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 […]
By Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonCPNI The Belfast Agreement is the underlying cause of all the problems Unionism now faces. The rot began in earnest in 1998, and has continued at pace ever since. It breathed live into what is commonly known as the ‘peace process’, which is Belfast Agreement speak for the method of perpetual appeasement […]
By Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonCPNI A number of years ago Sinn Fein publicly advertised for “social media activists”. What precisely are these activists deployed to do? The answer of course is obvious; to engage in persistent social media trolling and repetition of Sinn Fein messaging. There is the ‘Shinnerbot’ social media campaigns; this is largely played […]
Open Letter We are a group which has come together in the Ards and North Down area. Our group is representative of the views of all loyalist groupings within the local area. It is a matter of deep and profound concern for those under our umbrella that an Irish Sea border, imposing an economic United […]