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Independent Republican Councillors Delegation Visit to Maghaberry Gaol
On Monday June 24, 2013, a number of Independent Republican Councillors' led by Angela Nelson were finally able to visit IRPWA Prisoners from Roe 4 and others held against their will in the CSU in...
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GARC Reaction to Loyalist Residents Statement (5/07/13)
Greater Ardoyne Residents CollectiveThe latest statement from the Twaddell and Woodvale Residents Association must be viewed in short as nothing more than a cynical ploy to dictate a loyalist agenda...
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No Apology After 34 Years of Torment & Injustice
The following statement was written by my sister, Mary and read to the assembled media outside Belfast Court today, July 5th, 2013 by my brother Kevin after Briege McLaughlin was sentenced for a number...
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GARC Respond to the Banning of Sectarian Orange Order March
GARC Meet the MediaThe following statement was issued by the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC)The decision to Halt the Hate filled display of Sectarian Coat Trailing Bigotry up the Crumlin...
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GARC File For Protest Against Triumphalist Application
The Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) condemns in the strongest terms the application for a Parade on the Crumlin Road this Saturday July 20th by the Orange Order proves without any shadow...
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GARC Submission and Planned Protest Force Parades Commission to Halt Orange...
The decision to again halt the Sectarian Coat Trailing Bigotry on the Crumlin Road is to be welcomed. The submission from GARC and constant pressure by the community of Ardoyne has forced the Parades...
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Brendan Clarke - the Sociopath
The intention of this blog from its beginnings in 2009, was to write about the proud history of Ardoyne and its links to Irish Republicanism and Socialism. In the main, I have achieved those goals, at...
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Anniversary of Internment 2013
Internment or Detention Without Trial is nothing new to Irish people and has been used every few decades throughout our Nation's occupation. Whenever Westminster chose to imprison and/or exile entire...
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Belfast Anti-Internment March 2013
Just after 6pm yesterday, thousands of Ex-Internees, Former POWs', Relatives, Republican Activists, Socialists, Civil Rights Advocates, Campaign Groups, Political groups & Parties marched along...
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Henry-Joy McCracken Commemoration 2013
On Sunday August 25th, the Annual Henry-Joy McCracken Commemoration Parade will take place. Organised by the Henry-Joy Republican Flute Band and the Republican Network for Unity (RNU), participants and...
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Henry-Joy Parade Strangled by Intolerance and Bigotry
Sunday's Henry-Joy McCracken Commemoration Parade ended earlier than wished, due to illogical restrictions placed upon the intended route by the hugely discredited Parades Commission. According to the...
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Internment by Another Name
On August 9th 2013, thousands of Irish Republicans joined together to highlight the ongoing Internment of POWs' and to commemorate those men & women held in Armagh, Crumlin Road and Long Kesh...
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Republicans and Elections
Throughout the recent Conflict, Britain and her Agents of Death regularly targeted and assassinated Republicans and Political Activists.in attempts to defeat resistance to it's Occupation. The most...
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Belfast RNU takes Republican-Socialist message to Workers in the Shankill,...
Social Security staff across Belfast urged to refuse to implement Tory/Stormont cuts. As part of the wider campaign against the savage benefits cuts proposed in the looming ‘Welfare Reform Bill’,...
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The Pride of Ardoyne Flute Band: Bigotry, Sectarianism & Anti-Catholicism
In a recent Documentary broadcast on the BBC enitled; Petrol Bombs & Peace'. The programme mainly focused on Loyalist Flute Band, 'The Pride of Ardoyne' (P.O.A.) from nearby, Glenbryn. It was an...
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North Belfast News: Selective Journalism!
Like many Ardoyne residents, I received a leaflet tonight containing the following photo and text; It seems that once again the North Belfast News has put profit before facts! Ever since it's...
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North and West Belfast R.N.U. Council Candidates Announced
Originally formed in 2006 as a Pressure Group of former Republican P.O.W.s' opposed to the British Police in Ireland. The Republican Network for Unity re-organised as a political entity in 2008, in...
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Óglach. Martin Meehan Commemoration
It will be six long years next month that my father, Volunteer. Martin Meehan passed away and was buried in his native Belfast. Throughout his life, Martin was famous for his dedication to Irish...
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Óglach. Thomas (Bootsy) Begley - Twenty Years On.
I last wrote about Thomas Begley, a young Ardoyne Volunteer in 2010. In the last few weeks, his name has once again hit the headlines in the North's Media in relation to his tragic death on 23rd...
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White-Line Picket against Ongoing Internment of Irish Citizens
Following on from the successful Anti-Internment March through Belfast in August. The Anti-Internment League (AIL) has organised a large White-Line Picket against Internment in Belfast. The intention...
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