Ian Acheson

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Forensic officers at the scene on Monday of the terror attack on Streatham High Road in th London. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire
Britain to toughen terrorism rules after London attack
  • UK
  • February 3, 2020, 10:01

British prime minister Boris Johnson will set out tougher rules on releasing people convicted of terrorism offences after an Islamist attacker injure(...)

Dr Owen Worth, of the University of Limerick told a conference on the rise of right wing extremism that while hate crime is rising in Ireland, Celtic nationalism was lacking in ‘destructive elements’. Photograph: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times
Far right political group much less likely to gain traction in Ireland, conference told

Online anti-immigrant sentiment is well established in Ireland but a successful far right political organisation is much less likely to gain traction,(...)

Ireland should bring Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith (pictured) home to study how an Irish soldier can be turned into an Islamic extremist, a leading counter-terrorism expert has said. Photograph: BBC.
Call for State to repatriate Lisa Smith in effort to understand radicalisation

Ireland should bring Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith home to study how an Irish soldier can be turned into an Islamic extremist, a leading counter-(...)

Ulster Unionist Assembly member Mike Nesbitt, former Ireland international Trevor Ringland and Rev John Dunlop. File photographs: The Irish Times/Inpho
‘Civic unionism’ group issues riposte to ‘civic nationalism’

A “civic unionism” group of more than 100 people from various sections of Northern Irish society has challenged what it says is a nationalist assumpti(...)