaten or put to
flight, and their vehicles torched.
Published December 22, 2018

North Belfast woman Christine Connor has won an appeal against a 16-year
prison sentence in one of a clutch of legal setbacks for the British
occupation in the north of Ireland.
Published December 22, 2018

Branches of KBC bank have been attacked amid increasingly angry
protests over the role of bankers in the housing and evictions crises.
Published December 22, 2018

Two loyalists have been sentenced to a total of just 13 years for the
roles they played in the barbaric murder of Derry civil servant Paul
McCauley.
Published December 22, 2018

Victims of the worst single massacre of the conflict have secured an
order for disclosure of secret state documents in a major legal action
over British state collusion with a loyalist murder gang.
Published December 22, 2018

Unionist councillors in Country Antrim have generated a seasonal news
absurdity by complaining over the use of Irish in the annual Mayor’s
Christmas card.
Published December 22, 2018

Some British politicians have grown resentful of Ireland’s influence
throughout Brexit talks, says the BBC, as fears mount that a deal that will
prevent a remilitarisation of the border will not be agreed in time.
Published December 15, 2018

A former paratrooper being investigated for his part in the Bloody
Sunday massacre has said he believes it was a “job well done”.
Published December 15, 2018

There have been tributes to Sean Garland, a former IRA leader who helped
to bring about the 1972 ceasefire by the Official IRA. He died on
Thursday at his home in County Meath after a long illness.
Published December 15, 2018

In what is said to be is the first case of its kind, a Belfast court has
found a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party guilty of
carrying an Irish National Liberation Army flag during an Easter Sunday
commemoration.
Published December 15, 2018

The Ballymurphy massacre inquest has heard details of the murder of John
McKerr, a 49-year-old joiner from nearby Andersonstown who had been
working at Corpus Christi Church in west Belfast on August 11 1971 when
he was shot.
Published December 15, 2018

Cork City Council has been humiliated after it emerged that it spent
almost 6,000 euros on polishing door handles at city hall to prepare for
a one-day stop by British royals Charles and his wife, Camilla.
Published December 15, 2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May has tonight defeated a challenge to
her leadership of the Tory Party, winning a confidence vote by 200 MPs
to 117.
Published December 12, 2018

Anglo-Irish relations are at their worst in decades after a senior
British Tory MP suggested using the possibility of food shortages in
Ireland to coerce negotiators into dropping their opposition to the
remilitarisation of the border area after Brexit.
Published December 8, 2018

A witness to one of the killings of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre, who
has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since, has given his
first-ever statement on the atrocity to the coroner of the current
inquest.
Published December 8, 2018

It has emerged that the British Army raided the pub which was the
original target of the McGurk’s Bar bombers, two nights before the
massacre in which collusion is strongly suspected.
Published December 8, 2018

DUP leader Arlene Foster is under renewed pressure to quit politics
after acknowledging that some of her sworn evidence to a public
corruption inquiry is likely false.
Published December 8, 2018

The 47th Bloody Sunday march has been launched with the focus returned
to the issue to making those ultimately responsible for the slaughter of
13 innocent civilians accountable for their actions.
Published December 8, 2018

A row has broken out after council staff attempted to remove the names
of political prisoners from a public Christmas tree in Strabane, County
Tyrone.
Published December 8, 2018

A debate on abortion legislation in the Dublin parliament has seen a
bitter attack by Sinn Fein TDs against former comrades as a potentially
damaging split in the party continues to grow.
Published December 1, 2018

Families of those killed in a notorious loyalist/Crown force massacre
have welcomed a judge’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge against
the Police Ombudsman’s finding that the police colluded with the
killers.
Published December 1, 2018

Loyalist paramilitaries “have the run of the town” in County Antrim,
according to the owner of a repair business in Carrickfergus whose cars
have repeatedly been torched.
Published December 1, 2018

Derry City and Strabane council is set to be the first council in the
north of Ireland to allow staff members to honour Ireland’s war dead by
wearing an Easter Lily, a symbol with its roots in the 1916 Easter
Rising.
Published December 1, 2018

Relatives for Justice have launched a report into the killings of Jim
Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna amid outstanding questions about the
shoot-to-kill policy of targeted state assassinations which was
responsible for their deaths.
Published December 1, 2018

Campaigners have taken to the streets of Dublin this Saturday afternoon
to voice their anger over the ongoing housing and homelessness crisis.
Published December 1, 2018

Derry republican Tony Taylor, released as his internment by the British
approached a significant one thousand days, was released this evening
after a day of tense last-minute negotiations around the details of his
release.
Published November 28, 2018

Republican political prisoner Tony Taylor is set to be freed tomorrow
after spending 994 days interned at Maghaberry Jail without charge.
Published November 27, 2018

Amid a hostile reaction by unionist politicians to a draft Brexit deal,
one TUV politician has warned that the border through Ireland will be
“maintained by the gun”.
Published November 24, 2018

A breakaway anti-abortion, nationalist/republican party being set up by
former Sinn Fein TD Peadar Toibin is organising meetings across the
country and has already recruited two councillors, Sinn Fein Kildare
councillor Ide Cussen and former Sinn Fein Cork councillor Ger Keohane.
Published November 24, 2018

Britain’s Direct Ruler in Ireland, Karen Bradley, has been widely
condemned for comments that families of victims of British war crimes
are part of ‘the problem’ for seeking coronial inquests, and that she
was ‘outraged’ by the legal pursuit of the soldiers involved.
Published November 24, 2018

Members of a British intelligence agency who tried to recruit a
vulnerable teenager have “put him at risk”, according to his mother.
Published November 24, 2018

A protest action has seen a giant sculpture of a British soldier at the
entrance to Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green daubed with red paint.
Published November 24, 2018

Sinn Fein deputy leader Pearse Doherty has called for a debate about the
possibility of establishing an all-island soccer team, following the
resignation of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane as the Ireland management
team.
Published November 24, 2018

The DUP leadership is completely at odds with civic unionism after a
draft Brexit deal won praise across the north of Ireland, particularly
from farmers and business interests who see significant advantages in
proposed arrangements to facilitate trade with both Britain and the EU.
Published November 17, 2018

Republican Sinn Fein has named a new party President, Seosamh O
Mhaoileoin, at its Ard Fheis [annual conference] last weekend,
replacing Des Dalton without an election.
Published November 17, 2018

The elderly father of a political prisoner who’s been in jail for almost
1,000 days without charge or trial has written a heartfelt letter to the
British government pleading for his son’s release.
Published November 17, 2018

A shocking British military archive discovered by a grandson of victims
of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre of 1971 proves that the Royal Ulster
Constabulary police originated and disseminated “a line” falsely stating
that the atrocity was an IRA ‘own goal’, just over 4 hours after the
bombing.
Published November 17, 2018

There were emotional scenes in a Belfast court this week as families of
the Ballymurphy massacre victims described their grief and loss after
British soldiers killed eleven civilians in 1971.
Published November 17, 2018

A debate about an Irish unity referendum/border poll has brought
together speakers representing Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Socialist
Party, the 1916 Societies and the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican
Forum.
Published November 17, 2018

Theresa May’s leadership of the Conservative Party is again under
pressure as a series of Ministers resigned and the DUP rallied
opposition to a negotiated Brexit deal.
Published November 15, 2018

Meath West TD Peadar Toibin has resigned from Sinn Fein, weeks after he
was suspended from the party after voting against abortion legislation
in the Dublin parliament.
Published November 15, 2018

The full text of the chapter of the Brexit agreement that relates to the
Six Counties (pages 302 to 327) from the draft document which was
released tonight.
Published November 14, 2018

Negotiations on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union have
reached a decisive moment as a draft agreement won the support of
the Tory government in London.
Published November 14, 2018

After almost 50 years, an inquest has opened into the deaths of eleven
civilians killed by British soldiers in Ballymurphy in west Belfast.
The inquest is expected to last up up to six months.
Published November 12, 2018

The paradox of the unstoppable force of Brexit and the DUP’s immovable
intransigence may be resolved within days amid reports of a looming
showdown between the British Prime Minister and the DUP.
Published November 10, 2018

