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Thousands honour Gibraltar 3 and Milltown Martyrs

THE thousands who turned out on Sunday, 9 March, to attend the 20th anniversary march to commemorate the Gibraltar 3 and Milltown Martyrs were standing shoulder to shoulder with the families of seven brave young Irish people who were killed by the British war machine.

Government must stand up for Irish farmers in WTO talks

THE Irish Government must be "vehement" in its opposition to meat imports from outside the EU, Sinn Féin's Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin told the Dáil last week.

Photo: Irish famers send a clear message to Mandelson outside the EU Commission office in Dublin

The Mary Nelis Column

IT'S NOT every government that is compared by a Nobel Laureate to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan but, indirectly, Seamus Heaney has compared the destruction of Ireland's most historical site to the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in 2001, an action that shocked the civilised world.

INTERNATIONAL : Presidents meet in crisis talks over war moves

A POSSIBLE all-out war pitching Venezuela and Ecuador against neighbouring Colombia has been averted after a meeting between the leaders of the three countries during a summit of Latin American and Caribbean states last week.

Irish Republican Brotherhood : 150th Anniversary

THERE is a small, unassuming building in a terrace of premises in East Lombard Street, Dublin, which houses a tyre firm. Unless they have business there, few people notice the building where one of the most important meetings in Irish history took place. It was here, in the house of Peter Langan, lathe-maker and timber merchant, in East Lombard Street on St Patrick's Day 1858, that the Irish Republican Brotherhood was founded.

Cúlchaint

Is fada an lá ó scríobh mé rud beag raiméise agus Seárlas De Gaeilf imithe ar strae le bean ó Iamáice ar tóir na conquistadores i Meiriceá Theas nó b'fhéidir go bhfuil sé gafa ag ceann de na dlíodóirí ansin - cad é an scéal le Chavez - an bhfuil sé ag iarraidh bheith ina uachtarán i gcomhair a shaoil iomláin nó an bhfuil na meáin chumarsáide anseo ag cur 'spin' ar chúrsaí ós rud é nach bhfuil sé cairdiúil leis na Poncánaigh?

A powerful message

Magazine Review Iris - the republican magazine Issue No. 21. Price €7 Reviewed By Séamus Bergin

Deireadh suarach don Fairytale

Leirmheas TV Fairytale of Kathmandu RTÉ1 Leirmheas le Eoghan Mac Cormaic

1916 Easter 2008 commemorations

The deadline for Easter commemoration events notices is 12pm on Monday 17 March 2008. In order to be included notices must be received by Sinn Féin Head Office, Telephone (01) 8726100 or email sinnfeinadmin@ eircom.net, before the deadline. Honour Ireland's patriot dead - Wear an Easter Lily and attend your local Easter commemoration

Matt Treacy

ONE of the great boons which modern technology has brought to the GAA has been the advent of internet discussion forums.

Media View

THE truth will out. An interesting article in the Irish Daily Star last week confirmed what republicans and a few other voices claimed at the time of the Gibraltar slaying 20 years ago of IRA Volunteers Mairéad Farrell, Danny McCann and Seán Savage - information was passed from Garda Special Branch to MI5 about the movements of at least one of the trio, thus facilitating their killing as they walked, unarmed, in Gibraltar.

A Cavan man's look back at the Ard Fheis

I HAVE always hated the RDS for our Ard Fheis. Necessity drove us there and, I suspect, habit is keeping us there. The only humorous thing about the place in previous years was the evening time in Cullen's bar when the Dublin 4 crowd were coming in and we were starting to leave: an uneasy co-existence. This year was better. Congratulations to Dublin Sinn Féin for getting a ballad session downstairs in Crowe's bar. It's about time we dragged the place down to our level. However, enough is enough, as the 80-year-old woman said when asked why she was divorcing her husband after 60 years of marriage. It is time to leave Dublin 4.

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