By Cllr Stephen Cooper In 1998, the violence and threat of same from the republican movement was formally rewarded with the Belfast Agreement; the only accord with the authority to release hundreds of mass murderers, and amongst other constitutionally damaging annexes, the destruction of the anti-terrorist RUC. The price of protecting the city of London […]
By Jamie Bryson At the centre of the perfect storm brewing in Northern Ireland is the root cause of all the problems unionism has encountered over the past two decades, the Belfast Agreement. The agreement created a process whereby unionism- as the price of the IRA stopping murdering our community- had to acquiesce to a […]
By Moore Holmes The PSNI and PPS non-action against 24 Sinn Fein members who attended IRA anarchist Bobby Storey’s funeral has damaged confidence in policing and justice. Has there ever been a more obvious example of Republican appeasement? The funeral fiasco confirms what the Loyalist community has been alleging for some time. It is quite […]
By Libby Wells Today, the Abortion (NI) Regulations 2021 come into effect. Regardless of your stance on abortion, if you welcome Westminster devolving powers to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, then you should be concerned about the impact of this otherwise controversial piece of subordinate legislation. At its simplest, the 2021 regs amend the Northern […]
By Jamie Bryson The DUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster has finally arrived at the realisation that the Chief Constable’s position is “untenable”. She has accordingly called for his resignation. The Chief Constable has refused. The DUP are now bound by their own logic; policing is so discredited, so biased and so politically motivated […]
By Jamie Bryson The Director of Public Prosecutions (‘DPP’) issued an extensive statement seeking to explain his perverse and politically motivated decision to effectively grant blanket immunity to all those who participated in the IRA show of strength at the funeral of Bobby Storey. Naturally when it came to a family funeral in East Belfast, […]
By Jamie Bryson Last week it was announced that an unnamed individual was to bring legal action against the Secretary of State if he refused to declare loyalist ceasefires over, and further suspend the licences of all those released under the Belfast Agreement. A solicitor for her legal firm, McIvor Farrell, said: “Loyalist paramilitary organisations […]
by Jamie Bryson Stacey Graham, a loyalist activist and community worker from the Shankill Road, has responded defiantly after the latest campaign of abuse and trolling directed against her. The vile comments came after Mrs Graham tweeted a video of her young family celebrating Rangers success outside of her home. This campaign of harassment has […]
By Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonCPNI Inside a mere six-days, PSNI detectives from their Criminal Investigation Branch (yes, it is that serious) have descended on the homes on a number of loyalists in pursuit of the priority investigation (this week’s Sinn Fein direction) flowing from Rangers fans gathering to celebrate the club’s 55th league title. Let us […]
By Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonCPNI In the past three weeks, the PSNI- via their paramilitary crime task force (PCTF) has carried out an incredible twenty arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000 within loyalist areas. Nineteen of these arrests have been in East Belfast, with one in the North Antrim area. All hose arrested have been released […]