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OPINION : Republicans need to build a broad based coalition to transform society

If and when the DUP enter the Executive, a sustained and stable period of power sharing will slowly become reality and implementation of all aspects of the Agreement will eventually follow. This opens the way for a post Agreement politics whose contours will be substantially different from that which has dominated politics since partition.

Ag cuimhniú siar

An céad cuimhe atá agam féin ar an Cháisc ó thaobh phoblactachas de, ná Domhnach na Cásca ar Bhóthar na bhFál 1966. Bhí sean-aintín agam a raibh cónaí uirthí in Árd Eóin, ba ghnáth leí scéalta a insint domh fá preispitéirigh Chontae Aontroma agus Éirí Amach '98.

Dáil General Election Profile : Dessie Ellis, Dublin North-West

COUNCILLOR DESSIE ELLIS (54), from Finglas, is the Sinn Féin general election candidate for Dublin North-West. A life-long republican, former political prisoner and community activist, Dessie has an uncompromising commitment to equality at all levels, one he aims to take to Leinster House. He talks to ELLA O'DWYER.

Dáil General Election Profile : Jonathan O'Brien, Cork North Central

The people of Cork are very exacting when it comes to their local representatives. Sinn Féin, therefore, is on the up and up. COUNCILLOR JONATHAN O'BRIEN (32) is Sinn Féin's representative in Cork North Central. He is ten years married to Gillian and has four children: Ryan, Aoife, Naoimh and Connor. An Phoblacht's PHILIP CONNOLLY learns that Cork is, without doubt, Ireland's true capital, punk is culturally superior to pop, and that the United States may not have landed on the moon after all.

Cúlchaint

Tá me ar tí mo dhorn a chur tríd scáileán an ríomhaire - tá sé níos moille ná an Stát Seirbhís agus tá mo bhuachaill chara Wayne ar an teilifís anocht ag imirt le Manchester United I gcomhair na 'simpletons' ar fad - tá me ar chúl tigh tabhairne I dTír Chonaill agus tá an pub lán le meisceoirí ag fanacht ar Wayne agus Mourinho .

Media View

The rise of the Greens has come to as a god-send to concerned media hacks fretting about the rise of Sinn Féin and various Independent candidates offering a socialist alternative to the conservative parties.

Photo: Larry O’Toole

Fifth Column

Letter to the Taoiseach

Did you know that Wednesday, 4 April was the 93rd Anniversary of the founding of Cumann na mBan? This fact hit me up the face when I walked into the Cultúrlann in Belfast to help launch Sinn Féin's Education Programme for party activists in the City.

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