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‘LAOCH AR LÁR’ - ró-mhinic ráite ach i gcás Dháithí Ui hÓgáin do b’fhíor é. Is trua linn mar a bhuail a bhás a theaghlach féin, a ghaolta, a chairde.
Cé gur theagmhaigh ailse leis tá breis agus trí bhliain ó shin bhi sé chomh láidir, chomh dearfach, chomh leanúnach sin go deire gur ar éigin gur ghlac muid go raibh sé i ndáiríre ag saothrú leis sub ombra... Free article

BY MICHAEL BURKE
Independent economic commentator and writer for Socialist Economic Bulletin

JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the DUP won a vote for a motion it tabled in the House of Commons. It is extremely unusual for an opposition party to win a parliamentary vote. But the DUP is not really an opposition party at all and the motion was to congratulate the Tory-led Government on its... Free article

County Monaghan

THE passing in the last months of 2011 of two County Monaghan, lifelong republican activists in their 90s has caused great sadness but has also given rise to great memories shared by their many comrades and friends across north County Monaghan.
The death in mid-September of John McQuaid of Barratitoppy in the Knockatallon area of the county has seen the door... Free article

ANNUAL SEÁN SABHAT COMMEMORATION
Sunday 8th January. Assemble: Bedford Row, Limerick City, at 2:45pm. Speaker to be announced. Organised by Limerick City Sinn Féin.

I nDíl Chuimhne

2 January 1991: Volunteer Patrick SHEEHY, Limerick Brigade.
5 January 1979: Volunteer Frankie DONNELLY, Volunteer Laurence MONTGOMERY, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion.
7 January 1972: Volunteer Danny O’NEILL, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion.
8 January 1992: Volunteer Proinsias Mac AIRT, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion.
10 January 1975: Volunteer John Francis GREEN,... Free article

HISTORICAL ENQUIRIES TEAM | INVESTIGATION DETAILS HANDED TO REPORTERS

BY PEADAR WHELAN

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

THE credibility of the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) is being further eroded by leaks from within the HET to the press about ongoing investigations involving the RUC.
In December, HET investigators leaked information about the 1987 killings of eight IRA Volunteers and a... Free article

DETECTIVES CANNOT BE COMPELLED TO CO-OPERATE | INFORMATION ‘MISSING’

THE Police Ombudsman’s probe into the “deeply flawed” RUC investigation into the double murders of their partners by lovers Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart in Castlerock, County Derry, in 1991 has shown shortcomings in the powers to compel retired police officers to come forward as witnesses, Sinn Féin has... Free article

DANIEL HEGARTY | SHOT DEAD DURING ‘OPERATION MOTORMAN’, 1972

BY PEADAR WHELAN

THE solicitor representing the family of Derry teenager Daniel Hegarty, shot dead by a British soldier during Operation Motorman on 31 July 1972, has accused the killer of lying about the events around Daniel’s death.
Solicitor Des Doherty was speaking after a fresh inquest held in Derry Courthouse... Free article

MIAMI SHOWBAND MASSACRE, 1975 | FAMILIES HIGHLIGHT NEW REPORT

BY MARK MOLONEY

A REPORT by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) into the Miami Showband Massacre has found strong evidence of RUC collusion in the murders by Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers who were also Ulster Volunteer Force members. Notorious loyalist killer Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson, an RUC Special Branch agent... Free article

The Kevin Cardiff School of Economics
KEVIN CARDIFF got a nice Christmas present when he finally landed the job at the European Court of Auditors (salary €276,000 a year) even though he’s the man who headed the Government’s finance division when an accounting blunder resulted in the ‘national debt’ being overstated by €3.6billion and despite the EU’s Budgetary Finance Committee... Free article