BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA

» BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA

WITHOUT QUESTION, the publishing highlight of the year 2011 for Irish republicans had to be the launch of Ruán O’Donnell’s Special Category – The IRA in English Prisons, which is covered elsewhere in this paper. I was at the launch in Kilmainham Jail and, thinking about it afterwards, it was a landmark event with the testimony of... Free article

IRIS – The Republican Magazine is back with a new look for the New Year.
Pearse Doherty says Sinn Féin’s approach to economics puts people at the centre of the party’s Budget proposals.
Séanna Walsh, a close friend of the late Bobby Sands and the man who read the statement on July 28th 2005 declaring a cessation of the IRA’s armed struggle, writes about the ETA ceasefire and how... Free article

CALLING on EU negotiators to indicate in advance of the UN Climate Change talks in Durban to commit to a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Bairbre de Brún welcomed the European Parliament vote on a resolution on the summit and said any such guarantee needs to be robust “both in its targets and in its legal form”.
Bairbre said:
“Clearly the aim is... Free article

A just society, not just an economy

THERE IS NO DENYING there is an economic crisis affecting the decisions that have to be taken by governments and political parties in power all over the world, and Ireland is no exception. Where Sinn Féin differs dramatically from the conservative coalitions - Fine Gael/Labour in Dublin and the Conservative Party/Liberal Democrats in London -... Free article

Más maith is mithid go bhfuil an ceathrar is mó a bhfuil freagarthacht orthu as an ionsaí suarach leabhalach a rinne RTÉ ar an tAthair Kevin Reynolds ag “seasamh ar leataobh.”
Is díol trua í ag an am céanna gur go drogallach a tarraingíodh RTÉ go dtí an pointe seo, agus gach rud atá déanta ag RTÉ faoin scéal go dtí seo thabharfadh sé le fios nach bhfuil a leithscéal ró-ionraic is... Free article

YOU’D ALMOST feel sorry for the Labour Party. Almost. Individually, they’re not bad people – I’d count a number of them among my friends and there are, hidden here and there within it, a few remaining Labour politicians of genuine conviction and principle
But as a group of people you’d travel a long way to find any to beat them for that sense of arrogant, smug, self-entitlement.... Free article

POPULAR HISTORY and cinema have greatly reinforced the celebrity status of Michael Collins, eclipsing many of the other key figures of the struggle for Irish freedom of his time. The Collins myth has also served to obscure the facts and the issues at stake around the ‘Treaty’ signed 90 years ago this month and the subsequent split and Civil War.
The writings of the respected... Free article

Time for America and Ireland to bypass British obstruction

BY SEÁN PENDER
AOH National Board

» BY SEÁN PENDER
AOH National Board

IRISH-AMERICA welcomes the interest and support of Taoiseach Enda Kenny in seeking justice in the case of Pat Finucane. The disingenuous and disrespectful actions by the British Government towards the Finucane family are well-known by those in the... Free article

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LOW-INCOME UNDER-25s | BUDGET CREATED CATCH 22

BY MARK MOLONEY

» BY MARK MOLONEY

AN INVESTIGATION by An Phoblacht and Sinn Féin’s Oireachtas team into a discriminatory practice by the Health Service Executive (HSE) targeting those under 25 years old has put the Government under pressure to back-track on a policy that has been in place since the last Budget.Free article

Delivering real change in education

NELSON MANDELA once said that education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
It’s a maxim that successive Sinn Féin ministers from Martin McGuinness to Caitríona Ruane and now myself have taken into office with us.
Education is central to the egalitarian ideals of Sinn Féin’s political project. While Ireland’s... Free article