The arrest of two journalists for the ‘theft’ of ‘secret information’
used in a TV documentary about the Loughinisland massacre has descended
into a pantomime public row, leaving the victims of the atrocity furious
at the abuse of police resources.
Published November 10, 2018

The annual media bullying campaign known as ‘poppy fascism’ has been
blamed for an outbreak of anti-Irish racism in the world of sport.
Published November 10, 2018

A racist arson attack in east Belfast has followed days after loyalist
paramilitaries in nearby Newtownards dressed up as in full Klu Klux Klan
uniform and posed for photographs outside an Islamic centre.
Published November 10, 2018

A report on the use of council funds in the North to make payments to
loyalist paramilitaries and other politically connected groups is a
major embarrassment for the main political parties.
Published November 10, 2018

The reunification of Ireland would lead to a massive economic windfall
for the whole island, while Brexit will have disastrous consequences, a
major new international research study has concluded.
Published November 10, 2018

Prominent Donegal man and former republican prisoner John Downey is
behind bars tonight as part of a surprise bid to extradite him to
British jurisdiction to face IRA charges dating from 1972
Published November 6, 2018

British government ministers are treating the north of Ireland as a
colonial outpost which must be visited, however briefly, in order to
maintain the validity of their jurisdiction.
Published November 3, 2018

Fresh revelations in the murder of nationalist councillor Patsy Kelly
have called into question all previous investigations into the killing.
Published November 3, 2018

The son of a County Tyrone couple who were shot dead by the unionist
paramilitary UVF is to take legal action after discovering a police
notebook containing his personal details was in the hands of the same
organisation who murdered his parents.
Published November 3, 2018

Sinn Fein TD Peadar Toibin has been suspended from the party for six
months in a move which could lead to him contesting his seat as an
independent candidate in the next election.
Published November 3, 2018

Business figure and TV personality Peter Casey, who came from nowhere to
secure the support of almost one in four voters in the Presidential
election, is to try to build a new political movement on the back of
apparent support for his right-wing populist comments.
Published November 3, 2018

A 22-year-old IRA Volunteer who died after the device he was carrying
exploded prematurely 25 years ago was remembered in a commemoration in
Belfast last Sunday.
Published November 3, 2018

Incumbent Michael D Higgins has been officially confirmed as the winner
of the Irish Presidential Election with 822,566 votes (55.8%),
exceeding the quota. Independent Peter Casey secured second place with
23.1% of the vote.
Published October 27, 2018

Michael D Higgins will serve another seven year term as President of
Ireland as tallies and early results in Friday’s Presidential election
bore out the results of two exit polls which last night indicated he is
set to be elected on the first count.
Published October 27, 2018

The British Army were involved in a dawn raid on the national
headquarters of Saoradh in Derry as concerns increase over the
increasing use of British military units in political oppression.
Published October 27, 2018

British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley has been accused of subverting
democracy after postponing Stormont elections for up to ten months while
prioritising the interests of unionists during Brexit.
Published October 27, 2018

A potentially historic announcement of a first Fianna Fail candidate in
the Six Counties has instead exposed a deep divide within the party over
its stance in relation to northern elections.
Published October 27, 2018

A former DUP minister who called Pope Francis “the anti-Christ” in a row
over a Papal event in Ireland has been condemned by nationalists and is
to be the subject of a formal complaint at Stormont.
Published October 27, 2018

Collusion continues to be suspected in the murders of Gerard and Rory
Cairns, who were killed by a UVF murder squad 25 years ago this week.
Published October 27, 2018

Two exit polls have predicted that Michael D Higgins has been
re-elected to the largely ceremonial post of President of Ireland with well
over half of the vote.
Published October 26, 2018

Concerns are growing that a failure to negotiate a solution to the
issue of the border after Brexit could spark a return of serious
violence in the north of Ireland.
Published October 20, 2018

Loyalists placed a tyre at the front door of a Catholic family in
Magherafelt and set it alight this week, forcing the four terrified
occupants, including an infant girl, to flee the home.
Published October 20, 2018

A row has erupted after Sinn Fein candidate for President of Ireland,
Liadh Ni Riada, said that if elected she would would wear a poppy symbol
on the day of her inauguration.
Published October 20, 2018

The mother of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by the RUC has failed in a new
legal bid to have the inquest verdict quashed.
Published October 20, 2018

A man has accused the PSNI of continual harassment because he has
refused to work as an informer against republicans.
Published October 20, 2018

An unusual dispute has arisen in east Tyrone after a former IRA leader
denied a Sinn Fein man’s claims that loyalists and republicans reached
“an understanding” in the area after a secret meeting in the early
1990s.
Published October 20, 2018

Over 120,000 people joined a march for Scottish independence through
Edinburgh last Saturday in the largest ever march about the issue.
Published October 13, 2018

Former Garda police Commissioner Martin Callinan led a whispering
campaign of lies and defamation against police whistleblower Sergeant
Maurice McCabe and then denied it under oath, according to the findings
of a sworn tribunal of inquiry.
Published October 13, 2018

The widow of a man shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast 47 years
ago has begun a High Court bid to obtain access to documents stored in
secret English vaults.
Published October 13, 2018

Maghaberry prisoners aligned to Republican Sinn Fein have condemned what
it said were attempts to provoke tension at the jail by prison warders.
Published October 13, 2018

Sinn Fein has condemned the Police Federation in the North (PFNI) after
it warned that current and former members of the PSNI/RUC police would
not cooperate with the proposed Historical Investigations Unit (HIU).
Published October 13, 2018

Ireland’s reputation as a centre of large-scale financial corruption has
not been helped by a whirlwind of devastating revelations which brought
a sudden end to the Ministerial career of Denis Naughten on Thursday.
Published October 13, 2018

The 26 County Minister for Communications Denis Naughten resigned
suddenly this afternoon as a controversy escalated over his handling of
a 500 million euro contract for the rollout of rural broadband.
Published October 11, 2018

Fine Gael’s Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has revealed the third and
final annual 26 County budget agreed with Fianna Fail as part of their
government pact.
Published October 9, 2018

DUP leader Arlene Foster has described her party’s opposition to a deal
in Brexit negotiations that would result in new checks on goods moving
across the Irish Sea as a “red line” that is “blood red”.
Published October 6, 2018

Events have been taking place in Derry to mark the 50th anniversary of
the 1968 civil rights’ march, which some consider to have been the start
of the recent conflict in Ireland.
Published October 6, 2018

Up to 20,000 people, of all ages and from across the country, gathered
at a rally outside the Dublin parliament on Wednesday demanding an end
to the housing crisis.
Published October 6, 2018

MI5 authorised its agents and informers to kill targets and commit other
crimes under a secret policy which operated throughout the conflict in
Ireland and continued until at least 2012, an investigative powers
tribunal in London has heard.
Published October 6, 2018

A decision to order a new investigation into the killing of six men in
north Belfast 45 years ago has been widely welcomed.
Published October 6, 2018

Aggressive house raids on republicans in North and West Belfast were
followed by an open attempt to bug the family home and car of one of the
victims, as British intelligence operations become increasingly public
in the face of smart phone technology.
Published October 6, 2018

A damages payment to a survivor of the British Army’s Bloody Sunday
massacre is being seen as a step towards the goal of achieving real
justice for the victims, rather than compensation.
Published September 29, 2018

A British Labour MP has broken the silence of the mainstream media over
the consequences of Brexit in terms of the remilitarisation of the
border through Ireland.
Published September 29, 2018

Victims and survivors of the recent conflict in the north of Ireland
travelled to Stormont this week as part of the ‘Time for Truth’ campaign
and submitted 6000 responses to the British government’s consultation on
‘Addressing the Legacy of the Past in the North’.
Published September 29, 2018

Loyalists paramilitary organisations have been involved in brutal
attacks in County Antrim amid violent wrangling over local control and
the proceeds of crime.
Published September 29, 2018

