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Review: Blue Lights
What differentiates this show from other police dramas is its attempts to navigate the political dynamics of Northern Ireland. It avoids the case-of-the-week format of other cop shows in favour of a longer story centring around a paramilitary drug-gang led by the fictional McIntyre family.
No going back: Working-class and young people can unite to defeat paramilitary violence and sectarianism!
News broke on Wednesday night of the attempted killing of a police officer in Omagh. He was shot multiple times by masked gunmen after a youth football coaching session. Early reports suggest this was likely an attack carried out by the dissident republican “New IRA”.
BLM activists vindicated: Drop the fines now!
The Socialist Party welcomes the announcement from the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) that all charges related to last summer's Black Lives Matter protests in Belfast and Derry are to be dropped. The PPS recognised that the events were organised in a responsible manner, aimed at minimising the risk of Covid, and that they related to a matter of "important social concern". All fines against those who took part in these protests - and a similar protest against gender violence in Belfast, organised by ROSA in the wake of Sarah Everard's killing - must be immediately rescinded and reimbursed.
Domestic violence: 3 reported cases every hour
By Ann Orr, In 2012, 1,220 racist attacks were reported to the PSNI. Reports of sectarian attacks numbered…
Repressive methods of state must be opposed
The Socialist Party has called for a fair trial for the prisoners known as the Craigavon Two. They…
Questions raised over drug deaths and PSNI
By an East Belfast Socialist Party member Protests have taken place in East Belfast in response to the…
MEP attacks Policing Board authorisation for drones
The Northern Ireland Policing Board has come under attack by an MEP for “authorising the purchase and deployment…