
Unionists are piling pressure on Sinn Féin MP John Finucane to
withdraw from a commemoration of IRA Volunteers who died in the conflict
as part of their unending campaign to depict Irish resistance to British rule as
“terrorism”.
Published June 8, 2023
After an election in which the nationalist share of the vote overtook
the unionist one for the first time, a senior DUP figure has admitted it
could be an “ice age” before powersharing ever returns to Belfast.
Published June 1, 2023

The political dynamic in the north of Ireland has changed significantly
after nationalism vaulted ahead of unionism in Thursday’s council
elections.
Published May 25, 2023

After a low key campaign, today’s council elections in the north of
Ireland could turn the dial against unionist misrule and boost efforts
to tackle inequality and discrimination at council level.
Published May 18, 2023

A hostile reaction to Sinn Féin’s attendance at the coronation of King
Charles last weekend could change the political landscape ahead of local
council elections in the North.
Published May 11, 2023

A shocking attempt by loyalist thugs to force out a Catholic family in
Lurgan, County Armagh has raised tensions ahead of local elections in
the north of Ireland.
Published May 4, 2023

Sinn Féin is struggling to convince republicans that it has not broken
away from its roots after it agreed to send First Minister-elect,
Michelle O’Neill, to attend the Coronation of Charles as King.
Published April 27, 2023

Three political parties have been targeted by loyalists ahead of local
elections next month.
Published April 20, 2023

Britain’s ‘dirty tricks’ department has been accused of planting bogus
devices at Derry city cemetery in order to attract international
condemnation for the New IRA.
Published April 13, 2023

Confirmation that US President Joe Biden is to visit Ireland next week
to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement will
bring international attention to the unionist boycott of the political
institutions set up under the peace deal.
Published April 6, 2023

Anger is mounting after several days of aggressive British military
operations in which masked and armed soldiers conducted searches and
raids in Derry and Tyrone.
Published March 30, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The passage of Irish language legislation into British law has been
welcomed as a “historic milestone” by campaigners who are now seeking
the implementation of the law, including the appointment of the north’s
first Irish language commissioner.
Published December 8, 2022
The response of the London government to the conviction of a British
soldier for the death of a young Tyrone man has beeen described as
“shocking”.
Published December 1, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Decades in the planning, a massive operation to honour the late Queen of
England has failed to dispel questions over the future of the monarchy
or the unity of their kingdom.
Published September 15, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A deceptive police report into the McGurk’s Bar bomb atrocity is to be
quashed in its entirety, concluding a titanic legal battle between
victims of the atrocity and the PSNI.
Published June 30, 2022

With plans well advanced in London for a hard border through Ireland and
a blanket amnesty for British war crimes, there is a consensus among
nationalists that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is under unprecedented
attack.
Published June 23, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hardline unionists have been blamed for a shocking incident that saw a
noose placed around the neck of an image of Ulster Unionist Party leader
Doug Beattie.
Published April 14, 2022
The 26 County Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, has been
funding organisations linked to unionist paramilitaries who have been
threatening to assassinate him, it has emerged.
Published April 7, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thousands of people took to the streets of County Donegal and County
Tyrone last weekend to demand a united Ireland.
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 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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 huge protest against Brexit in London today is thought to
be one of the biggest in British history.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 latest visit by British royals to Ireland has once again sown
division among nationalists and republicans.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A tsunami of spin in regards to the Irish border has scraped the
British government into a second round of negotiations with the European
Union over its departure, but at the expense of any confidence in the
negotiations process.
Published December 9, 2017

The failure of the British body politic to understand the implications of
reinforcing the border through Ireland has dominated news coverage at a
critical juncture in the negotiations over Britain’s departure from the
EU.
Published December 2, 2017

The 26 County minority government could collapse on Tuesday after Fine
Gael leader Leo Varadkar refused to back down over a motion of no
confidence in the deputy prime minister, Tanaiste Frances Fitzgerald.
Published November 25, 2017

Rulings that the murder of 11-year-old British Army victim Francis
Rowntree was ‘not justified’ and that the rubber bullets fired at him
were lethal have been widely welcomed, although 45 years late and
following the recent death of his mother.
Published November 18, 2017

A prominent Armagh republican, Gabriel Mackle, has been interned on the
orders of the British Direct Ruler James Brokenshire.
Published November 11, 2017

An attempt to inject urgency into the Stormont talks process this week
failed to resolve a stand-off over the Democratic Unionist Party’s
refusal to implement past agreements on equality and respect for
nationalists, leading to speculation that the process has reached an
endpoint.
Published November 4, 2017

Saoradh has protested against the detention of its chairperson, national
organiser and two Belfast activists, after they were seized in early
morning raids on Thursday.
Published October 28, 2017

The British government has said it is ready to send British soldiers
into Irish border areas if Britain leaves the EU without a Brexit deal.
Published October 21, 2017

Another loyalist ‘supergrass’ case has collapsed with the news that not
one of the loyalists or Special Branch police named in court by informer
Gary Haggarty will face prosecution.
Published October 14, 2017

Irish nationalists have united in solidarity with Catalonia and in
condemnation of the attempted suppression of this week’s independence
poll.
Published October 7, 2017

Catholic families in a cross-community housing development in Belfast
have been ordered to leave their homes in a sectarian threat from the
unionist paramilitary UVF.
Published September 30, 2017

A sudden and violent attempt to suppress the Catalan independence
movement by the Madrid government has shocked those struggling for
self-determination across the world.
Published September 23, 2017

There have been protests against the planned use of a paid informer in
the non-jury trial of republican political activist Kevin Braney, the
chairperson of Saoradh in Dublin.
Published September 16, 2017

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams has made the first step in his gradual
withdrawal from front-line politics in a historic shift which he
believes will help pave the way for a new generation of party leaders.
Published September 9, 2017

A former RUC police officer this week said he believed the British
government was aware of the activities of the Glenanne Gang’s death
squads at the very highest level.
Published September 2, 2017

Five Catholic and mixed families have been forced out of their homes in
Derry amid a pogrom by loyalist paramilitaries in the predominately
Protestant Waterside area of the city.
Published August 26, 2017

Claims by the British government that they wish to impose no additional
border reinforcements in Ireland following their departure from the
European Union are being treated with scepticism.
Published August 19, 2017

A one-sided approach by council authorities to bonfires has
been blamed for a riotous conflagration in nationalist areas of Belfast
city centre this week which threatened to reignite conflict at sectarian
interfaces in the city.
Published August 12, 2017

An Irish parliamentary report on achieving Irish unity has placed the
republican goal of a united Ireland in the context of 26 County
constitutional parliamentary politics for the first time.
Published August 5, 2017

In a dramatic vindication for the grieving families, the High Court in
Belfast has accepted that the PSNI wrecked an investigation into
collusion by Britain in the notorious Glenanne Gang, which was
responsible for killing 130 Catholics.
Published July 29, 2017

The Orange Order has refused to apologise after photographs emerged of
supporters in Scotland wearing bizarre and shocking costumes expressing
racist and sectarian hate.
Published July 22, 2017

The Democratic Unionist Party has caused a furore by issuing
conflicting statements about the burning of a coffin effigy of the late
Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness on a loyalist bonfire in east
Belfast on Tuesday.
Published July 15, 2017

Stung by criticism that it has conspired in loyalist paramilitary crime,
Belfast city councillors have now attempted to limit the size of four
‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires, despite having previously funded and
supported the infamously sectarian displays.
Published July 8, 2017

A deal between the Tories and the Democratic Unionist Party could allow
the unionist hardliners to control British policy in the north of
Ireland for the lifetime of the current Westminster parliament.
Published July 1, 2017

English royals Elizabeth and Charles Windsor have delivered the
legislative agenda of the presumptive minority government in London for
the next two years which revolves around its uncertain plans to
withdraw from the European Union.
Published June 24, 2017

An attempt by British Prime Minister Theresa May to placate the North of
Ireland parties over her plans to form a pact with hardline unionists
saw Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams tell her that her government is “in
clear breach of the Good Friday Agreement”.
Published June 17, 2017

Sinn Fein has played down the impact of a deal between unionists and
Conservatives as it emerged the Democratic Unionist Party will support a
minority Tory government in London.
Published June 10, 2017

A brutal murder by the unionist paramilitary UDA of a feud rival and
its subsequent election endorsement of the DUP has dramatically raised
the issue of collusion between unionist politicians and loyalist murder
gangs ahead of next week’s Westminster election.
Published June 3, 2017

The collapse of the trial of notorious Irish bankster Sean FitzPatrick
has increased suspicions that the 26 County state is deliberately
facilitating white collar crime.
Published May 27, 2017

The current Minister for Social Protection
Leo Varadkar looks well placed to win the Fine Gael leadership contest
and take over as head of the Dublin government.
Published May 20, 2017

A visit by British royals to Ireland has again polarised republicans,
with protests organised as leading Sinn Fein figures greeted Charles
Windsor and his wife Camilla.
Published May 13, 2017

The republican armed group known as Oglaigh na hEireann has denied
reports that it is involved in talks with the British or 26 County
governments or that it is on the verge of disbanding.
Published May 6, 2017

An official statement by the European Union that it will accept a future
united Ireland into the EU has been cautiously welcomed by republicans
as bringing international diplomatic recognition for impending Irish
unification.
Published April 29, 2017

Crisis talks in the north of Ireland have been suspended until June
following the decision of the British Prime Minister to call a snap
general election, an unexpected move which angered politicians in
Belfast and cast new uncertainty over the future of Stormont and its
powersharing institutions.
Published April 22, 2017

Sinn Fein has been urged to exonerate those republicans and others who
were executed as ‘informers’ on the orders of a British double agent
operating inside the Provisional IRA.
Published April 14, 2017

The Dublin government’s failure to secure any kind of veto for Ireland
in the negotiations following Brexit has been strongly criticised as a
dereliction of its duties.
Published April 7, 2017

Despite the Brexit process, the north of Ireland could remain in the
European Union pending a unity referendum, according to papers
published this week by a European Parliament committee.
Published April 1, 2017

Grief turned to pride for Sinn Fein this week as tens of thousands paid
their respects to a leader who came to symbolise peace in Ireland and
the process through which the Provisional IRA gave birth to a political
powerhouse.
Published March 24, 2017

There has been an angry response in both Ireland and Scotland after
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would block referendums on
Irish unity and Scottish independence following the Brexit vote to leave
the European Union.
Published March 17, 2017

There have been vocal and widespread calls for Irish reunification in
the face of the British government’s determination to leave the European
Union and a historic election result last week which has delivered
unprecedented political strength for nationalism and Sinn Fein.
Published March 10, 2017

Thursday’s election has significantly altered the make-up of politics in
the north of Ireland as a more focussed and energised Sinn Fein enticed
republican voters back to the polls and historically ended the unionist
majority at Stormont.
Published March 4, 2017

The north’s largest unionist party is increasingly fearful ahead of next
month’s Stormont Assembly election amid predictions that it could fall
below the thirty seats it needs to hold on to its veto over political
change in the north of Ireland.
Published February 24, 2017

The 26 County Taoiseach Enda Kenny is struggling to retain the
leadership of his Fine Gael party after his ponderous and contradictory
responses to allegations of a smear campaign against a Garda police
whistleblower.
Published February 17, 2017

In a potentially historic development, the London parliament has voted
to allow the British government renege on the 1998 Good Friday peace
agreement as part of its negotiations to leave the European Union.
Published February 10, 2017

The British government appears to be planning a return of customs
controls across the Six County border and may even be hoping to push
all of Ireland out of the EU following hardline statements on its
Brexit plans this week.
Published February 3, 2017

The ‘New IRA’ has claimed responsibility for the ambush of a PSNI patrol
in North Belfast on Sunday in which a member of the force was struck
twice. The attack, which took place on the Crumlin Road close to a
north Belfast interface left the victim with injuries to his arm.
Published January 27, 2017

An emotional Martin McGuinness has said he wants to become an ambassador
for peace after the former Sinn Fein deputy First Minister quit
electoral politics this week due to ill-health.
Published January 20, 2017

The north of Ireland is inexorably heading for an election following
the resignation of Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness
and the failure of last-minute talks efforts by the two governments.
Published January 13, 2017

Sinn Fein has issued repeated warnings that the Six County institutions
are now at a “defining point” after the unionist First Minister Arlene
Foster again refused to step down over allegations that she and her
Democratic Unionist Party orchestrated the enrichment of insiders,
supporters and party donors through a bogus ‘green energy’ scheme.
Published January 6, 2017

The centenary year of the 1916 Rising ends with new optimism over a campaign
of direct action against inequality headed by a motley group of
musicians, actors and writers. However, the sight of thousands of people
braving the cold to receive food handouts in Dublin and Limerick has
highlighted the scale of the challenge.
Published December 24, 2016

Over a thousand people have attended protests in Belfast and Derry
calling for DUP leader Arlene Foster to resign as Six County First
Minister after a public display of DUP infighting over corruption
allegations.
Published December 17, 2016

There are concerns over the political direction in the north of Ireland
after a video emerged which appears to show a heavily armed breakaway
IRA unit on patrol in north Belfast -- in the same week that the police
confirmed that unionist paramilitary activities are being illegally
funded from Stormont.
Published December 10, 2016

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams is facing another battery of accusations and
condemnations after it emerged that earlier this year he emailed the
names of four senior republicans allegedly involved in an unsanctioned
1983 IRA killing to the Garda police Commissioner.
Published December 3, 2016

There was outrage in west Belfast this week after a ten year old girl was
pictured being harassed by the PSNI.
Published November 26, 2016

The High Court in Dublin has ordered the extradition of a man accused of
being involved in a Provisional IRA mortar attack on a British army
barracks in Germany 20 years ago.
Published November 19, 2016

Despite consternation and disbelief in Ireland at the result of the US
Presidential election, political leaders including 26 County Taoiseach
Enda Kenny and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams were among those to
congratulate Donald Trump this week on his election as US President.
Published November 12, 2016

There was a potentially significant development in the Brexit crisis
this week when Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness,
refused to rule out his party taking up its four seats in Westminster
ahead of a potentially critical vote on the issue in the London
parliament.
Published November 5, 2016

The lonely death of an IRA informer has drawn attention to the contempt
which British agencies hold for those who have betrayed their own
communities to take the queen’s shilling.
Published October 29, 2016

There have been international protests after a judge in Dublin convicted
a 15-year-old boy of illegally “imprisoning” the Irish Tanaiste [Deputy
Prime Minister] by peacefully demonstrating against water charges in
front of her police-escorted car.
Published October 22, 2016

The first shot in Britain’s departure from the EU has been fired across
Irish bows after its governor in the north of Ireland, James
Brokenshire, said Ireland should form part of Britain’s new immigration
controls.
Published October 15, 2016

British Prime Minister Theresa May has drawn comparisons to Margaret
Thatcher after she outright rejected Irish and Scottish concerns over
Brexit and moved to quash the right of Irish and other EU citizens to
live and work in Britain and the north of Ireland.
Published October 8, 2016

An Orange Order parade was forced through the greater Ardoyne area in
north Belfast on Saturday morning, October 1, amid a military-style policing
operation and a bitter war of words among nationalists.
Published October 1, 2016

A former British army soldier has admitted he planted listening devices
in the homes of senior politicians in the north of Ireland, years after
the 1994 ceasefires and some still thought to be in use today.
Published September 24, 2016

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has announced that he will step down from
his leadership role as part of the party’s ten year plan. Mr Adams
indicated a time frame within ten years for his departure as party
president, and confirmed that it was a matter of not ‘if, but when’.
Published September 17, 2016

A man from a well-known republican family died at the hands of the PSNI
on Thursday amid a new wave of police harassment and abuses in Belfast.
Published September 10, 2016

The Dublin government is the subject of anger and ridicule after it
defended illegal tax dodges by multinational corporations and rejected
a European ruling that it receive up to 13 billion euro in unpaid taxes
from US corporation, Apple.
Published September 3, 2016

The chairman of a County Antrim Gaelic sports club has resigned after it
voted to remove entrance gates dedicated to the memory of two Irish War
of Independence martyrs in order to secure a grant from a
unionist-controlled council.
Published August 27, 2016

