legislation which will allow for sworn testimony by State bodies and ministers to be provided to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. The International Co-operation (Omagh Bombing Inquiry) Bill 2026 would also extend the mechanism to current and past members of An Garda Siochana, the Defence Forces and departmental officials, and to former ministerial office holders.

The panel included Sinn Féin’s John Finucane MP who discussed recent Legacy legislation and the impact it has on the Good Friday Agreement.  He Said ...

In the coming weeks, a public inquiry will begin into the killing of Human Rights Lawyer Pat Finucane in Belfast on February 12th, 1989.  Pat was gunned down in his home by pro-British unionist paramilitaries as he sat down for Sunday dinner with his wife Geraldine and their children. He was a well-known and respected lawyer who had

We are living through a time of extraordinary change. We will have: a pro-independence First Minister here in the North of Ireland, a pro-independence First Minister in Scotland and a pro-independence First Minister in Wales. The demand for independence is growing. The Union is cracking at the seams. This moment has been coming. The failings of Westminster and every British Government have been laid bare.

In these elections, the British Labour Party lost a substantial number of council seats and, for the first time, lost control of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) to the pro-independence party Plaid Cymru. The Scottish National Party consolidated its position as the largest party in its Parliament.