BHUEL, tá sé linn ar deireadh – 2016 – agus is fiú dúinn spleáchadh a thabhairt ar an ród seo romhainn agus na mianta gur mhaith linn a fhéiceáil curtha i gcrích faoi dheireadh na bliana. Is é sin, céard gur mhaith linn a bheith bainte amach faoin am a thagann an Nollaig seo chugainn, a dhéanfadh an saol níos fearr do chuile Éireannach. Free article

The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution. By Dr Fearghal McGarry. Gill & Macmillan Free article

CONFORMITY is a powerful social force. Come January each year, we’re exhorted to make public promises of changes we intend to keep. Media, advertising and even friends or family may all play a part in the annual exhibition of empty gestures known as New Year’s resolutions. Invisibly, imperceptibly, each of us is expected to conform with this tradition. A tradition which apparently goes as far back as the Roman Empire Free article

MICK HALL, the Sinn Féin Organiser for Laois, Offaly and Kildare and a former political prisoner in Portlaoise passed away on Monday 23 November following a short illness. Free article

Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations – Pádraig Pearse Free article