CONTROVERSIAL ‘VICTIMS’ CAMPAIGNER TO PROVOKE ANOTHER ‘LOVE ULSTER’ RIOT IN DUBLIN | LOYALIST BANDS AND ORANGE SASHES PLANNED FOR PARADE

» BY MARK MOLONEY

WILLIE FRAZER has claimed he cannot be held responsible if he provokes violence at a demonstration his ‘Love Ulster’ group is planning for Dublin on Easter Saturday. When Frazer tried to lead a loyalist parade through Dublin... Free article

MOTHER OF BASQUE PRISONER FERMIN VILA MITXELENA SPEAKS TO AN PHOBLACHT | FEARS FOR SAFETY, HOPES FOR PEACE PROCESS

FERMIN VILA MITXELENA is a Basque political prisoner currently fighting extradition from Ireland while being held in Maghaberry Prison, just outside Belfast, for the past 18 months.

Speaking in Basque to An Phoblacht in Belfast, his parents told of their experience... Free article

AN PHOBLACHT MEETS TONY DEVLIN OF BRASSNECK THEATRE COMPANY | FROM WORKING WITH STEVEN SPIELBERG AND TOM HANKS TO TOURING WITH HIS H-BLOCKS DRAMA

 » BY PEADAR WHELAN

BRASSNECK Theatre Company was created in April 2007 to address the lack of professional theatre in west Belfast, the company’s main man, Tony Devlin, tells An Phoblacht on Belfast’s Falls Road in a busy... Free article

VOLUNTEER SEÁN PHELAN | 1921 UPTON AMBUSH HERO

MERSEYSIDE POLICE allowed a mob of 300 loyalists, neo-Nazis, British Army veterans and soccer hooligans from ‘Casuals United’ to block a road and threaten people attending the annual commemoration for a Liverpool-born IRA Volunteer killed at the famous Upton Ambush of 1921.

Sinn Féin TD Sandra McLellan was the main speaker at the... Free article

TV Review

BY EOIN Ó MURCHÚ

IT IS a common assumption that the Scandinavian countries offer one of the best solutions to the crises of capitalism and the making of a fairer and more equal society.

A number of recent television dramas, however, have called that assumption into question. BBC Four has broadcast the acclaimed Danish detective series The Killing (which had a US... Free article

» BY SHAUN HANNON

REPUBLICANS in their hundreds gathered throughout the north-west in February to attend a number of events organised marking the 20th anniversary of Volunteer Joe MacManus. Joe, a young man of 21 from a well-known republican family in Sligo, was killed in action on 5 February 1992 when he was fatally wounded in an exchange of fire with a soldier of the British... Free article

More than just a stadium

McATEER’S FIELD was our Colosseum. On the shores of Lough Neagh, this was the home of Creggan Kickhams GAC. Behind the goals at one end was McLarnon’s grocery store. On the far sideline, was a stone tearmann cross, marking the boundary of the ancient monastic settlement at Cranfield connected with St Olcan.

The pitch itself was as untamed as most of the... Free article

The mother of all victories beckons?

BY GERARD MAGEE

THERE COULD BE the mother of all victories for the Northern half of the country in Gaelic games come St Patrick’s Day at GAA HQ.

First up we have the hurlers of Loughgiel up against Coolderry, and following that we have kingpins Crossmaglen taking on Garrycastle in the football final. For both trophies to return to the North... Free article

FERMANAGH FOOTBALLER Mark McGovern, who suffered severe injuries in an off-the-ball incident in the United States, has returned home and met with a Sinn Féin delegation at Assembly Buildings at the invitation of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

Twenty-three-year-old Mark McGovern was put in an induced coma because of the head injuries he sustained in June of last year in... Free article

News snippets from around the Globe.

Brighton Bombing, Part Deux

A BRITISH Labour Party councillor and former deputy leader of Sunderland City Council has been suspended from the party after she was spotted to have “liked” a comment on Facebook calling on the IRA to bomb the next Conservative Party conference.

The comment was posted by a group called “Thatcher doesn’t have to be... Free article