Nelson McCausland and his Feeble Attempts to Demonise GARC and Misinform the...
North Belfast DUP MLA, Nelson McCausland has for the past few weeks used his internet blog to undermine and demonise the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC). It is no coincidence that these...
View ArticleNo Need for Bonfires
Over recent weeks, groups of teenagers from the Ardoyne & Bone areas have been gathering wood and dumping it at the old Jamaica Inn/Egg Factory site in the district. The site has been derelict for...
View Article(EXCLUSIVE) GARC Letter of Invitation to Loyal Orders for Dialogue
The following letter has been published with the approval of the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC). It was sent by recorded delivery to the Ligoniel Orange Order Lodges, Royal Black...
View ArticleGARC Withdraw Mass Mobilisation Plans for Unwelcome Twelfth March Statement...
The Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) has asked me to publish their latest Statement to the Media on the Ardoyne Republican Blog. GARC reiterate it's opposition to sectarian parades through...
View ArticleIs this the alternative to unwelcome marches through Greater Ardoyne?
As most people are now aware, the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) withdrew it's planned protest against the Orange Order's Twelfth morning march through our community. There were a number...
View ArticleIMPERIALIST AGGRESSION AGAINST GAZA
As people throughout Ireland enjoyed the recent good weather. Many of us dedicated the summer days to our families, visiting local beaches and coastal villages. The Irish don't often get a heat wave...
View ArticleIRELAND SUPPORTS PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
Since the first week of July, television and Computer screens throughout the world and Ireland have been inundated with savage images and ferocious footage from Gaza that have witnessed yet another...
View ArticlePRINCIPLED REPUBLICAN EX-POWs' MURAL and ANTI-INTERNMENT MARCH - 2014
Principled Republican Ex-POWs' Group 10/8/14As thousands of Republicans & Nationalists gathered in Ardoyne for a March ( 10/8/14) to commemorate the anniversary of Internment. With the assistance...
View ArticleFAITHFUL TO THE LAST: HENRY-JOY MCCRACKEN
This Sunday, 31/8/14, the Republican Network for Unity will hold it's annual Henry-Joy McCracken Commemoration and March in Belfast. For the past few years, RNU have held this important event to honour...
View ArticleHenry-Joy McCracken March & Commemoration - 2014
Yesterday afternoon, (Sunday 31st August) the Republican Network for Unity held a successful and dignified march commemoration in Belfast for Irish Revolutionary; Henry-Joy McCracken (1797-1798). In...
View ArticleLatest Statement from Cógus, Cabhair and IRPWA POWs' in Maghaberry: 31/8/14
On Sunday August 31st 2014,Cógus, Cabhair and IRPWA POWs' in Maghaberry Gaol, County Down issued the following joint statement in relation to the current situation inside the British Prison; A...
View ArticleCAUSES of CONFLICT REMAIN: Cogús POWs' Maghaberry
The following analysis was written by Cogús Republican Prisoners PRO, Connor Hughes who is currently incarcerated in Roe 3, Maghaberry Gaol.'The 20th anniversary of the Provisional IRA ceasefire has...
View ArticleIs There a Need for a New Republican Congress?
Ever since the 1994 IRA Ceasefire, the strategy of the Provisional Movement has adopted a British approach to the Unionist Veto, Partition and the occupation. Objectives changed dramatically with its...
View ArticleBoundary Boxes - Water Meters and Misleading Working-Class Communities
Over the past few months, work has begun on Water Mains across North Belfast including, Ardoyne, New Lodge, Oldpark and Cliftonville communities. There is no doubt that water-pipes under our roads and...
View ArticleMáiriá Cahill and the Provisional Movement
I have not been online much nor blogging the past few weeks folks. I've been a little busy with family, local community issues and of course my political work for RNU. The title of this post should be...
View Article'REAL' LVF SENIOR RNU ACTIVISTS
Republican Network for Unity (RNU) have been informed that North Belfast Republicans Martin Óg Meehan and Sammy Cusick have received death threats from a group calling itself the ‘Real’ LVF. North...
View ArticleHypocrisy and Historical Revisionism
I don't often comment on other people's blog posts out of professional courtesy. As every Blogger has the right to express their views on the net. Today however, I feel the need to make a few points...
View ArticleInaugural Óglach. Martin Meehan Memorial Lecture
The Republican Network for Unity will present the Inaugural Óglach. Martin Meehan Memorial Lecture next Friday evening, November, 21st at 8pm in the Crumlin Star Social Club in Ardoyne. The Lecture...
View ArticleWas Last Week's RHD Gun Attack on an Ardoyne Republican's Home the beginning...
A number of weeks ago, a number of Ardoyne Republicans including a former RNU Election Candidate and I were 'notified' by the RUC/PSNI that our lives were under threat from Loyalist Extremists and...
View ArticleRNU Calls on Citizens in the North to Actively Oppose Water Charges!
In recent months RNU have been to the forefront of the fight against water meters being installed across the Six Counties. To date we are the only party who has consistently addressed the issue,...
View ArticleFull Report from Inaugural Óglach. Martin Meehan Memorial Lecture
Ardoyne Republican includes a full report on the Inaugural Óglach. Martin Meehan Memorial Lecture. That was held in the Crumlin Star Social Club, Ardoyne on Friday November 21st, 2014. The event was...
View ArticleHonouring Óglaigh. Gerard and James McDade, Óglaigh Na hÉireann Ardoyne 2014.
Two weeks ago, around 100 Ardoyne residents and Republicans attended a local Commemoration to pay tribute to two brothers, James and Gerard McDade from the same family. Both of who died in brutal...
View ArticleFifty Questions for Irish Republicans? William Ennis
During the recent Conflict, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) under this and a variety of other titles conducted an armed campaign to keep the Six Counties part of Britain. That resulted in the killing...
View ArticleThe Missing Peace Dividend, St. Gemma's, GARC, the Survey & Myself.
In spite of years of promises by Stormont's Political Parties who endorse the so-called 'Peace Process'. The Greater Ardoyne and Oldpark (Bone) communities of North Belfast have yet to experience any...
View ArticleSend a Clear Message to Stormont's Neo-Conservative Politicians in 2015
In less than four months, the North Belfast Electorate will once again be asked to choose a 'new' M.P. for the British Parliament at Westminster. At present, the amount of residents available to cast...
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