Senior Sinn Fein political figure Daithi McKay, who worked to expose
wrongdoing in the murky world of Ireland’s NAMA property deals, could
end up being the only direct casualty of the scandal following his
forced resignation this week.
Published August 20, 2016

The Six County administration in Belfast has been accused of sustaining
loyalist criminality following the murder of a former UDA leader by a
rival loyalist gang.
Published August 13, 2016

Three years of nightly loyalist disturbances in north Belfast appear to be at an end after a group of Orangemen said they have suspended
their attempts to march into the republican Ardoyne area.
Published August 6, 2016

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams has expressed his party’s dismay after a meeting
on Brexit between the 26 County Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the new British
Prime Minister Theresa May focused exclusively on the imposition of new
customs and immigration controls along the Irish border.
Published July 30, 2016

In a potentially historic advance, the Irish Taoiseach and the leader
of the largest opposition party in the Dublin parliament have both said
they recognise the prospect of a referendum to bring about Irish
reunification.
Published July 23, 2016

Independent nationalist councillor Padraig McShane was attacked and left
bleeding from his head in the most serious incident arising from the
‘Twelfth’ parades by the anti-Catholic Orange Order on Tuesday.
Published July 16, 2016

Sinn Fein has called on the Taoiseach to press ahead with a plan to
convene a national, all-Ireland forum on dealing with the fallout of the
British vote to leave the EU.
Published July 9, 2016

Unionists have expressed concern at a renewed support for Irish
nationalism and republicanism following the result of the recent British
referendum to leave the European Union.
Published July 2, 2016

Pressure for Irish reunification is at its highest in a generation after
a shock ‘Leave’ result in the British referendum on the European Union
is set to force the north of Ireland out of the EU and could bring a
virtual iron curtain down across the island of Ireland.
Published June 25, 2016

The British political system has lurched into crisis following the
murder of a progressive MP and embittered exchanges ahead of this
weeks’s referendum on EU membership. Campaigning in the referendum,
which could have profound significance for Ireland and Scotland, has
been suspended.
Published June 18, 2016

Loyalties are divided among Irish republicans over the ‘Brexit’
referendum as a new battle over Britain’s place in Europe brings the
potential for a period of significant political change in Ireland and
Britain.
Published June 11, 2016

Masked gangs are now evicting people from their homes in the 26 Counties
at the behest of international vulture funds, who have ordered a wave of
repossessions to extract profit from their newly acquired loan books.
Published June 4, 2016

As ordinary Gardai police struggle to contain the escalating gangland
war, Garda chiefs have been warned by a policing watchdog that public
trust in the force is fading over repeated scandals and failures.
Published May 28, 2016

The SDLP has quit the devolved administration in the Six Counties in the
latest development to hit the formation of a new Executive in the North.
Published May 21, 2016

The leader of the unionist DUP, Arlene Foster, and Sinn Fein’s Martin
McGuinness have been formally returned as the Six County First Minister
and Deputy First Minister respectively ahead of formulating a ‘Programme
for Government’ for the Stormont Executive.
Published May 14, 2016

The final results of the Stormont election show a small drop in support
for Sinn Fein and the rival nationalist SDLP, and no change at all for
the unionists, with the Green Party and socialist People before Profit
making small gains.
Published May 7, 2016

Two months after the general election, the two largest parties in the 26
Counties have reached a potentially historic agreement to form a
minority government.
Published April 30, 2016

The Sinn Fein annual conference is taking place this weekend with the
party facing an election to the Belfast Assembly early next month and a
potential second general election to the Leinster House parliament in
Dublin. Over 2,500 delegates are attending the annual conference in the
Convention Centre in Dublin.
Published April 23, 2016

The family of the Sinn Fein official turned informer, Denis Donaldson,
have walked out of the inquest process after police stalling tactics
led to his inquest being adjourned for the 19th time.
Published April 16, 2016

After weeks of shadow-boxing and pretence, a blistering row between the
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael leaderships suggests that it is unlikely that
any pact will be agreed soon to form a new government in Dublin.
Published April 9, 2016

In a remarkable weekend of events to mark the centenary of the Easter
Rising, Irish president Michael D Higgins called for Irish people to
take responsibility for building ‘a true Republic’. However, republican
commemorations heard condemnations of the 26 County state for continuing
to ‘turn its back’ on the people of the Six Counties.
Published April 2, 2016

There has been an outcry over the destruction of a republican mural of
IRA Volunteer Kieran Nugent who started the blanket protest in the
H-Blocks of Long Kesh. It was replaced with a mural depicting unionist
leader Edward Carson.
Published March 26, 2016

In a landmark victory for republican heritage campaigners, a High Court
judge has granted that a number of buildings on and around Dublin’s
Moore Street are a battlefield site worthy of the designation of
national monument.
Published March 19, 2016

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has formally taken on the role of Acting
Taoiseach until a new government is formed in Dublin or, as appears
increasingly likely, a second general election takes place.
Published March 12, 2016

Following an election count which lasted six days, the new Dublin
parliament will meet next Thursday to elect a new Taoiseach, although no
new government is expected to be formed for several weeks.
Published March 5, 2016

Prominent figures in the Dublin government are set to lose their seats
as early estimates from the count centres have borne out exit poll
predictions that revealed a last-minute swing back to the opposition
parties and independents, with Sinn Fein now in a pivotal position.
Published February 27, 2016

The coalition government has been accused of resorting to a campaign of
scare tactics and media manipulation as it faces being ousted when votes
are counted next weekend.
Published February 20, 2016

Serious questions have been raised about the handling of policing by
Fine Gael’s Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald following two
shocking gang-related killings in Dublin..
Published February 13, 2016

A former commander of the Provisional IRA in Ardoyne has said he has
been forced to flee his home after receiving death threats over
allegations he was a state agent, which he denies.
Published February 6, 2016

There has been a shocked reaction to evidence that the 1993 Shankill
Road bomb, in which nine civilians and one IRA Volunteer died in a
premature explosion, was planned by a double-agent working in concert
with the British Crown forces.
Published January 30, 2016

The staggering amount of surveillance being undertaken by the
authorities in the 26 Counties has been revealed with more than one
thousand new spy requests on citizens initiated every month.
Published January 23, 2016

In an unusual development in the peace process, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has
criticised the new DUP leader Arlene Foster after she denounced
commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published January 16, 2016

New Year’s Day brought the first official efforts of the year to revise
and sanitise the centenary of the 1916 Rising, with the rebels’ goal of
an Ireland free from British rule getting airbrushed from the official
narrative.
Published January 9, 2016

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said the use of non-jury trial in
the case of a prominent republican accused of tax evasion is “just
plain wrong”.
Published December 30, 2015

There are fears of continuing ‘dirty tricks’ by the PSNI police after it emerged that four members of its intelligence
division concealed information about an attack in which a Catholic
member of the force was injured almost six years ago.
Published December 19, 2015

Victims of the conflict in the north of Ireland have directly accused
the British government of a “shameful failure” to address the need for
truth and justice.
Published December 12, 2015

The PSNI police chief George Hamilton has said his force can’t be blamed
for the failures of the ‘Fresh Start’ talks agreement amid angry
exchanges over the deal within the nationalist community.
Published December 5, 2015

A gun attack on a PSNI patrol in west Belfast has been claimed for the
‘new IRA’ amid a series of alerts and incidents attributed to the
breakaway IRA groups.
Published November 28, 2015

There are fears that this week’s talks agreement represents such a
victory for unionist and British negotiators that it could wreck the
North’s political process, rather than sustain it.
Published November 21, 2015

Sinn Fein has accused unionists of embarrassing Deputy First Minister
Martin McGuinness by making him stand for a rendition of ‘God Save the
Queen’ at a Poppy Day event at Stormont.
Published November 13, 2015

DUP leader Peter Robinson is likely to resign ‘within weeks’, according to reports, as it emerged that he is to be investigated by the
PSNI over comments he made in regard to a property deal nine years ago.
Published November 6, 2015

A weak and largely negative response by socialists and social democrats
to a vote transfer pact with other progressive election candidates could
have opened the door to a further five years of right-wing government in
Dublin.
Published October 31, 2015

DUP Ministers suddenly returned to work and multi-party talks have
resumed following the publication on Tuesday of a British intelligence
report that claims the Provisional IRA, INLA, UVF, UDA and Red Hand
Commando all still exist and control arms, but are ‘committed to peace’.
Published October 23, 2015

A statement issued in the name of the main unionist paramilitary
organisations vowing to “eschew all violence and criminality” has been
greeted with profound scepticism across the political divide.
Published October 16, 2015

There has been a deafening silence from unionist leaders in response to
a statement attributed to the unionist paramilitary UDA in which it
declares it will never “go away”.
Published October 10, 2015

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has warned there are elements within the
PSNI police in the North who are working against his party after it was
confirmed he will not be prosecuted in connection with the IRA execution
of an alleged informer 43 years ago.
Published October 3, 2015

Amid the latest bout of crisis talks in Belfast, SDLP leader Alasdair
McDonnell has warned that the Democratic Unionist Party simply don’t
want to work with Catholics.
Published September 26, 2015

Sinn Fein has said it is willing to help find a way to deal with armed
groups, including former Provisional IRA elements, as it was confirmed
that multi-party crisis talks are to go ahead at Stormont next week.
Published September 19, 2015

The cycle of crisis in the north of Ireland lurched towards the
farcical this week as the Democratic Unionist Party blustered and
threatened but, in the end, fudged an ultimatum to pull down the
political institutions over allegations that the Provisional IRA still
exists.
Published September 12, 2015

The DUP leader Peter Robinson has offered to take part in a fresh round
of multi-party talks as a deep crisis over allegations that the
Provisional IRA still exists appears set to extend over a period of
weeks or months.
Published September 5, 2015

The devolved administration in the north of Ireland is moving towards
collapse as both of the main unionist parties have said they are ready
to withdraw from the power-sharing coalition with nationalists.
Published August 29, 2015

In response to a growing media furore, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has insisted that the Provisional IRA were not involved in the killing of Kevin McGuigan in east Belfast earlier this month.
Published August 22, 2015

The political crisis in the North deepened this week when a bomb attack
struck the British Army’s Palace Barracks, the headquarters of MI5 in
Ireland.
Published August 15, 2015

Loyalists say they will attempt to block a nationalist civil rights
march through Belfast on Sunday. The UDA’s political wing, the UPRG, has
threatened to “stop republican scum from marching on the streets of
Belfast”.
Published August 8, 2015

There has been an angry response after British soldiers mounted raids in
Derry’s Galliagh area this week, with Sinn Fein describing them as
“unacceptable”.
Published August 1, 2015

The attendance of a large colour party at the funeral procession of
republican socialist matriarch Peggy O’Hara last weekend has outraged
politicians and encouraged the PSNI to make a number of provocative
raids, including at the home of the dead woman’s grief-stricken family.
Published July 25, 2015

Loyalist disturbances have continued in north Belfast since an
anti-Catholic Orange Order parade was rerouted from the nationalist
Ardoyne area on Monday.
Published July 18, 2015

Loyalist intimidation has reached shocking new levels after sectarian
graffiti appeared in south Belfast that threatens to ‘crucify’
Catholics, while Nazi flags were erected near a loyalist bonfire site in
County Antrim.
Published July 11, 2015

A senior politician in the north of Ireland has been identified as the
recipient of a giant payoff as part of a billion euro property deal
which could threaten the continued functioning of the Stormont
administration.
Published July 4, 2015

The Dublin government has been accused of lining up with the IMF and the
EU institutions to inflict further suffering on the Greek people even as
it continues to impose further austerity cuts here.
Published June 27, 2015

Evidence of anti-Irish attitudes in the upper echelons of the US media has
shocked the Irish public as it struggles with a disaster in Berkeley,
California, that this week claimed the lives of six students and injured
a further seven.
Published June 20, 2015

The head of the PSNI police in the north of Ireland, George Hamilton,
has said the force has a “vault” of secret information on the conflict
in the North but is concerned its release would create a “one sided
focus” on the force’s actions.
Published June 13, 2015

The case against two high-profile Sinn Fein activists accused of IRA
membership collapsed this week after key witnesses withdrew their
evidence in a dramatic week for republicans in the court.
Published June 6, 2015

A new BBC documentary has raised awareness and prompted new questions
about the scale and extent of Britain’s use of state agents to kill
innocent civilians in Ireland.
Published May 30, 2015

Ireland has become the first country to legalise same-sex marriage
through a popular vote, with indications from all count centres across
the country showing ‘Yes’ votes outnumbering ‘No’ votes by about
two-to-one.
Published May 23, 2015

Documents presented to a judicial review this week have confirmed that
the British government staged a fake ‘review’ three years ago before
announcing its predetermined decision to rule out a public inquiry into
the killing of Belfast defence lawyer Pat Finucane.
Published May 16, 2015

The result of the British general election is a setback for Irish
republicans with the loss of a key seat to unionists in the North while
the Tories under David Cameron secured a slim overall majority in
London.
Published May 9, 2015

With just days to go before a potentially historic Westminster general
election, a further rise in support for the Scottish National Party is
already creating a crisis in British politics which will likely have
implications for Ireland.
Published May 2, 2015

A republican activist who has campaigned against sectarian parades in
north Belfast has been arrested and charged in connection with a speech
he made at Easter.
Published April 25, 2015

There has been a new spate of racist attacks across Belfast, with the
Polish community being particularly targeted by loyalists.
Published April 18, 2015

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams made a call for a “referendum on Irish
unity” on Easter Sunday as he spoke at a 1916 commemoration in Roslea,
County Fermanagh. He did not specify if the referendum should be a
national one or the ‘border poll’ within the Six Counties, as Sinn Fein
has previously argued for.
Published April 11, 2015

There has been a broad welcome for news that the site of the last stand
of the 1916 rebels during the Easter Rising is to be bought by the 26
County State for 4 million euro.
Published April 4, 2015

Just under 90,000 people marched in Dublin on Saturday in the latest
anti-austerity protest against the 26 County government’s new water
charges as a scandal over the operation of Irish Water, the new national
water board, has expanded.
Published March 28, 2015

Political activity in the north of Ireland was unexpectedly set back
this week when the US State Department cancelled a meeting with Sinn
Fein President Gerry Adams in Washington DC.
Published March 21, 2015

Almost a hundred thousand people took the streets in the North’s biggest
protest against austerity cuts on Friday as Sinn Fein battled
accusations that it has let down working class voters and the poor in
the negotiation of the Stormont House Agreement.
Published March 14, 2015

Sinn Fein has categorically ruled out joining a coalition government in
Dublin as junior partner after elections due early next year. The party
is holding its Ard Fheis (annual conference) in Derry this weekend.
Published March 7, 2015

Sinn Fein has warned that a lack of confidence in the PSNI police is
encouraging illegal activity in border areas.
Published February 28, 2015

An abuse victim is hopeful after winning the first stage in a battle to have a
Westminster parliamentary inquiry look into allegations that senior
unionist politicians, businessmen and high-level British state agents
connived in a paedophile ring at the notorious Kincora care home in
Belfast.
Published February 21, 2015

A number of children have been arrested in Dublin after being caught up
in a shocking crackdown by the 26 County state against anti-austerity
protests in the capital.
Published February 14, 2015

A republican political prisoner was badly beaten by warders at
Maghaberry jail last week following confrontations over new changes to
the prison regime.
Published February 7, 2015

In a night of drama for north Belfast, Martin Og Meehan, a prominent
republican spokesperson in the area, has been dramatically expelled by
two organisations for allegedly ‘collaborating with loyalists’.
Published January 31, 2015

A newly-released British military file has finally admitted that a
British Army helicopter, said to have crashed in a 1978 air accident,
came down trying to avoid IRA gunfire.
Published January 24, 2015

The coalition government has indicated it has abandoned efforts to
recover 30 billion euro pumped into Ireland’s banking system following
its collapse in 2008.
Published January 17, 2015

