INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN LONDON’S METROPLITAN POLICE | INSTITUTIONAL SECTARIANISM IN THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

Stephen Lawrence and Robert Hamill

AFTER nearly 19 years of campaigning, the family of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, stabbed to death in an attack by a gang of racist white youths in south London in 1993, have, at long last, won some... Free article

CHAOS MARKS SWITCH FOR RUBBISH COLLECTIONS | BIG CHANGES FACE HOUSEHOLDS

BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA, DUBLIN SINN FÉIN COUNCILLOR

THE DOMINANT Fine Gael and Labour groups on Dublin City Council cannot wash their hands of the debacle of bin privatisation in the city as their parties in Government are following a privatisation agenda.
There was widespread disruption and confusion... Free article

Remembering the Past

BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA

IN IRELAND and throughout the world, the British Army’s murders in Derry on Bloody Sunday 1972 brought condemnation of the British Government on a scale not seen since the ravages of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries in Ireland 50 years earlier. However, in Britain itself the British Government was shielded from the worst of the... Free article

REPORT RAISES MAJOR QUESTIONS OVER BENEFITS CHECKS FUNDAMENTAL FAILURES IN NEW SCHEME

THE British Government should suspend the Work Capability Assessment until it can be shown to be fit for purpose, says Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney after a report by the Citizens’ Advice Bureau raised serious questions over its efficiency and results.

The study, ‘Right First Time’, was... Free article

BELFAST CITY COUNCIL | REPUBLICAN POLITICS IN ACTION

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

THE CONTROVERSY surrounding the awards ceremony at Belfast City Hall when Mayor Niall Ó Donnghaile opted out of presenting a certificate to a member of the British Army Cadet Force served to remind nationalists in the North that “Stone Age unionism” is alive and well.

DUP and UUP politicians vied with... Free article

Community Employment under threat from FG/Labour Budget

» BY MARK MOLONEY

DRASTIC CUTS to Community Employment (CE) schemes are already having a massive impact on communities across the state and leave many of them fearful for the quality and scope of existing services on the ground if not their very future.

In December’s Budget 2012, funding for CE schemes was cut from €1,500 to... Free article

OPINION | SCOTLAND’S OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR AT FOOTBALL AND THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS ACT

BY JIM SLAVEN IN EDINBURGH

THE Scottish Government’s Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act has proved to be one of the most contentious pieces of legislation to pass through the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish National Party Government’s legislation is... Free article

FROM HIS FIRST WORDS you knew the SDLP had made the right decision in picking Alasdair McDonnell as leader. Having just won the slow bicycle race that was the contest for the party leadership, which electrified people the length and breadth of a handful of homes in south Belfast, Downpatrick and Derry, he stood mumbling live on television, pleading with his handlers to, “Turn off... Free article

» LE CATHAL Ó MURCHÚ

ÓNAR CHUIR Teach Laighean an tAcht Teanga i bhfeidhm sa reachtaíocht i 2003, bhí an-dóchas ag Gaeilgeoirí na tíre seo go dtabharfaí tús áite don teanga náisiúnta mar is ceart faoi dheireadh. In ainneoin go ndeireann Bunreacht na 26 Chontae gurb í an Ghaeilge chéad teanga oifigiúil an stáit, go dtí reachtú an achta úd, tugadh droim láimhe nó déanadh neamhaird... Free article

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN YOUTH CONGRESS | FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 2 & 3 MARCH

YOUNG REPUBLICAN ACTIVISTS from all over Ireland converge on Dublin on Friday and Saturday, 2/3 March, for a landmark event in the history of Republican Youth.

Hosted in the Ballybough Community Centre in the heart of the city and close to Croke Park, the Sinn Féin Republican Youth National Congress brings to a... Free article