The Minister for Communities, Paul Givan, has re-instated the Líofa Irish language bursary scheme. The scheme provided around £50,000 worth of bursaries to allow 100 persons to attend summer courses in the Donegal Gaeltacht. The decision was communicated in correspondence sent to a number of colleges on 23rd December 2016. On 6th January 2017, in accordance with the pre […]
Read MoreThe claim was brought by a convicted paedophile in respect of a series of postings placed on Facebook by third parties, one of whom had been named as second defendant to the claims. The postings not only included data amounting to vituperative name-calling but also repeated incitements to violence in respect of the claimant. […]
Read MoreThree victims of a controversial police spying unit operating in Ireland have filed legal action to demand their inclusion in the ongoing British Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI). The spy unit has sparked controversy across Europe, while the Tánaiste has failed to support victims. In 2015 revelations that undercover officers had deceived activist women into […]
Read MoreThe campaigning families of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre victims have appealed to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire, to release a 45-year-old British file containing evidence of collusion in the atrocity between British security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries. Ciarán MacAirt, a grandson of one of the victims of the massacre, which claimed […]
Read MoreMary Clinton and Bernadette Armstrong were arrested in 1987 for the false imprisonment of a man at 8 Rathbeg Close, Downpatrick in County Down. The hose they lived in had been occupied by Sandy Lynch, an agent of the British state, who proceeded to falsely imprison a man. He was subsequently taken from the house […]
Read MoreKRW LAW LLP is instructed by the family of John McConville who was murdered in the Kingsmill Massacre 5th January 1976 in which ten Protestant workmen were killed in disputed circumstances by the IRA. We are also instructed by the only survivor of the attack Alan Black, who was shot 18 times. The inquests commenced […]
Read MoreKRW LAW LLP is instructed by a number of prisoners, both sentenced and remand, detained in the separate regime of Roe House at HMP Maghaberry. Over the last two days we have been advised by our clients and family members of on-going intimidation by Prisoner Officers, including members of the Riot Squat, during a […]
Read MoreKRW LAW LLP is instructed by the families of the victims of the Loughgall Ambush in which eight of the members of the Provisional IRA and one civilian were shot by the British Army’s SAS on 8th May 1987. The families and lawyers from KRW LAW LLP will attend the High Court in Belfast […]
Read MoreKRW LAW LLP has recently been instructed by Anne McKernan. Anne McKernan is the sister of the Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, accused in 1974 of an IRA pub bombing in Guildford. Anne McKernan said: “Gerry’s conviction was quashed in 1989 following 15 years in prison. Gerry died in 2014. I […]
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