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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

Fine Gael Junior Minister struggles in attempt to undermine Sinn Féin Alternative Budget

9 October 2013

Minister of State at the Office of Public Works, Brian Hayes TD, engages in disinformation campaign in attempt to attack Sinn Féin's fully-costed Alternative Budget proposal Free article

Video: Sinn Féin launch Alternative Budget 2014

8 October 2013

Pearse Doherty speaks to An Phoblacht about Sinn Féin's Alternative Budget Free article

Don’t believe the FG/Labour Government's jobs hype

8 October 2013

Since Fine Gael and Labour took office, employment has risen by a paltry 4,300 per year – at this rate it would take 35 years to return to pre-recession levels of unemployment, says Eoin Ó Broin Free article

The Sinn Féin Budget Alternative – Giving families a break

8 October 2013

Pearse Doherty says ordinary people would be better off under Sinn Féin under a series of taxation and savings measures fully costed by the Government’s Budgetary Costing Unit Free article

Ibrox manager McCoist ‘threatens’ Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines

8 October 2013

Rangers boss’s sinking feeling at Trident missile base in Scotland Free article

London conference: 'Towards A New Ireland – A New Phase of the Peace Process'

8 October 2013

An important opportunity to discuss the next chapter in the Peace Process and the need to move forward to ensure equality and change continue Free article

'Radical Cities: Dublin and Belfast' – Mini-symposium on Labour History

5 October 2013

Friday 25th October at Queen's University Belfast Free article

Video: Sinn Féin Rural Development Minister, MEP and councillor visit Rathlin Island

4 October 2013

Sinn Féin Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development Michelle O'Neill MLA, Martina Anderson MEP and Councillor Cara McShane (Chair of Moyle District Council) visit Rathlin Island, off County Antrim Free article

The Rhythm Of Time, By Bobby Sands

3 October 2013

Today is All-Ireland Poetry Day, coincidentally the anniversary of the day that the 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strike ended. To mark the occasion we are reproducing perhaps the most famous poem to emerge from that titanic struggle between the Irish republican political prisoners and the might of the British prison regime, the British Government and all the powerful forces ranged against them. Free article

‘EU and Ireland cannot stand idly by’ during repression in Basque Country, say Irish parliamentarians

3 October 2013

Raids, arrests and trials by Spanish state are undermining the peace process in the Basque Country, Sinn Féin’s Seán Crowe says as Basque delegation visits Ireland Free article

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