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Last Saturday night, republicans gathered at the City West Hotel in Dublin to honour a man rightly described by Martin McGuinness as a colossus of the struggle. Up to 900 friends, family and comrades attended the testimonial function for Joe Cahill, a stalwart of republicanism since the 1930s.

Photo: Joe and Annie Cahill

Holy Cross through BBC-tinted Glasses

The television drama based on events at Holy Cross Girls Primary School in North Belfast was flawed before the BBC had even filmed the first scene. The television drama based on events at Holy Cross Girls Primary School in North Belfast was flawed before the BBC had even filmed the first scene.

A Draoi Rua - Ná ceannaigí a dhath!

AN DRAOI RUA highlights a different kind of festival 'Buy Nothing Day', which falls on 28 November.

The 5th Column

Ian, Ian, the Celts are here! • Papa Doc Paisley must be losing his touch. He used to be able to smell a Fenian at 50 yards but he didn't spot this Celtic cowboy looming over him on the fast train to Brussels. Papa Doc is an MEP and has business in sur la Continent, but why is Baby Doc Ian Paisley Jnr keeping Daddy company on his foreign foray?

Wicklow rolls out election team

A confident Wicklow Sinn Féin election team, pictured above, will be fighting Town and County Council elections in the June 2004 elections. The party will be standing right across the county, putting forward the republican message to the electorate.

Photo: Wicklow candidates Eamonn Long, David Gahan, Marie Gavigan, Gerry O'Neill and John Brady

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