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Following the raising of the issue by Aontú leader Peadar Toíbín in the Dáil again, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has finally agreed to meet with families of the victims of the loyalist Glenanne Gang. The gang operated mostly during the 1970s and is believed to have murdered over 120 people. Almost all of them were […]
It’s a long-held political axiom among nationalists in the north that the demographic trend would eventually put Sinn Féin in power in Northern Ireland. Because Catholics tended to have larger families they would eventually outvote unionists, or so it was commonly believed. This, of course, contributed to the sectarian violence and terrorism of unionist militias, from […]
Dissident Republicans are reportedly suspected of being behind an attempted fire-bombing of a female PSNI officer’s car in Northern Ireland, with First Minister Arlene Foster saying the North would not “be dragged back to bombs & bullets.” An explosive container of flammable liquid designed to create a fireball engulfing the officer’s personal car was reportedly […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he does not anticipate a referendum on Irish Unity for “a very, very long time to come”, while Taoiseach Micheál Martin said that an early border poll would be “explosive and divisive.” Describing himself as “a proud unionist”, Johnson told BBC Northern Ireland’s Spotlight programme, which has […]
In the week that marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, the loyalist violence in Belfast underlined the fact that little has changed regarding the fundamental nature of society in the north of Ireland. It is unlikely that many of the people taking part in the […]
The Republic, with 4.9 million citizens, has only fully-vaccinated 300,000, while Northern Ireland, with a population of 1.8 million, has vaccinated almost 200k – a higher percentage per capita. According to the HSE, as of the 9th of April 2021, Ireland has administered 309,922 second doses of covid vaccine. By comparison, Northern Ireland, which has […]
Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland’s First Minister, has told the Secretary of State for the region, British MP Brandon Lewis, to “back off” on compelling Stormont to implement abortion laws. Abortion is considered a devolved issue – to be decided locally in the region – but in 2019, with the contrivance of Sinn Féin and some members […]
Last night (Monday) the Stormont Assembly voted 48 to 12 in support of a Democratic Unionist Party Bill that would ban abortion of unborn children with ‘non-fatal’ disabilities. There were 27 abstentions including all of the Sinn Féin MLAs. One wonders what the party bosses in the “core group” would have ordered the sheep to […]
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has said that the DUP will be launching a legal challenge to the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU-UK Brexit deal. The North’s First Minister said that she would be joining ranks with “like-minded” unionists, including Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib, Labour party’s Kate Hoey, and Jim Allister, for […]
ON THIS DAY: 12 DECEMBER 2001: Nuala O’Loan, Police Ombudsman for the North of Ireland presents report to relatives of the Omagh bombing victims As the Police Ombudsman for the North of Ireland, Nuala O’Loan met with and presented the relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing with a report into her findings into […]
Pat Finucane’s family were sitting down to Sunday dinner at their home in North Belfast on February 12th, 1989 when their door was smashed in by masked loyalist killers wielding sledgehammers. The gunmen then shot Finucane fourteen times in front of his wife Geraldine and his terrified children. He was 39 years old. Since that […]
I’m sure it never crossed their minds, but the visit of the Prince of Wales to Stormont to meet his Mam’s two Governor Generals was perceived to have been a tad insensitive by relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday, the day after the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there would be no further […]
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