Sectarianism

Carroll: Court Ruling a Victory for Garvaghy Residents and People Power

Carroll: Court Ruling a Victory for Garvaghy Residents and People Power

"...a community that organised, stood its ground and drew support from thousands of people across Ireland. That’s the real lesson of Garvaghy: when working class people stand together to oppose the politics of reactionary hate, they win."

28 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

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

Carroll Receives Invite to PSNI Interview: “Standing Up for What’s Right is Never Wrong”

Carroll Receives Invite to PSNI Interview: “Standing Up for What’s Right is Never Wrong”

“I make no apology for standing with the residents of the Garvaghy Road. For almost three decades... When ordinary people peacefully stand together to defend their community, that is not criminality. It is the same civil disobedience that won every gain working-class people have ever made..."

8 Oct 2026

Carroll: Orange Order Should Read the Room and Walk Away

Carroll: Orange Order Should Read the Room and Walk Away

"There is no victory available here. 35 men walking a road where nobody wants them will not build a house, shorten a hospital waiting list or put a pound in anyone's pocket - in Portadown or anywhere else. The only thing it delivers is division"

5 Oct 2026

Carroll: West Belfast Rally to Stand with Garvaghy Road Residents

Carroll: West Belfast Rally to Stand with Garvaghy Road Residents

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll will speak at a solidarity rally in west Belfast this evening, alongside Aamor Crofts (a resident of the Garvaghy Road) and Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan.

1 Oct 2026

Carroll: Mediation Collapse Exposes the Failure of Power Sharing

Carroll: Mediation Collapse Exposes the Failure of Power Sharing

Gerry Carroll MLA: "Power sharing was sold as the mechanism that would resolve exactly these kinds of disputes. Instead, a single Orange lodge with a grievance has brought the institutions to the brink in a week. This is the inevitable result of a system built on sectarian designation."

30 Sep 2026