The Dublin government issued a number of statements to claim the
successes of its economic policy this week, even as thousands of recent
emigrants bade tearful farewell to their loved ones following a
Christmas break in Ireland.
Published January 10, 2015

Declassified papers have revealed Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “out,
out, out” speech on nationalist aspirations in Ireland may have been
motivated by a summit in which the Dublin government admitted it was
working towards a “lowering of expectations” rather than Irish
reunification.
Published January 3, 2015

The North’s five main parties have asked British prime minister David
Cameron for 2 billion pounds (€2.55 billion or $3.15 billion) financial
package over ten years as talks continue on issues such as parades,
flags and the past.
Published December 20, 2014

The shambolic nature of the talks process at Stormont was exposed this
week when British Prime Minister David Cameron suddenly abandoned the
negotiations with no plans to return.
Published December 13, 2014

The death of Kilkenny native Jonathan Corrie, a 43-year-old who had
suffered mental ill-health and addiction problems, on a freezing night
within feet of the seat of power, has shocked the public may have killed
off the Dublin government’s chances of re-election.
Published December 6, 2014

Fine Gael has drawn the opening lines of attack for the next election,
targeting Sinn Fein on economic policy and setting the scene for a new
left/right alignment in Irish politics.
Published November 29, 2014

The PSNI have withdrawn from an area in republican north Belfast
following a grenade attack by the ‘new IRA’.
Published November 22, 2014

The Dublin government has been accused of attempting to erase the 1916
Easter Rising from the history books following a disastrous and deeply
conflicted launch of commemorative events for the anniversary.
Published November 15, 2014

There were clashes in the Creggan area of Derry this week following an
attack by the ‘new IRA’ in which an armoured police patrol was struck by
a mortar rocket.
Published November 8, 2014

The nationalist residents of the Short Strand endured five nights of
loyalist violence this week in east Belfast as loyalist mobs attacked
with petrol bombs, fireworks and other missiles.
Published November 1, 2014

A mud-slinging campaign by the Irish political establishment has
effectively halted Sinn Fein’s rise to become the largest party in the
26 Counties.
Published October 25, 2014

The North’s political process has ground to a halt after the DUP
dramatically reneged on a deal to appoint a Sinn Fein Speaker of the
Stormont Assembly and then entirely boycotted the opening of a new round
of talks in Belfast.
Published October 18, 2014

With two by-elections to the Dublin parliament taking place this week, a
poll has shown that Sinn Fein’s support has risen to become the joint
largest political party in the 26 Counties.
Published October 11, 2014
Plans to abandon or scale down a number of investigations into past
British atrocities in the north of Ireland are being blamed by
Stormont ministers on a cut in the British exchequer’s annual block
grant for the Six Counties.
Published October 4, 2014

Top secret files relating to the killing of nine men in County Armagh
more than 30 years ago were destroyed just weeks before an inquest into
the deaths was due to begin, it has emerged. Other files are still being
edited for ‘sensitive’ information by former members of the murderous
RUC Special Branch.
Published September 27, 2014

Loyalists have engaged in a violent ‘show of strength’ in the centre of
Glasgow as Britain faces unprecedented constitutional change following
a narrow defeat for Scottish independence in Thursday’s referendum.
Published September 20, 2014

Sinn Fein has accepted that the North’s political process is in serious
trouble following a call by the DUP for the St Andrew’s Agreement to
be renegotiated.
Published September 13, 2014

On September 18, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, full sovereign power
will lie in the hands of the Scottish people, who must decide whether to
keep it or give it away.
Published September 6, 2014

A 22-year-old Catholic man is recovering in hospital after being beaten
by a gang armed with iron bars and a hatchet in front of his partner and
new baby.
Published August 30, 2014

Former US Democrat presidential candidate Gary Hart is set to begin
discussions next week with the Dublin and London governments in what is
being seen as an attempt to again kick start peace talks in the Six
Counties.
Published August 23, 2014

A furore has arisen over the funeral of well-known republican and former
IRA PoW Tony Catney, who died on Saturday after a long battle of cancer.
The funeral featured a military-style honour guard.
Published August 16, 2014

A massive security operation is being put in place ahead of an
anti-internment parade through Belfast city centre on Sunday, amid
warnings that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is facing its “greatest
challenge”.
Published August 9, 2014

A petition for the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland to be expelled has
received almost 30,000 signatures.
Published August 2, 2014

A decision by the Dublin government on Wednesday to abstain in a key
vote on an emergency debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council
on the conflict in Gaza has provoked a crisis over Ireland’s managing of
its foreign affairs.
Published July 26, 2014

The Dublin government has failed to condemn the latest massacre in Gaza
despite Israel intensifying operations against the sealed-off
Palestinian enclave, and has declined to even call in the Israeli
ambassador.
Published July 19, 2014

A figure of Gerry Adams was hung from a makeshift gallows on a loyalist
bonfire in County Antrim before being set alight last night, Friday,
11th July.
Published July 12, 2014

The main unionist parties may be planning for serious disturbances in
north Belfast next weekend after the Parades Commission rerouted a
hugely contentious anti-Catholic march away from nationalist estates in
north Belfast.
Published July 5, 2014

The Drumcree marching dispute in Portadown could be reignited after the
Parades Commission this week stunned nationalist residents by initially
permitting an Orange march on the lower end of the Garvaghy Road, the
scene of some of the North’s most intense parades violence, before
changing its mind.
Published June 28, 2014

Efforts by British and unionist politicians to to overturn a side-deal
concession given to Sinn Fein during peace negotiations could backfire after it was revealed that controversial ‘letters of
comfort’ given to Sinn Fein supporters may also have been given to
members of the British Crown forces.
Published June 21, 2014

A local election candidate has suffered a heart attack after a PSNI raid
in which his 11-year-old daughter was subjected to psychological terror.
Published June 14, 2014

The international media descended this week on a town in the west of
Ireland following shocking claims that an order of nuns may have buried
hundreds of infant children in an unmarked mass grave between the 1920s
and the 1960s.
Published June 7, 2014

The DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson sparked widespread
public outrage this week when he made derogatory comments about Muslims.
He was speaking in defence of a north Belfast Pastor, who described
Islam as “heathen” and “satanic”.
Published May 31, 2014

Local and European elections are taking place today and tomorrow
[Thursday and Friday] in the Six and 26 Counties respectively. The
elections are likely to confirm that Sinn Fein is the dominant political
force on the island of Ireland and for the first time, is now equally
strong in both the 26 Counties and the Six Counties.
Published May 22, 2014

The trial of a loyalist gang involved in the death of Catholic community
worker Kevin McDaid has ended with all of the charges against them being
dropped or reduced to minor ones.
Published May 17, 2014

A high stakes game in the North’s unfinished peace process played out
before the world’s media last week. But almost twenty years after the
Provisional IRA’s ceasefire, the shock detention of Gerry Adams on
allegations of past IRA activity ended in a dramatic triumph for the
Sinn Fein leader.
Published May 10, 2014

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams is facing a fourth night in jail at a
notorious British Crown force interrogation centre in Antrim as a crisis
over the failure to deal with the past conflict in the north of Ireland
begins to threaten delicate policing agreements.
Published May 3, 2014

In its Easter statement, the ‘new IRA’ has declared that it has built a
“sustainable military campaign”, but that responsibility for further
conflict “rests with the British government”.
Published April 26, 2014

The disgraced chairman of Anglo Irish Bank has been cleared this week
of hatching a highly illegal loans-for-shares plot months before the
bank’s collapse. Two of his colleagues were found guilty.
Published April 19, 2014

Efforts to boost reconciliation between the 26 County state and Britain
during the formal visit to London by 26-County President Michael D
Higgins were undermined by a leading Tory’s call this week for the
murder of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness.
Published April 11, 2014

Between 100 and 200 armed loyalist paramilitaries ransacked houses and
assaulted residents in Larne in a mob attack carried out with apparent
impunity by the south Antrim UDA.
Published April 5, 2014

After ricocheting from one scandal to the next since his appointment,
disgraced 26-County Minister Alan Shatter is to finally face a
parliamentary motion of no confidence.
Published March 29, 2014

Veteran republican Ivor Bell has been charged this Friday night with
IRA membership and “aiding and abetting” the execution of informer Jean
McConville in 1972.
Published March 22, 2014

In a sudden turnaround, an ad-hoc campaign by Irish Americans has
succeeded in preventing the inclusion of a delegation of PSNI police
(formerly RUC) in this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in New York.
Published March 15, 2014

Two letter bombs addressed to Maghaberry Prison were intercepted this
week following a violent confrontation inside the jail.
Published March 8, 2014

The past has once again come back to haunt the north of Ireland when it
emerged in an Old Bailey trial this week that some republicans ‘on the
run’ (OTR) from conflict-related prosecutions have privately received
assurances that no prosecutions are due.
Published March 1, 2014

The 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny is resisting intense pressure to
sack his Minister for Justice Alan Shatter amid a tsunamic scandal over
his handling of police corruption and misconduct.
Published February 21, 2014

The Dublin government has been rocked by shocking revelations of a
‘black ops’ spy operation at the headquarters of the police ombudsman’s
office, the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission (GSOC).
Published February 15, 2014

Speaking on the eve of the Sinn Fein annual conference, the Six-County
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has urged the DUP to turn away
from loyalist extremism and bring an end to the “embarrassing” political
stalemate at Stormont.
Published February 7, 2014

Stephen Murney has been released on bail at the culmination of a
farcical trial in which the prosecution openly sought to criminalise him
on the basis of his republican political beliefs and his activism as an
éirígí press officer.
Published January 31, 2014

PSNI Chief Matt Baggott has announced he is to resign as head of the
British police in Ireland after almost five years in the post, and will
not seek a renewal of his contract when it ends in September.
Published January 25, 2014

After almost four years in jail without charge, Irish prisoner of
conscience Martin Corey was released from custody on Wednesday -- but
only on condition that he stay away from the media and his home town
or face being returned to jail.
Published January 17, 2014

Unionists have sought to play down comments by US talks chair Richard
Haass in which he blamed them for the failure to reach an agreement on
his draft proposals dealing with the issues of flags and emblems,
parades, and the past.
Published January 11, 2014

Talks on a range of contentious issues involving the North’s main
political parties collapsed for a second time within a week on New
Year’s Eve, with mediators Richard Haass and his colleague, Meghan
O’Sullivan, again returning swiftly to the US.
Published January 4, 2014

The Dublin government was deeply concerned at the British government’s
failure to counter growing support for Sinn Fein in 1983, historical
papers have revealed. Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald even believed a
British policy was in place to support the party and protect its
leaders from arrest.
Published December 28, 2013

US mediator Richard Haass has been forced to remove a reference to the
Irish tricolour flag as unionists ratcheted up their demands in ongoing
talks on flags, parades and the past in the north of Ireland.
Published December 20, 2013

A small bomb exploded Friday night in the centre of Belfast, causing no
injuries but raising fresh fears of a return to a more serious level of
conflict in the north of Ireland.
Published December 14, 2013

Eight years after it was established, the report of the Smithwick
Tribunal was finally published on Tuesday evening, but its contradictory
conclusions immediately sparked a storm of spin and recrimination.
Published December 6, 2013

British soldiers have taken part in raids on homes in north Belfast this
week after the chief of the PSNI police warned of a sharp increase in
the activity of breakaway IRA groups.
Published November 29, 2013

A BBC Panorama documentary in which former plain-clothes British
soldiers admitted carrying out undercover gun attacks in nationalist
west Belfast has led to a public outcry and demands for an inquiry.
Published November 23, 2013

Police from England, Scotland and Wales could become a permanent
feature of the PSNI’s patrols in the north of Ireland as an alternative
to the return of the British Army, it has emerged.
Published November 15, 2013

The prospect of an all-Ireland soccer team was dramatically raised by
the 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny at a sports reconciliation conference
in Armagh City this [Friday] morning.
Published November 8, 2013

A hearing before the North’s senior coroner has heard an admission that
PSNI Special Branch visited an interrogation suite where a Strabane
republican was found dead four years ago.
Published November 2, 2013

Members of the British Crown forces were central to the orchestrated
murder of prominent Catholics, according to new research based on
official state investigations and military files.
Published October 25, 2013

A shocking Famine-era ‘solution’ to the problem of youth unemployment
has dominated this year’s announcement of Budget plans by the coalition
government in Dublin.
Published October 18, 2013

The organisation describing itself as the ‘new’ IRA said this week it
had executed a major drug dealer in north Belfast amid escalating
violence on the streets of the Six Counties.
Published October 11, 2013

Turnout in today's 26-County referenda could be close to a record low as
voters appear to be staying away from a potentially historic ballot on
the abolition of the Seanad, the upper chamber of the 26-County
parliament.
Published October 4, 2013

A sectarian outburst by the DUP leader Peter Robinson has
disgusted nationalists and escalated the sense of crisis in the North’s
political process.
Published September 27, 2013

Garda police resorted to pepper spray and brute force on Wednesday in
one of the most violent days of protest yet seen on the streets of
Dublin against the austerity program of the 26 County state.
Published September 20, 2013

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has accused the British Direct Ruler
Theresa Villiers of an “unacceptable intervention” ahead of talks about
dealing with the past as well as the issues of parades and flags.
Published September 13, 2013

Details have emerged this week about the brutal strip-searching of a
female republican prisoner at Hydebank Wood Prison.
Published September 6, 2013

There are fears that loyalist paramilitaries may be rearming after one
of the largest weapons caches found in the North in two decades was
uncovered entirely by accident this week.
Published August 30, 2013

A conviction against former internee Marian Price has been rescinded by
a court the day after it was imposed in the latest twist to the saga of
harassment and oppression of the former republican prisoner.
Published August 23, 2013

The Stormont administration has suffered another blow to its
credibility after the DUP ended its support for a plan to develop a
peace centre at the site of the former Long Kesh H-Blocks.
Published August 17, 2013

Up to ten thousand republicans, socialists and concerned citizens took
part in a civil rights march against internment through Belfast this
evening despite heavy rioting by loyalists and a political campaign to
demonise those taking part.
Published August 9, 2013

A unionist councillor was charged by the PSNI this evening over her
public support for the idea of a loyalist massacre at next week’s
republican commemoration in Castlederg.
Published August 2, 2013

After warning that the July 12 conflict was “only a wee taster” of
future protests, the anti-Catholic Orange Order and its loyalist
supporters have said they will make weekly bids to march through the
nationalist Ardoyne community in north Belfast.
Published July 26, 2013

After a week of the most intense loyalist violence, a decision by the
Parades Commission to reroute another planned march by the anti-Catholic
Orange Order has been welcomed as good news.
Published July 19, 2013

A total of eighteen mass sectarian rallies are being held today across
the Six Counties, marking the height of the Protestant marching season
and the most difficult and dangerous period of the year for Catholics.
Published July 12, 2013

A giant steel wall was erected around the Short Strand enclave in east
Belfast this week in an unprecedented military operation to seal off the
nationalist enclave ahead of one of a number of sectarian Orange Order
parades.
Published July 5, 2013

Telephone conversations recorded five years ago between top bankers at
Anglo Irish Bank at the heart of the bank’s collapse have enraged the
Irish public and confirmed that a culture of delinquency and deception
lay behind its failure and nationalisation by the 26-County state.
Published June 28, 2013

The sycophantic feting of the world’s most powerful leaders in the
British-occupied north of Ireland this week has disgraced politicians
in both parts of the island.
Published June 21, 2013

A member of eirigi has become the first person to be arrested ahead of
a giant security clampdown on political protests in advance of the G8
summit in the Irish border county of Fermanagh gets under way within
the next few days.
Published June 14, 2013

Ruairi O Bradaigh was “a towering figure” of Irish republicanism who
came to embody the “very essence” of the Republican tradition, his
successor as leader of Republican Sinn Fein, Des Dalton, has said.
Published June 7, 2013

The release of Irish prisoner of conscience Marian Price is being
celebrated as a significant victory for justice campaigners and a key
step in securing the freedom of other prisoners currently interned in
the north of Ireland.
Published May 31, 2013

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has accused the British government of
breaching commitments given during peace talks over a decade ago
following the arrest of leading Donegal Sinn Fein member John Downey.
Published May 24, 2013

