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

Nightmare legacy of the Celtic Tiger

BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA
SINN FÉIN DUBLIN CITY COUNCILLOR

AS WE approach the centenary of the 1913 Lock-Out, we might have hoped that the sight of families being moved out of their homes because they were living in dangerous buildings was a thing of the past. But memories of the crumbling tenements of Dublin have been revived as scores of... Free article

Nelson McCausland - ‘Minister for Evictions’

LAURA FRIEL

» BY LAURA FRIEL

NELSON McCAUSLAND is in danger of becoming “the Minister for Evictions”, according to the Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing, Fra McCann.  The West Belfast MLA was speaking after the DUP, backed by the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party defeated a “Prayer of Annulment” motion by Sinn Féin in the... Free article

ON NOVEMBER 2nd, the Fine Gael/Labour Government handed over €711million of taxpayers’ money to an unguaranteed bondholder in the toxic Anglo Irish bank.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD raised the issue in the Dáil well before the deed was done. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his advisers signed off last month on a 50% cut on debt for Greece. Gerry Adams said then:
“The Government is... Free article