Two unionist-controlled councils donated thousands of pounds to the
DUP’s Ian Paisley in the latest financial scandal to hit the party and
its already disgraced MP for North Antrim.
Published September 29, 2018

Acts of civil disobedience are set to continue after rallies across
Ireland and a motion of no confidence in the Dail failed to remove the
Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy, over his failure to tackle an
escalating housing crisis.
Published September 29, 2018

An aggressive and staunchly unionist speech has increased fears that
British Prime Minister Theresa May is prepared to ignore warnings and
crash Britain out of the European Union early next year.
Published September 22, 2018

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has sought to block a ruling
ordering it to release information about its ongoing operations in the
Six Counties.
Published September 22, 2018

A loyalist drug dealer became embroiled in a row in the nationalist New
Lodge area and attempted to shoot local youths, according to the Irish
Republican Socialist Party, who have urged communities to “take the
power back”.
Published September 22, 2018

The father of a 14-year-old boy has spoken out after the PSNI targeted
his son under ‘terror’ legislation.
Published September 22, 2018

There are renewed concerns over collusion after it emerged that a
notebook containing details of republicans -- including their names,
addresses and car number plates -- has been “lost” by the PSNI police in
a UDA stronghold.
Published September 22, 2018

Housing activists are today [Saturday] holding a national day of action to
highlight Ireland’s housing crisis amid increased repression by the 26
County police.
Published September 22, 2018

At the end of six weeks of campaigning, an official petition of recall
to remove DUP MP Ian Paisley over corruption allegations has fallen
just short of the number required.
Published September 20, 2018

Over a thousand people marched in Dublin on Wednesday after the new
Garda Commissioner colluded with hired thugs in an attempt to suppress
opposition to the government’s housing policy.
Published September 15, 2018

An outpouring of emotion at the broadcast of a new documentary has
inspired hope that justice is finally within reach for the victims of an
infamous British Army killing spree.
Published September 15, 2018

The ‘Hooded Men’ have vowed that their campaign for justice is not over
after the European Court of Human Rights rejected an appeal against the
court’s ruling that they were not tortured.
Published September 15, 2018

Efforts by the Israeli state to reassert its international reputation in
the wake of large-scale massacres of the Palestinian population are
being opposed in Ireland through protests and boycotts.
Published September 15, 2018

Public wrangling over the housing crisis is to reach a climax later this
month when Sinn Fein submit puts forward a motion of no confidence in
Fine Gael’s Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy.
Published September 15, 2018

Liadh Ni Riada MEP is set to be ratified as Sinn Fein Presidential
election candidate this weekend, joining two reality television stars
and a charity entrepreneur in the bid to oust the sitting Irish
President, Michael D Higgins, from Aras an Uachtaran.
Published September 15, 2018

US President Donald Trump could reschedule an upcoming trip to Ireland
after it emerged massive protests were being planned to greet him.
Published September 11, 2018

After admitting to a parliamentary magazine that she hadn’t understood
how the North of Ireland is divided politically, British Direct Ruler
Karen Bradley has introduced legislation at Westminster to halt Six
County Assembly elections until 2019.
Published September 8, 2018

In nasty exchanges, former DUP first minister Arlene Foster ordered a
party colleague to keep open a Stormont ‘free money’ energy scheme
despite his concerns over the spiralling cost, an inquiry has heard.
Published September 8, 2018

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams has accused the British state of “a new and
despicable twist” in its efforts to protect itself from the legal
consequences of its collusion with loyalist paramilitaries during the
conflict.PSNI bid to disguise its role in journalist arrests
Published September 8, 2018

Sinn Fein’s National Chairperson Declan Kearney has warned that there is
a risk that the peace process could be “squandered” by Brexit coming on
top of the collapse of political institutions in the North.
Published September 8, 2018

A ban on Irish language street signs in Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough
Council has been rescinded after a resident challenged the
discrimination.
Published September 8, 2018

The mother of Donegal woman Danielle McLaughlin said she was disgusted
to be refused a meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar because his office
claimed her daughter ‘was not an Irish citizen’ as she had a British
passport.
Published September 8, 2018

The former assistant chief of the RUC police, Drew Harris, has been
controversially sworn in as Garda Commissioner in an extraordinary
midnight ceremony at the force’s headquarters in Kevin Street, Dublin.
Published September 3, 2018

The PSNI stand accused of once again actively colluding in a loyalist
massacre by directing the arrest of two award-winning investigative
journalists who worked to expose the truth behind the 1994
Loughinisland killings.
Published September 1, 2018

The Tory Brexit campaign is sliding towards a “take it or leave it”
showdown with the EU amid an increasingly bloody-minded approach by
British officials.
Published September 1, 2018

A memorial in County Tyrone dedicated to three IRA Volunteers shot dead
by the SAS has been attacked on the 30th anniversary of their deaths.
Published September 1, 2018

A new alignment between political parties in the Six and 26 Counties
looks set to go ahead after Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said the
party is in talks with the SDLP. He said the parties plan to develop a
“new political agenda” to “get the North working”.
Published September 1, 2018

Demonstrations are already being planned in Ireland after it was
revealed that US President Donald Trump is set to visit in November. The
White House has said he hopes to “renew the deep and historic ties
between our two nations”.
Published September 1, 2018

A statement, addressed to British Direct Ruler Karen
Bradley, was issued by Lorraine Taylor, wife of republican internee Tony
Taylor. She was speaking after a rally at Free Derry Corner on Sunday to
mark Mr Taylor’s 900th day in prison.
Published September 1, 2018

With incidents of harassment by the PSNI rising significantly, a report
for the Stormont administration has admitted that the abuse of stop and
search powers is actually bolstering support for republican groups in
Derry.
Published August 25, 2018

Pope Francis, beginning a historic visit to Ireland, has said the
Catholic church’s failure to address clerical sexual abuse “remains a
source of pain and shame”, while the 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
called for “zero tolerance” for those who abuse innocent children.
Published August 25, 2018

Fianna Fail is to take over the SDLP and contest elections in the Six
Counties as part of a major political realignment for both parties,
according to reports.
Published August 25, 2018

Barring a last minute appeal, the appointment of a key collusion figure
to the role of Garda Commissioner looks set to go ahead after a High
Court judge in Dublin refused to allow a judicial review.
Published August 25, 2018

Former republican MP and civil rights leader Bernadette McAliskey has
said the Stormont Assembly has failed to protect human rights and should
be “bulldozed”.
Published August 25, 2018

A bank owned by the 26 County state has been accused of selling good
mortgages on family homes to a vulture fund which could result in mass
evictions.
Published August 25, 2018

There has been an outcry after former Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan
hinted at a police cover-up and said she was certain the PSNI (then
RUC) ‘could have prevented’ the 1998 Omagh bomb attack, in which 29
civilians died.
Published August 18, 2018

A relative of a victim of the McGurk’s Bar massacre has brought a High
Court challenge aimed at blocking the appointment of a senior PSNI
(formerly RUC) figure, Deputy Chief Drew Harris, as the next Garda
police Commissioner in the 26 Counties.
Published August 18, 2018

Saoradh have raised concerns regarding a weekend of loyalist parades in
Newry as this year’s marching season draws to a close. The party’s Newry
spokesperson Stephen Murney said the centre of Newry would be “overrun
by over two thousand sectarian bigots”.
Published August 18, 2018

The DUP is not expected to send any representative to a civic reception
for Pope Francis in Dublin Castle next weekend after Arlene Foster said
she would not attend.
Published August 18, 2018

Pressure is growing for the use of Shannon Airport by US military forces
to end in light of the latest bombing campaigns in the US-backed war in
Yemen.
Published August 18, 2018

Fifty years ago the Civil Rights movement in the Six Counties began with
a march from Coalisland to Dungannon, which is being re-enacted today by
Sinn Fein. Brian Dooley describes how the original marchers drew
inspiration from the campaign for civil rights in the United States.
Published August 18, 2018

A new border zone is being set up by the British government in which
military and customs officials would have additional powers to stop,
search and interrogate members of the public within a mile-wide strip
across Ireland.
Published August 11, 2018

