This Sunday (10th October) Sinn Féin leader in the Six Counties, Michelle O’Neill, will lay a wreath in Belfast for Remembrance Sunday. In response, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pádraig Scott has released the following statement. This Sunday, Michelle O’Neill will stand ...
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Down GAA have acquired a lease on land in Ballykinler owned by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD). This same site was used by the MOD to train Unionist death squads to murder nationalists in the local area. Abercorn Barracks, ...
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Lasair Dhearg’s inaugural Socialist Republican Conference took place on Saturday (October 7th) in Conway Mill on Belfast’s Falls Road. Over 70 members, delegates, and visitors from across Ireland attended the all-day conference. Among the crowd were trade unionists, political ex-prisoners, ...
Read MoreA British Army Reserve centre in occupied Ireland was paid a visit by Derry Lasair Dhearg activists in recent days to highlight the ongoing presence of occupation forces here. Derry’s Limavady Road facility is occupied by Britain’s ‘Royal Logistics Corps’ ...
Read MoreOver 100 gathered alongside a heavy press presence at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road as the British coronation was underway to send a clear message to the media and state political parties that we do not accept poverty, ...
Read MoreDozens gathered in Creggan Cemetery on Saturday to mark the 107th anniversary of Republic Day, when hundreds of women and men marched out to take on the might of Britain’s empire during the Easter Rising of 1916. A wreath was ...
Read MoreIt is deeply concerning to see Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin commit to attending the coronation of English King ‘Charles III’. This represents a betrayal of the principles of Irish Republicanism, which rejects the legitimacy of the British monarchy and ...
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As part of the Good Friday Agreement the ‘Independent Commission on Policing…’ in the Six Counties was established, intended as a major step in the ‘peace process’. Chaired by Conservative politician ‘Lord Patten’, the former ‘Governor of Hong Kong’, it ...
Read MoreHundreds gathered in Milltown Cemetery on Easter Monday to mark the 107th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Those gathered were addressed by former IRA volunteer John Crawley, Republican ex-Prisoner and author of ‘The Yank’, who delivered the main oration. It ...
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From the perspective of the British state, you could easily assume that the Good Friday Agreement was designed to achieve, and indeed it did achieve, many things. The cumulative financial cost is said to have run both the British and ...
Read MoreOn the 9th of July 1972 the British Army’s Parachute Regiment brutally gunned down and killed five people on the streets of Springhill and Westwork in West Belfast, wounding many others. Many of those killed and injured were teenagers, some ...
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Local residents have noted with growing concern the use of community centres and youth clubs in the Lenadoon and Colin areas by armed PSNI personnel. Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pádraic MacCoitir said, “The PSNI attended Saints Youth Club in Twinbrook, Colin ...
Read MoreThousands gathered on Sunday to join the Bloody Sunday ‘March for Justice’ as it made its way from Creggan to the Bogside in Derry. 51 years on and the families of the fourteen slain on Derry’s streets by Britain’s armed ...
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