Senior British government officials permitted a campaign of state-backed
killings by unionist paramilitaries and the RUC (now PSNI) police to be
conducted at the height of the conflict, a senior security adviser for
the British government has finally admitted.
Published May 17, 2013

A decision to allow the anti-Catholic Orange Order to gather in a
public park surrounded by Catholic homes in Portadown has been
described as ‘an act of unionist political madness’ by the Garvaghy
Road Residents Coalition (GRRC).
Published May 10, 2013

An appeal by two men convicted of a Continuity IRA attack in 2009 was
dramatically derailed this week after the PSNI arrested and
interrogated a key witness in an apparent attempt to pressure him into
withdrawing his evidence.
Published May 3, 2013

Loyalists have returned to intimidate the Holy Cross Catholic girls’
school in north Belfast, almost 12 years after a previous campaign of
violence and terror made international headlines.
Published April 26, 2013

Masked loyalist paramilitaries erected more than 600 UVF flags in east
Belfast last weekend along key arterial routes, without consultation or
notification in an operation that involved cherry pickers operating in
broad daylight.
Published April 19, 2013

There were street parties in Derry and Belfast following news of the
death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher this week.
Published April 12, 2013

Thousands of republicans gathered at scores of events across Ireland
last weekend to mark the 97th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 5, 2013

Ireland’s two largest conservative parties battled it out yesterday in a
by-election count which saw the left-wing vote decimated and Fine Gael
ultimately hold onto a seat thanks to a wave of sympathy for a grieving
daughter.
Published March 29, 2013

The family of a man with special needs shot dead by British soldiers in
County Armagh almost 40 years ago have said an apology from the British
government is not enough.
Published March 22, 2013

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32CSM) has reacted angrily after
three of its members in Derry were arrested Wednesday and charged with
“terrorist offenses” for having participated in a peaceful ceremony last
year to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published March 15, 2013

An attack apparently planned by the ‘new IRA’ against the PSNI’s Strand
Road base in Derry bore the hallmarks of a similar attack in 1991 by
the Provisional IRA on Downing Street, according to security experts in
the North.
Published March 8, 2013

Two prominent loyalists and a British right-wing extremist have been
arrested and charged in the first action so far against the alleged
ringleaders of the recent disturbances in Belfast and across the North.
Published March 1, 2013

The Protestant marching orders have said they can simply bypass the
Parades Commission in the future after loyalist flags protestors held
scores of parades last month without any approval.
Published February 22, 2013

Two senior figures have quit the Ulster Unionist Party and are set to
form a rival political organisation after a row with party leader and
former television presenter Mike Nesbitt suddenly erupted into a full
party split.
Published February 15, 2013

Public demonstrations are to be held around the 26 Counties tomorrow
(Saturday) to demand a fairer deal on the state’s banking crisis, which
will now leave taxpayers paying €60 billion for one bank alone.
Published February 8, 2013

The funeral of Dolours Price on Monday was a seminal event for Irish
republicans as they paid their last respects to an IRA heroine.
Published February 1, 2013

The passing of Dolours Price, a republican legend, has come as a deep
shock to the entire community, regardless of politics or allegiance.
Published January 25, 2013

The Short Strand, a small working class nationalist and republican enclave
of less than 3,000 men, women and children, has come under a renewed
siege in the past week by violent loyalists.
Published January 18, 2013

A deal between the 26 County Garda police and arch-loyalist Willie
Frazer for a secret protest in Dublin has been revealed -- just hours
after Frazer said he would not condemn an assassination attempt on the
life of Six County Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Published January 11, 2013

Unionists and loyalists angered by the removal of the British Union Jack
flag above Belfast City Hall are increasingly turning to violence and
threats as their protests fail to deliver any progress.
Published January 4, 2013

Official records have revealed that the British government had a plan to
‘brainwash’ Long Kesh hunger strikers to end their protest individually.
Published December 28, 2012

The report of the former police ombudsman into the murder of six men in
the Loughinisland massacre has been scrapped after a court hearing on
their judicial review.
Published December 21, 2012

Most of the 500-page review of the 1989 murder of Belfast defence lawyer
Pat Finucane released this week has been heavily censored “in the
interests of state security”, the Finucane family has been told.
Published December 14, 2012

A wave of unionist violence and intimidation has followed a vote in the
Belfast City Council on Monday to sharply reduce the number of days the
British Union Jack flag flies over the City Hall.
Published December 7, 2012

Republican socialist group éirigí is being subjected to a concerted
smear campaign following the arrest of one of its members this week.
Published November 30, 2012

A decision by a group of 22 prisoners on Maghaberry’s Roe 4 landing to
call off their ‘dirty’ [no-wash] protest to facilitate talks on a
solution to the prison crisis has been welcomed by politicians in the
North.
Published November 23, 2012

Israel is feared to be planning a scorched-earth invasion of the
besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza after days of heavy bombardment
reduced large areas of the territory to rubble and killed dozens of men,
women and children.
Published November 16, 2012

Padraic Wilson, a former leader of IRA prisoners at Long Kesh jail and
now a senior Sinn Féin figure, was released on bail on Tuesday after the
party strongly protested a court decision to remand him on IRA
membership charges.
Published November 9, 2012

The shooting of a senior British prison official has drawn attention to
the conflict in the north of Ireland and the increasingly bitter dispute
over the treatment of republican prisoners at Maghaberry jail.
Published November 2, 2012

A County Tyrone republican has lashed out at the justice system in the
North of Ireland after charges against him and four others were quietly
dropped by Crown prosecutors this week -- after more than 14 months
held without bail at Maghaberry prison.
Published October 26, 2012

The 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny has ruled out any political moves
towards a united Ireland by 2016, the centenary of the Easter Rising,
despite a historic step towards Scottish independence this week.
Published October 19, 2012

A Catholic mother and her three children narrowly escaped being burned
to death today following a loyalist attack.
Published October 12, 2012

A number of protests took place in Dublin this week as the 26-County
government faced a mounting corruption scandal and a wave of anger over
policies which favour the wealthy over the poor.
Published October 5, 2012

Nationalist residents of north Belfast have said they are “bewildered”
by a decision of the Parades Commission to permit a giant unionist
parade to march past St Patrick’s Church in Belfast and the Carrick
Hill interface on Saturday, with only the lightest of restrictions.
Published September 28, 2012

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has condemned so-called ‘dissidents’ in
Dublin despite a rally in the city last weekend which saw hundreds of
republicans of all hues unite to march in support of interned political
activist Marian Price.
Published September 21, 2012

The 26 County police have carried out a wave of raids and arrests
following a large IRA funeral in Dublin for Alan Ryan.
Published September 14, 2012

The most senior of the Protestant marching organisations has taken the
unprecedented step of apologising to the clergy and parishioners of the
Catholic St Patrick’s Church after three nights of march-related
violence in north Belfast.
Published September 7, 2012

A row has developed between Protestant church leaders and the
anti-Catholic loyal orders following Saturday’s Royal Black Institution
march in Belfast.
Published August 31, 2012

The family of interned political dissident Marian Price have hit out at
the North’s prison authorities after warders refused to leave the room
while the veteran republican underwent an invasive medical procedure.
Published August 24, 2012

A Catholic pub was attacked by loyalists during a ‘feeder’ Apprentice
Boys parade in County Down last week -- but the DUP has said there would
have been no violence if nationalists had stayed indoors.
Published August 17, 2012

A 13-year-old girl was among those arrested after the PSNI attacked
nationalist anti-internment bonfires this week.
Published August 10, 2012

Interned political dissident Marian Price has contracted pneumonia, it has
emerged.
Published August 3, 2012

A regrouping of previously distinct breakaway IRA groups is being
described as the most significant development within physical-force
republicanism since the Provisional IRA split in 1997.
Published July 27, 2012

A member of Sinn Fein has described how he was set upon as he videoed a
loyalist ‘kick the Pope’ band deliberately circling and playing
sectarian tunes outside a Catholic church during the Orange Order’s
main Belfast ‘Twelfth’ parade.
Published July 20, 2012

The sound of gunfire echoed across north Belfast on Thursday night
following disturbances over an incendiary and bitterly opposed sectarian
parade.
Published July 13, 2012

A provocative sectarian parade by the anti-Catholic Orange Order has
again been given permission to march past the nationalist Ardoyne shops
area of north Belfast.
Published July 6, 2012

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness put clear blue water between himself and
mainstream Irish republicanism when he shook the hand of English queen
Elizabeth Windsor on Wednesday in a historic but hugely divisive act of
political theatre.
Published June 29, 2012

The families of 11 people murdered by British paratroopers in west
Belfast 40 years ago have said they are “deeply disappointed” by the
decision to refuse an independent investigation into their deaths.
Published June 22, 2012

Sinn Fein has said it was caught off guard by the announcement last
Friday that the visit of British royal Elizabeth Windsor to Stormont
later this month will involve a giant celebration by tens of thousands
of unionists.
Published June 15, 2012

Vigilante group RAAD have claimed responsibility for a grenade-style attack on a
PSNI patrol in Derry during aggressive Crown
force raids in the nationalist Creggan area last weekend.
Published June 8, 2012

At this time, the people of the 26 County state have already begun
voting in the EU fiscal treaty referendum. They are facing another
crucial decision on the future governance of their state, and rarely
have they been so misinformed or deceived.
Published May 31, 2012

The PSNI police have been accused of the outright repression of
republicans following a wave of dramatic heavy-handed raids across the
North.
Published May 25, 2012

Taoiseach Enda Kenny told an unemployed man protesting against budget cuts to get a job, while his Employment Minister Richard Bruton revealed that a referendum re-run has already been considered, in a series of embarrassing campaign gaffes by Fine Gael's leadership this week.
Published May 18, 2012

The campaign for the release of Marian Price has taken a dramatic turn
after a judge dismissed charges against her and three other
republicans. Despite the decision, British officials have said the
interned former spokesperson for the 32 County Sovereignty Committee
will remain behind bars.
Published May 11, 2012

A large bomb left on the border last week appears to have signalled an
escalation of the armed campaign by the breakaway IRA groups.
Published May 4, 2012

British intelligence agents operate across the 32 counties of Ireland
and have received information from politicians, members of An Garda
police, Revenue tax officials and the 26-County Army, the Smithwick
Tribunal has heard.
Published April 27, 2012

The coalition government’s plans for the introduction of new water
taxes has generated a new wave of resentment at the financial pressures
being imposed on people in the 26 Counties.
Published April 20, 2012

A member of the breakaway ‘Real IRA’ has told a public Easter commemoration in Derry that the group will continue its armed struggle against British rule in the north of Ireland.
Published April 13, 2012

The former news anchorman of ‘Ulster Television’, Mike Nesbitt, who was
elected new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party last weekend, has said
“there has never been a better time” for unionism and said he wants to
address Sinn Fein’s Ard Fheis.
Published April 6, 2012

Over a million households have boycotted the 100 euro household charge
in an extraordinary act of public defiance against an austerity flat tax
imposed by the Dublin government.
Published March 30, 2012

Corruption affected every level of government from cabinet ministers to
local councillors during two decades of political dominance by Fianna
Fáil, according to the final report of the Mahon planning tribunal.
Published March 23, 2012

A referendum within the Six Counties on the future of the border in
Ireland is “inevitable”, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said.
Published March 16, 2012

The family of Sam Marshall are to seek a full inquest into his death
after it was revealed this week that he was under observation by at
least nine British soldiers when he was killed in 1990.
Published March 9, 2012

Fine Gael leader and 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny provoked the wrath
of a large swathe of Irish public opinion this morning when he signed
the EU’s Fiscal Compact Treaty, without waiting for a referendum of the
people of the State.
Published March 2, 2012

The end of a loyalist ‘supergrass’ trial, which saw twelve alleged
unionist paramilitaries cleared of the murder of UDA leader Tommy
English in 2000, has again raised fresh question marks over the
credibility of the so-called ‘justice system’ in the North of Ireland.
Published February 24, 2012

More than 500 bullets were fired at four IRA Volunteers who were killed
in an undercover British army ambush 20 years ago this week, it has
emerged.
Published February 17, 2012

A well-known County Derry pub-owner has had a gun held to his head by a
member ofthe British Crown forces who threatened to have him killed if
he did not become an informer.
Published February 10, 2012

Amid outrage over the government’s intensive efforts to avoid a
referendum, the leader of the main opposition groups in the 26 Counties
have issued separate calls for the people to have a say on Europe’s
draconian new finance plan.
Published February 3, 2012

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is the focus of mounting anger in the 26 Counties
after criticising the Irish people for their “greed” and “mad” borrowing-- just days after he paid one and a quarter billion euros of public
funds to international bond speculators.
Published January 27, 2012

Former RUC Special Branch police who were forced to retire as part of
the policing reform process have been rehired as civilian contractors
for the PSNI, it has emerged.
Published January 20, 2012

A vicious attempt to murder Catholic teenagers last Friday was covered
up by the North’s police for over three days before details finally
emerged.
Published January 13, 2012

Participants in Boston College’s ‘Troubles Archive’ project have
demanded the return or destruction of all of its taped interviews after
parts of the archive were delivered to the British Crown forces.
Published January 6, 2012

The publication of declassified papers from thirty years ago has
brought new controversy over the British view of the 1981 hunger
strike, in which ten men, including Bobby Sands, died.
Published December 30, 2011

Pressure is growing for the immediate release form jail of former
republican spokeswoman Marian Price after it was admitted that a royal
pardon central to her case has been shredded by the British government.
Published December 23, 2011

There have been new calls for a truth commission in the north of Ireland
following confirmation that one of the North’s deadliest terrorists was
a police agent.
Published December 16, 2011

A historic Franco-German drive for a new superstate has seen the
Eurocrats of Brussels demand political and fiscal powers to rival those
of the US federal government in Washington.
Published December 9, 2011

A total of 49 cases in which members of the RUC/PSNI police were
responsible for extra-judicial killings have been consigned to a “legal
limbo”, according to reports.
Published December 2, 2011

There is growing concern that the trial of two men for the Real IRA
attack on Massareene British Army base two years ago, currently
underway, could result in a major miscarriage of justice.
Published November 25, 2011

It was revealed today that members of the German parliament have already
discussed details of the forthcoming 26-County Budget, including a
planned 2% hike in VAT (sales tax).
Published November 17, 2011

Over a hundred former government ministers are sharing an annual cash
pot of almost nine million euro, it has been revealed. The figures were
supplied in response to a Sinn Fein parliamentary question.
Published November 10, 2011

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams led a walk-out from the Dublin
parliament this week in protest over the coalition government’s
decision to hand over more than 700 million euro (more than 1 billion
dollars) to an unknown private investor in the failed Anglo Irish Bank.
Published November 3, 2011

The 26-County presidential election campaign erupted in a major
controversy in its final days as so-called independent candidate Sean
Gallagher admitted he secured substantial Fianna Fail ‘donations’ in
exchange for dinner in the company of then Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
Published October 26, 2011

British Intelligence agencies sent the wife of a former IRA prisoner an
envelope stuffed with cash in an extraordinary attempt to recruit her as
an informer.
Published October 20, 2011

The peace process was rocked this week by the sudden British declaration
that a public inquiry will not now be held into the assassination of Pat
Finucane.
Published October 14, 2011

A hysterical attempt by Fine Gael and their media allies to attack Sinn
Fein’s Martin McGuinness has seen a surge in support for Mr McGuinness’s
campaign and propelled Sinn Fein into second place in the polls.
Published October 7, 2011

A large crowd turned out in Derry on Thursday as Sinn Fein’s Martin
McGuinness launched his Presidential election campaign.
Published September 30, 2011

The nomination of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness for next month’s
election to the President of Ireland has provoked a chaotic and bitter
response from the 26-County ‘elite’.
Published September 24, 2011

On the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, it could be Sinn Fein’s
Martin McGuinness taking the salute outside the GPO in Dublin, following
a dramatic and imaginative proposal by the party this weekend for his
nomination in next month’s Presidential election.
Published September 18, 2011