Sinn Fein party leader Mary Lou McDonald has insisted that she is ready
for a border poll and wants a debate on Irish reunification, including
the possibility of rejoining the British Commonwealth.
Published August 11, 2018

Amid a national outcry over children being forced to sleep in police
stations due to a lack of accommodation, housing activists have
occupied a vacant home in Dublin.
Published August 11, 2018

The first recall votes in British or Irish history have been cast in a
bid to force disgraced DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr from office.
Published August 11, 2018

Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Socialist Party have hailed the
absence of a nationalist bonfire in Belfast, the first August there was
none lit in the city.
Published August 11, 2018

There was a major security operation in Belfast city centre on Saturday
as well over a thousand republicans took part in a march and rally
against internment, while a small number of loyalists held a
counter-protest.
Published August 11, 2018

Sinn Fein has denied media claims of internal disagreements after a
significant shift in the party’s attitude on Irish reunification was
unveiled by party leader Mary Lou McDonald on Monday but largely
recanted less than 24 hours later.
Published August 4, 2018

A Catholic woman whose son had recently died was ordered to leave her
home by loyalist paramilitaries as she prepared to wake her son.
Published August 4, 2018

DUP leader Arlene Foster has again ruled out a long-sought Irish
Language Act in any new set of negotiations aimed at restoring the Six
County Executive with Sinn Fein, and said she had no expectation that
talks efforts will begin again after the summer break.
Published August 4, 2018

There have been calls for the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin
to be shut down after five republicans were jailed on the basis of a
'farcical' statement by a police superintendent and surveillance
evidence which had been deemed illegal.
Published August 4, 2018

A flash protest took place outside Maghaberry prison on Thursday after
warders attacked prisoners 48 hours earlier.
Published August 4, 2018

A Catholic church in Limavady, County Derry has been desecrated with
loyalist paramilitary slogans as sectarian incidents have continued
across the North this summer.
Published August 4, 2018

Former DUP leader Peter Robinson has said he believes reunification
could happen because of Brexit and has called for a debate on
“protections” for the unionist community.
Published July 28, 2018

Donegal County Council has passed a motion calling on the Minister for
Justice to cancel the appointment of a new head of the 26 County police
because of his previous links to British intelligence agencies and his
role in shutting down an investigation into state collusion with
loyalist paramilitaries.
Published July 28, 2018

A suspected British state agent and hitman identified as a triple
sectarian killer was never prosecuted because of a cover-up in which the
PSNI (then RUC) police simply did not send a file to prosecutors, it has
emerged.
Published July 28, 2018

The DUP has come under pressure from Sinn Fein after it appeared to rule
out any further sanction against its MP Ian Paisley despite his
unprecedented suspension from the Westminster parliament over holidays
secretly funded by the Sri Lankan government.
Published July 28, 2018

One of Britain’s largest unions has passed a motion calling for the
conviction of two County Armagh men known as the ‘Craigavon 2’ to be
reviewed.
Published July 28, 2018

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association has relayed
serious cases of abuse of republican prisoners at Maghaberry and
Hydebank jails.
Published July 28, 2018

In a major incident of potential collusion, elements within the PSNI have
passed on to loyalist paramilitaries the details and electronic data of
hundreds of people who they have been spying on.
Published July 21, 2018

After a chaotic week of u-turns and narrow votes at the Westminster
parliament, the British Prime Minister has denounced a previously agreed
‘backstop’ plan to ensure no border checks are introduced across the
island of Ireland.
Published July 21, 2018

The PSNI police have so far refused to say who they believe was
responsible for a firework thrown at the home of Gerry Adams last
weekend.
Published July 21, 2018

A Catholic-maintained school for special needs pupils has been badly
damaged in a sectarian hate crime in east Belfast.
Published July 21, 2018

A petition is set to be collected to recall north Antrim MP Ian Paisley
following a finding by the Westminster parliament that he improperly
accepted holidays from the government of Sri Lanka valued in excess of
100,000 pounds.
Published July 21, 2018

Sinn Fein is to challenge Michael D Higgins in the upcoming Irish
presidential election but has yet to name a candidate for the vote,
which is expected to take place in November.
Published July 21, 2018

The homes of republican youths in Derry are currently the focus of a
PSNI crackdown following several nights of clashes around a major
sectarian parade through the city centre.
Published July 14, 2018

There have been calls for calm after two devices were thrown at the
homes of former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and prominent republican
Bobby Storey in Belfast overnight.
Published July 14, 2018

A meeting which took place between the DUP and the unionist paramilitary
UVF in the early hours of Wednesday failed to convince the loyalist
armed group to lower a giant bonfire, it has emerged.
Published July 14, 2018

A hate attack on a Catholic priest by supporters of an Orange Order
parade in Glasgow has caused a major backlash and a call for a blanket
ban on the openly sectarian organisation in the city.
Published July 14, 2018

A County Tyrone man has described how he was hospitalised after MI5 and
PSNI tried to recruit him as an informer.
Published July 14, 2018

Irish senators on Wednesday passed a bill to ban the import of goods
from Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Published July 14, 2018

A sectarian parade through the centre of Derry provoked heavy
rioting in the city last night as youths threw petrol bombs and the PSNI
responded with potentially lethal plastic bullets.
Published July 13, 2018

The north of Ireland saw some of the worse violence in recent years as
unionist paramilitaries hit back at a first step by authorities against
their towering and toxic ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires.
Published July 12, 2018

Disturbances involving nationalist youths in the Bogside area of Derry
has seen another night of trouble as appeals from a wide spectrum of
politicians fell on deaf ears.
Published July 10, 2018

Boris Johnson has resigned as British Foreign Secretary, following the
departure earlier today of Brexit Minister David Davis, amid a growing
crisis within the Conservative Party over London’s Brexit strategy.
Published July 9, 2018

A Catholic man was dragged from his car and severely beaten in broad
daylight in a rabid attack by loyalist thugs enraged by the failure of
their bonfire nearby. It is believed the victim was attacked randomly
and was only identified as Catholic by the football jersey he was
wearing.
Published July 7, 2018

Steel barriers sealed off the nationalist Short Strand last Monday to
facilitate the passage of a sectarian parade by the anti-Catholic Orange
Order, infuriating local residents but without causing any of the
violence seen in previous years.
Published July 7, 2018

There was some trouble in Derry last weekend amid tension in the city
ahead of major sectarian marches to be held on Thursday by the Orange
Order.
Published July 7, 2018

Calls for a fresh inquest into the McGurks Bar Bombing in Belfast have
been rejected by the Six County Attorney General.
Published July 7, 2018

Sinn Fein has cast doubt on claims that a newly agreed British cabinet
positon on Brexit could prevent a hardening of the border and a
diminution of the rights of the citizens in the north of Ireland.
Published July 7, 2018

Republicans have mourned the passing of veteran IRA figure Sean Scott,
of Ballyforan, near Ballinasloe in County Galway, whose funeral took
place on Wednesday.
Published July 7, 2018

Widespread shock at the appointment of a sinister RUC figure as 26
County Garda police commissioner has been followed by a row after Sinn
Fein vowed to “hold him to account”.
Published June 30, 2018

An elderly nationalist collapsed as he was arrested by PSNI police after
he tried to remove provocative banners in praise of an infamous loyalist
paramilitary in Moygashel, County Tyrone, on Thursday.
Published June 30, 2018

A series of choreographed political gestures could be preparing the way
for a return of the Stormont Assembly as both Sinn Fein and the DUP have
said they are ready to restore the Six County political institutions.
Published June 30, 2018

A conviction by the juryless ‘Special Criminal Court’ (SCC) in Dublin has
been overturned on appeal, raising new questions over a court whose main
purpose has always been to efficiently imprison Irish republicans.
Published June 30, 2018

The widow of murdered Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane has said she
is optimistic that the Supreme Court in London will finally rule in
favour of a full public inquiry into her husband’s death.
Published June 30, 2018

Sinn Fein has said the public appetite for a border poll in the North
should be tested with a question in 2021 census.
Published June 30, 2018

