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17 December, 2009 |
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TWENTY years ago, the late Oliver Kearney who was the secretary of the Fair Employment Trust, wrote a letter to Sean Farren, the then SDLP spokesperson on Employment who was about to embark to the United States, to lobby against the MacBride Principles, pointing out that if this was the case it was a disturbing development for a party claiming to represent the Northern nationalist community. Interview: Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Ógra Shinn Féin National Órganiser 
FROM Togher on the south side of Cork City Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (20) was appointed National Órganiser for Ógra Shinn Féin last month. He has taken a break from study, after completing two years of a Law degree, to undertake the role. Here he speaks to ELLA O'DWYER about the role of Ógra in the wider republican struggle • This news feature is funded by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) 
LOOKING BACK over the year, we've picked out some of the wide range of issues on which MEP Bairbre de Brún has been vocal and active. 
WHETHER you are a Grinch, a closet Christmas lover or someone who gives it the full tinsel effect we all love our Christmas films. What's more not only do we watch the old favourites repeatedly we also have new entrants in the Christmas movie canon. As the 10th remake of Dickens A Christmas Carol hits the cineplexes, this time in animated 3D ROBBIE SMYTH unwraps the history of Christmas films from The Night Before Christmas in 1897 to the the latest blockbusters. And An Phoblacht's own first top ten Christmas films is unveiled. Julia Carney's festive fun with Santa 
"I MEAN, it's just like the Eighties. Everyone's miserable, the dole queues are getting longer, even that big hair thing you people went through is back. I tell you, it's like I stepped back in time." I'm trying to watch season three of 'The Wire' but had to stick on the subtitles while he waffles on. "And what's your solution to the economy? Cut spending, cut investment, no stimulus package. I mean, I remember telling Jeffrey Sachs a few years ago..." 
I DON'T particularly like Christmas and I don't particularly care for Elvis. Elvis Christmas songs then are anathema. And I know someone who has a whole fecking CD of them! It contains the usual ones like 'Silent Night' and 'White Christmas' but some you may not have heard before... if you're lucky. Unfortunately, I have heard them all. Too many times. Among the nuggets on this classic is 'Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me', which includes the immortal lines: Don't fill my sock with candy Photo: Matt Treacy Eoghan Mac Cormaic's Bilingual Christmas Crossword 
(Má tá 'G' ann is focal Gaeilge, má tá 'B' ann, is focal Béarla atá ann) 
1. Téigh go Lidl I gcomhair do chuid siopadóireacht - má tá tú buartha faoi d'íomhá is féidir leat mála donn a chaitheamh ar do cheann. Is féidir leat dinnéar na Nollag a fháil ar 3 nó 4 Euro ansin nó 50 cent má itheann tú ponairí agus thig leat bosca phléascáin a cheannach ar 99 cent. B'fhéidir gurb fhearr duit an dinnéar a chur ar ceall agus téigh díreach go dtí na cannaí agus an ÍsealTír Óir ar 20 pingin! 
Irish music in its traditional form of song and dance has often been compared to a well of spring water from which generations of people have drawn and which has never run dry. Today it shows every sign of continuing to flourish and at no time has our distinct music been played by more people in Ireland and around the world. 
FINDING a present that is different, has some sort of meaning and is actually wanted can be a struggle for even the most intrepid republican activist amidst all the tinsel and tat in High Street stores but there's a treasure trove of novel gifts in the Sinn Féin Bookshop in Dublin. Useful narrative of '50s campaign 
Book Review Soldiers of Folly: The IRA Border Campaign 1956-1962 By Barry Flynn Reviewed by Mark Hogan Remembering the Past: Martin Savage and the Ashtown ambush 
In May 1918 British Army Field Marshal John French was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Supreme Commander of the British Army in Ireland. He had previously held the positions of Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Forces and, at the start of the First World War, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France. Photo: Martin Savage Crosfhocal Freagraí |
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