Irish, EU & international politics & economics
By Emma Clancy. Protests against institutionalised racism have spread to cities across the United States in response to the horrific murder of black man George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis on Monday. Police have responded to three days of protest in the city by pepper-spraying and baton-charging crowds. Minnesota’s […]
By Ciarán MacAirt. Jean Smyth-Campbell was shot dead in a car in a layby on the Glen Road, Belfast, just before midnight on 8th June 1972. Only for her family, she may have become another forgotten victim of our dirty war. Jean was a 24-year-old single mother of a six-year-old […]
By Damien Thomson. “How many more need to die for this war to end?” – Marielle Franco The day I first heard about Marielle Franco was the day she was murdered. One year later, the case is still unsolved and the plot thickens, as state involvement in her killing becomes […]
Below are the collected public statements of Geraldine Finucane, Peter Madden and Madden & Finucane Solicitors on today’s ruling by the Supreme Court that the British government has not complied with its obligation under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights to hold an effective investigation into the […]
By Senator Ivana Bacik. In an Irish context, the issue of ‘concurrent sentencing’ (when sentences for different offences are served in parallel, or simultaneously) has recently received public attention, specifically in the context of some reported rape cases. Politically it is all too easy, especially when faced with particularly brutal […]