Remembering Thomas McGuigan
22 March 2024
An Phoblacht would have been helpless without its drivers. They delivered the paper all over Ireland in challenging dangerous conditions. Earlier this month we were saddened to learn of the death of Thomas McGuigan, one of these valiant republican road warriors. Free article
A referendum the right thing to do
6 February 2012
TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY insists that he is not afraid to hold a referendum on the EU austerity treaty, what Brussels calls the fiscal compact.
If Enda Kenny is truly not afraid then he should allow a referendum, whether the Attorney General thinks it is necessary or not.
Pearse Doherty has reminded people that the Attorney General told the last government it did not have to hold the... Free article
A dissenting view full of contradictions
6 February 2012
‘THE PROVISIONAL IRA: FROM INSURRECTION TO PARLIAMENT’ (PLUTO PRESS), BY TOMMY McKEARNEY
REVIEW BY DANNY MORRISON
TOMMY McKEARNEY is probably the most articulate of all those activists who left the mainstream Republican Movement. He is deeply committed, thoughtful, without bile or bitterness — more a dissenter than a dissident (to use that unfortunate, pejorative word which... Free article
Gerry McGeough should be freed
6 February 2012
SINN FÉIN STATEMENT ON CONTROVERSIAL CASE | WESTON PARK AGREEMENT WAS BROKEN BY BRITISH
BY GERRY KELLY MLA
Sinn Féin Assembly spokesperson on Policing & Justice
WHEN Gerry McGeough was first arrested in March 2007, Sinn Féin called for his immediate release. We believed then, as we believe now, that he should not have been arrested and charged and that he should not have been... Free article
Power of Scotland
6 February 2012
THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM | A QUESTION OF FREEDOM
BY MARY STEPHENS IN GLASGOW
THE issue of a referendum over Scottish independence has fired a debate not just the length and breadth of Scotland but right through the Westminster Parliament and beyond.
The prospect of a poll follows the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011, which saw... Free article
Stephen Lawrence and Robert Hamill cases - Getting away with murder?
6 February 2012
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN LONDON’S METROPLITAN POLICE | INSTITUTIONAL SECTARIANISM IN THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY
» BY PEADAR WHELAN
AFTER nearly 19 years of campaigning, the family of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, stabbed to death in an attack by a gang of racist white youths in south London in 1993, have, at long last, won some... Free article
Dublin bin privatisation debacle
6 February 2012
CHAOS MARKS SWITCH FOR RUBBISH COLLECTIONS | BIG CHANGES FACE HOUSEHOLDS
BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA, DUBLIN SINN FÉIN COUNCILLOR
THE DOMINANT Fine Gael and Labour groups on Dublin City Council cannot wash their hands of the debacle of bin privatisation in the city as their parties in Government are following a privatisation agenda.
There was widespread disruption and confusion... Free article
Bloody Sunday in the British media
6 February 2012
Remembering the Past
BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA
IN IRELAND and throughout the world, the British Army’s murders in Derry on Bloody Sunday 1972 brought condemnation of the British Government on a scale not seen since the ravages of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries in Ireland 50 years earlier. However, in Britain itself the British Government was shielded from the worst of the... Free article
‘Fit for work’ test not fit for purpose
6 February 2012
REPORT RAISES MAJOR QUESTIONS OVER BENEFITS CHECKS FUNDAMENTAL FAILURES IN NEW SCHEME
THE British Government should suspend the Work Capability Assessment until it can be shown to be fit for purpose, says Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney after a report by the Citizens’ Advice Bureau raised serious questions over its efficiency and results.
The study, ‘Right First Time’, was... Free article
Changing Belfast City Hall
6 February 2012
BELFAST CITY COUNCIL | REPUBLICAN POLITICS IN ACTION
» BY PEADAR WHELAN
THE CONTROVERSY surrounding the awards ceremony at Belfast City Hall when Mayor Niall Ó Donnghaile opted out of presenting a certificate to a member of the British Army Cadet Force served to remind nationalists in the North that “Stone Age unionism” is alive and well.
DUP and UUP politicians vied with... Free article
Budget cuts to CE schemes snatch money from local jobs and services
6 February 2012
Community Employment under threat from FG/Labour Budget
» BY MARK MOLONEY
DRASTIC CUTS to Community Employment (CE) schemes are already having a massive impact on communities across the state and leave many of them fearful for the quality and scope of existing services on the ground if not their very future.
In December’s Budget 2012, funding for CE schemes was cut from €1,500 to... Free article
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