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Nationalists are being urged to remain calm and vigilant after three days of racist loyalist violence in County Antrim.

Stunning courtroom victory for Gerry Adams

Despite a court finding that Gerry Adams had been defamed by the BBC in a high-profile television documentary in 2016, the broadcaster’s attacks on Adams and Sinn Féin have not stopped.

Anti-Catholic attacks revive old fears

Catholic residents of new homes in a mixed development in north Belfast have appealed for help in the face of a new campaign of sectarian terror by the unionist paramilitary UDA.

‘Terrorism’ charge won’t silence Kneecap

Outrage has greeted a decision by the London Metropolitan Police to charge a member of Irish language hip hop group Kneecap with an offence over the display of a flag at a gig last year.

Seán Walsh extradited

Seán Walsh has become the latest victim of the Dublin government’s extradition policy, after having fought his case for four years from Portlaoise prison.

Bobby Sands remembered with statue

Bobby Sands was hailed as a “beacon of light for freedom loving people” as a statue to the IRA hunger striker was unveiled in his native west Belfast.

‘Kneecap is not the story’

A wave of solidarity has built in support of young Irish rap band Kneecap amid a concerted witch-hunt to destroy the group over its outspoken opposition to the genocide in Gaza.

PSNI ‘lash out’ after Easter commemoration

Two republican activists were arrested by the PSNI amid heightened tensions in the city over a 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration in Derry.

Martin backs away from peace deal unity poll

Micheál Martin has been accused of “gutting” Fianna Fáil of its “last drop” of republicanism after he dismissed the idea of a referendum for Irish reunification in 2030.

Horror of Gaza cannot be hidden

The role of the West in the destruction of the Palestinian people is being slowly drawn into the open.

Jim Donegan extradited, refused bail

Veteran Irish Republican Jim Donegan has been handed over to British forces over accusations he was involved in the IRA’s armed struggle in 1979.

Judge claims ‘public interest’ in extraditing escapees

Two men who escaped from Long Kesh jail in a dramatic tunnelling breakout nearly 50 years ago are set to be extradited into British jurisdiction.

Glenanne gang prosecution raises new questions

An RUC ‘whistle-blower’ is to be the first to be prosecuted in an investigation by the North’s Police Ombudsman into the Glenanne Gang, a collaboration between unionist paramilitaries and members of the British Crown Forces which carried out at least 125 sectarian murders.

Martin tugs the forelock for Trump

Micheál Martin’s bid to appease a vain and erratic US President at a White House event for St Patrick’s Day has been hailed as a diplomatic triumph by Ireland’s right and rejected as a humiliating act of submission by Ireland’s left.

Work starts on Irish unity plan

The Irish government has started the process of working out the implications of a united Ireland as a new poll showed 53% of voters in the occupied Six Counties support reunification, with 41% calling for it to take place immediately.

RNU man shot, then denied medical treatment

A member of the Republican Network for Unity was shot by unknown assailants in Belfast on Sunday morning and then denied permission to travel to Scotland for urgent surgery.

UDA exploiting talks with Britain - report

The British government has been in fruitless talks for over a year with UDA gangs about moving away from organised paramilitary activity, it has beeen reported.

Shoot-to-kill verdict ‘ridicules British lies’

A landmark inquest has vindicated a Tyrone community and indicted the British Army and London government over their cowardlyambush of four young IRA Volunteers in Clonoe in 1992.

UDA shoot pensioner in smoke-and-mirrors attack

A disabled pensioner was shot five times in the arms and legs by the UDA following a police raid at a brothel they operated.

Attack leaves pensioner clinging to life

The UVF has been blamed for a shocking attack at the home of an elderly woman in Antrim in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

June 15, 2025

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