Votes for the Six

SIX Sinn Féin MLAs wearing county jerseys representing each of the Six Counties and holding their Irish passports made a call for Irish citizens in the North to be given the right to vote for the President of Ireland.
Sinn Féin also wants the vote to be given to the Irish Diaspora.
Tyrone MLA Barry McElduff took Fine Gael to task over its unfulfilled pre-election... Free article

Do we want a Seanad?

BY TALLYER

THE POOR OUL’ SEANAD has more arrows hanging out of it than Custer had. No one has a good word to say about it. Most of us have an opinion about the Seanad but how many of us understand how it works or what its purpose is?
Political systems that have two houses are called bicameral, camera being the Latin for chamber (I knew those Latin classes with... Free article

An All-Ireland Economic Area does it make sense?

THE 23rd Desmond Greaves Summer School took place at the Ireland Institute in Dublin over the weekend of September 9th to 11th. Discussion themes included The International Economic Crisis – Making the Periphery Pay; Is Ireland a Democratic Republic?; Ireland and the Eurozone Crisis; and Where is Contemporary Capitalism Going?.Free article

MUCH was being made of the importance of the European Commission President’s annual ‘State of the Union’ address to MEPs on September 28th to the future of the EU. All the kerfuffle ignores the fact that, with every passing week, EU leaders find themselves at least once in “now or never” or “crunch time” meeting, yet none of the so-called crisis summits has produced a solution to... Free article

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IS LÉIR AMACH is amach nach bhfuil Ian Óg Paisley ag foghlaim agus nach bhfuil ‘an coileán mar bhí an cú mór’.
Agus é ag caint le gairid ar The Politics Show (18/09/11), ní raibh aige ach dímheas ar Mháirtín Mhac Aonghusa atá ag dul chun tosaigh le bheith ina Uachtarán orainn. Tá an méid sin féin le moladh — go bhfuil Sinn... Free article

‘Not knowing’ is not good enough

‘SHANNONWATCH’, the human rights group monitoring US military and rendition-linked flights in and out of Shannon Airport and through Irish airspace, has challenged Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore about his turnaround on inspecting suspect aircraft since becoming Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
A New York court has heard in recent... Free article

Arnaldo Otegi sentenced

ARNALDO OTEGI, the former leader of outlawed Basque independence party Batasuna, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after being convicted by a Spain’s National Court of trying to rebuild Batasuna. Four other accused were handed prison sentences ranging from 8 to 10 years; three others were acquitted.
Batasuna was banned in 2003 for alleged links with... Free article

Bid to name new Children’s Hospital after Kathleen Lynn | 1916 hero, suffragette and humanitarian Free article

WITH ALL EYES on the Presidential election, it is interesting to recall an event 35 years ago when a President questioning repressive legislation used against Irish republicans led to him being effectively forced out of office by a Fine Gael/Labour government.
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, a former Chief Justice, became President without an election in 1974 following the death in office... Free article

MÁIRE DRUMM was an inspirational republican leader who came to be widely regarded as the voice of the risen people in the Six Counties in the early 1970s.
While Máire was synonymous with republican Belfast, she was actually a native of Killeen in South Armagh, where she was born in October 1919. She was the eldest of four children in the militant republican McAteer family. Her... Free article