Emma Sheerin MLA: 'Even where life is safe in Palestine, it is not free. It is life with limits'. Free article

Words and deeds must mirror the vision of the inclusive society built on mutual respect and parity of esteem which we aspire to achieve. Free article

Stalwart political campaigner on all things Ireland Martin Collins died last week. Joe Dwyer pens an appreciation of Martin’s decades of political activism. Free article

As the year 1925 drew to a close there was anticipation in Ireland about the imminent outcome of the Boundary Commission established under the Treaty. Free article

Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA writes: Some sections of the Irish political establishment tried to derail Catherine Connolly’s presidential election campaign by resorting to the ‘project fear’ playbook. They failed. Free article

As a strongly pro-neutrality president of Ireland was about to be elected last week a British warmonger addressed a unionist meeting in Westminster and said Irish unity would pose a threat to Britain from Russia. Free article

In the end she won by a landslide. Taking 914,143 votes and 63.36% of the total valid poll Catherine Connolly stormed home with the Government-backed candidate Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael getting 29.46% of the vote. Free article

Irish republicans from across Ireland and Scotland gathered in Coatbridge this weekend to remember the late Irish republican leader and peacemaker Martin McGuinness. Free article

This week in 2019 Mícheál Martin expounded to the Fianna Fáil annual fund-raising dinner about that permanent resident in his head - Sinn Féin. He said: “If we want to see the scale of the damage which a party can cause when wrapping itself in the flag but actually putting its own interests first, all you have to do is look at how Sinn Féin has left Northern Ireland without a voice at the very moment when its future is being decided.” Free article

Irish Unity is firmly on the agenda in the presidential election with all three candidates saying they support unity. This is despite the best efforts of Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Mícheál Martin to bury the issue. Free article