WHY is the controversial M3 road being built where it is, how was the decision taken, who was consulted, who benefits from the road? And now, with the EU investigating the discovery of new archaeological sites along the proposed route at Lismullen, this week An Phoblacht's ROBBIE SMYTH charts the history of decision making, lobbying and clashing political interests that are adding up to an embarrassing debacle that could ultimately destroy an irreplaceable link to Ireland's past history - the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland - and an untapped tourist resource. Free article

THE Sinn Féin representative for Dún Laoghaire/ Rathdown, EOIN Ó BROIN, argues that it is time to take on Fianna Fáil and break their stranglehold on 26-County politics. Free article

THE statistics are all there, reams of documents obtained mainly under the Freedom of Information Act because of the reluctance of the NIO and the various statutory agencies in the North to acknowledge that the equality fault line grows wider every day. Free article

I ndiadh an cinneadh is déanaí ón Roinn Oideachas neamhshuim a dhéanamh de phleananna Gaelscoileanna Teo., tionóladh Cruinniú Ginearálta Urghnách in Áth Luain. Tá pobail na Gaeilge mórthimpeall na tíre ar buile leis an bhfreagra a tháinig ón Aire agus ón Roinn le déanaí. Léiríonn sé go bhfuil suim caillte acu go hiomlán (más rud é go raibh sé ann in aon chor) ar chur chun cinn na Gaeilge anseo. Free article

The Running Mate Free article

Cuireann Poblachtaithe fáilte mhór roimh scéalta Fianna Fáil go bhfuil siad ag smaoineamh ar eagrú sa 6 Chontae, is é sin má cheadaíonn an SDLP dóibh. De réir tuairisce san Irish Times fáiltíonn Mark Durcan rompu agus é ag an am céanna ag maíomh gur Poblachtaithe iad an SDLP. Free article

CROSSMAGLEN won their twelfth Armagh county championship in a row last Sunday. I think that is unique, although Lisbellaw won 11 Fermanagh senior hurling titles between 1991 and 2001 and only failed to complete 14 in a row because the competition was suspended in 2002. Probably because no-one wanted to play them. Free article

It won't go away, you know. Yes, it's the award-winning, long-running Bertie story. It played to poor reviews in the Dáil last week, when Fine Gael and Labour frittered away the chance to excoriate the government for its real failures in housing, health, education and regional development, but the media are unable to give it up and move on. Free article

Sunday World Nazi shamrock shocker

‘AER LINGUS NAZI SHOCK’ wasn’t the headline in the Sunday World at the weekend, although it could have been because its “exclusive” two-page feature on a race-hate gang in US prisons had more holes in it than a wind sock at Knock Airport.
Eugene Masterson’s piece reported that the Aryan Brotherhood, the most notorious and murderous of US jail... Free article