25 February 2010 Edition
Racism and resistance in Australia
25 February 2010
WHEN Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal people in February 2008, hopes were high that this indicated a new approach from the government in its relations with the country's Indigenous people. But Rudd, elected in November 2007 after 11 years of conservative, Thatcherite rule under John Howard, has continued many of his predecessor's policies, which undermine the rights and wellbeing of Australia's Indigenous people. Free article
Another View by Eoin Ó Broin
25 February 2010
Why would anyone support Irish reunification? Why would anyone support the ending of partition and the creation of a 32-county democratic nation-state? Free article
INTERVIEW: Human rights defender Paul Corbit Brown on how reporters are being targeted
25 February 2010
HUMAN RIGHTS activists working in a range of fields across the globe recently came together to attend a conference hosted by the Dublin-based organisation, Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Free article
2010 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis: International Le Chéile Honouree
25 February 2010
The Le Chéile award for International Contribution will this year be a particularly poignant and moving occasion, as it is being awarded to the late Redmond O'Neill, my long-time friend and comrade, who died on 21 October last year after a three-year battle against cancer. Free article
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC
25 February 2010
Eagarthóir Nua Ceaptha agus 500 Síntiúsóir á lorg Free article
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN
25 February 2010
This poetry thing's a piece of cake. I can't believe they gave Heaney a Nobel for it, though even then the Brits tried to claim him, halting and inarticulate as they are in their native teanga. Free article