Devlin Mcaliskey News Today

An interview with Bernadette McAliskey (née Devlin) on her life, politics, the big issues facing society and the future of this island.

Attorney General Brenda King has directed new inquests into five mid-Ulster killings.

Crowd hears there is “a crisis of greed, prejudice and ignorance”.

On the streets of Derry in British-occupied Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972, writes Stuart Munckton, British soldiers opened fire on an unarmed civil rights protest. Forteen civilians — six of them teenagers — died in the massacre remembered as Bloody Sunday.

Almost certainly it was a ruse used in the assassination of Haitian strongman Jovenel Moïse. Almost. We should ask why this might have had any effect, and that gets into some ugly history that suggests things for the USA not to do. Such awful questions, however, do not spare Panama from scrutiny in the event. An international terrorist operation used Panama as a transportation hub… In a conflicted situation such as Haiti’s, with contending factions who have competing narratives, very littl...

Civil Rights campaigner Devlin recalls McManus’ ‘good punch’ in Commons Posted: 7:31 pm April 7, 2021 By Zoe Tunney BERNADETTE Devlin McAliskey, the firebrand anti-establishment politician and Civil Rights campaigner, has spoken of how Lisnaskea solicitor and former Westminster MP, Frank McManus, “bounded” down from the back benches to defend her during an altercation in the British Houses of Parliament. Ms Devlin McAliskey was in interview with UTV’s Eamonn Mallie for his ...

Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 03.03 EST The detention of the pregnant daughter of the Northern Ireland civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey threatened to degenerate into a “PR disaster”, John Major was warned, according to files released to the National Archives. The decision to hold Róisín McAliskey in Holloway prison while awaiting extradition to Germany – on suspicion of participating in a 1996 IRA mortar attack on a British army base in Osnabrück –...