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5 April, 2007 |
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REPUBLICAN ROLL OF HONOUR AND ROLL OF REMEMBERANCE 
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann 
The Easter Lily, with its colours of green, white and orange is a symbol long associated with the Easter Rising of 1916 and one with a long and fascinating history. 
It's called 'how to spend a million', the UDA conference in Belfast, and the specially invited guests including the PSNI chief Constable Hugh Orde, will be there to advise the participants on things like value for money and more of the same if they are good boys. Hugh Orde described the conference as a positive event pointing out that its good to talk. Mind you the so called 'brigadiers' in the UDA have been doing a lot of talking over the years to the Special Branch and British Military intelligence and I'll bet they had more than a passing conversation with Orde himself. Orde wants to see 'tangible changes' in the UDA who still claim to be on ceasefire despite having murdered scores of people, over the past ten years. Dáil general election profile David Cullinane - Waterford 
COUNCILLOR DAVID CULLINANE is part of a new wave of Sinn Féin candidates for the Dáil elections. With Dáil, European and local campaigns already under his belt, he has experience beyond his 32 years. Brimming with ideas and a determined sense of public duty, David lists among his ambitions a university in Waterford to serve the south-east, and to see a long agony come to an end by his native county, at long, long last, lifting the Liam McCarthy Cup. An Phoblacht's PHILIP CONNOLLY has placed his bet. Dáil general election profile: Martin Kenny - Roscommon/South Leitrim 
COUNCILLOR MARTIN KENNY (37) is Sinn Féin's general election candidate for the constituency of Roscommon/South Leitrim. Raised just outside the town of Carrigallen, six miles from Ballinamore, Martin comes from a republican family and believes it's important to understand opposing political perspectives - "know your opponent" as he put it. He talks to ELLA O'DWYER about the very real possibility of his taking a Dáil seat in the general election. A Strong Economy for an Ireland of Equals Part 2 
In the second of a two-part series, Sinn Féin's National Director of Policy SHANNONBROOKE MURPHY discusses the positive, transformative potential of the party's economic policy Photo: Are the people receiving the services they deserve in return for their tax contributions? Loughgall Martyrs 20th Anniversary Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the brutal SAS ambush of eight Volunteers of the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade and two civilians in the County Armagh village of Loughgall. It marked the greatest losses by the IRA since the Tan War of the 1920s. Tá an forógra i gcroí Poblachtas inniu. Is é an bundoiciméad Poblachtanais ach ag an am céanna is gnó neamhchríochnaithe é. Tá focail iontacha ann, smaointe iontacha agus is é sin ár ndualgas; na focail a chur i bhfeidhm. The Resistance Campaign 50 years on 
This week Mícheál MacDonncha continues a monthly series marking the 50th anniversary of the IRA's Resistance Campaign - more widely known as the Border Campaign - which commenced in December 1956. The series will be based on the monthly republican newspaper of the time An tÉireannach Aontaithe/The United Irishman. Photo: A British Army patrol in Enniskillen during the Border Campaign 
Documentary on IRA's 1950s Campaign and new staging of O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman 
Fíoraíodh mo bhrionglóidí ar fad an Satharn seo caite nuair a chas me le 'Twink'! 1916 Easter commemorations 2007 
Honour Ireland's Fallen Patriots - Wear an Easter Lily, attend your local commemoration 
The one saving grace of my playing in a hurling match that we lost was that it prevented me having been at either Castlebar or Nenagh to bear witness to what someone euphemistically described to me as a "bad day at the office" for both the Dublin footballers and hurlers. The hurlers have at least met their target of retaining Division One status. Freedom of the press has been to the fore in newspaper headlines over the last week or so, with the Supreme Court ruling on leaking confidential details supplied to the Mahon planning corruption tribunal welcomed enthusiastically, especially by The Irish Times whose editor Geraldine Kennedy faces punitive sanction for her role in publishing documents leaked from the tribunal. 
Stormont was an unusual place to be on Monday of this week. They were giving out Ministerial portfolios as if they were bags of crisps. Sinn Féin is back at the helm of Education, as you know Bertie. Could you tell Mary Hanafin this because there would need to be a joint Ministerial meeting soon to help all our children. |
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