We must not give up on reconciliation: Hope must be kept alive
4 May 2024
Declan Kearney reflects on the launch of Sinn Féin’s fourth policy contribution to addressing how the scourge of sectarianism is tackled, and reconciliation is achieved in Ireland. Free article
Racist attacks: First Minister Peter Robinson ‘lit the fire’
4 June 2014
First Minister Peter Robinson’s long-overdue apology comes too late after duo forced out of their home by unionist gang Free article
Anti-racist mural hits back in racism row
3 June 2014
MURALISTS Danny Devenny and Marty Lyons meet with some tourists from China and visitors from Wexford who stop to admire their latest contribution to political debate in the North. Free article
Mayor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir’s ‘Duracell term’ ends
3 June 2014
GERRY ADAMS has commended the tremendous work carried by outgoing mayor of Belfast and Sinn Féin Councillor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir as Monday 2 June saw the South Belfast councillor's last day as Mayor in a tenure almost universally praised across the political, social and commercial spectrum as one of energy, commitment, imagination and openness. Free article
4,000 rally at Belfast City Hall to challenge racists
3 June 2014
THOUSANDS of people angry at First Minister Peter Robinson’s support for fundamentalist Christian preacher James McConnell’s anti-Muslim diatribe gathered at Belfast City Hall on Saturday 31 May to ‘Say No to Racism’. Free article
Flashmob goes #ShoppingForPeter
3 June 2014
FIRST MINISTER Peter Robinson’s condescending remarks that he would ‘trust Muslims to go the shops’ was answered by hundreds of people joining a ‘flashmob’ from Tesco’s to the Castlecourt Shopping Centre on Belfast’s Royal Avenue on the Saturday afternoon of the City Hall anti-racism rally. Free article
Video – Dublin pub bomb hero Martin 'Doco' Doherty remembered 20 years on
1 June 2014
Hundreds of people take part in a commemoration to remember IRA Volunteer Martin 'Doco' Doherty who died stopping a UVF gang from bombing the Widow Scallans pub on Pearse Street, Dublin Free article
After the elections – New questions and decisions for political unionism
29 May 2014
If political unionism, and especially the DUP, is prepared to move forward, progress can be made, says Sinn Féin National Chair Declan Kearney in the wake of the election results Free article
‘Crime Control’ security deployed as pickets on at Kerry Foods
22 May 2014
Union accuses management of ‘very heavy-handed tactics’ in stand-off at Wicklow plant Free article
Raymond and Patsy remembered
22 May 2014
The 33rd anniversary of the deaths on hunger strike of South Armagh IRA Volunteer Raymond McCreesh and Derry INLA Volunteer Patsy O'Hara was marked on the Andersonstown Road, West Belfast, on Wednesday 21 May. Free article
A new direction for Ireland and EU institutions is needed
20 May 2014
On Thursday and Friday, voters can influence the future debate required about Ireland’s relationship with the European Union Free article
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