Monday 8 August 2022
‘Where are we living in? The dark ages?’
‘We’re led to believe they’re the greatest fans in the world,’ said the former Rangers man after yesterday’s defeat to the Hoops.
The incident came one day after graffiti threatening to “crucify” Catholics in Belfast.
It was reported that many of England’s 2,000 fans took part in abusive chanting during Tuesday’s friendly against Italy in Turin.
‘We abhor any form of abuse of our players,’ says GAA President Liam O’Neill.
He made the comment at a meeting in Enniskillen.
Gregory Campbell also joked about his earlier controversial comments.
New pictures have also emerged appearing to show the child’s cheeks being painted by an unknown woman.
Arsonists also tried to burn down a Presbyterian church in the same town.
The Taoiseach said the recent attacks were “utterly unwarranted acts of criminality.”
The PSNI says it is investigating whether the two attacks are linked.
The incident has been described as “utterly depressing and shocking”.
The song was recorded to protest a Scottish government decision to make singing it at football matches illegal.
The recent homophobia controversy, the peace process, and the economy were all discussed at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Wexford today.
The DUP leader was speaking at Queen’s University Belfast where he also condemned recent shootings by by the UVF and republican dissidents.
Church of Ireland Archbishop Of Dublin Michael Jackson says that there remains a “a deeply dug in antagonism to difference” within the church community.
Recent violence on the streets of Belfast filled me with despair; we need to teach our children respect for each other’s identity and traditions to avoid passing on the failures of the past, writes Peter Osborne.
The attack is thought to be the latest in a long and bloody conflict between Christian and Muslim mobs.
Ten men were killed when they were taken from a minibus and shot in 1976, apparently merely for being Protestant.
Two men in their forties have received prison terms for sending parcel bombs to public figures and groups associated with Celtic FC, including manager Neil Lennon.
The controversial ban of Armagh selector Paul Grimley for “threatening behaviour” was commuted to four weeks last night following a review by the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee.
‘The chanting of “God Save the Queen” and malign taunting of “British B*****d” has no place either on or off the field of play. This is provocation in the extreme,’ said Armagh statement.
An independent international fund is putting up £2m to bring about the conditions allowing Northern Ireland’s ‘peace walls’ to fall.
James Turley, 18, was working as an extra on a movie set when he was dumped semi-unconscious into a wheelie bin.
The Shia-dominated government has accused a Sunni vice-president of running a hit squad assassinating senior officials.
Dominic Hannigan explains why former members of Northern Ireland’s fiercest paramilitary organisations are being invited to speak to TDs at Leinster House today.
The British government rules out an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, after his family met with David Cameron today.
A group of men attacked the home in east Belfast last night in what is thought to be a sectarian incident.
Spence, who was jailed for the murder of a Catholic man in the sixties, later was at the forefront of the UVF ceasefire.
The Celtic boss has been subjected to a sectarian hate campaign.
Police were attacked by masked youths at the sectarian flashpoint of Corcrain Road in the Co Armagh town.
UVF loyalists are blamed for orchestrating the violence, but republicans may be responsible for shooting a photographer.
An official inquiry blames the IRA for the death of 10 Protestant textile workers in one of the bloodiest Troubles killings.
Tough new prison terms will be part of the bill being published in the Scottish parliament.
A 22-year-old is wounded in Saunderson Court in North Belfast, while a 20-year-old is separately shot in Tyrone.
Edinburgh police arrest a man who emerged from the stands and attacked the Celtic boss during last night’s match with Hearts.
A suspected parcel bomb, addressed to a nationalist group in Scotland, is intercepted in Northern Ireland.
From TheJournal.ie
