DERRY UNITING IRELAND RALLY | MILLENNIUM FORUM PACKED TO RAFTERS

BY PEADAR WHELAN

A massive crowd packs into Derry’s Millennium Forum for the Uniting Ireland conference

“WELCOME to Londonderry, Basil”, replied Martin McGuinness to Ulster Unionist MLA Basil McCrea’s challenge as the latest in Sinn Féin’s series of Uniting Ireland conferences got underway in Derry on... Free article

OCCUPATION SPOKESPERSON TALKS TO AN PHOBLACHT | SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH FROM SO MANY PEOPLE

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald talks to La Senza staff members Tara Keane

ON MONDAY 9 JANUARY 2011, a group of women workers from the La Senza lingerie chain occupied the company’s store in Liffey Valley, Clondalkin, west Dublin, after the company had sacked them and withheld their... Free article

LOYALIST MOB CHASES TEEN THROUGH HOUSE AFTER FILM CREW CAR SMASHED UP

18-year-old James Turley was working as an extra on the film ‘The Good Man’ when he was attacked

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

JAMES TURLEY thought he would die at the hands of the sectarian gang that attacked him as he worked as a film extra in the loyalist Village area of South Belfast.

The 18-year-old... Free article

TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY insists that he is not afraid to hold a referendum on the EU austerity treaty, what Brussels calls the fiscal compact.
If Enda Kenny is truly not afraid then he should allow a referendum, whether the Attorney General thinks it is necessary or not.
Pearse Doherty has reminded people that the Attorney General told the last government it did not have to hold the... Free article

‘THE PROVISIONAL IRA: FROM INSURRECTION TO PARLIAMENT’ (PLUTO PRESS), BY TOMMY McKEARNEY

REVIEW BY DANNY MORRISON

TOMMY McKEARNEY is probably the most articulate of all those activists who left the mainstream Republican Movement. He is deeply committed, thoughtful, without bile or bitterness — more a dissenter than a dissident (to use that unfortunate, pejorative word which... Free article

SINN FÉIN STATEMENT ON CONTROVERSIAL CASE |  WESTON PARK AGREEMENT WAS BROKEN BY BRITISH

BY GERRY KELLY MLA

Sinn Féin Assembly spokesperson on Policing & Justice

WHEN Gerry McGeough was first arrested in March 2007, Sinn Féin called for his immediate release. We believed then, as we believe now, that he should not have been arrested and charged and that he should not have been... Free article

THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM | A QUESTION OF FREEDOM

BY MARY STEPHENS IN GLASGOW

Alex Salmond, SNP leader

THE issue of a referendum over Scottish independence has fired a debate not just the length and breadth of Scotland but right through the Westminster Parliament and beyond.

The prospect of a poll follows the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011, which saw... Free article

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN LONDON’S METROPLITAN POLICE | INSTITUTIONAL SECTARIANISM IN THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

Stephen Lawrence and Robert Hamill

AFTER nearly 19 years of campaigning, the family of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, stabbed to death in an attack by a gang of racist white youths in south London in 1993, have, at long last, won some... Free article

CHAOS MARKS SWITCH FOR RUBBISH COLLECTIONS | BIG CHANGES FACE HOUSEHOLDS

BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA, DUBLIN SINN FÉIN COUNCILLOR

THE DOMINANT Fine Gael and Labour groups on Dublin City Council cannot wash their hands of the debacle of bin privatisation in the city as their parties in Government are following a privatisation agenda.
There was widespread disruption and confusion... Free article

Remembering the Past

BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA

IN IRELAND and throughout the world, the British Army’s murders in Derry on Bloody Sunday 1972 brought condemnation of the British Government on a scale not seen since the ravages of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries in Ireland 50 years earlier. However, in Britain itself the British Government was shielded from the worst of the... Free article