LOYALIST paramilitaries are reportedly planning an arson campaign to prevent Irish language signage from being displayed on Belfast City Council buildings and vehicles. Yet again, these groups revert to what they know best — targeting and intimidating 'the other' and choosing to use violence here.
JUDE Collins’s column, ‘Connolly dividing instead of uniting the Left’ (Andytown News, September 4, 2025), demands a response, if only to correct its wholesale invention of facts.
I WAS astounded to read in the most recent edition of the Andersonstown News that the former Connolly House and adjacent land has been purchased by a "community body" and it is planned to develop a museum dedicated to the 1981 hunger strike on site.
AS the Zionist regime proceeds with its final solution to its ‘Palestinian problem’ and the political elite look on with complicity, a new low has been reached in its genocide against the Palestinian people: Starvation!
JUST over a week ago a Rangers supporters' double decker bus drove through Belfast city centre with fans singing sectarian songs aloud and chanting UVF at shocked shoppers and passers-by. No attempt was made by the PSNI throughout this hatefest journey to stop the bus and speak to those causing public order and hate crime offences. The media haven't reported on any arrests or charges being brought against the perpetrators.
THE families of the Falls Curfew victims are attempting to make contact with the relatives or friends of Mr William Burns, one of those killed by British forces during the weekend of the illegal curfew in July 1970.
THE hysteria raised by the PULP community over rappers Kneecap borders on psychosis and echoes of the Belfast City Council and Stormont from days past come to mind.
THE pile-on against Kneecap in the media has reached absurd levels. I am shocked by the level of vitriol in the press and the ridiculous spectacle played out on BBC Radio Six Counties’ flagship programme. It is totally abnormal for the media to push this story for weeks, with little attention given to serious issues such as the recent spate of sectarian intimidation.
SO, here we are all over again with the Irish language. Its very culture, heritage, soul, identity, visibility, promotion and sense of belonging being questioned and let's be blunt, hated by unionism across the political board.
