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Ireland and Lions rugby legend on how the green shirt united a team and a country during worst of Troubles
31 Jan 2025 21:07 GMT
… his divisive remarks on Irish identity That’s their … was legitimising the IRA by playing for Ireland. Anderson didn’t … ignored the intimidatory tactic.
Ireland’s Brian Spillane, Willie … they showed everyone in Ireland how people from different backgrounds …
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Outstanding Northern Irish poet
31 Jan 2025 16:32 GMT
MICHAEL LONGLEY, one of Ireland’s most celebrated poets, … renaissance of the north of Ireland during the 1960s.
Longley … identity as both Irish and British. “I feel Irish... Ireland has given … , published after the 1994 IRA armistice, captures the spirit of …
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Northern Ireland epitomises Labour’s weakness
31 Jan 2025 04:10 GMT
… the IRA. Of course, most people in Northern Ireland … of violence. The former Irish justice minister, Michael McDowell … administration signed the Northern Ireland protocol and Windsor Framework … ” to prevent Northern Ireland diverging from national regulations …
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One of the 'Colombia Three' appears in court charged with murder of three police officers in IRA bomb attack
30 Jan 2025 16:44 GMT
… three policemen in Northern Ireland in an IRA bomb attack in 1982 … the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Thursday morning … Colombia in 2001 with fellow Irish republicans James Monaghan and … full truth.” Join the Irish Mirror’s breaking news service …
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Give IRA victims any compensation due to Gerry Adams, says Ann Travers
29 Jan 2025 19:40 GMT
… authorities to divide it among IRA victims.
Ann Travers was … authorities to divide it among IRA victims.
In 2023 Parliament … to paltry figures available for IRA victims, was "sickening … in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Sinn Fein was …
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Omagh bomb: ‘Without Irish government’s full participation, will inquiry get to the truth?’
29 Jan 2025 17:39 GMT
… and impacted by the Real IRA atrocity.
The probe, led by … Bomb inquiry because 'the Irish government isn’t partaking in … made in the south (of Ireland), the car was stolen in … absolutely everything.”
Earlier this week Irish premier Micheal Martin said his …
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Editorial: Omagh was an illustration of the soft UK response to Irish republican mass murderers
29 Jan 2025 12:14 GMT
… those impacted by the real IRA atrocity.
This is a … tradition of British softness towards Irish murderers.
It will be … parallel scandal: that of Ireland being able merely to pledge … Keir Starmer towards Ireland? The state that harboured IRA mass murderers for …
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Michael Longley’s poetry perfectly blends Irish political and pastoral themes
29 Jan 2025 04:57 GMT
… pond), but in his native Ireland, Longley was lauded by … and Protestant factions (and the Irish Republican Army and the British army) that … and social situation in Northern Ireland.
A classic case of … that warring factions in Northern Ireland might agree to a …
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The Irish Independent’s View: Omagh bombing inquiry must uncover truth for traumatised victims
29 Jan 2025 02:52 GMT
… Simon Harris has said the Irish Government will “not be found … the criminal courts, but Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt, who died … before the Omagh bombing, the IRA detonated a bomb on November …
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Irish Examiner view: People on low incomes frozen out of housing
29 Jan 2025 01:09 GMT
… accommodation crisis continues to bedevil Irish life, and developments this week … from the Simon Communities of Ireland, which showed the lack of … dissident Republican group the Real IRA — could have been prevented by …