Drew Harris, a current Deputy Chief Constable of the PSNI police in the
Six Counties, is to become the new Garda police commissioner in the 26
Counties, it has been confirmed.
Published June 26, 2018

A secret MI5 report that resulted in the RUC (now PSNI) police
protecting its agents and informers regardless of their role in the
conflict has been made public after 38 years.
Published June 26, 2018

A judge in the non-jury trial of a prominent republican has admitted
the prosecution was based entirely on allegations extracted by police
threats and ordered him to be released, more than five and a half years
after he was initially charged.
Published June 23, 2018

The British Crown Forces are refusing to release documents relating to
top loyalist paramilitary Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson, a former British
soldier linked to the Miami Showband massacre and other suspected acts
of collusion.
Published June 23, 2018

Sinn Fein and Fine Gael have warned the British government against
last-minute negotiations on the border ahead of a crucial June 28-29
summit to finalise a Brexit deal.
Published June 23, 2018

Sinn Fein wants to be part of an administration in Dublin after the next
general election, party leader Mary Lou McDonald has confirmed, as she
set out a change of strategy for her party.
Published June 23, 2018

The unionist paramilitary UVF are being blamed for an ‘Eleventh Night’
bonfire being built close to a children’s play park in a built-up
residential area of Belfast.
Published June 23, 2018

There have been calls for greater efforts to tackle white-collar crime
after former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David ‘The Drummer’ Drumm
received only a six year sentence for his central role in a 7.2 billion
euro fraud which marked a low point in Ireland’s financial crisis.
Published June 23, 2018

A British soldier who shot dead a man as he walked through a British
Army checkpoint in the North of Ireland is to face prosecution.
Published June 19, 2018

Sinn Fein’s internal difficulties have worsened following a combative
display by the party leadership at a weekend conference saw the party
adopt a hardline pro-abortion stance, including a ban on dissent on the
issue by its elected representatives.
Published June 19, 2018

The latest visit by British royals to Ireland has once again sown
division among nationalists and republicans.
Published June 16, 2018

Sinn Fein faces difficult decisions today at the party’s annual
conference as a row over the the party’s attitude to abortion threatens
to overshadow the launch of its bid to enter government following the
next 26 County general election.
Published June 16, 2018

A rally by far-right unionists and neo-Nazis at Belfast City hall last
weekend has raised concerns over the increased visibility of fringe
loyalist groups ahead of the sectarian marching season.
Published June 16, 2018

The Dublin government is to appeal the European Court of Human Right’s
finding that 14 Irishmen were not tortured by the British Army in 1971.
Published June 16, 2018

With the 26 County housing crisis threatening to spiral out of control,
Sinn Fein have begun a new campaign against the man most hold
responsible for the scandal, Fine Gael Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy.
Published June 16, 2018

Nationalists and republicans are being urged to unite to support the
Palestinian cause amid signs that the Irish establishment is seeking to
protect Israel from the fallout over recent atrocities.
Published June 16, 2018

Peter Robinson, the former leader of the hardline unionist DUP, has
suggested agreement on a strategy for phased reunification could allow
him to support a Six County referendum on unity.
Published June 9, 2018

Loyalists have begun hoisting flags and banners and painting kerbstones
in locations across the North in advance of the summer sectarian parades
by the Protestant marching organisations.
Published June 9, 2018

One of the oldest republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison, Sean
O’Neill, has passed away from cancer in Limerick this week while still
being actively sought by the British authorities in the North for
“breaching bail”.
Published June 9, 2018

Sinn Fein and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) were
infiltrated by an undercover British police unit which is currently the
focus of a major inquiry in England.
Published June 9, 2018

A rumoured alliance between Sinn Fein and Fine Gael appears closer this
week after Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched the West
Belfast festival, Feile an Phobail, on Friday.
Published June 9, 2018

A former political prisoner, who fled to the United States after being
part of the 1983 mass escape from the H-Blocks of Long Kesh 35 years
ago, is making a new attempt to clear his name.
Published June 9, 2018

The issue of women’s rights and access to abortion are now being placed
alongside calls for same-sex marriage as part of an equality agenda
being opposed by unionists.
Published June 2, 2018

Britain’s cartwheeling approach to Brexit and the north of Ireland has
reached a critical point with a new plan to expand the Irish border into
a ten-mile demilitarised ‘buffer’ zone.
Published June 2, 2018

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she expects her party will
endorse the provision of abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy
following last Friday’s 26 County referendum to repeal the Eighth
Amendment, which gave a pregnant woman only an equal right to life as
her unborn child.
Published June 2, 2018

The British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley has refused to meet Derry
councillors to discuss the two-year internment of a republican political
activist.
Published June 2, 2018

The younger brother of Derry plastic bullet victim, Stephen McConomy,
says a new inquest into his death could provide his family with the
“answers we deserve.”
Published June 2, 2018

Dozens of republicans gathered with friends and family of the late IRA
Volunteer, George McBrearty in Derry on Sunday to commemorate the 37th
anniversary of his death at the hands of SAS alongside his comrade
Charles ‘Pop’ Maguire in 1981.
Published June 2, 2018

An overwhelming vote in favour of repealing the 8th amendment of the
Irish constitution has opened the way for the liberalisation of
Ireland’s abortion laws, with a final result of 66.4% to 33.6%.
Published May 26, 2018

The leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn visited Belfast
this week to mark 20 years since the Good Friday peace agreement and
added his voice to efforts to circumvent unionist intransigence.
Published May 26, 2018

A Catholic teenager has been hospitalised after being kicked in the head
in a sectarian attack in Derry’s Waterside area.
Published May 26, 2018

The British government is to be asked to explain the disappearance of
part of the body of Aidan McAnespie in 1988. The 23-year-old was shot
dead by a British soldier close to a border checkpoint at Aughnacloy in
County Tyrone as he made his way to a local Gaelic sports club.
Published May 26, 2018

Sinn Fein has criticised the BBC’s lack of coverage of Gaelic games in a
meeting with representatives of the GAA (Gaelic Athletics Association).
Published May 26, 2018

Families who lost loved ones at the hands of unionist paramilitaries
acting in collusion with the state have criticised comments made by a
former Director of Public Prosecutions for an end to conflict-related
prosecutions.
Published May 26, 2018

Ireland looks set to legalise abortion after an exit poll showed a
referendum to remove the constitutional protection for the unborn
passing by an overwhelming 68% Yes to 32% No.
Published May 25, 2018

Theresa May has privately ruled out a vote on Irish unity within the
north of Ireland because it could produce a majority in favour,
according to leaked reports from a secret Tory briefing.
Published May 19, 2018

There is growing concern in the north of Ireland over threats and
attacks by loyalist gangs ahead of the summer marching season.
Published May 19, 2018

The hugely divisive referendum campaign on the Eighth Amendment draws
to a close ahead of voting day next Friday with opinion polls showing
support for the removal of Ireland’s constitutional protection for the
unborn declining, but still likely to pass.
Published May 19, 2018

The ‘New IRA’ has responded to a call by former Sinn Fein leader Gerry
Adams for rival republican groups to “go away”, with posters signed in
the name of “The IRA” appearing in west and north Belfast.
Published May 19, 2018

A legal intervention has forced Crown prosecutors to revise a decision
not to bring criminal charges against two former RUC Special Branch
members who are believed to have directed and shielded loyalist serial
killer Gary Haggarty.
Published May 19, 2018

The victims of the worst day of the recent conflict in Ireland should
be told the truth, a campaigner has said.
Published May 19, 2018

Thousands protested in cities across the country this evening following
a horrific mass murder by Israel of some 60 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza
on Monday. It was the single deadliest day for Palestinians in several
years.
Published May 15, 2018

Scores of Palestinians have been shot dead in Gaza as Israel’s
declaration of independence was marked by a mass slaughter of protestors
gathered at the border.
Published May 14, 2018

Former members of the British Crown Forces have been sharing photographs
of the assassinated IRA Volunteers of Loughgall and gloating about how
they held “parties” in the van in which three of the martyrs were
killed, it has emerged.
Published May 12, 2018

