Economic analysts predict internationally that economic recovery will take two or three years. In the North, when discussing possible responses to the economic downturn, politicians have disagreed over whether seeking more fiscal autonomy would be a positive response to the situation. Sinn Féin has sought at every opportunity to press for this option and it is a legitimate argument for consideration. Free article

The Charlie McGlade Cumann in Dublin and the Keating/Sands Cumann in Portlaoise are right. Sinn Féin should declare loudly and unambiguously against coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Free article

Ruth and Danny Churchill are Leinster honourees for the Le Chéile celebration this Saturday. Here they talk to ELLA O'DWYER about a life of community and trade union activism and finding a political home in Sinn Féin. Free article

If you've not been to the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis before, or if you have but can only recall it through a drink-fuelled haze at Le Chéile, some tips for the weekend. Free article

Níl a fhios agam an raibh mórán léitheoirí An Phoblacht i measc na ndaoine a fuair spam le cúpla seachtain anuas ón Uasal Mr Patrick K. W. Chan Aire i Hong Cong ag tairiscint gnó leat ach do mhaoin a aistriú chuige. Tá litreacha spam mar seo beo le blianta - tagann litir nach raibh tú ag súil leis ag lorg airgead nach bhfuil agat a chur i scéim ghnó nach bhfuil ann. De réir tuairiscí bíonn na mílte duine slógtha isteach sna scéimeanna, agus cuireann siad airgead isteach i 'scéim do chreidte' chun brabús a dhéanamh cé nach bhfuil aon seans go ndéanfaí airgead agus gach seans go gcaillfí an t-airgead. Free article

A Clare woman once told me that the only thing that would make her happier than beating Tipperary in the Munster championship would be to turn on the news and hear that the entire population of the county had been abducted by space aliens and transported to the titanium mines of some far distant planet in the Orion constellation. Okay, it was late and we'd both had a lot to drink. Free article

One of the most radical and clear-sighted of the Young Irelanders was Thomas Devin Reilly, who was born in Monaghan town in 1824. Free article