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Scandals we need to remember

12 September 2026

Renowned Irish journalist Frank Connolly exposed some of the biggest scandals that rocked the political establishment and led to tribunals of inquiry and the resignation of at least one Taoiseach. Here Mícheál Mac Donncha interviews him about corruption then and now. Free article

Francis Hughes and James Connolly – Guerrilla fighters who faced a mighty enemy

18 May 2016

Two legendary revolutionaries honoured in south Derry Free article

Release Dublin & Monaghan bombings files, Irish Foreign Minister and Shankill bomb victim say

17 May 2016

Mayors, politicians and campaigners mark 42nd anniversary of bombings that killed 34 – the greatest loss of life on a single day of the conflict – as third Dáil motion is tabled yet again calling on Westminster to co-operate in the investigation Free article

Dublin & Monaghan bombings 42nd anniversary – British Government must release all its files

17 May 2016

Dáil all-party motions from 2008 and 2011 still to be acted on Free article

Prime Minister Edward Heath signed secret surveillance report linking UVF to attack on Kelly's Bar

16 May 2016

Researchers uncover evidence British Army was watching unionists in bomb and gun attack on pub customers Free article

Brazil in turmoil – An attack on democracy

16 May 2016

President Rousseff – a former Marxist guerrilla who was imprisoned by Brazil’s right-wing dictatorship and tortured in the 1970s – is largely seen as one of the few honest politicians in Brazil and her impeachment is grounded on something entirely different Free article

Belfast republicans remember James Connolly with generational links

16 May 2016

Parade along the Falls Road from Glenalina Terrace – where the Connolly family lived between 1910 and 1913 Free article

The funeral of Francis Hughes – An Phoblacht/Republican News, 16 May 1981

16 May 2016

The British feared Francis Hughes in life and considered him and the emotions he aroused a force to be reckoned with even in death Free article

Wexford Civil War victims of Free State commemorated by families

16 May 2016

Wexford republican prisoners James Parle, John Creane and Patrick Hogan were executed at Wexford Jail by a Free State Army firing squad in 1923 Free article

Will SDLP mimic Ulster Unionists' headline move to Assembly Opposition benches?

13 May 2016

Re-elected Sinn Féin deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness hopes SDLP will stay Free article

Peadar O'Donnell – Died 13 May 1986

13 May 2016

Socialist republican, novelist, journalist and IRA Volunteer Free article

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