Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the collapse of a London civil action against him following a politically driven attempt at a backdoor legacy inquiry targeting the armed struggle.

Threatening graffiti warning that “anyone who touches these flags does so at their own risk” scrawled beside a children’s playground in east Belfast is the latest example of loyalist intimidation dressed up as “culture”.

Glór na hÓglaigh, a new “revolutionary” republican party, has slammed recent PSNI stop-and-searches and airport interrogations of its members as blatant state intimidation designed to silence political dissent.

Queen’s University Belfast students have delivered a crushing mandate for Irish language equality, with 91% of over 5,000 voters backing bilingual signage and an official Irish language policy – a resounding rejection of decades of unionist efforts to block Ireland’s native tongue from university life.

Kneecap have helped lead an international aid convoy to Cuba to confront a brutal oil blockade and show Irish solidarity with the island’s “resilient people” in the face of a siege by US President Donald Trump.