THE WIFE of Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan has thanked on behalf of her husband the countless numbers of people in Ireland and across the world who highlighted his 66-day fast against being held hostage by the Israeli state.

The 33-year-old baker was arrested by Israeli troops in the West Bank on 17 December and given a four-month “administrative detention” order by a... Free article

ONE YEAR SINCE THE DÁIL GENERAL ELECTION

“ON 25TH FEBRUARY, a democratic revolution took place in Ireland.” These were the opening words of the 2011 Fine Gael/Labour Programme for Government. So how has it been for you, what with Enda Kenny’s Obamaisms, report cards for ministers, continuing billion-euro bail-outs for bank bond holders, more cutbacks, failed referendums and... Free article

13 BELFAST LOYALISTS WALK FREE AS ‘SUPERGRASS’ CASE COLLAPSES

 » BY PEADAR WHELAN

THE North’s judicial system and its use of the discredited ‘supergrass’ and Diplock court system is again under the spotlight after a judge acquitted 13 loyalists following a 71-day trial costing £10million.

The north Belfast loyalists — who faced charges ranging from the assassination of UDA... Free article

EX-RUC OFFICERS WITH ‘PATTEN PAYMENTS’ NOW BACK ON DUTY AND NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO POLICE OMBUDSMAN FOR PAST WRONGDOING

BY GERRY KELLY
Sinn Féin MLA and spokesperson on Policing & Justice

FIVE YEARS AGO, in January 2007, Sinn Féin members overwhelmingly affirmed our Ard Chomhairle’s recommendation to participate in the Policing Board and District Policing Partnerships (DPPs). The... Free article

1992: TEN KILLED, MANY WOUNDED BY RUC POLICEMAN AND LOYALISTS IN SEVEN DAYS | NEW EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

THE FIRST WEEKEND in February 2012 saw nationalists across Belfast gathering to remember family members and friends who were killed 20 years ago in a frenzy of anti-nationalist bloodletting.

In a spate of killings carried out over a seven-day period, between... Free article

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MEPs from the European United Left / Nordic Green Left group have been to Greece to meet and show solidarity with representatives of social movements, workers’ organisations, civil society and political parties opposing the harsh austerity measures being forced on Greek people. The delegation comes... Free article

FINE GAEL TD Paul Kehoe shut up shop early and fled his Wexford constituency office on Saturday 18 February when dozens of people turned up to ask him to hand back to taxpayers the €17,000 ‘bonus payment’ he gets on top of his TD’s and minister of state’s salary of €130,000 for being Government Chief Whip.

Enniscorthy Sinn Féin Councillor Johnny Mythen said:

“People are asking how... Free article

Sinn Féin i mbun straitéis nua chun borradh a chuir faoi saol agus pobal na tuaithe

LE TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH

TÁ STRAITÉIS nua beartaithe ag Sinn Féin chun aird níos mó a tharraingt ar ghnóthaí tuaithe agus chun dul i gcomhairle leo siúd a fheidhmíonn sa réimse seo maraon le baill an pháirtí, chun polasaí, ciallmhar cuimsitheach a fhorbairt agus a chuir i bhfeidhm. Déanfar seo tré... Free article

Remembering the Past

By Mícheál Mac Donncha

PÁDRAIG Mac PIARAIS (PH Pearse) grew up in a comfortable middle-class family in Dublin but one which influenced the revolutionary direction of his politics. From an aunt in County Meath he heard stories and songs of Irish nationalism, 1798 and the Fenians. His father, an English sculptor, was radical in politics. And the young man... Free article

» LE EOIN Ó MURCHÚ

MÁ TÁ urlabhraithe de chuid Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre go mór chun tosaigh ag labhairt ar son ionsaithe ar lucht dífhostaíochta is eile, ní féidir dearmad a dhéanamh den eileafant taobh thiar - aos óg Fhine Gael.

Mar de réir mar a léiríonn páírtí Éamon Gilmore nach aon bhaol iad do lucht na pribhléide in Éirinn, tá na Léintí Gorma óga i ndiaidh éileamh fíochmhar a... Free article