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THE police’s failure to investigate state collusion with a loyalist death squad in Northern Ireland was inconsistent with its human rights obligations, a judge ruled yesterday.
The independent Historic Enquiries Team (HET) — set up in 2006 — had partially completed a probe into the activities of the Glenanne gang before its work was halted in 2014 by Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) commanders.
Before it was axed, the HET had examined individual murders committed by the gang but had not undertaken an overarching thematic review of the collusion allegations.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER