Senior officers decided not to pursue Martin McGuinness over his alleged role in a terrorist attack that killed nine people because it would be too “politically sensitive”, it has been claimed.
According to Lord Tebbit, “the world is a sweeter and cleaner place” thanks to the death of ex-IRA terrorist Martin McGuinness, “a coward who never atoned for his crimes”.
Northern Ireland’s former deputy first minister and one-time IRA commander Martin McGuinness has died aged 66, his Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein said on Tuesday.
DUBLIN (AP) – The senior Protestant politician in Northern Ireland has left the door open to stepping aside as part of negotiations to revive the British territory’s unity government with Catholics. Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said Sunday her
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s snap election has left the rival extremes of politics virtually neck and neck for the first time — and facing a bruising battle to put their Catholic-Protestant government back together again in an increasingly polarized landscape.
DUBLIN (AP) — Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, has fallen just short of becoming the largest party in elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly.
DUBLIN (AP) — The Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party is seeking gains in an early election that could shape the fate of Catholic-Protestant cooperation in Northern Ireland.
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s voters are deciding who should lead them, an election overshadowed by acrimony between the dominant Irish Catholic and British Protestant parties. Thursday’s elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly will determine which parties on each side
Britain’s economy is going from strength to strength following the Brexit vote, with Dyson announcing a massive new tech hub, travel agent Expedia doubling its workforce, proposals to create thousands of jobs in Belfast, and the prospect of a billion-pound Chinese property investment in the City of London.
Contents: Britain’s Tony Blair calls for the people ‘to rise up’ and reverse Brexit; Ireland demands a ‘soft border,’ while Scotland contemplates independence
Hundreds of immigration offences have been recorded at Northern Irish ports over the past year, with annual suspect detentions rising by two-thirds.
(AP) – Detectives investigating the attempted murder of a policeman in Northern Ireland have made two more arrests.
LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland officials say that a police officer has been shot in the arm in Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said Sunday night that the officer’s injuries aren’t life-threatening and he is being treated in
LONDON (AP) — Allies and political opponents are paying tribute to Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander-turned-peacemaker who is stepping down as one of Northern Ireland’s most influential politicians.
Contents: Brexit becomes more real after Theresa May’s speech; European anger versus British self-delusion
Northern Ireland will hold snap elections on March 2 in a bid to resolve its worst political crisis in years after the power-sharing executive collapsed on Monday.
DUBLIN (AP) — The Northern Ireland Assembly faces likely dissolution for an election that could make revival of a Catholic-Protestant government more difficult.
Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister McGuinness will resign from his post in protest against his power-sharing government partners’ handling of a controversial energy scheme, McGuinness said on Monday.
When is the rest of the Western world going to catch up with Donald Trump and point out that the green emperor is wearing no clothes? I ask as a concerned UK taxpayer absolutely sick to death of the vast
A green energy scandal that is saw people heating empty buildings just to collect government grants could cost British taxpayers more than £1 billion. The UK Treasury faces a huge bill after spending on Northern Ireland’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
BELFAST (Reuters) – Women’s rights groups are to ask the British Supreme Court on Wednesday to compel the government to fund abortions for Northern Ireland residents travelling to England to avoid some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.
BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Ireland could have a different relationship to the European Union’s single market or customs union from the rest of the United Kingdom following its exit from the EU, the leader of the British province said on Saturday.
UK Independence Party leadership candidate Lisa Duffy has drawn criticism from prominent members of the party after suggesting that Britons be “re-educated” towards left-wing, LGBT, identity politics
London’s Scotland Yard has announced the arrest of a 30-year-old soldier in Somerset in relation to Northern Ireland linked terrorism. The unidentified man was arrested this afternoon at 1220 by officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command and the Avon and Somerset
A Northern Ireland human rights activist has launched a legal challenge against any British attempt to leave the European Union, saying it would be in breach of the 1998 peace deal that brought peace to the British province.
Prime Minister Theresa May visits Northern Ireland on Monday to discuss the implications of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union and what Brexit will mean for the province’s border with Ireland.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has caused controversy after suggesting that Northern Ireland could hold a referendum on uniting with the Republic. Mr Kenny said that supporters of the European Union in the North could demand the move in a
“I’m still alive,” quipped the British monarch Queen Elizabeth when asked about her health, in her first round of public engagements since Britain voted to leave the European Union. The dry remark followed a dramatic few days for Britain that
Contents: Nationalistic tensions increase as UK and EU drift towards Brexit; Japan’s government calls emergency meeting as yen surges after Brexit; Israel and Turkey announcing a reconciliation agreement on Monday
BELFAST (Reuters) – Tony Blair and John Major will say on Thursday that a vote to leave the European Union on June 23 would jeopardise the unity of the United Kingdom by undermining the peace in Northern Ireland and stoking
Contents: England threatened with IRA terrorists from Northern Ireland; The ‘New IRA’ recalls the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule
Britain has raised the threat level from dissident Northern Ireland militants to “substantial,” meaning an attack on the British mainland is considered a strong possibility, Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Theresa May said on Wednesday. May said the decision by the
Irish politician and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams used a racial slur on his Twitter account late Sunday, days before his party is to contest regional elections in Northern Ireland. His tweet appeared to link a former slave’s struggle against
The prosecution of women in Northern Ireland over abortion has become a key campaign issue ahead of regional elections on Thursday, with unprecedented political support for reforming the law. A 21-year-old woman was prosecuted earlier this year for taking pills
Two Northern Irish women who reported their flatmate to the police after she self-administered illegal abortion pills have spoken out about their ordeal after being hounded by pro-abortion campaigners and lambasted by the liberal press. Their 21 year old housemate,
On Monday, a woman was found guilty of having an abortion. Her flatmates, who brought the crime to light and have been pilloried by pro-abortionists for their troubles have since spoken out about the trauma they suffered at witnessing the
Former Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has been criticised after claiming Brexit would endanger the Northern Ireland peace process and lead to a “hard border” between the province and the Republic of Ireland. The Labour peer, who also served as Northern
A Northern Irish Member of Parliament (MP) has attacked the “base level of politics” of pro-European Union (EU) campaigners using ‘Project Fear’ tactics to warn that Brexit could jeopardise the Northern Ireland peace process. Gavin Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP for East
The Northern Ireland regional assembly voted against relaxing strict abortion laws on Wednesday, despite a ruling by the Belfast High Court that the legislation breaches human rights. After a debate that ran to almost midnight, members of the Stormont Assembly
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has admitted he was wrong to support the legal campaign against a Northern Ireland bakery that refused to bake a cake with a message supporting gay marriage. Writing in today’s Guardian, the veteran campaigner says
