Bobby Sands leads new hunger strike
29 February 2024
March 1st marks the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of the 1981 hunger strikes. An Phoblacht will be opening our archives which house a unique repository of articles and photographs from the hunger strike period. In the coming weeks we will be profiling these pieces along with new insights into this critical period in the history of republican struggle. Free article
Media Republic: Celtic and 'The Fields of Athenry' – The London Times is offside
26 April 2011
NEWS CORPORATION’S Times (of London) newspaper had an interesting article on sectarianism in Scottish football last Saturday, 23rd April.
Magnus Linklater, writing in the aftermath of parcel bombs being sent to Celtic manager Neil Lennon as well as QC Paul McBride and retiring MSP Trish Godman, told Times readers of the “wall of noise” at soccer matches between Celtic and... Free article
Gardaí photographing people at Sinn Féin Easter commemoration to be raised
26 April 2011
A FORMAL COMPLAINT is to be made to Fine Gael Justice Minister Alan Shatter and the Garda Commissioner after Garda detectives took photographs of people attending the Sinn Féin Easter Rising commemoration in Limerick City on Sunday.
Councillor Maurice Quinlivan said:
This commemoration was a perfectly legal and public event organised by the fourth-largest political party in the... Free article
‘Hunger Strike 30′ Exhibition – new dates for Belfast, Donegal, Antrim and Tyrone
18 April 2011
MORE DETAILS of the Hunger Strike 30 Exhibition tour have been released by the National Commemoration Committee covering the remainder of April and the first three weeks in May. They are:-
April 22nd to 24th – Cornmill, Lineside, Dungannon Road, Co. Tyrone
April 25th to 28th – St Aidan’s school, Whiterock Road, Belfast
April 30th – Carnlough Community Centre, Carnlough Village,... Free article
TUESDAY: Unionist Seanad candidate to debate with Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin
18 April 2011
JEFFREY DUDGEON (Unionist TCD Seanad candidate) and Eoin Ó Broin (Sinn Féin NUI Seanad candidate) are holding an evening of discussion on Irish politics, North/South relations and the future of the Seanad.
The debate will take place on Tuesday 19th April at 7pm in the Georgian Suite, Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
The meeting is open to the public.
Speaking in... Free article
Stephen Collins, The Irish Times and the Easter Rising
18 April 2011
An Phoblacht invites Stephen Collins to reply
Letters to the Editor, The Irish Times
Madam,
I HAVE no idea what went through the minds of those who blew up PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr. Your Political Correspondent, Stephen Collins, thinks the 1916 Rising did (April 16th). On this basis he wants an ‘honest’ and a 'mature' examination of the Rising that will, if it agrees with... Free article
ENGLISH QUEEN’S STATE VISIT ON ANNIVERSARY OF DUBLIN/MONAGHAN BOMBINGS ‘INSENSITIVE’
17 April 2011
Sinn Féin to stage alternative events
SINN FÉIN will be organising a number of ‘alternative’ events, including celebrations of republicanism, when the English queen arrives for a four-day state visit to Ireland on May 17th. But the party will not be involved in demonstrations that could be hijacked by elements opposed to the Peace Process or intent on ‘recreational rioting’.
BRADLEY MANNING | AMNESTY CONCERN OVER ‘INHUMANE’ PRISON CONDITIONS
14 April 2011
WikiLeaks whistleblower’s treatment raised in Dáil by Sinn Féin
THE Labour Party Foreign Affairs Minister, Eamon Gilmore, has been asked in the Dáil by Sinn Féin Foreign Afafirs spokesperson Pádraig Mac Lochlainn if the Irish Government will raise with the United States authorities concerns about the treatment of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking classified... Free article
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