Ex-prisoner and An Phoblacht photo-journalist Peadar Whelan looks back at the National Hunger Strike Commemoration in Monaghan last weekend Free article

Local Sinn Féin Councilor Niall Ó Donnghaile lays down challenge to DUP leader Peter Robinson Free article

DUP Councillor William Humphrey ‘seems locked in a pre-Peace Process time warp’, says Jim McVeigh Free article

Dublin Sinn Féin TD repeats call for ministers to get talks moving Free article

The 2013 Feargal O’Hanlon Memorial Lecture was delivered by West Belfast MLA Pat Sheehan in Monaghan on Saturday 3 August, on the eve of the National Hunger Strike Commemoration. His theme was ‘The Spirit of Freedom’ Free article

Thousands of Irish republicans – many of them ex-prisoners – and solidarity activists and supporters from across the 32 Counties, the rest of Europe, the US and Australia thronged Monaghan Town on Sunday 4 August to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike Free article

'The other people in the room covered the spectrum of ages of the ten men who died in Long Kesh in 1981 – not one had reached their 30th birthday' Free article

DUP figure faces court appearance later this month Free article

Royal Navy and engineering chiefs eye Belfast Lough as possible new home for Westminster’s nuclear missile submarines based on the Clyde if Scots say 'Yes' to independence Free article

Online posting endorsed the killing of named republicans Free article