Crime & Violence

Crime & Violence

Cllr Conor Reddy Calls for Action on Women’s Safety Following Killing of Woman at Melville Terrace

“We’re facing an epidemic of femicide and gender-based violence across this island. Women’s Aid recorded a 33% increase in disclosures of domestic abuse in 2025. By July this year, the number of women who had died violently in the Republic had already exceeded the total for the whole of last year.

26 Oct 2026

Firefighters douse a burnt car with water after Israeli militant settlers attacked a group of Palestinians harvesting olives near Turmus Ayya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 16, 20

Cllr Conor Reddy Condemns Dubliner Ian Hutcheson’s Arrest and Detention by Israelis in the West Bank

Dublin man has been in the West Bank for two weeks to provide solidarity and support to Palestinian farmers during the harvest. He was arrested and detained by Israeli police yesterday and has been transferred to a detention centre.

23 Oct 2026

Harkin: DUP Incitement of Sectarian Tensions Must be Challenged

Harkin: DUP Incitement of Sectarian Tensions Must be Challenged

Stopping cuts and jobs culls, providing for children and stopping the handouts to bosses... Cllr Harkin says "These are the demands and grassroots campaigns bringing working-class communities together. The alternative is working-class unity and opposition to toxic division and austerity."

22 Oct 2026

Image from the graphic advertising the Public Meeting: Lessons From Garvaghy PEOPLE POWER AGAINST SECTARIANISM Wednesday 21st October 7pm St Comgall's - Ionad Eileen Howell, Divis St (speaker

Carroll: “Garvaghy Shows What Working Class People can win together”

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll will host a public meeting tonight at 7pm at St Comgall's (Divis Street) on the lessons of the Garvaghy Road. Speakers include

21 Oct 2026

“Justice Has Been Done” Won’t Wash, Says Carroll After Donaldson Sentence

“Justice Has Been Done” Won’t Wash, Says Carroll After Donaldson Sentence

"Abuse that went unpunished for up to four decades is not proof that the system works. Powerful men are shielded by parties that close ranks and by a culture of deference that silences women and children... The DUP into itself can’t be trusted to uncover what was known and when."

15 Oct 2026

People Power Forced Drumcree U-Turn

People Power Forced Drumcree U-Turn

"It didn’t come from the courts... Nor did it come from a Secretary of State... It came from the community... and thousands of ordinary people standing with them over the past two weeks. Working class communities organised from below forced every institution... to move."

9 Oct 2026

Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy Sign Letter to British Prime Minister - Stop Orange Order’s Sectarian Provocation on Garvaghy Road

Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy Sign Letter to British Prime Minister - Stop Orange Order’s Sectarian Provocation on Garvaghy Road

“The British Government must now finally do what it has failed to do so many times throughout our history - they must stop the Orange Order’s sectarian provocation and allow a return of peace to Garvaghy Road.”

8 Oct 2026

Access to Public Transport Threatened if Attacks in Derry Don't Stop

Access to Public Transport Threatened if Attacks in Derry Don't Stop

Cllr Shaun Harkin: "Access to it can be endangered if the safety of drivers and passengers is threatened. The response to the bus attack should send a clear message to those responsible for the attack."

28 Sep 2026

Screenshot from the cover of the CyberSafeKids 2026 Report

Paul Murphy Says Social Media Ban on 8 to 12 Year Olds "Designed to Fail"

Government "captured". Will introduce new online safety bill to ban toxic recommender algorithms for under 18s. Two-thirds surveyed support this action.

2 Sep 2026