The Sinn Fein annual conference has heard calls for a national
conversation on the future of Ireland, between now and the centenary of
the Easter Rising in 2016.
Published September 11, 2011

A trial involving 14 unionist paramilitaries which begins this week
could see new revelations of conspiracy, collusion and hidden agendas
by the PSNI police.
Published September 6, 2011

An informer who helped the Garda and RUC police forces to plan, track
and co-ordinate the 1998 Omagh propaganda atrocity has escaped serious
injury following a targeted ‘Real IRA’ attack.
Published August 30, 2011

Pressure is growing for other internees at Maghaberry jail to be
released following the decision to free critically ill Brendan Lillis
last week.
Published August 24, 2011

There was shock, disbelief and tears of joy for the friends, family and
supporters of critically ill prisoner Brendan Lillis on Thursday when
news emerged that their campaign had succeeded in securing his freedom
-- and a rare victory against state brutality in the North of Ireland.
Published August 19, 2011

An unarmed Catholic man shot dead by the British army 40 years ago was
innocent of any wrongdoing, an inquiry has found.
Published August 13, 2011

Following last week’s refusal by the Stormont authorities to release
him, the partner of Brendan Lillis has said their campaign is no longer
working to free the ailing prisoner, but to save his life.
Published August 8, 2011

The British Army withheld evidence for more than three decades which
confirms that some of its locally recruited units were used to finance
and support UVF paramilitary death squads.
Published August 3, 2011

A heavy-handed series of arrest operations against families of prominent
republicans backfired significantly on the PSNI this week as public
opinion turned against them.
Published July 29, 2011

The Six-County administration is still resisting intense pressure to
release dying prisoner Brendan Lillis, who remains critically ill at
Maghaberry prison despite having the charges which put him there
withdrawn.
Published July 24, 2011

Supporters of critically ill Maghaberry prisoner Brendan Lillis are to
stage a hunger protest in a last-ditch attempt to convince the Stormont
and British authorities to release him from prison before he dies.
Published July 19, 2011

The PSNI attacked a peaceful protest in the republican Ardoyne area of
north Belfast to facilitate a sectarian march, triggering hours of
rioting on Tuesday evening.
Published July 14, 2011

More than a thousand people have protested outside the Dublin parliament
as the coalition government begins to wield the axe against frontline
health services around the country in order to serve European/IMF
demands for spending cuts.
Published July 8, 2011

The homes of nationalists in the Short Strand were again attacked by
loyalists on Friday night as both unionist paramilitaries and the
Protestant Orange Order combined to create a living hell for the
beleaguered community.
Published July 3, 2011

Nationalists have united behind calls for the Police Ombudsman to quit
amid outrage over a report in which he denied that the PSNI (then RUC)
police had not colluded in the Loughinisland massacre.
Published June 27, 2011

A sudden, unilateral and large-scale loyalist terror attack on the tiny
nationalist community of the Short Strand was bravely fended off this
week in an act of courage reminiscent of previous generations of the
nationalist struggle.
Published June 22, 2011
Faced with intense criticism over their failure to deal with the deep
economic crisis in their first 100 days of office, the 26-County
coalition leaders this week renewed promises to ‘burn the
bondholders’ of two of the state’s nationalised banks, while vowing to
maintain social welfare and income tax at current levels.
Published June 17, 2011

A founder member of a Sinn Fein breakaway group was assassinated on
Thursday in an attack which has shocked the broader republican community
in Dublin.
Published June 12, 2011

Sinn Fein is under heavy pressure to sack one of their Stormont advisors
as a controversy continued over her appointment this week.
Published June 6, 2011

Prison authorities at Maghaberry prison have confirmed that a lockdown
is being imposed on the republican wings amid a mounting crisis at the
jail.
Published May 30, 2011

The British government have been condemned for attempting to protect the
PSNI from the fallout of the Rosemary Nelson inquiry.
Published May 24, 2011

The state visit of Elizabeth Windsor to the 26-County state came to an
absurd anti-climax on Wednesday night when the British monarch admitted
England’s relations with Ireland have “not been entirely benign”.
Published May 20, 2011

An unprecedented security lockdown has been put in place in several
locations across Dublin, in Cork and in other sites across Ireland in
preparation for the first visit to the 26-County state by the
'Queen of England', Elizabeth Windsor.
Published May 17, 2011

Republican prisoners were attacked at Maghaberry prison and dragged
from their cells at the weekend after a protest action against the
failure of the British government and prison authorities to implement
an agreement on prisoners’ rights.
Published May 12, 2011

Elections are underway in the North today [Thursday], where Sinn Féin
is hoping to become the biggest party in the Belfast Assembly.
Published May 5, 2011

In a dramatic public address on Easter Monday, the ‘Real IRA’ affirmed
its determination to pursue its armed struggle against British rule.
Published April 30, 2011

A group of former Provisional IRA members have declared that they will
continue the armed struggle until a united Ireland is achieved.
Published April 25, 2011

Policing in the North is once again in crisis after the chief executive
at the Police Ombudsman's office suddenly quit, blaming senior
government officials for interfering in the office's investigations.
Published April 18, 2011

Sinn Fein has offered to meet with “the militarist factions” to outline
the party’s strategy for advancing republican objectives and in its
belief in “the futility of armed actions”.
Published April 13, 2011

A recording of Gardai police laughingly planning to rape two
environmental protestors, including a US citizen, has renewed attention
on the policing operation to secure the construction of a hugely
controversial onshore gas refinery in County Mayo.
Published April 8, 2011

The coalition government parties have reneged on promises made during
the general election by refusing to share the losses of Ireland’s banks
with those who sought to profit from their reckless lending.
Published April 4, 2011

The British government has apologised for killing a south Armagh girl,
who was shot dead by a paratrooper almost 35 years ago.
Published March 29, 2011

A suggestion by Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness
that he is prepared to consider sharing the role of First Minister if
Sinn Fein tops the polls in the North’s Assembly election has drawn a
hostile, if predictable, reaction from unionists.
Published March 25, 2011

One of the largest military operations in the history of the 26-County State is
being prepared in advance of the back-to-back state visits of British
monarch Elizabeth Windsor and US President Barack Obama.
Published March 21, 2011

The new Fine Gael-Labour coalition has already backed away from
pre-election promises to give the people a say on the EU-IMF bailout
deal.
Published March 16, 2011

A new government has started work following a day in which a
significant change in the political order in the 26 Counties finally
became tangible at Leinster House.
Published March 10, 2011

Fine Gael and Labour have reached an agreement on entering a new
coalition government in the 26 Counties.
Published March 6, 2011

Predictions of a political transformation in Ireland came to fruition on
Friday, when in the space of fifteen hours of polling, angry voters
eviscerated the Fianna Fail and Green parties.
Published March 2, 2011

In the last pre-election rally, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams vowed
his party would stand up for Irish citizens against bad government and
bad government decisions.
Published February 25, 2011

Fine Gael is likely to be in a position to form a new Dublin government
next week as opinion polls show Sinn Fein, Labour and Fianna Fail now in
the race for second place in Friday’s 26-County general election.
Published February 21, 2011

Political campaigning ahead of the general election has heated up
significantly following Monday night’s televised leaders’ debate, which
saw sharp clashes between Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams and Fianna Fail leader
Micheal Martin.
Published February 15, 2011

Sinn Fein opened its election campaign on Sunday with a strong attack by
party president Gerry Adams on corruption in the political system in the
26 Counties.
Published February 7, 2011

Following over two years of intense political struggle, a general
election in the 26 Counties will take place on February 25th following
the dissolution of the 30th Dail by President McAleese, on the advice of
Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
Published February 2, 2011

The breakaway IRA group known as ‘Oglaigh na hEireann’ said this week
it had to abandon an attack against the PSNI in north Belfast after a
civilian became endangered.
Published January 29, 2011

The two largest opposition parties in the Dublin parliament, Fine Gael
and Labour, have stunned the Irish people after they backed a plan to
ensure the passage of Fianna Fail’s financial programme through the
Dublin parliament.
Published January 25, 2011

The wheels finally started coming off Brian Cowen’s premiership this
week when he was forced to announce a date for the general election
following a devastating bust-up with his coalition partners.
Published January 21, 2011

The 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen may narrowly win a confidence vote
among his Fianna Fail party TDs tonight [Tuesday], but his leadership of
a withering political organisation is likely to be short-lived.
Published January 18, 2011

Political condemnation of the coalition government in Dublin has
increased after it emerged the 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen held
previously undisclosed meetings with the former principal of the
fraudulent Anglo Irish Bank in 2008 prior to the public emergence of
the banking crisis.
Published January 13, 2011

A senior Derry republican has challenged a call from local politicians
for armed groups to end their campaign, urging politicians instead to
“address the causes of conflict rather than vilifying those who are
engaged in it”.
Published January 9, 2011

The emergence of the hunger strike protest in 1980 and the degree to
which all sides were unprepared to deal with it are the dominant
features of the historical papers which were released over the New Year.
Published January 4, 2011

The 26-County Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has drawn a veil of
secrecy around the state’s banking system and the Dublin government’s
efforts to reinvent the sector.
Published December 29, 2010

People returning home for the festive season in Ireland continue to
endure hellish travel conditions as an ice storm has severely disrupted
road and air transport.
Published December 21, 2010

A poll has confirmed the demand of the people of the 26 Counties for a
political renewal following Wednesday’s humiliating vote by the Dublin
parliament to cede control of economic decision-making to the European
Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Published December 17, 2010

Classified cables from the US Embassy in Dublin released by the
Wikileaks organisation have revealed that the 26-County government acted
contrary to nationalist interests and consistently briefed against Sinn
Fein during the peace process in the North.
Published December 14, 2010

Irish children are now scavenging in bins for food, such is the dire
level of poverty among some families, even as the Dublin government
transferred billions from the poor to the rich.
Published December 10, 2010

A casino in Tipperary and a new road in Kerry are part of two late,
shabby back-room deals which have given the green light to a
disgraceful political crime.
Published December 7, 2010

Sinn Fein’s support in the 26 counties has surged according to a new
opinion poll, which also predicts Fianna Fail is facing a virtual
wipeout in the forthcoming general election.
Published December 3, 2010

The Dublin government triggered a torrent of national anger on Sunday
night when it handed over economic sovereignty to European and
International Monetary Fund administrators for an 85 billion euro loan.
Published November 29, 2010

Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty has weakened the Fianna Fail/Green Party
coalition’s slender hold on power with a stunning and historic election
victory in Donegal.
Published November 26, 2010

Independent TDs have joined with the opposition parties to pile pressure
on the crumbling Dublin government to pull the plug after the Green
Party finally succumbed to public outrage and said it is set to pull
out.
Published November 22, 2010

Pressure is weighing on the 26-County government to leave the stage this
week as a team of economists from the International Monetary Fund
arrived in Dublin to begin planning massive cutbacks in government
spending.
Published November 19, 2010

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has called for others to join with him
in providing leadership to help bring Ireland out of the current crisis.
Published November 16, 2010

The 26-County government has been almost completely sidelined in the
battle over Ireland’s economic destiny as the larger European Union
governments and ‘bond vigilante’ investment funds fought over plans to
deal with Dublin’s soaraway budget deficit.
Published November 12, 2010

The use of a military fragmentation grenade in an attack on a PSNI
patrol in west Belfast marks a new departure for the armed campaign of
Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) and the breakaway IRA groups.
Published November 8, 2010

A brutal Garda attack on a student protest in Dublin which injured and
traumatised protesters as young as 16 and 17 years of age has been
strongly condemned.
Published November 5, 2010

A bailout of the 26 County state by the European Union and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) is increasingly likely as confidence in
the coalition government’s ability to manage the state’s economy ebbs
away.
Published November 1, 2010

The UVF ‘ceasefire’ is increasingly being viewed as a sham after the
unionist paramilitary groups organised two nights of heavy rioting in
the Rathcoole area of Belfast in response to an ongoing collusion
inquiry.
Published October 28, 2010

Thirty thousand public service jobs in the Six Counties are to be
eliminated after the British government slashed its promised
contribution to maintaining society in the Six Counties.
Published October 24, 2010

Five hundred days after the seat was vacated, the Dublin government has
incredibly told the High Court that there has been no unreasonable delay
in holding a by-election in Donegal South West.
Published October 19, 2010

The Dublin government is to hold talks with the leaders of two of the
main opposition parties -- pointedly excluding Sinn Fein -- as it
struggles to cope with the consequences of its own ineptitude and
corruption.
Published October 14, 2010

Unionist paramilitaries who killed more than 100 people during the first
18 months of internment escaped detention because the British government
believed there was “no serious Protestant threat” to the state, newly
discovered papers reveal.
Published October 12, 2010

Public support for so-called ‘dissident’ republican groups has been
significantly underestimated by the Irish political and media
establishment, according to academic research published on Thursday.
Published October 8, 2010

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has denied the sovereignty of the 26-County
state has been jeopardised by the banking and budget crises, even as
European officials began dictating Irish economic policy.
Published October 4, 2010

A massively increased price-tag for the bank bailout by the Fianna
Fail/Green Party government has left the 26-County state braced for
deeper cuts and rising taxes and blighted the state’s finances for a
generation.
Published October 1, 2010

The Protestant Orange Order has refused to back new laws to deal with
sectarian marches in the North of Ireland, ensuring the controversial
Parades Commission will remain in place for at least another marching
season.
Published September 27, 2010

A socialist is likely to become the next 26-County Taoiseach according
to a new poll, which shows a further decline in support for the Fianna
Fail-Green Party coalition.
Published September 24, 2010

The chief of British military intelligence has accepted his
organisation has underestimated the capacity of the breakaway IRA
groups.
Published September 20, 2010

The 26 County Taoiseach Brian Cowen has been forced to apologise for a
Tuesday morning radio interview that embarrassed his Fianna Fail party
and generated widespread negative international commentary.
Published September 16, 2010

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has called for the Dublin parliament to
be reconvened immediately to discuss the banking crisis and soaring
unemployment.
Published September 14, 2010

A Derry priest has said he is shocked by accusations of harassment
against the PSNI police made by republican families in the city.
Published September 9, 2010

The Spanish authorities today defied international peace appeals and
said they will maintain their bloody conflict with Basque armed group
ETA, which is fighting to win independence for a Basque state northeast
of Spain.
Published September 6, 2010

British soldiers watched as a pro-British death squad murdered a
Catholic teenager in west Belfast, a report by the police’s Historical
Enquiries Team (HET) has found.
Published September 2, 2010

A Catholic woman in her late 50s was punched and thrown to the ground by
three marchers as she tried to cross a sectarian parade by the Royal Black
Institution in Ballymena on Saturday.
Published August 30, 2010

The British government has apologised for protecting a ‘suspect’ in the
1972 Claudy bombing, but is still refusing to reveal to the public the
full details of what it knows about the attack.
Published August 27, 2010

One of the breakaway IRA groups heavily involved in the recent upsurge
of armed actions has confirmed that it is growing in strength
and that most of its members are former members of the Provisional IRA.
Published August 23, 2010

There has been a protest at Derry courthouse this [Friday] morning
following the arrest and detention of prominent local republican Gary
Donnelly.
Published August 20, 2010

A small explosion inside a rubbish bin in Lurgan, County Armagh on
Saturday was the focus of an absurd British propaganda campaign at the
weekend.
Published August 16, 2010

The protest by republican prisoners at Maghaberry prison has ended after
three weeks of talks.
Published August 13, 2010

A challenge by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams to rival republican
organisations to meet him for discussions about the way ahead has met
with a suspicious reaction by the parties involved and condemned by the
British government.
Published August 10, 2010

A bomb attack on a PSNI base and the attempted assassination of a
senior British Army officer have rocked the political system in the
North of Ireland.
Published August 6, 2010

Agreement has been reached on the development of the site of the former
Long Kesh prison as a peace-building and conflict resolution facility.
Published August 2, 2010

Hundreds of republicans were prevented from marching through a
nationalist area of Lurgan in north Armagh on Sunday by the PSNI but
finally got around them in a game of ‘cat and mouse’.
Published July 26, 2010

