Francis Hughes – Died on 12 May 1981 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks
10 May 2024
The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th Century and of the Irish Republican Army. Free article
Banks crisis: No difference between Fine Gael/Labour and Fianna Fáil
1 April 2011
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THERE is no difference between the Fine Gael/Labour and Fianna... Free article
MINIMUM WAGE: FG/Labour Government pressed by Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams to reverse cut
1 April 2011
THE Fine Gael/Labour Government should stop stalling on its pre-election promise to reverse the minimum wage cut imposed by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, Sinn Féin President and Louth TD Gerry Adams has said in the Dáil.
Responding to questioning in the Dáil by Gerry Adams, who cited the case of the Davenport Hotel workers who had their wages arbitrarily cut, the Taoiseach... Free article
Dublin Port trade unionist charged – Rally at court Friday 1st April
31 March 2011
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A RALLY will be... Free article
Video: Adams on Sinn Féin censure motion of Michael Lowry TD on Moriarty
30 March 2011
GERRY ADAMS, Sinn Féin Dáil leader, presses the Taoiseach not to delay the Sinn Féin censure motion of Michael Lowry TD and to take it in Government time today.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny sees no problem with Sinn Féin motion and says he will review options.
Banning of Basque party from local elections ‘backward step’ – Sinn Féin
30 March 2011
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 Court voted by a narrow majority to accept... Free article
NUI GRADUATES IN THE USA APPEAL > ELECT EOIN Ó BROIN
29 March 2011
GERRY ADAMS TD has appealed to National University of Ireland graduates in the USA to use their Seanad vote by voting for Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin.
A Chara,
For the first time Irish citizens who live in the US and are graduates of the National University of Ireland, will have an opportunity to vote for Sinn Féin in an Oireachtas election.
This is a unique opportunity to support... Free article
Libya TV newsreader shoots from the hip
29 March 2011
NOT SURE whether this guy did Journalism at DCU or Griffith College but it'd have you tuning in every night to see what happens next on the Six O'Clock News. Makes Vincent Browne and Conor Lenihan seem tame.
British Government apologises for Paras shooting dead 12-year-old Majella O'Hare 35 years ago
28 March 2011
THE British Government has issued a formal apology to the family of 12-year-old girl Majella O'Hare shot dead by the British Army in County Armagh 35 years ago.
UTV interviewed still-grieving family members about the move.
In August last year, An Phoblacht’s Peadar Whelan told how a new report by the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team exposed the British Army’s version of events as... Free article
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