Cameron’s proposal is ‘Widgery 2011’ says Seamus Finucane

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

THE British Government has point-blank refused to hold a public inquiry into the UDA assassination of defence lawyer Pat Finucane at home in front of his family in 1989. The killing is engulfed in widespread beliefs that British Government security services, the British Army or the RUC - or all three -... Free article

British Prime Minister is a ‘dishonourable man’

BY PEADAR WHELAN

GERALDINE FINUCANE, widow of assassinated defence lawyer Pat Finucane, has described British Prime Minister David Cameron as a “dishonourable man”.
Addressing a packed and highly-charged press conference on Friday 14th October in Belfast attended by An Phoblacht, she accused Cameron of reneging on a promise to the... Free article

Political ex-prisoners trying to break the chains of the past

Motions passed at the 2011 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis

This Ard Fheis calls for the establishment of an Independent International Truth Commission as part of an effective truth recovery process to address legacy issues related to the past conflict, and for those who contributed to this conflict to engage with this Commission to... Free article

Seán Cronin - IRA strategist, historian and journalist

THE 2011 Annual Feargal O’Hanlon Memorial Lecture was a tribute to the late Seán Cronin, who was the strategist of the IRA’s Operation Harvest – the Border Campaign – as well as a distinguished author, historian and journalist. Seán Cronin died in March of this year in the United States, where he spent much of his life. His... Free article

Palestinian leader speaks to An Phoblacht

ON the historic occasion of the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis held in Belfast in September for the first in its history, An Phoblacht’s PEADAR WHELAN spoke to FADY ABUSIDU of Fatah’s Foreign Relations Commission.
Peadar began by welcoming the London-based representative to the Ard Fheis and expressed how honoured we as republicans were to have a... Free article

Miami Five still fighting for justice 14 years on

BY SIMON McGUINNESS
National Co-ordinator,
Cuba Support Group Ireland

ON OCTOBER 7th, René González, one of the five men known as the Miami Five or Cuban Five, was released from a federal prison in Florida after more than 13 years in prison. The remaining four members of the Miami Five have just begun their 14th year of unjust... Free article

HOSE OF US of a certain vintage and who used to go to dodgy parties with people who had congealed Guinness foam in their beards will recall the sort of sing-songs that Dublin republicans and lefties used to have before they started to go to late-night wine bars and eat tofu.
If there were Stalinists present then you were certain to hear Red Fly the Banners, O! It is one of those... Free article

ONE YEAR AGO, the European Parliament adopted a very clear position on the revision of the Maternity Leave Directive. MEPs voted to increase the minimum period of maternity leave from the current 14 weeks to 20 weeks fully paid and also introduced two weeks’ fully paid leave for fathers.
We sought more, of course, but welcomed the vote at the time as “a boost for mothers and... Free article

CÉ GUR gheall mé cúpla uair go raibh mé chun éirí as an nós, tá mé fós ar Facebook agus ag caitheamh cuid de m’ama luachmhaire gach lá ag féachaint ar cad atá daoine eile ag déanamh (nó ag rá go bhfuil siad ag déanamh) agus ag smaoineamh (nó ag rá go bhfuil siad ag smaoineamh). ‘Sé an rud a bhí ag cur as dom ná na céadta tagairtí do dhaoine ag bailiú ainmhithe agus féir ar... Free article

‘Tadhg Barry Remembered’

» BY TREVOR QUINN
SIPTU, Cork

TADHG BARRY was to have the ominous distinction as one of the last people killed by the British forces in the revolutionary years. Just some three weeks before the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, he was shot through the heart on November 15th by a British sentry at Ballykinlar internment camp in County Down.
Born... Free article