AR MHAITHE le mo chomhleacaithe as Corcaigh, is ar Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann atáim ag trácht ar agus ní haon saghas Fleadh eile! I mbliana bhí seastán Gaoluinne againn i gcomhpháirtíocht le siopa áitiúla Shinn Féin imbaile Cabhán le linn Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. Caithfidh mé a rá gur chuir an cumann áitiúil taispeántais don scoth ar siúl ag díriú ar Mhná Poblachtánacha. Free article

‘TOO MALE, TOO PALE AND TOO STALE’ was the quote often given about political institutions on this island and few could argue with that sentiment.  The majority of politicians in Ireland fall onto the bracket of being middle-aged or older males, but is Sinn Féin changing that perception? Premium service article

IN JUNE of this year, two young Sinn Féin activists, sisters Mary Kate and Mairead Quinn, travelled to the West Bank with the education charity UNIPAL to work with Palestinian children and teach English. Before their departure they talked to An Phoblacht’s PEADAR WHELAN about their hopes and fears for their six-week stay in a country under unrelenting Zionist occupation and military control. Now back in Belfast, Mary Kate spoke again to An Phoblacht, recounting her experiences in the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah. Premium service article

New columnist ‘Chairman Meow’ gets their claws out for some political tit-bits around the house Premium service article

NÍOR CHAS mise ariamh le John Joe McGirl, ach bhí tionchar aige ar mo shaol agus mó ról mar ionadaí poiblí. Sna 1980 aí chuidigh sé leis an rún a thug cead d’ionadaithe tofa Shinn Féin glacadh lena gcuid suíocháin Dála agus Seanaid. Murach é, is dócha nach mbéinn i mo Sheanadóir inniu. Is maith a thuig mé sin nuair a fuair mé cuireadh aitheasc a thabhairt ina onóir ag an gcomóradh ar a shon ina bhaile dúchais, Béal an Átha Móir, le déanaí. Premium service article

Our main priority is to engage with all those young Irish people who have been forced due to economic necessity to emigrate to Australia in their thousands Free article

INSPIRATION comes in many ways. As a teenager growing up in Sinn Féin, it was through Brian Keenan that inspiration came to me. He had an air of legend about him, a man with massive presence and a glowing persistent temperament. For me he personified the age-old Irish struggle for national liberation and reunification. When Brian Keenan spoke, you listened. Not because he was one for using the latest buzzword and not because he spoke as someone at the cutting edge of the struggle ‘to keep the troops happy’. You listened because he had a remarkable talent for imparting knowledge. He was a revolutionary teacher in so many ways. Premium service article

THE CENTRAL BANK has produced yet another a report showing that the Irish banks are unable or unwilling to perform their proper role in the Irish economy — to provide credit to keep viable business functioning. Premium service article