A former British military intelligence operative who served in the Six Counties has revealed just how widespread covert intelligence gathering operations have become in occupied Ireland.
The families of eight men killed by Britain’s death squads in the 1970s won a landmark victory in the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday (November 27).
Twenty-Six County education minister Mary Hanafin has announced that she will not withdraw a circular stating that Irish-medium schools in the state must introduce two-and-a-half hours of English-language teaching by the second term of junior infants’ class.
Tyrone woman Roisín McAliskey and her family can breath a huge sigh of relief tonight (Friday) after a Belfast court turned down a request to extradite her.
While James Connolly’s demand that workers are entitled to ‘the earth’ is a strong message that still resounds with organised labour and socialists a century later, the demands from classroom assistants in the Six
One of the key factors that keeps the status quo in place in both the national and socio-economic fields in today’s Ireland is the notion that normality reigns, conflict and hardship are items of the past and things as they are will continue in perpetuity.
Fifty-one homeless citizens have died, starving and cold, on the streets of our two major cities in the last 18 months according to a report by the Simon Community.