Members of the IRA unit shot dead in a British Army ambush at Loughgall
had been under surveillance for weeks, it was confirmed this week.
Published May 12, 2018

The resignation this week of the head of the 26 County Health Service
Executive (HSE) has added to demands for full accountability in a
scandal over cut-rate cancer testing and a subsequent cover-up which has
claimed the lives of 17 women.
Published May 12, 2018

There has been a furious response to a statement by British Prime
Minister Theresa May to her own parliament which deliberately
misrepresented official figures on policing and claimed “the only
people being investigated” are members of the Crown Forces.
Published May 12, 2018

Unionists have lashed out at the 26 County Minister for Foreign Affairs
after he raised the two-year internment of republican prisoner Tony
Taylor in the Dublin parliament.
Published May 12, 2018

The sectarian nature of the unionist-dominated Irish Football
Association (IFA) has been highlighted by its playing of ‘God Save the
Queen’ at the start of the association’s cup final.
Published May 12, 2018

A dodgy deal for cut-price cancer tests and a subsequent cover-up
wrecked the health of hundreds of Irish women over the past decade, with
17 deaths attributed to the scandal.
Published May 5, 2018

Amid rapidly escalating tensions in Derry, three hoax bomb alerts have
taken place, with two of them directed at the homes of members of the
PSNI police and their parents.
Published May 5, 2018

Claims that a deceased unionist paramilitary may have been responsible
for the deaths of victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre have been treated
with scepticism by the relatives of those who died.
Published May 5, 2018

The mother of a teenager killed by a plastic bullet fired by the RUC
(now PSNI) police 37 years ago has hit out at British state secrecy
after it emerged that files on his murder are to remain under wraps for
another 41 years.
Published May 5, 2018

An independent unionist councillor has drawn attention to the problem
of unchecked hate speech by unionist politicians with an egregious and
ridiculous attempt to insult Irish nationalists.
Published May 5, 2018

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has spoken of “a historic moment”
in the Basque peace process after the ETA armed group announced a
definitive end to the organisation.
Published May 5, 2018

Sinn Fein has retained its Westminster seat for the West Tyrone
constituency after 26-year-old solicitor Orfhlaith Begley polled over
16,000 votes for the party in Thursday’s by-election.
Published May 4, 2018

The PSNI have taken to using saws and battering rams in raids on the
homes of republican activists in Derry following appeals by Sinn Fein
for “tangible action” against armed groups in the city.
Published April 28, 2018

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has provoked outrage among
republicans after she deliberately used the plantation name
“Londonderry” for Derry at an event in the city on Wednesday.
Published April 28, 2018

Sinn Fein has helped a unionist farmer who opposes the party’s main
Brexit policy get elected to the Dublin parliament’s upper chamber, the
Seanad.
Published April 28, 2018

Britain’s ‘Brexit’ Minister was secretly parachuted in and out of
Ireland for a photo-opportunity at the border this week in a humiliating
exercise for the British Crown.
Published April 28, 2018

A seventeen-year-old girl was pointlessly shot dead by a British soldier
while she hugged her boyfriend, a coroner has confirmed.
Published April 28, 2018

A bizarre graffiti attack at St Colmcille’s Church, Carrickmore, County
Tyrone is being linked to next Thursday’s by-election to the Westminster
parliament in the West Tyrone constituency.
Published April 28, 2018

A new ‘Border Force’ recruitment drive is being seen as the latest sign
that the British government is planning to impose a hard border across
Ireland after Brexit, and the manner of its implementation is in line
with the extreme right-wing policies of the British government’s Home
Office.
Published April 21, 2018

A claim that Catholics could soon outnumber Protestants in the Six
Counties has been highlighted by nationalist parties to convince those
with a unionist background to feel “at home” in a new, united Ireland.
Published April 21, 2018

Prisoner support groups have accused the Maghaberry administration of
again targeting the families of republican political prisoners.
Published April 21, 2018

Twenty years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, republicans
who were jailed for activities related to the conflict have said they
are still facing barriers to employment and travel.
Published April 21, 2018

A new set of “principles” to commemorate the late Six County Deputy First
Minister Martin McGuinness have been advanced by Sinn Fein with the
support of a prominent US politician.
Published April 21, 2018

The use of international air bombardments in the war in Syria has
provoked anger and protest in Ireland.
Published April 21, 2018

The headquarters of the Irish Republican Socialist Party were raided by
the PSNI police on Friday in the latest show of strength by the Crown
forces against republicans in Belfast and Derry.
Published April 14, 2018

Saoradh has vowed to resist the criminalisation of republicans
following a heavy-handed police arrest operation at offices shared by
the small political party on Monday.
Published April 14, 2018

The nationalist SDLP has been condemned after it threatened to
discipline its councillors in Newry who failed to support moves to
rename a park in the town named for local hunger strike hero Raymond
McCreesh.
Published April 14, 2018

Sinn Fein’s Mayor of Dublin, Micheal Mac Donncha, has caused a furore
over his attendance at a conference in Palestine after Israel failed to
prevent him from attending and which the Israeli prime minister then
denounced as anti-semitic.
Published April 14, 2018

Major media outlets and prominent politicians have been taken in by a
bogus statement and photograph claiming to represent a new Irish
republican armed group.
Published April 14, 2018

Low-level corruption and incompetence have emerged as the defining
characteristics of the Six County Executive’s handling of the notorious
RHI scandal as the inquiry into the affair began addressing the issue
of political leadership this week.
Published April 14, 2018

A 76-year-old woman injured during a Crown Force operation to disrupt an
Easter 1916 commemoration in Lurgan has come to symbolise the defiance
of republicans against a new effort to disrupt republican Easter parade
colour parties.
Published April 7, 2018

A former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has suggested loyalist
paramilitaries could mount attacks against the Dublin government over
its efforts to prevent a ‘hard border’ through Ireland.
Published April 7, 2018

The leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster, has said she could not tolerate
living in Ireland if the island were to be reunited.
Published April 7, 2018

More than 40 members of the North Down UDA mounted a display of
paramilitary power in Bangor, County Down following police searches of
loyalist Dee Stitt’s home and two other properties.
Published April 7, 2018

Senior unionist politicians have been accused of engaging in racist
commentary amid a controversy over the distribution of fascistic
leaflets against immigrants.
Published April 7, 2018

There has been a general welcome in Derry after councillors formally
backed a call for schools to ban British Armed Forces from accessing
children.
Published April 7, 2018

Confrontations at Easter 1916 events across the North erupted in a
mini-riot in Derry today as the annual march by the 1916 Commemoration
Committee, supported by Saoradh, gathered in the Creggan estate in the
city.
Published April 2, 2018

The PSNI have this afternoon attacked an Easter commemoration in Lurgan,
County Armagh, injuring a woman and dramatically raising tensions ahead
of a weekend of commemorative events.
Published March 31, 2018

There has been an outcry in Ireland after more than sixteen Palestinians
were killed in the Gaza Strip on Friday as Israel used snipers and other
weaponry against tens of thousands of demonstrators who had gathered
along the Gaza-Israel boundary.
Published March 31, 2018

In a positive development in the campaign against internment by remand
which has seen republicans jailed for years without charges being
brought, Luke O’Neill has been granted bail.
Published March 31, 2018

On the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, a desultory
media exercise by British Prime Minister Theresa May at a farm in County
Down has added to the belief that political atrophy in London means
there will be no revival of the Stormont powersharing institutions in
the short term.
Published March 31, 2018

Two former British soldiers are to stand trial charged with murdering an
Official IRA man in Belfast 46 years ago, a judge has ordered.
Published March 31, 2018

The position of the 26 County Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy is
under increasing threat after a shock increase in the number of homeless
people, particularly children, which has rocketed by almost 50 per cent
in the last year.
Published March 31, 2018

In an emphatic ruling, a High Court judge has issued a “mandatory order”
to civil servants in Belfast and London to provide long-denied funds for
legacy inquests in the North of Ireland.
Published March 24, 2018

