The PSNI has effectively backed unionist paramilitary gangs accused of
orchestrating racist attacks and is now refusing to blame them for
recent violence and intimidation across the Six Counties.
British Crown Forces continue to engage in violent house raids,
oppressive stop-and-search detentions and sinister surveillance efforts
in a bid to defeat republican activism.
A widow who lost her husband and parents within months of each other to
a loyalist gang is to meet the British Direct Ruler to discuss the
family’s call for a public inquiry into the murders.
There have been calls for the 26 County Education Minister Norma Foley
to take action after an offensive, self-hating description of a traditional
family was published in a secondary school Irish textbook.
The British government is using suppression tactics familiar from the
north of Ireland against English journalists critical of its role in
the ongoing slaughter in the Middle East.
The arrest and detention without bail of 61-year-old veteran republican
Martin McCauley on foot of a British extradition warrant has been
strongly condemned by republicans.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on Taoiseach Simon Harris
to provide full answers to reports that aircraft carrying weaponry from
the United States to Israel have flown through Irish airspace.
The British Army witnessed the IRA’s capture of its most infamous
captain and spy Robert Nairac, but did not intervene, according to a
report this week.
Sinn Féin has backed away from a controversy over gender-changing
puberty-blockers for children, opting to abide by the advice of the
North’s Chief Medical Office to ban their use in the North in line with
Britain.
The story of the Choctaw nation’s act of generosity to Irish people
stands as one of the few bright redemptive stories of the Great Hunger.
The gesture opened a channel of enduring friendship between the two
peoples which was on Friday was marked by a sculpture unveiled this week.
In May, three additional European states officially recognised a
non-existent Palestinian state. Ireland, Spain, and Norway are the
latest to join more than 140 other United Nations members in recognising
this phantom entity.
Na Fianna Éireann, the Irish nationalist/republican youth organisation, was
founded by Constance Markievicz in 1909. A manifesto from them originally
published in ‘Irish Freedom’ on Saturday, 1st June, 1912.
The 2nd Annual Independent Dublin Republicans ‘Remember the Hunger
Strikers 1917-1981’ Commemoration took place last Saturday, August 24. The main oration was given by former PoW Frank Quinn of the 1916 Societies.