Peadar O'Cearnaigh, Author at Canary

12 January 2019

A relative peace has existed in the north of Ireland for 20 years since armed conflict ended. But a new...

Combined skeletal face of northern police officer and loyalist paramilitary

Lack of police evidence shows no ‘direct or indirect evidence’ of collusion in murder of County Tyrone pensioner

9 January 2019

UVF gunmen murdered Roseanne Mallon in her sister-in-law’s home in County Tyrone on 8 May 1994. She was 76 years...

Road sign indicating travelling to Northern Ireland

Border conflict in Ireland is unlikely provided Brexit doesn’t mean a return to discrimination

7 January 2019

When the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) asked for support to handle trouble arising “from a hard border”, it...

Child looking out from behind tent in UN refugee camp

Syrian refugees in Lebanon need so much more than a toothless international agreement can give them

21 December 2018

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On 10 December this year, 164 of the United Nations’ 193 members adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and...

The DUP probably shouldn’t have retweeted that threat about Brexit

14 November 2018

The DUP has responded angrily to the government's Brexit plan, saying it could lead to the break-up of the UK. But...

Caravan with protest banners against toxic mine in Co. Tyrone countryside

After a visit from the council, anti-gold-mining activists say they will fight any eviction attempt

An anti-gold-mining protest camp objecting to Dalradian Gold Ltd’s attempts to mine the Sperrin mountains had an unannounced visit from...

Unquiet Graves: a documentary exposing Britain’s dirty war in Ireland

Correction: This article was updated at 12.30pm on 12 November to make clear that it was Alan Brecknell's uncle and aunt...

Rural community continues its stand against a multinational gold-mining company

Dalradian Gold Ltd has applied to the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland for permission to store and use sodium cyanide....

The DUP leader gets called out for hypocrisy, but it’s hardly the first time

While reports of the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) hypocrisy are common, it just got called out for taking hypocrisy to a whole new level....

British soldiers exiting a military vehicle during conflict in Northern Ireland

Until the UK faces up to its role in Ireland we are stuck in 1998

The 30-year war in the six counties of Ireland ended 20 years ago with the signing of the Good Friday...

The DUP has just threatened Theresa May. The Irish border is ‘blood red’.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has just threatened Theresa May's Brexit plans. In an interview broadcast on 3 October on BBC Radio 4,...

Theresa May’s DUP allies are under fire again. But they’re still propping up her government.

Following his suspension from the House of Commons for dishonesty, DUP MP Ian Paisley has avoided an embarrassing by-election by just 444...

Without proper controls digital companies will continue to exploit our data for profit

EU commissioner for competition Margrethe Vestager is cracking down on technology giants. Her office is about to investigate Amazon and its...

LGBTQ+ campaigners may have convinced one member of the DUP but there’s still a long way to go

LGBTQ+ campaigners have achieved much following years of campaigning. Even a councillor from the DUP, a party opposed to gay...

Liam Fox’s deal with Trump could damage human and animal health in the UK

The World Transformed (TWT) politics festival is imagining “the world we want to live in and planning how we get...

Northern Ireland riot police and Theresa may

Social unrest, security threats and government division. It’s just another Theresa May Brexit weekend