Unionists have reacted with outrage following a proclamation by the
mayor of New York last weekend naming March 17, 2018 as ‘Gerry Adams
Day’.
Published March 24, 2018

The Irish Republican Socialist Party has said it believes that two of
its members were killed as part of a wider campaign against the party by
the British government and are now the target of a potential cover-up.
Published March 24, 2018

At the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Newry, the national flag was
flown despite attempts by Newry, Mourne and Down Council to ban it.
Published March 24, 2018

Sinn Fein has suspended one of its TDs, Offaly TD Carol Nolan, after
she voted against holding a referendum to remove a constitutional ban
on abortion this week.
Published March 24, 2018

The spokesperson on Ireland for the British Labour Party, Owen Smith,
was dramatically sacked by party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday night in
a row over the party’s position on Britain’s departure from the European
Union.
Published March 24, 2018

A decision by the European Court of Human Rights has been described as a
bad day for justice after it refused to revise a judgement that the
‘Hooded Men’ did not suffer torture at the hands of their British
military captors in 1971.
Published March 20, 2018

The 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is facing calls to resign after he
bragged about how he subverted the state’s planning process on behalf of
Donald Trump’s business interests during the traditional St Patrick’s
Day lunch in Washington DC.
Published March 17, 2018

Political prisoner Gabriel Mackle has been released following a period
of internment lasting over four months, it has been confirmed. It is
believed his release was made subject to legal conditions which have
prevented him making a statement on the matter.
Published March 17, 2018

Sinn Fein has questioned the authority of the DUP negotiating team,
headed up by party leader Arlene Foster, after the last round of talks
to restore power-sharing in Belfast suddenly collapsed as a deal was
imminent.
Published March 17, 2018

US President Donald Trump has said he will visit Ireland and will go to
the border, according to reports from Washington DC.
Published March 17, 2018

People crossing the British-imposed border through Ireland would have to
register in advance for permission under a deranged plan for Brexit
being considered by Tories.
Published March 17, 2018

The brother of a County Tyrone man shot dead while trying to escape from
Long Kesh internment camp almost 45 years ago has launched a legal
action against the PSNI police and British Ministry of Defence.
Published March 17, 2018

Sinn Fein has warned that the DUP has “checked out” of any attempt to
restore the powersharing institutions in Belfast as the Tory government
in London introduced an effective Direct Rule budget for the North of
Ireland.
Published March 10, 2018

Events have been taking place in west Belfast to commemorate three IRA
Volunteers ambushed and executed by the British Army’s SAS in Gibraltar
30 years ago.
Published March 10, 2018

A High Court judge has found that the leader of the Democratic Unionist
Party, Arlene Foster, illegally blocked funding for inquests into
killings in the north of Ireland.
Published March 10, 2018

Derry republican Tony Taylor has issued a statement from Maghaberry
prison appealing for public support on the second anniversary of his
internment.
Published March 10, 2018

Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain, the party’s longest-serving elected
representative in the 26 Counties, has confirmed he will not stand in
the next general election.
Published March 10, 2018

Sinn Fein has called on the manager of the ‘Northern Ireland’ soccer
squad to withdraw comments in which he complained that “Catholic”
players from the Six Counties had been convinced to play for the Irish
national team.
Published March 10, 2018

The President of the European Council Donald Tusk has said issues
relating to Ireland must be resolved before negotiations on Brexit can
move ahead in other matters.
Published March 8, 2018

Thousands of people have taken part in a march for victims of the recent
conflict in Belfast. They came together last weekend as they made their
way to City Hall under the banner ‘Time for Truth’.
Published March 3, 2018

The British Prime Minister has claimed an EU proposal for a ‘common
regulatory area’ between the EU and the North of Ireland would “threaten
the constitutional integrity of the UK”.
Published March 3, 2018

The Fine Gael government in Dublin has been using public money for a
marketing campaign that required Irish newspapers to make government
propaganda look like news, it has emerged.
Published March 3, 2018

A prosecutor’s decision not to try the British soldier who shot dead a
15-year-old child in Derry in 1972 was “irredeemably flawed”, the High
Court has ruled. Judges also ruled that the four-year delay by notorious
former Crown Prosecutor Barra McGrory was “manifestly excessive,
inexplicable, unjustified and unlawful”.
Published March 3, 2018

A former military intelligence whistle-blower in the British Army has
offered to give evidence in secret court hearings about murders and
collusion by the British Army.
Published March 3, 2018

A bank hired loyalist paramilitaries and ex-British army personnel to
evict a family from their County Dublin home, according to anti-eviction
activists.
Published March 3, 2018

Almost 24,000 homes and businesses across Ireland are without power amid
one of the worst winter storms the country has experienced for decades.
Much of the country heeded warnings to stay indoors amid extreme weather
conditions overnight.
Published March 2, 2018

The European Union has published its fallback plan to effectively keep
the north of Ireland in the single market and customs union after
Brexit, in a 120-page draft withdrawal agreement.
Published February 28, 2018

Details of a draft talks agreement on the restoration of powersharing
between Sinn Fein and the DUP have exposed the opposition of powerful
unionist hardliners to even the most moderate accommodation with
nationalism.
Published February 24, 2018

A concerted attack by British ‘Brexiteers’ to end Ireland’s famous 1998
peace deal may have motivated a US decision to appoint a new envoy to
the north of Ireland.
Published February 24, 2018

There have been calls for an independent investigation after an
elaborate listening device was found at the former home of a senior
republican. The bug was discovered by a relative of Brian Keenan,
who died from cancer in 2008.
Published February 24, 2018

Tensions are high in north Armagh following a three-day British Army and
PSNI assault against the republican community in the area.
Published February 24, 2018

On the 30th anniversary of his death, an announcement by the 26 County
Minister for Justice that he will not release a report into the killing
of a Sinn Fein election worker has hurt the family.
Published February 24, 2018

The defacement of a bilingual road sign in Fermanagh has symptomised a
new wave of anti-Gaelic and anti-Irish hate in the wake of the
collapsed Stormont talks.
Published February 24, 2018

There is mounting concern that unionists in the north of Ireland are
incapable of treating nationalists with respect after the DUP suddenly
backed away from a deal which would have legislated for the rights for
Irish language speakers.
Published February 17, 2018

An element of sectarianism has surfaced in the mainstream media as
extreme unionism rallied in opposition to the Irish language this week.
Published February 17, 2018

A community association in Derry have called for the immediate release
of republican Neil Hegarty, who was interned in Maghaberry prison in
December just one day after he had been released after five years in
prison.
Published February 17, 2018

The new Sinn Fein leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has been stamping her
authority on the party in the wake of being selected as the successor to
Gerry Adams, who quit the post last week.
Published February 17, 2018

A former republican prisoner and political activist has said there was
an attempt by British military agents to recruit him at an airport in
France.
Published February 17, 2018

Dublin city councillors have condemned a British property company’s
efforts to have buildings around a national monument site opened for
development.
Published February 17, 2018

The current phase of political talks in Belfast has ended after unionist
hardliners in the DUP rejected measures to increase recognition for the
Irish language in the north of Ireland.
Published February 14, 2018

Mary Lou McDonald today officially replaced Gerry Adams
as Uachtaran Shinn Fein [President of Sinn Fein] at a special
party conference in Dublin. The following is the full text
of her acceptance speech.
Published February 10, 2018

As he hands over the reins to Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
president Gerry Adams has been giving interviews and facing a welter of
last-minute criticism from his political opponents.
Published February 10, 2018

With no sign of a British government solution to the issue of the Irish
border, the European Union is reportedly preparing a draft of the
British withdrawal treaty with the North of Ireland effectively having
status within the EU.
Published February 10, 2018

The latest attempts to restore local power-sharing government in
Belfast have made progress and should conclude next week, according to
Sinn Fein.
Published February 10, 2018

Republican prisoners have condemned the authorities in Maghaberry prison
over a new clampdown on educational and historical materials at the
jail.
Published February 10, 2018

In a series of early morning raids in Dublin this week, eight
republicans and their families were subjected to armed police forcing
entry to their homes.
Published February 10, 2018

