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
MAY 5th : SIX COUNTIES VOTE THREE TIMES | ASSEMBLY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REFERENDUM
14 April 2011
Sinn Féin – Shaping a better future for all
BY ROBBIE SMYTH
THE May 5th Assembly and local elections mark a watershed for Sinn Féin’s development as a party.
It is not just that there is an opportunity to improve on the 27 Assembly seats won in 2007 or the 126 councillors elected in the 2005 local elections. Nor is it that the party is on the cusp of becoming the largest... Free article
ENGLISH QUEEN’S STATE VISIT TO IRELAND | TIMING ON ANNIVERSARY OF DUBLIN/MONAGHAN BOMBINGS ‘INSENSITIVE’
14 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’.
The... Free article
ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS | AN PHOBLACHT SPEAKS TO MARTIN McGUINNESS, JOINT FIRST MINISTER
14 April 2011
‘We are making huge strides forward’
AHEAD of May’s Assembly elections - and just before the murder of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr, AN PHOBLACHT spoke to Sinn Féin deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness about the Assembly and the all-Ireland institutions past, present and future. A fuller version is posted on the An Phoblacht website.
Ian Paisley Snr has just bowed out of politics... Free article
SINN FÉIN ASSEMBLY ELECTION CAMPAIGN | LEADERSHIP ACROSS IRELAND
14 April 2011
‘You were a friend of Bobby Sands?’
BY PEADAR WHELAN
“YOU were a friend of Bobby Sands?” the photographer asked of Jennifer McCann MLA as she stood in a huddle with her Sinn Féin comrades in the field beside Scoil na Fuiseoige in Twinbrook on the outskirts of west Belfast.
“Yes, I was,” said Jennifer matter-of-factly but with that tone of voice republicans reserve when they... Free article
Targeting the Peace Process
14 April 2011
LET THERE BE no mistake - Ronan Kerr was not the only target of the attack that tragically took the life of this young PSNI member in Omagh, County Tyrone, on April 2nd.
The target of the bombers was also the Peace Process and the republican strategy of Sinn Féin.
They will not succeed.
A wave of public anger throughout civic society, not just in Omagh but across Ireland, has... Free article
In the referendum – say YES to AV
14 April 2011
VOTERS in the Six Counties are well aware that there’s elections on (for the Assembly and local government) but what about the referendum?
It has barely got a mention in the news and that might continue to be the case. It will certainly be some time, and you might have to travel some distance, before you come across mention of it on a lamp-post. It doesn’t have a face and it... Free article
Remembering the Past
14 April 2011
Unwelcome visitors – British monarchs in Ireland
“We confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England” – James Connolly, 1897
WITH the Queen of England due in May to make the... Free article
Tábhacht an tSeanaid – Tábhacht bhur dTacaíocht
14 April 2011
TÁ TOGHCHÁN an tSeanaid faoi lán seoil agus muidne mar iarrthóirí agus baill uile an pháirtí ag stocaireacht ar bhealaí éagsúla. Teastóidh gach tacaíocht gur féidir linn a fháil leis na suíocháin ar fad a bhfuil muid san iomaíocht dóibh a bhuachan. Tá sé de phribhléid agamsa a bheith ainmnithe mar iarrthóir ag Sinn Féin ar an bpainéal talmhaíochta in... Free article
GARDAÍ JOKE ABOUT RAPING WOMEN PROTESTERS | INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE FROM CAMERA IN POLICE CAR
14 April 2011
Shell to Sea campaigners expose frightening culture of male gardaí
SINN FÉIN Justice & Equality spokesperson Jonathan O’Brien has produced to the media a memory stick of a video of gardaí heard ‘joking’ about raping two women protesters arrested at the controversial Corrib gas project in County Mayo.
The video was released by the Shell to Sea campaign group after the video camera... Free article
LEINSTER HOUSE | SINN FÉIN TDs PUT PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT ON ALL FRONTS
14 April 2011
Challenging the punishment of taxpayers for sins of banks and bond-holders
AS Sinn Féin in the Six Counties gears up to complement the party’s success in the Dáil elections in the 26 Counties, Sinn Féin TDs in Leinster House have wasted little time in putting pressure on the new Government on all fronts - on the economic crisis, jobs and international affairs.
Sinn Féin has been... Free article
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