‘UNITING IRELAND’ EVENTS IN DUBLIN AND CORK | ‘I DTREO POBLACHT NUA - TOWARDS A NEW REPUBLIC’

» BY BRENDAN KERR

WHILE Independent TD Shane Ross was busy telling listeners on RTÉ’s Marian Finucane Show that “not even Sinn Féin talks much about a united Ireland any more”, Sinn Féin was actually hosting two very successful conferences on that very theme in Dublin and Cork City -... Free article

THIS POEM is being carried because it is written by someone who has personally endured the horror and brutality of being force-fed while on hunger strike.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Féin Assembly member for North Belfast, was sentenced in London in November 1973 for his part in the IRA bombing of the Old Bailey.
He and a number of other prisoners immediately went on hunger strike for... Free article

The Hunger Strike and Fleet Street’s graveyard of truth

» BY ROY GREENSLADE

THIRTY YEARS ON from the hunger strike in which 10 died, consider the pitiless, dishonest way it was reported
Thirty years ago, eight men were on hunger strike in the Maze Prison [Long Kesh]. Four of their Irish republican comrades had already fasted themselves to death, and a further six would do so in... Free article

Foot in the mouth

» BY DANNY MORRISON

ED MOLONEY and Anthony McIntyre surely had their tongues protruding from their cheeks like gumboils when they claimed that they believed they could be killed if the interviews they carried out as part of the Boston College project were handed over to the British authorities. It is such nonsense and a very weak defence when there are better... Free article

COLLUSION, CROWN FORCES AND THEIR AGENTS | MURDER OF CITIZENS AT THE HEART OF BRITISH POLICY IN IRELAND

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

IF AL HUTCHINSON, the North’s Police Ombudsman, were a boxer involved in a bout, his corner would be on the point of throwing in the towel.
Hutchinson has taken so many hits in the past year that it’s hard to believe he is still on his feet.
The credibility... Free article

» LE MÁIRTÍN Mac EOIN

BA MHAITH an scéal é ón Aire Oideachais, Ruairí Quinn, i rith na míosa go bhfuil dhá scor scoileanna nua, idir bhunleibhéil is dara leibhéil, le tóigeáil thar na sé bliain seo rómhainn.
Dúirt an tAire go bhfuil na scoileanna seo ag teastáil mar gheall ar fhás an daonra, ach n’fheadar anois an leór an dá scor sin i bhfianaise na bhfigiúirí ón Daonáireamh a... Free article

MANY THANKS, Taoiseach, for the céad míle fáilte in the last week of June when six of us from the Northern Assembly arrived at Leinster House to make further progress towards the establishment of the North/South Parliamentary Forum.
As you know, Taoiseach, this is one of the still unresolved matters arising from both the Good Friday Agreement and the St Andrew’s Agreement.
It was... Free article

» LE TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH

MÁ TÁ TÚ á léamh seo tá tú ar chuid den dream nach gcasann an leathanach nuair a fheiceann siad gur i nGaeilge atá sé scríofa.
Le dhá mhí sa Seanad nuair a labhrann mé ‘as Gaeilge’ ann, bíonn daoine áirithe i láthair a thugann cluais maith le héisteacht dom, ach formhór acu féachann siad i dtreo éigin eile, síos ar a gcuid nótaí, nó ar a gcuid fóin póca... Free article

THE death of Seán Cronin has seen the passing of one of the most significant activists, thinkers and writers in the history of Irish republicanism. He played a pivotal role in the IRA’s 1950s campaign and went on, through his prolific writings, to help shape the ideals and ideas that motivate modern republicans.
Seán Cronin served as Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1959. He was... Free article

Sinn Féin National Draw – Building locally, building nationally

SEÁN LYNCH, newly-elected Sinn Féin Assembly member for Fermanagh/South Tyrone and former Officer Commanding the IRA prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, is appealing for every Sinn Féin area to set themselves a target of selling at least a third more Sinn Féin National Draw tickets than last year.
In Seán’s own... Free article