DID I ever tell you, Enda, about the doorman at Stormont Parliament Buildings who was once a prison officer in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh? Apparently, Raymond McCartney was the O/C in H4 as I understand it and the prison officer in question turned the key to close Raymond’s cell door more often than not. How do I know? Because the former prison officer told me himself.
Wasn’t it... Free article

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

Polisario meets Sinn Féin in the Dáil

THE ‘ambassador’ to Europe of Polisario, the Western Sahara independence movement representing half a million people living under the control of Morocco, has met Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and Foreign Affairs spokesperson Pádraig Mac Lochlainn in Leinster House seeking international support.
Sinn Féin has been a long-standing supporter of... Free article

Banning of Basque party ‘backward step’

THE Spanish Supreme Court’s decision in a vote of 9-7 to bar new Basque pro-independence party Sortu from contesting May’s local elections has been criticised by Sinn Féin Assembly member Alex Maskey as a backward step and a denial of fundamental democracy.
Sortu has publicly declared that it rejects all political violence but the Supreme... Free article

BY IAN MILNE

BY IAN MILNE

IT was great sadness that I learned of the death of Volunteer Eugene O’Neill from Clady in South Derry.  Eugene was 51 years of age, he been on the run since the mid-1970s and had only recently returned home.
Eugene was a gentleman. He would have given you the shirt off his back. He was someone you could rely on.
A committed republican, Eugene was so... Free article

I nDíl Chuimhne

1 April 1980: Volunteer Robert CARR, Newry Brigade.
2 April 1987: Volunteer Laurence MARLEY, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion.
2 April 1992: Danny CASSIDY, Sinn Féin.
4 April 1971: Volunteer Tony HENDERSON, Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion.
4 April 1989: Volunteer Gerard CASEY, North Antrim Brigade.
4 April 1994 Volunteer John O’RAWE, Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion.
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CLARE

Volunteer Hugh Hehir Commemoration
2pm Sunday 8th May. Meet at Clarecastle Church. Speaker: Councillor Maurice Quinlivan. Volunteer Ed O’Brien RFB in attendance

CORK

Easter Function
9pam Easter Sunday April 24th, MacCurtain/MacSwiney Republican Flute Band Fundraiser. Featuring ‘Clan Éireann’. St Vincent’s GAA Club, Blarney Road, Cork City. Táille €10

CUBA : 50^th ANNIVERSARY OF BAY OF PIGS INVASION

Thursday 14 April

LIMERICK @ 6pm

Reinaldo Taladrid – Public meeting at the University of Limerick – Room C1061 in Main Building

WATERFORD @ 7pm

Maria Aleida del Riego – Public meeting

More info from Waterford Trades Council, Tommy Hogan @ 086 165 6818

Saturday 16 April 9am to 6pm

DUBLIN ALL-DAY CONFERENCE

Liberty Hall

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ÓGRA Shinn Féin have produced an election broadcast for Fermanagh/South Tyrone Sinn Féin. The republican youth movement have uploaded the broadcast onto YouTube and will be promoting through the various social networks like Facebook and Twitter from now until May 5.

The video features footage from last year's election and emphasises the point that every single vote counts.

It... Free article

GERRY ADAMS wrote this piece on Saturday 9 April 2011 on his Léargas blog. An Phoblacht carries it as a clear exposition of the republican position following the killing of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr at Omagh a week previously.

SINCE RONAN KERR'S MURDER on Saturday 2 April, I have met many people. Most have been republican former prisoners and their families and other activists of... Free article