A decision by Ireland’s main opposition party, Fine Gael, to take
corporate donations from some of Ireland’s most notorious developers has
threatened to re-open splits within the party.
Published July 22, 2010

A brief verbal exchange between a former IRA leader and a masked youth
has dramatised a potential power shift in republican Belfast and across
the North, at least at street level.
Published July 19, 2010

Some of the worst rioting in years has left scores injured in Belfast
after a sectarian parade by the Protestant Orange Order was forced
through three nationalist areas in the north of the city on Monday.
Published July 16, 2010

Heavy rioting took place in north and west Belfast overnight arising from
loyalist bonfires ahead of today’s climax of the marching season.
Published July 12, 2010

Families of those killed in the loyalist bombing of McGurk’s Bar in
north Belfast have branded an independent report into the atrocity,
which found no evidence of Crown force collusion, a “whitewash”.
Published July 8, 2010

A Catholic teenager is in a serious condition in hospital after being
hit by a plastic bullet fired by the PSNI in west Belfast at the
weekend.
Published July 6, 2010

Heavy rioting has broken out in Craigavon tonight following PSNI
operations in north Armagh.
Published July 1, 2010

Hand-to-hand fighting briefly broke out in the nationalist Short Strand
enclave on Friday night on the eve of a commemoration in the area of the
Battle of St Matthew’s.
Published June 28, 2010

The Dublin and London governments have formally begun the process of
arranging a state visit to the 26 Counties by the ‘Queen of England’
Elizabeth Windsor, it was announced yesterday.
Published June 24, 2010

Protesting republican prisoners in Maghaberry jail in County Antrim have
begun a dirty protest after prison authorities refused to implement an
agreement made with the prisoners to address their concerns at the
conditions.
Published June 21, 2010

Suppressed for 38 years by the mendacity of the British Army and its
soldiers, the facts of the bloody massacre of innocent Irish
nationalists in Derry in January, 1972 have been affirmed by a British
tribunal of inquiry and publicly accepted by a British Prime Minister.
Published June 17, 2010

The people of Derry and campaigners for the victims of Bloody Sunday
across the world are eagerly awaiting the findings of the Saville
Inquiry this Tuesday afternoon.
Published June 14, 2010

The 26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen is facing a motion of no confidence in
the Dublin parliament after his government was harshly criticised by two
preliminary reports into the banking crisis and linked to an attempt to
falsify the financial position of Anglo Irish Bank.
Published June 11, 2010

PUP leader Dawn Purvis has resigned after a campaign of intimidation by
the unionist paramilitary UVF has seen it issue death threats against
its critics and a message of terror against the people of the Shankill
Road.
Published June 4, 2010

Up to twenty human rights activists are believed to have been killed
and scores injured after Israeli commandos attacked a humanitarian aid
flotilla of ships this morning in international waters.
Published May 31, 2010

Twelve years after the inquiry began, the Saville report into the Bloody
Sunday massacre in Derry will finally be published on June 15.
Published May 27, 2010

There have been calls for urgent efforts to be made to save the life of
a republican prisoner on hunger strike at Maghaberry prison.
Published May 25, 2010

A Historical Enquiries Team report into the British/loyalist multiple
killing of three south Armagh brothers in 1976 has finally confirmed
that the murders were purely sectarian.
Published May 20, 2010

A Sinn Fein Stormont delegation visited Maghaberry on Friday as anger
mounts at the conditions inside the jail.
Published May 17, 2010

Newly elected British prime minister, Conservative party leader David
Cameron has vowed to “alter the shape of British politics forever” as he
took office at Downing Street this week alongside his deputy prime
minister Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Published May 14, 2010

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on Monday evening he was
quitting as Labour leader as it was confirmed that he is to hold formal
talks with the Liberal Democrats over a “progressive coalition” British
government.
Published May 10, 2010

A dramatic election in the North has strongly boosted the
nationalist parties but appears set to ‘decapitate’ the leadership of unionism.
Published May 8, 2010

Sinn Fein has attacked the “blanket denial” of postal and proxy vote
applications by the Electoral Office in some areas of the North.
Published May 4, 2010

A vulnerable teenager in west Belfast was recruited by the PSNI as an
informer and then put under pressure to plant explosives and weapons on
his neighbours, it has emerged.
Published April 29, 2010

The PSNI police is to intensify its campaign in south Armagh after
coming in for strong criticism over its response to Thursday night’s
bomb attack on its empty base in Newtownhamilton.
Published April 26, 2010

A shock announcement that Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey has withdrawn from
the Westminster election in south Belfast was greeted with only
hostility by the main beneficiaries of the move, the rival nationalist
SDLP.
Published April 22, 2010

The Dublin government has been criticised for its response to the
volcanic ash cloud from Iceland, which has cut off air transport to and
from the island of Ireland for several days.
Published April 19, 2010

The Dublin government is to flatten housing developments across the 26
Counties in a desperate bid to reinflate Ireland’s property bubble.
Published April 15, 2010

At one minute past midnight on Monday, policing and justice powers
became the responsibility of a Six County Assembly for the first time in
almost forty years. Just twenty minutes later, a huge blast echoed
across Belfast and into neighbouring counties from across Belfast Lough.
Published April 12, 2010

Tensions continue to escalate inside Maghaberry Prison today after
republicans were ‘disciplined’ last night for taking part in a 48-hour
protest at prison conditions.
Published April 8, 2010

Republicans are being urged to turn out in large numbers at Easter
commemorations across the country this weekend to reassert “the right
of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland” following
shocking revelations of corruption and fraud in the Dublin parliament
this week.
Published April 2, 2010

A new book published this week reveals details of controversial
interviews given by legendary IRA figure Brendan ‘The Dark’ Hughes to
Boston College in 2001 and 2002.
Published March 29, 2010

26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen is facing a potential rebellion among
his own backbenchers after a reshuffle of his cabinet of Ministers was
widely criticised as inadequate in the face of Ireland’s economic
crisis.
Published March 25, 2010

The long-awaited report into the British Army Bloody Sunday massacre
will not be released by the current British government, it has emerge
Published March 22, 2010

The head of the Catholic church in Ireland, Sean Brady, is resisting
intense calls for his resignation following revelations about his
involvement in an 1975 church inquiry into child sex abuser Fr Brendan
Smyth, in which two children were forced to take a vow of secrecy.
Published March 15, 2010

A historic vote in the Belfast Assembly has bolstered last month’s
agreement at Hillsborough on policing and parades but led to renewed
divisions between the two main unionist parties in the North.
Published March 11, 2010

Senior Ulster Unionists have said that they will not be supporting the
deal to devolve policing powers from London to Belfast at a crucial vote
in the Six-County Assembly at Stormont tomorrow.
Published March 8, 2010

Victims of Bloody Sunday have expressed outrage at comments by the
proposed future Six County Justice Minister David Ford in which he said
the Saville inquiry into the killings was “pointless”.
Published March 4, 2010

The family of Ciaran Doherty said he had been under “continuous
harassment” from the British secret service (MI5) in the months before
he was shot last week.
Published March 1, 2010

The dissident ‘Real IRA’ has been linked to the massive car bomb that
exploded outside the courthouse in Newry, County Armagh on Monday
night.
Published February 26, 2010

A marathon Crown force operation has followed the abandonment of a
mortar rocket inside a van near the PSNI barracks in Keady in south
Armagh on Friday.
Published February 22, 2010

The 26-County Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea has resigned in a
scandal arising from his attempts to smear a Sinn Fein election rival.
Published February 18, 2010

DUP leader Peter Robinson signed a post-dated letter of resignation as
First Minister to secure his party’s support for local policing and
justice in the north of Ireland, it has emerged.
Published February 15, 2010

Both the DUP and Sinn Fein have drawn a line in the sand on the issue of
sectarian marches as a working group set up under last week’s agreement
at Hillsborough held its first discussions on the issue.
Published February 11, 2010

The announcement by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) that it
has decommissioned its weapons has been strongly welcomed by the main
political parties in Ireland but greeted with condemnation by hardline
republican groups and mixed reactions from its own supporters.
Published February 8, 2010

Negotiations have ended between Sinn Fein and the DUP but unionists are
understood to be continuing to hold private talks with the British
government in a bid to ensure sectarian Orange Order parades are forced
through nationalist communities.
Published February 4, 2010

Both Sinn Fein and the DUP have said progress has been made in their
labyrinthine negotiations over the implementation of the 2006 St
Andrews Agreement, and confirmed that the talks will conclude shortly.
Published February 1, 2010

Transferring policing and justice powers from the London government to
the Belfast administration cannot be held hostage to unionist demands on
contentious sectarian parades, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams warned
today.
Published January 28, 2010

Martin McGuinness has said Sinn Fein has fulfilled its obligations in
government and is now insisting unionists and the two government do the
same to avoid a political crisis.
Published January 25, 2010

Secret talks have been taking place between the DUP, Ulster Unionist
Party and the British Conservatives which could bolster unionist
domination in the north of Ireland for generations to come, it has
emerged.
Published January 21, 2010

The DUP leader Peter Robinson has revealed that he has shaken hands
with Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness and suggested that he could be
reinstated as First Minister within two weeks.
Published January 18, 2010

26-County Taoiseach Brian Cowen and British prime minister Gordon Brown
declared “early completion” of the devolution of policing and justice
powers to the North is achievable despite the turmoil within unionism
over the Iris Robinson affair.
Published January 14, 2010

The Belfast Assembly at Stormont was in disarray today as the DUP
leader Peter Robinson stepped down temporarily as First Minister
following revelations of an affair between his wife Iris, and a
19-year-old youth.
Published January 11, 2010

An unprecendented scandal has embroiled the DUP leader Peter Robinson, and
his wife, Iris, who has admitted having an extra-marital affair with a
teenage youth.
Published January 8, 2010

British diplomats complained bitterly in secret about the lack of
security provided by the 26-County authorities for British admiral,
‘Lord’ Mountbatten, following his assassination by the IRA, historical
papers have revealed.
Published January 2, 2010

There have been calls for an inquiry into the police handling of abuse
allegations against Gerry Adams’s brother Liam, while the Sinn Fein
President has also come under pressure.
Published December 28, 2009

Gerry Adams has spoken of how his late father abused family members
when they were children following an explosive family fall-out which
has deeply embarrassed the Sinn Fein President.
Published December 21, 2009

The Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has admitted the Catholic
church in Ireland is facing a “deep crisis” despite the resignation of
the scandalised Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray.
Published December 17, 2009

The North’s leaders Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness clashed in
public today as the problems at the heart of the power-sharing
government were air
Published December 14, 2009

There has been a furious response to the Dublin government’s decision
to reduce social welfare payments and cut the pay of the lowest-paid
public service workers in its annual statement of economic policy.
Published December 10, 2009

The Garda police in the 26 Counties are to hold an illegal ballot to
join state-wide strike actions following the collapse in pay talks
between the Dublin government and Ireland’s main public sector trade
unions.
Published December 7, 2009

The Dublin government has been accused of dithering and weakness after
it backed away from a potential deal with the public service trade
unions to avert strike action.
Published December 3, 2009

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the 26-County Taoiseach,
Brian Cowen, met again in London today [Monday] for talks on the
deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers to Belfast.
Published November 30, 2009

The Dublin government this afternoon apologised for “failures” by the
State in dealing with clerical child abuse and said the “deference”
shown to the church in this regard had been “misplaced”.
Published November 26, 2009

There have been warnings that armed struggle could once again begin to fill
the political vacuum following two incidents in Fermanagh and Belfast
involving the breakaway IRA groups.
Published November 23, 2009

The PSNI has ramped up a campaign of political arrests with the
detention of Marian Price, the National Secretary of the 32 County
Sovereignty Movement.
Published November 19, 2009

A number of republican prisoners were denied food for more than 48 hours
as a ‘lock down’ and search took place at Maghaberry Prison late last
week and over the weekend.
Published November 16, 2009

A one-time leading member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party has
denied he was a top-level informer.
Published November 12, 2009

Tens of thousands of workers took to the streets across Ireland on
Friday in a mass display of discontent with the policies of the Six and
Twenty-Six County administrations.
Published November 9, 2009

An official state propoganda agency has claimed that Irish republicans
are committed to launching an attack in Britain “if the opportunity
emerges”.
Published November 5, 2009

The British government has been accused of conceding to unionist
blackmail after it emerged that a twenty million pound “gratuity
payment” is to be paid to former part-time members of the RUC.
Published November 2, 2009

The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has branded as “totally and
absolutely unacceptable” attempts by the DUP to attach the parades issue
as a new condition to an agreed deal on policing.
Published October 29, 2009

The controversy over the 1981 hunger strike has continued with
conflicting messages from the current and former Sinn Fein leaders, and
from former prisoners who were inside Long Kesh prison at the time.
Published October 26, 2009

The 26-County state appears to be heading for strikes and industrial
unrest on a scale not seen for many years after Ireland’s major trade
unions announced protest actions ahead of the December budget.
Published October 22, 2009

The people of the 26 Counties are being prepared for an unprecedented
series of wage cuts and devastating cutbacks by the corrupt coalition
government in Dublin.
Published October 19, 2009

Claims that a republican group abandoned a massive van bomb in a border
village this week proved unfounded after a dramatic controlled
explosion by the British Army revealed the van to be empty.
Published October 16, 2009

A decision by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) to formally
draw its armed campaign to a close has been welcomed by the political
parties in the North but has caused considerable surprise to its own
supporters.
Published October 13, 2009
A volley of shots have been fired over the coffin of senior republican
John Brady who died in “mysterious” circumstances while being questioned
at a PSNI police station.
Published October 8, 2009

A well-known republican died in suspicious circumstances at a PSNI base
in Derry on Saturday night.
Published October 5, 2009

Voters in the 26 Counties have the potential to draw a line in the sand
tomorrow against a greedy European superstate in Brussels and the
corrupt Fianna Fail government in Dublin.
Published October 1, 2009

The President of Republican Sinn Fein, Ruairi O Bradaigh has stepped
down from the post “for reasons of age and health”. He will continue as
a member of the party’s leadership and is expected to move to the
position of patron of the party.
Published September 28, 2009

The Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign continues to expose a gulf of
opinion between the people of Ireland and the wealthy elites.
Published September 24, 2009

Three days of serious disorder erupted in north county Armagh at the
weekend after three members of the Continuity IRA received heavy
sentences for possession of a homemade rocket launcher.
Published September 21, 2009

The 26 County Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has confirmed a bailout
measuring in tens of billions of Euro for Irish developers, property
speculators and their bankers.
Published September 17, 2009

Civilians in Forkhill, south Armagh have expressed their anger after an
abandoned bomb was left in a culvert on the border for over a week.
Published September 10, 2009

The issue of compensation for victims of the conflict in Ireland has
become enmeshed in a political row over Anglo-Libyan relations and oil
deals believed to be worth billions.
Published September 7, 2009

The PSNI were forced to pull back after encountering a ‘Real IRA’
checkpoint in south Armagh this week, it has been confirmed.
Published August 27, 2009

Tensions have risen in the North ahead of a highly contentious Orange
Order parade due to take place in the County Antrim village of Rasharkin
on Friday.
Published August 20, 2009

The annual Apprentice Boys’ parade in Derry at the weekend saw a number
of acts of deliberate aggression and random violence by the PSNI
against nationalist residents.
Published August 14, 2009

The British authorities have dropped plans to extradite four Provisional
IRA Volunteers, including two who famously escaped from London’s Brixton
prison 18 years ago, it has been revealed.
Published August 7, 2009

The Dublin government has published draft legislation on its plans to
spend almost a hundred billion Euro to purchase property assets at
inflated prices from banks, builders and developers.
Published July 31, 2009

Breakaway IRA groups have established an effective ‘no go’ area for the
PSNI in County Fermanagh, it has been confirmed.
Published July 24, 2009

The leadership of the Orange Order has rejected a call from Sinn Fein
President Gerry Adams for talks between the two organisations following
three days of parade-fuelled riots in Belfast.
Published July 17, 2009

With the Twelfth of July -- the height of the marching season --
falling this year on a Sunday, annual marches by the Protestant Orange
Order will take place instead this Monday.
Published July 10, 2009

