The Belfast pastor who said Islam was “satanic” and “heathen” is to make his first appearance in court today. The elderly man, who is in ill health, faces up to six-moths in jail for making the remarks. Pastor James McConnell,
Gangs of Irish nationalists hurled petrol bombs and other missiles at police sent to a County Armagh town after a hoax bomb alert, and another device exploded nearby, police said on Sunday. The second device, which police said was clearly
A Christian pastor from Northern Ireland is facing six months in prison for making “offensive” remarks about Islam. Yet the man pushing for his prosecution – who has used the controversy to leverage government into supplying land for a mega-mosque
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of London’s Carlton Club. At 8:39 p.m. on Monday 25 June 1990, a large bomb left inside the doorway of the “oldest, most elite, and most important of all Conservative clubs” by the Provisional Irish
An evangelical Christian pastor has said he would rather go to prison than withdraw a comment calling Islam “satanic”. Pastor James McConnell of the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is facing prosecution under the Communications Act 2003 for
About 3,000 people are expected to march in Belfast today calling for the introduction of gay marriage in Northern Ireland. The province is the now the only part of the British Isles where civil marriage has not been redefined to
Ireland’s most famous drag queen, Panti Bliss (also known as Rory O’Neill) is backing the campaign for same-sex civil marriage in Northern Ireland. The high profile campaigner for gay marriage in the Irish Republic’s historic referendum was speaking ahead of
Britain’s polling organizations fail disastrously; Pre-election polls and Chaos Theory; British and Israeli elections reflected nationalistic surges; Trends in American politics
The Westminster group leader of the Northern Ireland pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has taken aim at the Conservative’s increasingly strident rhetoric over Scotland and the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), which they claim will damage the Union. Writing for the Guardian
The IRA are set to make a staggering £22 million a year more in counterfeit cigarettes when plain packaging legislation goes through because the packs are so much easier to fake. Police in Ireland have said that pain packaging is
Tony Blair has claimed that “comfort letters” guaranteeing terror suspects would never be prosecuted for their crimes were vital to the Northern Ireland peace process. The former Prime Minister was being grilled by MPs about his role in giving anonymity
Margaret Thatcher feared an Asian uprising if Irish nationalists were granted changes in the way Northern Ireland and its institutions were run. In talks with the then Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald in the run up to the 1984 Anglo-Irish agreement,
Actor and Northern Ireland native Liam Neeson was considering a move back to his home country, but he changed his mind after the government introduced a new charge on water, according to a new report.
