Remembering Thomas McGuigan
22 March 2024
An Phoblacht would have been helpless without its drivers. They delivered the paper all over Ireland in challenging dangerous conditions. Earlier this month we were saddened to learn of the death of Thomas McGuigan, one of these valiant republican road warriors. Free article
MAKING HISTORY
4 March 2011
THESE are historic times. We remember the sacrifices of countless others and pay tribute to them through our efforts now.
March 1st marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strike.
March 8th marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
And March marks the arrival in Leinster House of Sinn Féin as a truly significant political force in the 26... Free article
WHAT NEXT FOR SINN FÉIN? | BY DECLAN KEARNEY SINN FÉIN NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON
4 March 2011
Beyond the Green Tide
CANVASSING in Cloontagh, Inishowen: 9pm, Tuesday 22nd February
“Last call,” said Roger. “A courtesy.” The courtesy turned into a privilege . . . for Pádraig (now a TD) and me.
Kathleen is 84. She cares full-time for Gareth, her foster son, aged 22, once a champion boxer, now profoundly disabled. It was humbling.
Kathleen and Gareth belong to the Ireland left... Free article
Ghost of bad policing hangs over McGurk’s bomb report
4 March 2011
A DAY of “vindication and victory” for the families of 15 people killed in the 1971 McGurk’s Bar bombing turned sour after PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott refused to accept Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson’s finding of RUC bias in the force insisting republicans were responsible rather than loyalists. The bomb attack was later proven to have been the work of the UVF.
Matt Baggott... Free article
Gaillimh Thiar | TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH
4 March 2011
Sinn Féin i bhfad níos láidre i nGaillimh Thiar
RUD AMHÁIN atá soiléir ó thorthaí Olltoghcháin 2011 ná go bhfuil tacaíocht do Shinn Féin agus ár bhfís pholaitiúil i gContae na Gaillimhe agus go náisiúnta ag fás go mór. Tá ár vóta méadaithe faoi thrí i nGaillimh Thiar agus bhí méadú de 2000 ar vóta Shinn Féin i ndáilcheantair na Gaillimhe Thoir. Sin rud a... Free article
Poll topping performance in Louth
4 March 2011
WALKING INTO the count centre in Dundalk on Saturday morning was unnerving. Consistent late nights over the course of the campaign and hard work from the Sinn Féin canvassers had made people tired. But they were excited and it was nothing that the a few cups of coffee couldn’t fix.
There was a lot riding on this and we knew it but the morning’s exit polls looked... Free article
And the winner is . . . Sinn Féin
4 March 2011
ALMOST a quarter of a million (220,685) people voted for 41 Sinn Féin candidates in 38 constituencies in the 2011 Leinster House election, electing 14 TDs, a record performance for the party who won 9.9% of first preferences.
• Carlow/Kilkenny
Vote % of poll
2002 2,078 3.42%
2007 2,568 3.8%
2011 7,033 9.5%
Kathleen Funchion and John Cassin more than doubled... Free article
DUBLIN NORTH-EAST | LARRY O’TOOLE
4 March 2011
So near and yet so far
BY MÍCHEÁL
Mac DONNCHA
DESPITE our best efforts, elections are not scientific exercises and cannot be reduced to a formula. They are things of emotion, passion, dejection, elation. Ironically, it is at the most scientific stage of elections – the number-crunching in the count centre – that these emotions are seen most clearly.
They were there in Dublin’s... Free article
The long road in Cork North Central
4 March 2011
BY PAUL HOGAN
JONATHAN O’BRIEN has been involved in politics for just over a decade now and his and Sinn Féin’s undoubted hard graft and vocal opinion on local issues is set to be rewarded with a seat in Dáil Éireann at the third time of asking.
Married to Gillian, they have two sons and two daughters: Ryan (16), Aoife (12), Niamh (8) and Connor (6).
The Farranree native who... Free article
Sinn Féin - setting the agenda
4 March 2011
BY CAOILFHIONN
NÍ DHONNABHAIN
WHEN Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty succeeded in his High Court bid to force the Government to hold the Donegal South-West by-election, the days of the 30th Dáil were numbered and a general election became inevitable.
It was an election a long time in the coming. The Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government had become increasingly unstable following a number... Free article
DONEGAL SOUTH-WEST | PEARSE DOHERTY
4 March 2011
Pearse tops poll
SINN FÉIN’S tally team were only too keen to assemble for the second time in three months at a count centre in Donegal South-West as few were doubtful of Pearse Doherty’s chances of re-election after his historic by-election win in November.
With the help of some Independent candidates’ passes, almost 60 party activists and supporters gathered to count the... Free article
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