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The Policing You Don’t See
The problem of the lack of transparency and accountability in policing structures is not one confined to Ireland. In Scotland the SNP Government are introducing a single police force which will become a Met of the North. This report from Committee For Administration Of Justice confirming the ongoing role of MI5 and political policing in the occupied Six … Continue reading
Forget All About Flags, Census Is Real Story
By Ian Bell Back at the start of the 1980s, Ireland’s Moving Hearts collective attracted some attention by recording Jack Warshaw’s song “No Time for Love”. On this side of the sea it was dismissed, often enough, as myopic and self-serving left-republican hyperbole. Deplorable, in other words. When Christy Moore sang “the death squad can … Continue reading
George Galloway on British State Collusion
Here is George Galloway talking about Pat Finucane, British state collusion, Mick McGahey, Orgreave, Hillsborough and much more.
Right Is Might
By Ciarán MacAirt There are shining lights for campaigning families that stand as testimony to the courage, industry and will of ordinary people even when pitched against the State and its forces. The Bloody Sunday families and the family of Stephen Lawrence are paradigms. So too are the families of the Hillsborough victims whose 23 year … Continue reading
Britain’s Dirty War: The Murder of Sam Marshall
On the 7th of March 1990 Sam Marshall and his two friends, Colin Duffy and Tony McCaughey, were attacked by British gunmen as they left the Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Lurgan. The three men had been signing in at the British police station at a prearranged time as part of bail conditions. As they … Continue reading
Collusion Is Not An Illusion
This week’s decision by the British Government to renege on their commitment to hold an inquiry into the state murder of Human Rights lawyer Pat Finucane has once again reminded the world of Britain’s policy of collusion in Ireland. Collusion with pro-British death squads, including the UVF and the UDA, in the murder of its own citizens. When the … Continue reading
Finucane Family Sets Record Straight
The family of Pat Finucane have today set the record straight over their dealings with the British Government in the run up to this weeks decision by the government not to hold an inquiry into Finucane’s murder in 1989. Speaking at a press conference in Belfast earlier today the family announced they had agreed to accept a … Continue reading
Finucane Family Statement
The Finucane family met the British Prime Minister David Cameron and NI Secretary Owen Paterson at 10 Downing Street today to hear the Government’s decision on an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane in Belfast in 1989. The family was asked to come to Downing Street by the Prime Minister following a re-appraisal of … Continue reading
Finucane Family Walk Out Of Meeting With Cameron
The family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane have walked out of today’s meeting with David Cameron. At the meeting Cameron had told the family the British Government would not hold an Inquiry into his murder. As she left Downing Street his wife Geraldine told reporters she was almost too angry to speak. Pat Finucane was a Human Rights lawyer who had … Continue reading
