Éirígí have announced the details of their latest public protest in opposition to the proposed state visit of the Commander-in-Chief of Britain’s armed forces to the Twenty-Six Counties.
Protestors gathered yesterday (Monday) outside Belfast City Hall to show their disgust at the British government’s maltreatment of Comfort Adefowoju and her four children, whose imminent deportation to Africa was only delayed by the incompetence of British officials.
The civil rights of Irish citizens in the Six Counties have received yet another regressive blow in the past week with the announcement by Stormont minister for culture Edwin Poots that he intends to cease state assistance to the Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
Revelations in the past week that tens of thousands of children in the Six Counties are living in poverty have thrown into stark contrast the prosperity being experienced by some in our society.
Wednesday’s (January 9) trial of three men in Belmullet district court, county Mayo was a mixture of the farcical, the bizarre and the downright sinister.
Up to 50 republican activists (see photos below) descended on Bertie Ahern’s St Luke’s constituency office in Drumcondra, Dublin today to vent their anger at his announcement that a visit by the English queen to the Twenty-Six Counties is “inevitable”.
On December 24, 2007 Bertie Ahern confirmed on RTÉ radio that the Twenty-Six County establishment plans to invite the Commander in Chief of Britain's armed forces, Elizabeth Windsor, on an official visit to the state in the near future
