A QUESTION by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD has led to the discovery that an ex-Fianna Fáil Junior Minister and sitting TD John Browne has been in receipt of an annual pension of almost €11,000 despite not being entitled to it. Free article

BY PEADAR WHELAN

ALTHOUGH it didn’t have the intensity of a Munster Hurling Final, the game in Belfast between a St Teresa’s Select and Kevin Lynch’s Select on Saturday 8th October  in honour of St Teresa’s clubmen and Hunger Strikers Joe McDonnell and Kieran Doherty was a game of great passion and hurling skill.

The game, orgainsed by St Teresa’s to honour their members who... Free article

THIS was a milestone election and I was very honoured to stand for the Presidency of my country and to be a voice for people from Derry to Cork and Wexford to Donegal. I want to thank you for your support and hard work throughout the campaign. We came a strong third in the race, significantly out-polling the lead party in government and had a decisive impact on the campaign.

With... Free article

EU demnds return of funding from two unionist victims groups Free article

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD today (Wednesday) received an answer to a parliamentary question which detailed the amount of pensions paid to former ministers.

The response confirmed that 109 ex-ministers are in receipt of pensions, amounting to an €8.8million payroll every year at taxpayers’ expense.

Thirty of them have pensions over €100,000 a year, including former... Free article

“IT’S THE ECONOMY, stupid” is a phrase used by Bill Clinton to explain why government and politicians were able to maintain themselves in office regardless of their performance on other issues. It is by now a well-worn cliché, particularly by our national broadcast media who are obsessed, it seems, with the importance of the economy at the expense of everything else in society,... Free article

IN AN ACT of international piracy, Israeli forces kidnap the Irish crew of the MV Saoirse 'Irish Ship to Gaza', including a number of Sinn Féin activists as it attempted to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.

MARKING THE END OF THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKE | LEO GREEN AND ROSE DUGDALE

H-Blocks Hunger Strike transformed the struggle

BY IAN McBRIDE

THE END of the H-Block Hunger Strike on October 3rd 1981 was marked in Dublin on October 3rd 2011 by the Dublin South Central ’81 Commemorations Committee in the Ballyfermot Civic Centre with guest speakers former H-Blocks Hunger Striker Leo... Free article