For many years now, residents within the many streets surrounding Belfast’s Glassmullin green have been fighting for its survival. Historically, the space was occupied by British crown forces in what was then called ‘silver city’, an indomitable fortress that overlooked ...
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A few weeks ago Lasair Dhearg Spokesperson Pól Torbóid sat down with David Swanson of ‘Radical Reflections’ for an podcast interview about all things Lasair Dhearg. “If you transfer state power to local initiatives and working people, it’s then that ...
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Yesterday [3rd Aug 2019] members of Lasair Dhearg took part in the Annual Anti-Internment march in Glasgow hosted by the West of Scotland Band Alliance. Several hundred gathered in support of all Republican prisoners and marched through the city centre ...
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“This year’s National Anti-Internment march will take place next Saturday 10th August, assembling at Writers’ Square in Donegall Street, Belfast at 1pm. We will march to Belfast City Hall for speeches, before marching to the International Wall in Divis Street. ...
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Over 2 decades since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the introduction of ‘peace’. But can we really say that we live in a non-violent society? Increased suicide, evictions, drug issues, poverty; aren’t these all forms of violence? ...
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In the past few weeks Lasair Dhearg were contacted by concerned residents from the Cavehill area of North Belfast in relation to a planned Orange Order parade. The Cavehill Temperance Lodge planned to march along the Cavehill road on the ...
Read MoreIn recent days a number of residents on Belfast’s Cavehill Road have contacted Lasair Dhearg to voice their concerns at the possibility of an unwanted sectarian parade through their area. Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pól Torbóid said that he had been ...
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On the morning of Monday the 1st of July, Lasair Dhearg activists had awoken to find that their social media presence had been effectively wiped out. Along with the main account, a minimum of four admins had their personal accounts ...
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In over two decades since the signing of the Good Friday Treaty, the so called success of the ‘Peace Process’ has not been measured by the absence of violence, but rather by the absence of anti-state violence. As pro-treaty forces ...
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British military convoy on road to Ballymena, occupied Ireland. For many years now the political class that runs Stormont have been telling us that the British army is no longer on our streets, when there is plenty of evidence to ...
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Padraic Mac Coitir shares his thoughts on the late Billy McKee who died this morning [11th June 2019]. Earlier this morning I got a phone call telling me Billy McKee had died. As a young lad growing up I had ...
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Recent revelations that a Starbucks in Belfast was giving shelter to ‘rats’ and subsequently fined for admitting so [more here], aren’t really revelations at all. In actual fact, they’ve been sheltering ‘rats’ for years – read on to find out ...
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Contrary to the propaganda of the political establishment, republican opposition to the British royalty is not based upon anti-English racism or religious sectarianism. It is instead based upon an unfaltering opposition to British imperialism in Ireland and elsewhere. Irish apologists ...
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Pádraic MacCoitir speaking at Carrigart Flats tonight [11th April 2019] about the false promises and lies told to the residents of Carrigart Flats by Sinn Féins Arder Carson and Alex Maskey. Lasair Dhearg activists delivered leaflets providing updates in relation ...
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