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
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
On the canvass with Julia Carney
16 May 2014
Julia Carney swaps her stilettos for sensible shoes and hits the streets Free article
Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty: Courageous and quick-thinking – Commemoration Events
16 May 2014
IRA Volunteer Martin Doherty was shot dead as he saved scores of lives when he foiled a bomb attack by the unionist Ulster Volunteer Force on a function for republican prisoners at the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin’s Pearse Street on 21st May 1994. Free article
Labour Party 'telling lies' about water charges in North
15 May 2014
The Minister under whose watch water charges and water privatisation were blocked says Labour Party lying by claiming there are water charges north of the Border Free article
Prime Minister Cameron’s unionist bias a reminder of John Major’s Irish policy
15 May 2014
Tory predecessor undermined evolving Peace Process, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney reminds Downing Street Free article
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