The political vacuum in the North continues to be filled by unionist
anger at Sinn Fein over bizarre incidents and minor issues.
Published February 10, 2018

There was widespread shock this week after it was confirmed that
loyalist Special Branch double agent Gary Haggarty could be freed
within weeks despite pleading guilty to five murders, five attempted
murders and hundreds of other crimes.
Published February 3, 2018

A group of republican prisoners at Maghaberry jail has said the
suspension of armed actions by the breakaway IRA group known as Oglaigh
na hEireann (ONH) last week will allow a “period of consolidation,
expansion and preparation”.
Published February 3, 2018

Fifty years on from the launch of the civil rights movement,
nationalists are contining to battle for equality in the face of
systematic and opportunistic discrimination.
Published February 3, 2018

Victims of the conflict have announced plans for a mass march in Belfast
to demand action on efforts to deal with the legacy of the conflict.
Published February 3, 2018

The Dublin government has paved the way for a referendum on abortion
next May which has already provoked unanswered questions as to what is
actually being proposed.
Published February 3, 2018

A former republican prisoner has accused his daughters’ Catholic school
of becoming a tool of oppression after British Army soldiers were allowed to
make a presentation.
Published February 3, 2018

The man alleged to have been the British Army’s most high-ranking agent
in the Provisional IRA has been arrested and is being questioned about
allegations that he murdered dozens of people while working undercover
in the IRA’s feared internal security unit.
Published January 30, 2018

Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) have confirmed no immediate plans to
decommission their weapons following the breakaway IRA group’s
announcement that it is to “suspend all armed actions against the
British State”.
Published January 27, 2018

In a dramatic day at Belfast’s High Court, a judge who sought to quash a
report which found British state collusion in the Loughinisland massacre
is to step aside from the case.
Published January 27, 2018

The sister of a man shot dead on Bloody Sunday has said the erection of
flags for the British Army’s Parachute Regiment outside Derry is “blind
sectarianism”.
Published January 27, 2018

The new British Direct Ruler Karen Bradley has characterised the latest
round of the talks process in Belfast as a final chance to salvage the
devolved power-sharing institutions at Stormont.
Published January 27, 2018

A British MP has warned that new recruits could be deterred from joining
the British Army because of the possibility of prosecution for war
crimes.
Published January 27, 2018

Concerns have been expressed at the accelerating rate at which
undocumented Irish people living in the United States are being deported
back to Ireland.
Published January 27, 2018

The full text of today’s ceasefire statement by the
breakaway IRA armed group, Oglaigh na hEireann. It was released at a
press conference involving Fianna Fáil TD Eamon O Cuiv and senior trade union figures who have been in
talks around the group’s future.
Published January 23, 2018

The breakaway IRA group Oglaigh na hEireann has announced a suspension
of its armed actions, saying the “environment is not right for armed
conflict” at this time, according to news reports this morning.
Published January 23, 2018

Mary Lou McDonald will succeed Gerry Adams as Sinn Fein leader, the
party has confirmed, and will formally ascend to the leadership at a
special Ard Fheis [conference] next month.
Published January 20, 2018

Sinn Fein has condemned new proposals to redraw the north’s electoral
constituencies as a Tory/DUP gerrymander. A new revised plan is being
prepared by the Boundary Commission which is a dramatic shift from
previous plans.
Published January 20, 2018

A new phase of talks to restore the powersharing Stormont Assembly is to
begin next Wednesday amid a difficult political climate.
Published January 20, 2018

Two decades after the murder of Fergal ‘Ricky’ McCusker by the LVF, his
family have said they and other victims across the area “deserve
answers, truth and accountability”.
Published January 20, 2018

A row has broken out over this year’s Bloody Sunday march in Derry,
with some republican organisations preparing to boycott the event due
to the appearance of a British soldier and other contentious names on
advertising material.
Published January 20, 2018

A court bid by Gerry Adams to overturn two 1975 convictions for
attempting to escape from prison has heard that his initial detention
was illegal.
Published January 20, 2018

Sinn Fein’s Barry McElduff has resigned as West Tyrone MP following an
outcry over an intended humourous video in which he used a loaf of
bread as a prop.
Published January 15, 2018

Tributes have been paid to Rosaleen Sands, the mother of hunger striker
and MP Bobby Sands, who passed away on Friday.
Published January 13, 2018

A short internet video intended as humourous by Sinn Fein MP for West
Tyrone Barry McElduff caused a wave of sectarian recrimination this week
when a loaf of bread he perched on his head inside a petrol station
carried the word ‘Kingsmill’.
Published January 13, 2018

Prominent Derry councillor Gary Donnelly has again been arrested and
released by Gardai in County Donegal in connection with the execution of
British agent and Sinn Fein informer, Denis Donaldson.
Published January 13, 2018

Britain’s new Direct Ruler in Ireland Karen Bradley has visited the
North where she was welcomed as a “good unionist” by DUP MP Ian
Paisley.
Published January 13, 2018

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the killing, the Dublin government has
refused to release a report into the British army killing of Aidan
McAnespie as he made his way to a Gaelic sports pitch.
Published January 13, 2018

The deputy leader of a far-right unionist group in Britain is to go on
trial on charges of hate speech in Belfast, it was confirmed in court
on Tuesday.
Published January 13, 2018

A 47-year-old English MP has been appointed as the new British Direct
Ruler in the north of Ireland, taking over from the departing James
Brokenshire. Karen Bradley has no known connection to Ireland.
Published January 8, 2018

The head of British government in the north of Ireland, James
Brokenshire, has quit the Tory cabinet ahead of a major reshuffle by
Prime Minister Theresa May.
Published January 8, 2018

The DUP has been accused of not facing reality after the hardline
unionist party called for a return of full Direct Rule of the north of
Ireland from London, and condemned comments by the 26 County Taoiseach
that he supports a united Ireland.
Published January 6, 2018

A republican prisoner recently extradited into British jurisdiction was
dragged away from a Christmas visit by prison warders before being
subjected to a vicious strip search.
Published January 6, 2018

Miami Showband massacre survivor Stephen Travers says the 26 County
government should be ‘getting answers’ from London about revelations
emerging from declassified state papers.
Published January 6, 2018

The number of patients waiting for a hospital bed on trolleys in the 26
Counties reached a record earlier this week as the Dublin government
admitted it was baffled by its own failures.
Published January 6, 2018

There have been calls for the Dublin government to hold a proper
investigation into the Belturbet car bombing which claimed two lives of
two teenagers 45 years ago this week.
Published January 6, 2018

A notorious Irish civil servant who claims that homelessness is “normal”
and that some of those seeking shelter are trying to “game the system”
has been reappointed as head of the Dublin government’s Housing Agency.
Published January 6, 2018

The Dublin government’s first intelligence on Sinn Fein’s peace
initiative of 1987 claimed that Gerry Adams disapproved of some IRA
actions and that the Sinn Fein leader saw the armed struggle as a
“political liability”.
Published December 30, 2017

State papers released in Dublin have revealed how the late Taoiseach
Charlie Haughey faced an assassination threat from MI5 while he was
being brow-beaten by Margaret Thatcher into handing over wanted Irish
republicans.
Published December 30, 2017

Sinn Fein and the DUP do not agree on when a new attempt to restore
powersharing in Belfast will be made, with claims by East Derry MP
Gregory Campbell that negotiations are to resume “within the next 10
days” not shared by Sinn Fein.
Published December 30, 2017

Unionists are seeking to quash findings of collusion between the RUC
police and unionist paramilitaries in up to six Police Ombudsman reports
following a surprise court judgment before Christmas.
Published December 30, 2017

The wife of a man killed in one of the worst loyalist massacres in Derry
has called for the investigation into her husband’s death to be
re-opened.
Published December 30, 2017

Unionists have protested after republican party Saoradh opened a new
office in the centre of a County Tyrone town of Dungannon.
Published December 30, 2017

There was outrage in Ireland this week as British negotiators backed
away from commitments on the Irish border reached in a deal with the
European Union on the terms of its departure.
Published December 16, 2017