THE first annual James Connolly summer school in Ballybough, Dublin, on Saturday saw a day of lively debates and presentations from progressive voices in Irish Left politics including one on ‘The Reconquest of Ireland and Future of the Left’ Free article

Hosted by Peace & Neutrality Alliance, Sinn Féin, Irish Anti-War Movement, Socialist Party, People Before Profit Alliance Free article

Gerry Adams this evening met the family of Chief Prison Officer Brian Stack at Leinster House. Free article

Garda hi-tech computer cannot tell how many good causes are being fleeced of cash by hoods robbing charity clothes bins, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has confessed to Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty Free article

Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh reminds Seanad that the Council of Europe sets out a recommendation of at least 1 refuge place per 10,000 of population ‘and the Government are way off that target’ Free article

The 26-County state is one of only four EU states that continues the practice – water is not fluoridated in the North of Ireland, Scotland, most of England or Wales Free article

THE 32nd anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands was marked in Belfast on Sunday 5 May as dozens of republicans held while-line pickets in his honour. Among those who gathered in Andersonstown near Sinn Féin’s West Belfast office were former Hunger Striker Jackie McMullan and many other republican former prisoners, members of Kieran Doherty’s family, and Paul Maskey, MP for West Belfast. Free article

Anti-republican zealot caught on CCTV shovelling up bundles of a local free paper criticising his boss, Derek Keating TD Free article

Manchester United mastermind says his Glasgow working-class background in a socialist family helped him to be a champion Free article

Family say they are ‘looking for answers and closure and in no way are we seeking any form of revenge’ Free article