Garda hi-tech computer cannot tell how many good causes are being fleeced of cash by hoods robbing charity clothes bins, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has confessed to Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty Free article

Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh reminds Seanad that the Council of Europe sets out a recommendation of at least 1 refuge place per 10,000 of population ‘and the Government are way off that target’ Free article

The 26-County state is one of only four EU states that continues the practice – water is not fluoridated in the North of Ireland, Scotland, most of England or Wales Free article

THE 32nd anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands was marked in Belfast on Sunday 5 May as dozens of republicans held while-line pickets in his honour. Among those who gathered in Andersonstown near Sinn Féin’s West Belfast office were former Hunger Striker Jackie McMullan and many other republican former prisoners, members of Kieran Doherty’s family, and Paul Maskey, MP for West Belfast. Free article

Anti-republican zealot caught on CCTV shovelling up bundles of a local free paper criticising his boss, Derek Keating TD Free article

Manchester United mastermind says his Glasgow working-class background in a socialist family helped him to be a champion Free article

Family say they are ‘looking for answers and closure and in no way are we seeking any form of revenge’ Free article

UKIP councillor admits saying he hoped somebody would murder Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams Free article

The only summer school named in honour of Connolly commences this year, the centenary of the Great Lockout Free article

MAY 5th 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’ campaign for the restoration of political status. Free article