Laois Nationalist — 'A cheap shot': Leo Varadkar and Pearse Doherty exchange personal insults in Dáíl
The politicians were debating the cost-of-living crisis.
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The politicians were debating the cost-of-living crisis.
The politicians were debating the cost-of-living crisis.
SINN Féin will today debate scrapping its long-standing opposition to the Republic's non-jury special criminal court.
Kingsberry case The High Court in Belfast granted permission in early July for the family of a former member of the UDA, William Kingsberry – shot dead in 1991, to sue Libya for supplying the assault rifle used by the IRA unit that killed him. New approach The Kingsberry case, which is civil not criminal, is a new approach to gaining compensation for those killed or injured by Libyan-supplied matériel – and will be the first of many. Kevin Winters of KRW Law is bringing a number of civil cases against the Libyan State to gain compensation for victims. The PSNI initially refused to conf...
Over a lengthy career in journalism Roy Greenslade has written millions of words. But a handful out of a 4,000-word article in the British Journalism Review (and The Sunday Times) explaining his support for Irish republicanism and the IRA have now cast a shadow over all that went before. In the piece, he talks about his friendship with Pat Doherty, who has been named in parliament as a former member of the Provisional IRA. He states: “From very early on in our friendship [with Doherty and his wife], we four found ourselves in complete agreement about the right of the Irish people to engage ...