The case against a former chef sought in connection with a break-in at
a top British Crown force base in the North of Ireland collapsed today
after seven years when prosecutors said he could not receive a fair
trial.
Published July 3, 2009

The PSNI police believes that the unionist paramilitary UDA was involved
in the murder of Catholic community worker Kevin McDaid in Coleraine
last month, it has been revealed.
Published June 26, 2009

More than 100 immigrants were forced to take shelter in a church near
Queen’s University this week after four days of racist attacks by
loyalist thugs from the Village area of south Belfast.
Published June 19, 2009

Sinn Féin headed the poll for the first time in the European elections
in Six Counties while the DUP, poll-topper at every other European
election, had to be content with taking the third seat.
Published June 12, 2009

A relatively lacklustre election campaign in the 26 Counties erupted
into farce in its final days with claims and counter claims among the
establishment parties about ‘what to do with Sinn Féin’.
Published June 4, 2009

The family of Kevin McDaid have accused the PSNI of being culpable in
his murder by a loyalist mob.
Published May 29, 2009

There has been a wave of outrage after an official report for the Dublin
government admitted that thousands of children suffered physical and
sexual abuse over several decades in residential institutions run by
religious congregations.
Published May 22, 2009

With local and European elections less than three weeks away, the latest
poll shows satisfaction with the Dublin government has slumped to an
extraordinary record low of just ten per cent.
Published May 15, 2009

The PSNI police have brought an Irish journalist to court under special
anti-terrorist legislation in a move seen as further evidence of a
return to traditional repressive state policies against republicanism.
Published May 8, 2009

The 26-County state is set to experience a depression surpassing that
of any other industrialised nation for over 70 years, according to
official predictions.
Published May 1, 2009
The Sinn Féin leadership has begun a fight-back against rival
republican groups who are seeking to maintain an armed struggle against
British rule.
Published April 24, 2009

There are concerns that tensions between Sinn Féin and
republican dissidents could escalate further.
Published April 17, 2009

The Dublin government stands accused of targeting children and other
vulnerable groups in the Budget, rather than the banks and property
developers responsible for causing the current crisis.
Published April 10, 2009

Days of disturbances in the North this week amounted to a show of
strength by so-called “dissidents” following a recent PSNI crackdown.
Published April 3, 2009

Following intense controversy over his continued detention without
charge, Colin Duffy was brought to court this [Friday] morning and
formally charged in connection with the ‘Real IRA’ attack on
Massereene British Army base earlier this month.
Published March 27, 2009

The British government has rejected any idea of engagement with
militant republican groups.
Published March 19, 2009

Different IRA factions may have come together to co-ordinate their
actions in two deadly attacks this week.
Published March 13, 2009

British Army special forces soldiers are back in the north of Ireland,
according to PSNI Chief Hugh Orde.
Published March 6, 2009

Four loyalists were convicted on Wednesday of the savage sectarian
killing of 15-year-old Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen in
Ballymena, County Antrim in May 2006.
Published February 27, 2009

The 26-County coalition government of Brian Cowen is in crisis over a
‘golden circle’ of wealthy Irish developers who received almost half a
billion Euro to purchase shares in a potentially fraudulent transaction
at the scandal-plagued Anglo-Irish Bank.
Published February 20, 2009

A DUP bid to abolish the main cross-border political institution of
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement -- part of an admitted larger plan to
collapse the Agreement itself -- failed in the Belfast Assembly this
week.
Published February 13, 2009

One of Ireland’s leading unions has warned of “catastrophic”
consequences following the collapse of economic recovery talks in
Dublin at the weekend.
Published February 6, 2009

The relatives of those killed by British forces in the north of Ireland have
criticised the emphasis placed on so-called “recognition payments” to
be paid by the British government to their families as a way of
dealing with the past conflict.
Published January 30, 2009

On a visit to Washington DC to attend the US Presidential inauguration
ceremenonies, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said he believes that
President Obama can assist the Irish peace process.
Published January 23, 2009

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused republican hardliners of
demanding protection money from drug dealers and other criminals in the
North.
Published January 16, 2009

The Israeli bombing of two UN-run schools filled with children taking
shelter from the continuing bloodshed in Gaza has provoked protests
and increasingly desperate appeals for a halt to the killing.
Published January 9, 2009

Previously confidential files released this week in Dublin, Belfast and
London under the 30 year ruled provide evidence of the increasing role
of the ‘Dirty War’ -- the use of covert intelligence and the SAS
shoot-to-kill strategy by the British government.
Published January 2, 2009

Concern in mounting in Ireland this Christmas that a set of rapidly
deteriorating market conditions and government mis-steps are
threatening to pitch the entire island into an unprecedented economic
crisis.
Published December 19, 2008

A second referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty will be held in the 26
Counties before October 31st of next year, according to the conclusions
of a European Union summit this week.
Published December 12, 2008

The British government has extended a deadline for unionist
paramilitary groups to decommission their weapons by another twelve
months.
Published December 5, 2008

The funeral has taken place of UDA ‘brigadier’ Ihab Shoukri, who died
this week after taking a fit brought on by a night of heavy drug use
in Newtonabbey, outside Belfast.
Published November 28, 2008

The Stormont Executive met on Thursday for the first time in over five
months.
Published November 21, 2008

The UDA has warned of being ready to “do battle” in a statement read to
several thousand loyalist supporters at a number of venues in the north
of Ireland.
Published November 13, 2008

Hopes are high that the election of a transformative President in the
US could herald an era of progressive change in Ireland.
Published November 7, 2008

A coat-trailing and incendiary march by British troops is set to take
place in the centre of Ireland’s second city on Sunday despite
widespread fears over the potential for serious violence.
Published October 31, 2008

The Dublin government is under further pressure over the October
Budget, days after thirty thousand pensioners and students besieged
parliament over cutbacks.
Published October 24, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of Irish taxpayers were the subject of a
sweeping and savage range of cuts and taxes this week in order to pay
for the gross mismanagement of the 26-County economy by the Dublin
government.
Published October 17, 2008

There have been calls for a completely new system of policing and
justice in the north of Ireland following the dramatic collapse of the
trial of bank official Chris Ward, the only individual accused of
the 2004 Northern Bank robbery.
Published October 10, 2008

The North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meeting scheduled for today
[Friday] was cancelled in the escalating dispute within the North’s
power-sharing administration.
Published October 3, 2008

Irish-American voters have become the focus of intense campaigning in
the US Presidential election as the race for the White House hots up.
Published September 26, 2008

The North’s strained stalemate exploded in rancour on Thursday when
the Stormont’s cabinet-style administration visibly broke into rival
factions.
Published September 19, 2008

SDLP leader Mark Durkan has stunned the political parties in the north
by calling for power-sharing between nationalists and unionists, a key
safeguard of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, to be scrapped.
Published September 12, 2008

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has stated “categorically and
definitively” that the Provisional IRA has left the stage as the DUP
continued to demand a statement by the organisation’s Army Council on
its status.
Published September 5, 2008

Serious rioting broke out this week in Belfast and in County Armagh,
where clashes between republican youths and the PSNI police saw a blast
bomb thrown and shots fired.
Published August 29, 2008

The use of a rocket-propelled grenade by the Continuity IRA against a
PSNI patrol marks a further escalation in their ongoing armed campaign.
Published August 22, 2008

Two men were treated in hospital for serious head injuries after a
loyalist mob, including armed paramilitaries, attacked a republican
commemoration in Coleraine last weekend - with the assistance of the
police.
Published August 15, 2008

The British government is ready to declare that the Provisional IRA’s
Army Council has disbanded to speed the transfer of policing and
justice powers from London to the Stormont Executive in Belfast.
Published August 8, 2008

The British government has confirmed that its Direct Rule Minister
Paul Goggins and PSNI Chief Hugh Orde held talks with leaders of the
UDA murder gangs on Monday night.
The UDA rejected an appeal to begin weapons decommissioning.
Published August 1, 2008

The first formal border checks between Ireland and Britain for more
than 80 years are set to begin following an announcement by the Dublin
and London governments on Thursday.
Published July 25, 2008

A declaration by French and current European Union President Nicolas
Sarkozy that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty has generated a furious reaction in Ireland ahead of his
planned visit to Dublin on Monday.
Published July 18, 2008

As the height of the Protestant marching season approaches,
nationalists are facing a weekend of sectarian intimidation,
paramilitary displays, provocative marches and drunken, uncontrolled
violence at ‘Eleventh Night’ bonfires.
Published July 11, 2008

Sinn Féin’s former publicity director Danny Morrison is set to have
his conviction for false imprisonment overturned amid secretive legal
moves to conceal the truth in the case.
Published July 4, 2008
The trial of former IRA chief Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane was brought to a
sudden climax on Thursday afternoon, when the non-jury Special
Criminal Court in Dublin dismissed all charges against him.
Published June 27, 2008

The European Union is generating its own crisis as the Eurocrat ‘elite’
refuses to accept Ireland’s NO vote in last week’s referendum on the
Lisbon Treaty.
Published June 19, 2008

Irish voters are being urged to go to the polls today to say ‘No’ to
runaway plans by the European bureaucracy to create a superstate at the
expense of Irish sovereignty and neutrality.
Published June 12, 2008

The new First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister,
Martin McGuinness, today start talks with British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown to try to resolve key issues troubling the peace process.
Published June 6, 2008

Thinly disguised threats are emanating from both the European bureaucracy and the Dublin government ahead of the Lisbon Treaty referendum on June 12.
Published May 30, 2008

South Armagh bade farewell to former IRA commander Brian Keenan
yesterday [Thursday] before he began his final journey back to his
native Belfast.
Published May 23, 2008
A breakaway republican armed group known as Oglaigh na hEireann has
been linked to a surprise car bomb attack which injured a member of the
PSNI police on Monday night.
Published May 16, 2008
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has accused the DUP of reneging on a deal
for the devolution of policing and justice powers from London to
Belfast this month.
Published May 8, 2008
Missiles were thrown when rival nationalist and unionist groups clashed
on Sunday morning following a sectarian parade by the Protestant Orange
Order in east Belfast.
Published May 2, 2008
The public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast defence lawyer Pat
Finucane has been secretly blocked for nearly two years, it has
emerged.
Published April 25, 2008
A leaked memo by a senior British diplomat has revealed secret
cross-channel plans to convince Irish voters to support the upcoming
referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Published April 18, 2008
Five republican prisoners have been moved to solitary confinement in
Maghaberry jail after protesting a court ruling on a ban on the wearing of
Easter lily.
Published April 11, 2008
Fianna Fail is expected to elect Minister for Finance Brian Cowen as
leader next week following this week’s announcement by Bertie Ahern
that he intends to step down as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fail on
May 6th.
Published April 4, 2008
Sinn Féin has welcomed the Dublin government’s commemoration of the
1916 Easter Rising but has accused the coalition government of merely
paying “lip service” to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
Published March 28, 2008
The English queen Elizabeth Windsor conducted a three-day visit to the
north of Ireland this week amid a storm of controversy but without
violent incident.
Published March 21, 2008
There was a dramatic escalation of tension this week at the Tara
heritage site in County Meath where hundreds of construction workers
and Garda police attacked a growing protest determined to save a
national monument from destruction.
Published March 14, 2008
Peter Robinson is the clear favourite to succeed Ian Paisley following
the historic announcement that he will quit as First Minister and
leader of the DUP.
Published March 7, 2008
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused the Dublin government under
Charles Haughey of providing the information that led to the SAS ambush
of three IRA Volunteers in Gibraltar 20 years ago.
Published February 29, 2008
Ian Paisley Jnr dramatically quit from the northern power-sharing
executive on Tuesday, and questions are now being raised over how long
his father can remain as First Minister.
Published February 21, 2008
A former Sinn Féin bodyguard and driver for Gerry Adams has been
exposed as a British agent and informer.
Published February 15, 2008
The PSNI police have again set up a number of road checkpoints across
the North amid a general increase in tension between the British Crown
forces and republican hardliners.
Published February 8, 2008
The Dublin parliament is to debate an all-party motion condemning
collusion by British forces in atrocities in the North of Ireland.
Published January 31, 2008
A ‘Real IRA’ bomb trial was terminated abruptly on Monday following
unchallenged accusations that an informer lies at the heart of the
case.
Published January 24, 2008
Victims’ groups have called for an international independent truth
commission to deal with the legacy of the last 30 years of war in the
North of Ireland.
Published January 17, 2008
A panel unilaterally set up by the British government to deal with the
desire for truth and reconciliation following the peace process has begun
public consultations, provoking anger and controversy over its role.
Published January 9, 2008
The PSNI police chief Hugh Orde has said it is “highly unlikely” that
anyone will be jailed for the 1998 Omagh bomb, following the freeing of
Armagh man Sean Hoey and the trial judge’s stinging indictment of the
PSNI.
Published January 3, 2008
Armagh man Sean Hoey has been cleared of any involvement in the 1998
Omagh bomb attack after a judge today [Thursday] rubbished the case
presented by the PSNI/RUC police.
Published December 20, 2007
There is no republican involvement in a campaign of threats and hoaxes
against Sinn Féin figures, including the widow of a recently deceased
IRA veteran, it has been claimed.
Published December 12, 2007
A British soldier has caused a scandal by revealing that the British
Crown forces are continuing to deploy high-technology spying equipment
to monitor the homes and activities of republicans north and south of
the border.
Published December 5, 2007
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that
evidence of British Crown force collusion in the murder of eight men in
South Armagh in the 1970s had not properly been investigated.
Published November 28, 2007
Sinn Fein assembly member Francie Molloy has rejected as “rubbish” a
claim that he has been working as a Special Branch informer for almost
30 years.
Published November 22, 2007
The breakaway republican group known as the ‘Real IRA’ has said it
shot two members of the PSNI in Derry and Dungannon, County Tyrone
last week, and also detonated a coffee-jar bomb in Newry, County
Armagh.
Published November 15, 2007
The UDA decommissioning saga has descended into farce after a breakaway
faction of the group denied that it had destroyed a small quantity of
guns.
Published November 8, 2007
A breakaway faction of the UDA has said the British and 26-County
governments now recognise it as an independent organisation after it
began disarming.
Published November 1, 2007
British military checkpoints are to return to the border area between
the North and South of Ireland following a British decision to abandon
the 'Common Travel Area' which has covered both islands since before
partition.
Published October 24, 2007
To DUP outrage, a decision to withdraw £1.2 million (Euro 1.7 million)
funding for a group connected to the unionist paramilitary UDA has been
confirmed after the UDA’s killer gangs refused to disarm.
Published October 17, 2007
The North’s most senior coroner has warned he will consider taking
legal action against PSNI Chief Hugh Orde if he refuses to hand over
police files relating to the killing of six unarmed people.
Published October 10, 2007
PSNI police clubbed scores of nationalist pub-goers in Derry city
centre on Saturday night in some of the worst street conflict seen in
the city in years.
Published October 3, 2007
There are fears other areas are being drawn into a unionist
paramilitary feud between rival gangs of the UDA in County Antrim.
Hundreds of campaigners created a giant human harp in County
Meath to mark Tara Heritage Day on Sunday. The protest is the latest in a string
of high profile moves to pressurise the government into rerouting the
M3 motorway away from the historic site.
The sites under threat are inextricably linked with the harping and
bardic traditions for more than 2,500 years. Protests were also held in
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dublin.
Published September 27, 2007
The PSNI have been using CS gas nearly every day on average since a
hand-held spray form was introduced three years ago, it has been
revealed.
Published September 20, 2007
An attempt to secure tax-varying powers for the Belfast Assembly was
defeated on Monday. Unionists blocked the Sinn Féin motion after DUP
Finance Minister Peter Robinson expressed reservations.
Published September 12, 2007
A retraction of the 35-year-old British Army claim that a teenager shot
dead by a soldier in Derry was a “terrorist” has been welcomed by
nationalists.
Published September 5, 2007
Tensions are high inside Maghaberry prison after clashes between
feuding prisoners within the unionist paramilitary UDA.
Published August 30, 2007
A DUP MP is planning to name a senior Sinn Féin figure in parliament
who he alleges has secretly been working for the British Crown forces.
Published August 22, 2007
The North’s Executive has been accused of seeking to avoid a decision
over highly controversial government funding of the unionist
paramilitary UDA.
Published August 16, 2007
The controversial excavation and demolition of a newly-uncovered
national monument at Lismullin in the Tara Valley began yesterday after
conservationists were threatened with a potentially violent Garda
police arrest operation.
Published August 8, 2007
The British Army will cease to provide military support to Crown force
policing operations in the Six Counties from midnight.
Published July 31, 2007
A feud between rival factions of the unionist paramilitary UDA erupted
in intense clashes at the weekend during which a PSNI policeman was
shot in the back.
Published July 25, 2007
DUP leader and Six-County First Minister Ian Paisley has declared that
the conflict in Ireland is at an end.
Published July 18, 2007
A bizarre British Army document has come to light which purports to
summarise the lessons taken by the force from its engagement in
conflict in the North of Ireland.
Published July 11, 2007
A multi-pronged British strategy to protect their own while downplaying
collusion and the rights of nationalist victims could provoke a crisis
in the peace process later this year.
Published July 4, 2007
A decision taken by the Crown Public Prosecution Service that no
members of the British Crown forces are to be charged over collusion
investigations has been condemned in the strongest terms by human
rights groups and families of the victims.
Published June 27, 2007
The Irish Green Party has abandoned a number of core political beliefs
in order to enter into a coalition government in Dublin, securing the
return of Fianna Fail’s Bertie Ahern as 26-County Taoiseach.
Published June 18, 2007
The North’s new First Minister Ian Paisley has delivered his first
question-and-answer session in the Belfast Assembly in his inimitable
manner but without generating fresh controversy.
Published June 11, 2007
Files on infamous unionist paramilitary leader Billy ‘King Rat’ Wright
have been deliberately destroyed or ‘lost’, an inquiry into his murder
has been told.
Published June 4, 2007
Talks between Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and potential coalition government
partners have been hit by fresh controversy over suspect payments
received by him when he was Minister for Finance.
Published May 29, 2007
Bertie Ahern could be returned as 26-County Taoiseach for a further
five years, according to the latest polls, but only if he finds a new
coalition partner.
Published May 21, 2007
The election campaign in the 26 Counties is heating up with just over a
week left to polling day.
Published May 15, 2007

