The death of Michael Devine
19 August 2026
August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunger strike. The same day that voters in Fermanagh and South Tyrone elected H-Block candidate Owen Carron as an MP. Free article
Republican Youth Congress in Dublin this weekend
28 February 2012
ÓIGE PHOBLACHT COMHDHÁIL / SINN FÉIN REPUBLICAN YOUTH CONGRESS
Ballybough Community Centre, Ballybough Road, Dublin 3 (Close to Croke Park)
Friday 2nd March (registration 4:30pm) and Saturday 3rd March (Start 10am).
Craic, ceoil, debate, discussion and keynote speakers! Full catering and accommodation provided.
For further details please contact:
Donnchadh 086 881 9653 or Free article
Parties unite in call for EU treaty referendum
6 February 2012
CAMPAIGN AGAINST AUSTERITY TREATY LAUNCHED | PEOPLE MUST BE GIVEN THEIR SAY
SINN FÉIN is part of a new broad front campaign recently launched to demand a referendum on the proposed EU austerity treaty otherwise known as the fiscal compact treaty.
Announced on 24 January, the Campaign Against Austerity Treaty (CAAT) includes Sinn Féin, the United Left Alliance parties and the... Free article
United Ireland ‘inevitable’ Martin McGuinness tells packed conference
6 February 2012
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
La Senza women make a stand for all workers
6 February 2012
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
Sectarian attackers leave Catholic youth for dead
6 February 2012
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
A referendum the right thing to do
6 February 2012
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
A dissenting view full of contradictions
6 February 2012
‘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
Gerry McGeough should be freed
6 February 2012
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
Power of Scotland
6 February 2012
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
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