Ireland
Irish smallholders jailed for opposing gas pipeline
By Steve James, August 30, 2005
For almost eight weeks, five men have been incarcerated in Dublin’s Cloverhill jail for opposing compulsory acquisition orders taken out for the construction of a multi-billion-euro gas pipeline...
Ireland’s dilemma after rejection of European Union budget
By Steve James, June 30, 2005
The Irish government has been placed in enormous difficulties by Prime Minister Tony Blair’s offensive in Europe against social welfare and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy ...
Northern Ireland elections: deepening polarisation and the collapse of the Ulster Unionist Party
By Steve James, May 10, 2005
Britain’s May 5 general election included polls for 18 Westminster seats in British-ruled Northern Ireland. The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist ...
Northern Ireland: McCartney murder used to increase pressure on IRA to disband
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, March 21, 2005
The feting of the family of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney by the Bush administration is a cynical exercise in political manipulation. McCartney’s murder has been seized upon by the US, B...
New push by Britain and Ireland for IRA disbandment
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, March 7, 2005
Recent weeks have seen intense pressure placed on Sinn Fein by London and Dublin, backed by Washington, to accept not only the disarming of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) but its disbandment.
Northern Ireland: New efforts to revive power sharing at Stormont
By Steve James, November 24, 2004
The British and Irish governments are trying to revive the suspended Northern Ireland Assembly, now in the third year of its fourth period of suspension since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1...
Northern Ireland: British government announces inquiry into Pat Finucane’s assassination
By Steve James, September 27, 2004
After 15 years, the British government has announced that it intends to hold an inquiry into the assassination of Northern Ireland civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane. The announcement was made by Northe...
Ireland: election results record decay of Fianna Fail
By Steve James, June 30, 2004
The European and local election results in the Republic of Ireland have further exposed the advanced stage of decay of the main Irish business party, Fianna Fail. Expressing widespread political alien...
Ireland votes to curtail citizenship rights
By Steve James, June 19, 2004
The Irish Fianna Fail government of Bertie Ahern, currently holding the presidency of the European Union, has won a referendum vote to remove Irish citizenship from the children of immigrants.
Northern Ireland: Reports detail Britain’s collusion with loyalist murder squads
By Steve James, April 26, 2004
Four reports by Canadian judge Peter Cory into collusion between state authorities and the killers of two human rights lawyers, a Catholic worker, and a pro-British Protestant loyalist were finally pu...
Slain Irish soldier’s mother condemns Iraq war
By Julie Hyland, March 23, 2004
The mother of the only Irish soldier to be killed during the occupation of Iraq has attacked the US-led war.
Canadian judge calls for investigation into Britain’s “dirty war” in Northern Ireland
By Steve James, March 4, 2004
The British government is trying to avoid publication of a series of reports calling for public inquiries into four of the most notorious killings during Northern Ireland’s “Troubles.&rdqu...