The Six Counties have a new power-sharing Executive in another historic
day at Stormont.
Published May 8, 2007
Intense election campaigning has begun in the 26 Counties after the
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s early morning visit to the Presidential
residence, Aras an Uachtarain, to finally dissolve the Dublin
parliament on Sunday.
Published May 2, 2007
Sinn Féin’s 26-County TDs today said that they are preparing for the
election of a significant number of colleagues in the forthcoming
General Election - with the aim of the party being in government north
and south of the border.
Published April 27, 2007
Two members of the British Crown forces are involved in the latest
intelligence gathering operation to obtain the personal data of over
150 nationalists from the PSNI police computer system and deliver it to
a unionist paramilitary death-squad.
Published April 21, 2007
Sinn Féin has challenged unionist paramilitaries in the North to come
clean following the discovery of a new hit list of republican murder
targets.
Published April 15, 2007
The countdown to a united Ireland is underway, according to Sinn
Féin’s Martin McGuinness.
Published April 10, 2007
Extraordinary scenes continued in the peace process this week with a public handshake at
Farmleigh House in Dublin between DUP leader Ian Paisley and the
26-County Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.
Published April 5, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said a breakthrough deal on
power-sharing following the first-ever direct talks with DUP leader
Ian Paisley means that “a new and unprecedented opportunity for
progress now exists”.
Published March 30, 2007
Victims of UDA death-squads expressed outrage at the British
government’s plans to give the paramilitary group 1.2 million pounds
sterling.
Published March 24, 2007
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said a political deal to secure
power-sharing by March 26 is close and that the British government can
“smell” a breakthrough.
Published March 18, 2007
There is mounting optimism that the peace process can make a historic
breakthrough this month after the Dublin and London governments
appeared willing to hold to their stated March 26th deadline for the
return of local power-sharing in the North of Ireland.
Published March 13, 2007
Voting to the election for the new Belfast Assembly got underway across
the Six Counties this Wednesday morning.
Published March 7, 2007
Unionists in Belfast would benefit from an all-Ireland economy, Sinn
Féin President Gerry Adams said as he launched his party’s platform for
the election to the Belfast Assembly.
Published March 1, 2007
Republican Sinn Féin president Ruairi O Bradaigh delivered a letter of
protest to the headquarters of the GAA as part of an extremely
high-profile demonstration at Saturday’s rugby international at Croke
Park in Dublin.
Published February 25, 2007
The Democratic Unionist Party is to push for an alternative ‘Plan C’ --
which would see Sinn Féin excluded from political institutions in
Belfast -- should the party fail to satisfy its demands in a future
power sharing government.
Published February 20, 2007
The British government may be forced to make a gesture to mark the
killing of 14 civilians by British Crown forces at Croke Park in 1920
when British Direct Ruler Peter Hain attends the Ireland v England
rugby match there next week.
Published February 15, 2007
Republican Sinn Féin has confirmed that it will stand at least eleven
abstentionist candidates in the Belfast assembly elections, while
independent republicans have already declared in five constituencies.
Published February 10, 2007
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams it
is “unacceptable” that members of the PSNI police colluded in sectarian
and other paramilitary murders and that it “must never happen again”.
Published February 5, 2007
Sunday’s extraordinary Sinn Fein Ard Fheis saw overwhelming party
support for a seismic shift on policing and a clear endorsement for
the Adams/McGuinness leadership.
Published February 1, 2007
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said collusion in the PSNI/RUC
police went “to the very top” following this week’s report which
implicated the Special Branch in a decade-long campaign of sectarian
murder in north Belfast.
Published January 27, 2007
A report by the Police Ombudsman concludes that RUC/PSNI Special
Branch police officers colluded in at least 18 murders in the North of
Ireland between 1990 and 2003 has been described as ‘the tip of the
iceberg’.
Published January 22, 2007
A debate on the acceptability of the PSNI police and British Crown
courts in the North of Ireland is currently underway within
republicanism.
Published January 17, 2007
Ian Paisley’s DUP have gone back on a deal to agree the devolution of
policing, Sinn Féin has said.
Published January 12, 2007
A crisis is mounting as a result of the
continuing failure of the DUP to respond positively
to the decision by the Sinn Féin leadership to
recognise the courts and support the police force in the North of Ireland.
Published January 8, 2007
Sinn Féin has said it is still awaiting a positive response from Ian
Paisley’s DUP following its decision to hold a special party conference
on supporting the police and recognising the courts in the North of
Ireland.
Published January 4, 2007
DUP leader Ian Paisley has welcomed moves by Sinn Féin President Gerry
Adams which could lead the party to a once unthinkable position --
supporting a police force in Ireland while it remains under the
authority of the British Crown.
Published December 29, 2006
A week of intense talks involving Sinn Féin, Ian Paisley’s DUP and the
Dublin and London governments to find a way through the impasse over
policing before the Christmas break continues unabated.
Published December 23, 2006
Key meetings of Assembly committees are taking place in Belfast this
week which will seek to bridge significant differences on the issue of
the transfer of justice and policing powers from London to Belfast.
Published December 18, 2006
An assassination plot against Gerry Adams by republican hardliners was
defeated by security arrangements taken by the Sinn Féin president and
his security advisers, Mr Adams has said.
Published December 13, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley responded to and made comments directed at Sinn
Féin President Gerry Adams across the Belfast Assembly chamber this
week in what is being seen as a possible shift in his party’s refusal
to talk directly to Sinn Féin.
Published December 7, 2006
Crazed killer Michael Stone outlined his plan to mount a
Colombine-style assault against the Sinn Féin leadership in a letter to
a local newspaper.
Published December 1, 2006
The peace process has survived one of its most dramatic days in recent
years despite a major political crisis and an almost simultaneous gun
and bomb attack at the Belfast Assembly.
Published November 25, 2006
The first meeting of the programme for government committee takes place
in Belfast tomorrow despite a continuing boycott by DUP leader Ian
Paisley.
Published November 19, 2006
The lives of Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly
are under threat from hardline republicans, the party has confirmed.
Published November 14, 2006
A major international report has called for an independent inquiry
into what senior British government figures knew about Crown force
collusion with unionist death-squads in 74 murders.
Published November 9, 2006
Ian Paisley’s DUP is likely to give only “a conditional response” to
the St Andrews document next week in tactically stating they will only
go along with a political deal on power-sharing government if certain
demands are met.
Published November 4, 2006
The British and Irish governments could put progress in the North at
risk if they divert from what was agreed at the St Andrews talks and
make fresh concessions to the DUP, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams
has said.
Published October 30, 2006
There are growing concerns that the hardline unionist DUP will remain
as negative within the peace process as the party was outside amid
ongoing tension over the details of a potential new deal.
Published October 25, 2006
Disagreement over the wording and timing of a pledge of office
has emerged as a key stumbling block as negotiations continue over a
potentially historic deal between Sinn Féin and Ian Paisley’s DUP.
Published October 20, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams could hold
face-to-face talks as early as tomorrow as the St Andrews proposals are
worked through by the two party leaderships.
Published October 16, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said his party is determined to do
everything it can to get the political institutions of the Good Friday
Agreement up and running in Belfast before the November 24th deadline.
Published October 10, 2006
The British government has formally acknowledged that the Provisional
IRA’s military campaign is over.
Published October 5, 2006
The Dublin government is divided by the deep facing 26-County Prime
Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, over cash payments he accepted when
Minister for Finance in the 1990s.
Published September 30, 2006
The Dublin government is enveloped in a new and potentially critical
corruption scandal over revelations of payments made to the 26-County
Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in 1993.
Published September 25, 2006
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on policing, Gerry Kelly, has said the parties
could be “very, very close” to an agreement on policing if Ian
Paisley’s DUP were to be engage with Sinn Féin in a positive manner.
Published September 19, 2006
Up to 1,000 murder files held by the Crown police in the North of Ireland
have simply “gone missing”, the PSNI have admitted.
Published September 15, 2006
Tony Blair's promise to step down as British Prime Minister within 12
months threatens to derail the Irish peace process.
Published September 10, 2006
A fresh attempt to end the political deadlock in the North of Ireland
is to be made next month with intensive talks in Scotland.
Published September 5, 2006
The PSNI police has been covering up a series of unionist paramilitary
arms discoveries -- according to the UDA themselves.
Published August 31, 2006
Sinn Fein has revealed that Ian Paisley’s DUP are refusing to even look
directly at the party’s representatives across the table at meetings
intended to prepare the way for the two parties to share power in the
Six Counties.
Published August 27, 2006
The Police Ombudsman has been asked to investigate the assault of a
Sinn Féin politician by the PSNI police at a weekend loyalist parade.
Published August 22, 2006
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has called for greater compromise and
confidence in dealing with unionists during a significant mass rally in
west Belfast.
Published August 18, 2006
Republican prisoners held in Maghaberry jail have concluded a 48-hour
fast as part of an escalating protest for the restoration of political
status and the implementation of five demands.
Published August 13, 2006
The Continuity IRA are considered most likely to be responsible for a
spate of fire-bomb attacks and bomb alerts in the town of Newry, close
to the border, that damaged or destroyed at least four large British
retail chain stores.
Published August 10, 2006
The UDA has forcibly ousted its former north
Belfast leadership from the city with the tacit support of the PSNI
police.
Published August 5, 2006
The Dublin government has been forced to end the transport of munitions
for the Israeli Army through Shannon Airport following outrage over the
massacre of scores of women and children in Lebanon.
Published July 31, 2006
Sectarian attacks are now averaging at least five attacks every day
despite efforts of nationalist groups to placate unionists with
concessions over contentious anti-Catholic parades through interface
areas.
Published July 25, 2006
The arrest of an Irish language school teacher in Belfast for speaking
Irish “brings us back to the days of the penal laws”, said Sinn
Féin’s Bairbre de Brun.
Published July 20, 2006
A Derry man is fighting for his life following a spate of sectarian
attacks surrounding the annual July 12th parades by the Protestant
Orange Order.
Published July 17, 2006
Hundreds of ‘11th night’ bonfires were set alight by loyalists across
the North last night as tensions mounted ahead of ‘the Twelfth’, a day
when over 600 marches are staged by the Protestant Orange Order to mark
a 17th century battle victory over Catholics.
Published July 12, 2006
26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern this week faced calls for an early
election amid a public outcry over mounting evidence of serious
incompetence within his cabinet and senior civil service.
Published July 7, 2006
DUP leader Ian Paisley has said that there will be no power-sharing
with nationalists unless the Provisional IRA “repents of its evil
deeds”
Published July 2, 2006
Republican prisoners at Maghaberry Prison are now refusing meals in an
increasing protest for the recognition of political status.
Published June 27, 2006
The Parades Commission stands accused of rewarding loyalist violence
after it ruled that a sectarian, coat-trailing march can pass along the
nationalist Springfield Road in west Belfast this weekend.
Published June 22, 2006
Relatively little violence at the ‘Tour of the North’ parade in north
Belfast on Friday night is being cited as evidence that this year’s
marching season could be the quietest for several years.
Published June 17, 2006
Frustration is growing in the North of Ireland over the ongoing
attempts by hardline unionists to obstruct and undermine the peace
process.
Published June 11, 2006
Martin McGuinness has accused his enemies of trying to have him killed
by claiming he was a British spy.
Published June 6, 2006
A man named in the Dublin parliament earlier this year as a PSNI
Special Branch agent linked to a series of murders was shot near North
Belfast today.
Published May 30, 2006
British Direct Ruler Peter Hain is to press ahead with the formation
of an all-party committee at the new shadow assembly to discuss the
return of powers from London to Belfast.
Published May 27, 2006
There were no surprises as the DUP leader Ian Paisley flatly rejected a
bid to form a power sharing executive at the shadow Belfast Assembly on
Monday.
Published May 23, 2006
The mood at the first days of a new 'transitional' northern assembly
were low key and overshadowed by the sectarian murder of Catholic
schoolboy Michael McIlveen in Ballymena.
Published May 17, 2006
Preparations are currently underway for the funeral of fifteen-year-old
Michael McIlveen who died on Monday after he was fatally wounded in a
sectarian gang attack in Ballymena, County Antrim last weekend.
Published May 13, 2006
A schoolboy savagely beaten in a sectarian attack in Ballymena on
Saturday died in hospital on Monday night.
Published May 8, 2006
Successive British governments failed to act despite having full
knowledge of the extensive and murderous collaboration between the
UDR and unionist
paramilitaries.
Published May 3, 2006
Dessie O'Hare, former leader of the Irish National Liberation Army
(INLA), has finally been freed from prison, but not under the terms of
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Published April 28, 2006
Members of the PSNI police who shot and killed a motorist in County
Down last weekend are still armed and on duty, it has emerged.
Published April 24, 2006
Rioting has continued in Lurgan, County Armagh for two days after PSNI
police staged a raid on Wednesday on what they claimed was a dissident
republican bomb factory.
Published April 21, 2006
A man shot dead by the PSNI at a checkpoint in County Down was unarmed
at the time, it has been revealed.
Published April 18, 2006
This weekend Ireland will witness one of the biggest official
commemorations of any historic event since partition.
Published April 14, 2006
Sinn Féin has said it will attend the reconvened Belfast Assembly on
May 15th with the purpose of forming a power sharing government.
Published April 9, 2006
The murder of top republican informer Denis Donaldson has caused
political shockwaves amid intense speculation about his killing.
Published April 5, 2006
Evidence has emerged that suggests the Dublin government ordered Garda
police not to pursue British military and unionist paramilitary
killers of Irish citizens in the 1970s.
Published April 3, 2006
A loyalist accused of murdering Belfast defence lawyer Pat
Finucane in 1989 admitted that he was 'massacred' in a taped
confession, a court was told today.
Published September 25, 2003