An Coimisinéar agus an Acht faoi ionsaí

TÁ IONSAÍ fíochmhar dhá dhéanamh ag Rialtas Bhaile Átha Cliath ar an nGaeilge agus cearta Gaeilgeoirí agus tá do thacaíocht phraiticiúil ag teastáil le sin a throid. Tá sé íorónach, ag am nuair atá feachtas láidir ar siúl sna Sé Chontae le Acht Teanga don Ghaeilge a chuir in áit - agus iad ag féachaint ó dheas ar thóir eiseamláir - go... Free article

ONE of the interesting things about Irish political journalists and commentators is how little they know, or understand, about politics. Collectively, they sometimes appear to be a group of priests giving marriage advice. They don’t really understand it, they’ve no particular experience of it, but they’re very sure they’re right.
Now don’t get me wrong, many of them are great on... Free article

BY PEADAR WHELAN

And I stepped out,
and I stepped in again

Learning to dance
for Lanigan’s Ball

THE PSNI is now employing hundreds of former RUC members who resigned from the force and benefited from the Patton redundancy plan. But the PSNI claims it cannot provide details of how many former RUC members it now employs. Nor can it say how many it has employed in the past ten... Free article

A GENUINE IRISH REPUBLIC | AS WE APPROACH 2016 . . .

BY CIARÁN QUINN

MICHAEL NOONAN, in his introduction to the 2012 Budget as the Fine Gael/Labour Finance Minister, told the Dáil:
“On this day 90 years ago, on 6 December 1921, the Treaty was signed. The Treaty restored Ireland’s sovereignty which for so long had been lost.”
Getting the first line of the Budget so wrong was not... Free article

NEW YEAR INTERVIEW | GERRY ADAMS TD, PRESIDENT OF SINN FÉIN

AFTER A BANNER YEAR for Sinn Féin and five elections since January 2011, An Phoblacht’s ROBBIE SMYTH (below left) caught up with party president Gerry Adams in Dublin and found him tired and itching to get back home. We found a Gerry Adams who refuses to be simply reflective on over four decades in political life but who... Free article

THE YEAR 2012 marks the centenary of the escalation of what was known as the Home Rule crisis during which the opposition Conservative & Unionist Party in Britain ruthlessly stoked Ulster unionist sectarianism. The Tories went so far as to threaten civil war in order to topple the Liberal Government and to prevent any measure of even limited Irish autonomy.
After two general... Free article

A CROWD of close to 100 people gathered in Donaghcumper Cemetery, Celbridge, on Sunday 27 November to remember veteran Celbridge republican Tom Kealy.
Speaking at the graveside, Ide Cussen of Kildare Sinn Fein said:
“It is of great significance to hold this commemoration on the 30th anniversary of Tom’s passing which is also the year of the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger... Free article

Átha Cliath

LE P Ó SNODAIG

‘LAOCH AR LÁR’ - ró-mhinic ráite ach i gcás Dháithí Ui hÓgáin do b’fhíor é. Is trua linn mar a bhuail a bhás a theaghlach féin, a ghaolta, a chairde.
Cé gur theagmhaigh ailse leis tá breis agus trí bhliain ó shin bhi sé chomh láidir, chomh dearfach, chomh leanúnach sin go deire gur ar éigin gur ghlac muid go raibh sé i ndáiríre ag saothrú leis sub ombra... Free article

BY MICHAEL BURKE
Independent economic commentator and writer for Socialist Economic Bulletin

JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the DUP won a vote for a motion it tabled in the House of Commons. It is extremely unusual for an opposition party to win a parliamentary vote. But the DUP is not really an opposition party at all and the motion was to congratulate the Tory-led Government on its... Free article

County Monaghan

THE passing in the last months of 2011 of two County Monaghan, lifelong republican activists in their 90s has caused great sadness but has also given rise to great memories shared by their many comrades and friends across north County Monaghan.
The death in mid-September of John McQuaid of Barratitoppy in the Knockatallon area of the county has seen the door... Free article