1 December 2005 Edition

Challenge to DUP at Edentubber

1 December 2005

A large crowd marked the 48th anniversary of the deaths of IRA Volunteers George Keegan, Paddy Parle, Paul Smith, Oliver Craven and Micheal Watters at a commemoration ceremony in North Louth on Sunday 13 November. Free article

Mount Vernon UVF agent behind North Belfast killings

1 December 2005

North Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly has called on the Police Ombudsman's office to investigate allegations of collusion between the PSNI's Special Branch and unionist paramilitaries based in the Mount Vernon area of North Belfast. Free article

Hundreds gather to remember Connie

1 December 2005

Hundreds of republicans, mainly from Counties Monaghan and Derry, but also from other parts of the island, travelled to Carrickroe in North Monaghan on Sunday last to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Connie Green. Free article

Big names for Mellowes' Weekend in Wexford

1 December 2005

This year sees the launch of the Liam Mellowes' Commemorative Weekend which seeks to celebrate the life and ideas of one of the great Irish Republican Socialist figures of the 20th Century. Free article

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Fógraí bháis - Aidan Collier

1 December 2005

On Saturday November 5 Drogheda Sinn Féin lost one of its stalwart members when its long-standing treasurer Aidan Collier passed away after a short illness. Free article

Mary Burke

1 December 2005

Mary Burke, mother of Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor Christy Burke, passed away in Dublin's Mater Hospital on 21 November. She had been on a life-support machine in the hospital's intensive care unit prior to her death. Free article

Mallow commemorates Andy O'Sullivan

1 December 2005

Andy O Sullivan, one of 22 republican prisoners to die on hunger strike in the last century, was commemorated in Mallow, County Cork last Sunday 27 November. In 1922 the Free State Government interned large numbers of republicans. Most were held in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. Free article


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