From UTV News 28 August 2009: Two mobile classrooms at Castlewellan’s Irish Language school have been destroyed in an arson attack. The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service were called to Bunscoil Bheanna Boirche at Circular Road around 4am on Friday morning. It took them four hours to bring the blaze under […]
From the Pól Brennan Support Group: We spoke to Pòl in the last few days, he asks that we pass on his personal thanks and gratitude to everyone who has supported his campaign against deportation and to tell you he will be in touch personally with a lot of those that […]
From the Irish Independent, by Tim Pat Coogan: THE acid test of a public man is did he leave people better or worse off during his term in office? Whether he was a nice guy or a surly one doesn’t matter. That is the test. Ted Kennedy was blessed in […]
From the New York Times, by John M. Broder: Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the […]
From Relatives for Justice: Ballymurphy families forced to go public urging eye-witnesses to internment massacre to be ‘mindful not to undermine their efforts for independent investigation’ by engaging the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET) Speaking after the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET) made direct contact with a number of eye-witnesses to […]
From the Pól Brennan Support Group: The news we have fought so hard not to hear has arrived, Pòl was deported today and arrived in Shannon and was taken through the airport without being arrested, he is now safe with family. We in the Pòl Brennan Support Group wish to thank […]
From Relatives for Justice: 20 August 2009: Yesterday one of our members Mr. Martin Mallon, who also sits on our organisations Board of Directors, was stopped while traveling towards the Ballygalwley roundabout by the PSNI and had his car searched, his mobile phone, personal diary, and paperwork relating to his business […]
From the Pól Brennan Support Group: Pol was served with his deportation papers yesterday and can be deported at any time now! We are urging all his friends and supporters to keep the pressure on – it is having an effect. Please pass this on to friends and ask that they […]
From the Irish News, by Allison Morris: An international human rights adviser has been called in to investigate the circumstances in which up to four young people were injured with police baton rounds in north Belfast last month. The four, including a 13-year-old child, were hit with the baton rounds during […]
From the Pól Brennan Support Group: We are just off the phone with Pol’s attorneys office they have been notified that Pól is to be deported next week and that the autorities are assembling his travel document. This is terrible news and we have a few days in which to contact Janet […]
August 12, 2009—The Irish American Unity Conference today called upon the Obama Administration to carry out previous commitments to appoint a Special Envoy to Northern Ireland within the US State Department. A recent statement made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton downplayed the necessity for a full-time Special Envoy role […]
From the newly launched website, Remember Kevin McDaid: Several hours after Rangers won the SPL in May, a husband and father of four called Kevin McDaid was attacked and brutally murdered by bigots in Coleraine, County Derry in the North of Ireland. The attackers had conspired in a public house to […]
The following press statement was issued today by the Pat Finucane Centre: The family of Aidan Mc Anespie who was shot and fatally wounded by a British soldier in 1988 have issued the following statement through the Pat Finucane Centre. Speaking this morning Una Mc Cabe, niece of the victim said, […]
Please join members of Irish Northern Aid and the IAUC as we convene for a report-back from Sinn Féin’s United Ireland conferences this Wednesday, July 22nd at the Gaelic League in Detroit. The agenda for Wednesday’s meeting will also include local coalition-building and a discussion of outreach opportunities for the […]
From the Belfast Telegraph (note: read full court decision on our Resources page): A legal challenge against a 270-year-old ban on the use of the Irish language in court proceedings in Northern Ireland has been dismissed in the High Court in Belfast. An Irish language speaker, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Cathain, a member of the […]