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The Dublin government is to officially call a general election on Friday
as it pushed €400m into bank accounts in a bid to convince voters to
ignore deepening crises in housing, inequality, health, child welfare,
immigration, political greed and corruption.
Published November 7, 2024
Ireland’s president has said it is “time to stop this horror of history”
after fresh Israeli outrages in Palestine and Lebanon and after Israeli
legislators passed laws to block the work of the main aid agency in
Gaza.
Published October 31, 2024
Support for the North of Ireland remaining in a Union with Britain has
dropped below the key 50% level for the first time in a state-funded
survey of the Six Counties, adding to pressure for an end to partition
and the complete decolonisation of the island of Ireland.
Published October 24, 2024
Mike Jackson, the former head of the British Army and the adjutant of
the Parachute Regiment during the Bloody Sunday massacre, has died aged
80.
Published October 17, 2024
Britain is to return its last African colony to Mauritius, ending
decades of abuses of the Chagos island and its residents, whom it
forcibly expelled from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s.
Published October 10, 2024
Days after a group of loyalist paramilitary figures met the North’s
Minister for Education to make sectarian demands for curbs on the Irish
language, the threat of paramilitary violence has forced the
cancellation of an Irish language event.
Published October 3, 2024
The so-called ‘International Fund for Ireland’ is to be called to
account over allegations it has been supporting loyalist violence in the
Six Counties.
Published September 26, 2024
Relationships between the nationalist community and the British
government are at their lowest in years after a ‘blitzkrieg’ of
backsliding by London on promises to tackle inequality in the north of
Ireland.
Published September 19, 2024
The Finucane family have been praised for their determination through 35
years of stonewalling by successive British administrations to finally
force the current government to hold an independent public inquiry into
the murder of their husband and father.
Published September 12, 2024
The PSNI has effectively backed unionist paramilitary gangs accused of
orchestrating racist attacks and is now refusing to blame them for
recent violence and intimidation across the Six Counties.
Published September 5, 2024
The arrest and detention without bail of 61-year-old veteran republican
Martin McCauley on foot of a British extradition warrant has been
strongly condemned by republicans.
Published August 29, 2024
A campaign by Ireland’s state-run broadcaster to demonise republicans
backfired spectacularly this week after events it tried to smear drew
record-breaking attendances.
Published August 22, 2024
Thousands have been demonstrating against efforts to stir up race hate
against immigrants in Belfast.
Published August 15, 2024
The shadowy links between far-right instigators of racist violence in
Dublin and loyalist paramilitaries in the north of Ireland was on
display in Belfast city centre last Saturday when a fascist mob marched
through the city and carried out a wave of attacks on Muslim-owned
businesses.
Published August 8, 2024
Unionists and loyalists reacted with bitterness to the celebrations
which followed Armagh’s triumph in the Gaelic games All-Ireland football
final last weekend.
Published August 1, 2024
A campaign for the redevelopment of a disused Gaelic sports venue in
Belfast as a major multi-purpose sports stadium has received a boost
after a captivating all-Ireland hurling final was broadcast on BBC and
around the world last weekend.
Published July 25, 2024
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has described a threat on her life as
“very shocking and very disturbing”.
Published July 18, 2024
Celebrations across Ireland at the demise of the Tories in the
Westminster general election have given way to concern at the incoming
British government under Keir Starmer, the leader of the party he refers
to as ‘Changed Labour’.
Published July 11, 2024
A historic Westminster election has the potential to kill off the hated
Conservative Party while confirming the decline of unionism in the north
of Ireland.
Published July 4, 2024
The PSNI looked on as loyalists tore down Irish tricolours and
Palestinian flags during a sectarian parade in a predominately
nationalist area north of Belfast on Tuesday evening.
Published June 27, 2024