The death of Michael Devine
19 August 2026
August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunger strike. The same day that voters in Fermanagh and South Tyrone elected H-Block candidate Owen Carron as an MP. Free article
Pull your backside off the chair and get yourself out the door for Martin McGuinness
19 October 2011
WOULDN’T be voting for him,” says Derek to me in The Long Hall bar in Dublin, where we’re having a cheeky afternoon pint and discussing Martin McGuinness’s candidacy. I’m nodding away to him, focused more on attracting the barman’s attention to address an urgent gin shortage.
Derek’s die-hard Labour Party, going back to his grandad’s time. He’d vote for a slab of concrete if it... Free article
Swedish anti-fascist Irish speaking tour
17 October 2011
Anti-Fascist Action Ireland presents...
From Casa Pound to Anders Behring Breivik: Looking at recent developments in European fascism
From black-bloc autonomist nationalists in Germany to 'third millennium fascist' squatters in Italy to suit-wearing Nazis in Sweden, the last twenty years has seen huge developments and shifts in the Neo-fascist scene. No longer can Nazis be simply... Free article
Geraldine Finucane on her meeting with David Cameron in Downing Street
12 October 2011
From the Pat Finucane Centre:
The Finucane family met the British Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State Owen Paterson at 10 Downing Street today to hear the Government’s decision on an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane in Belfast in 1989. The family was asked to come to Downing Street by the Prime Minister following a re-appraisal of the case in order to... Free article
Poll rise for Sinn Féin shows people responding to alternative – Mary Lou
7 October 2011
A NEW Irish Times poll result revealed today shows Sinn Féin support rising to make it the second largest party in the state, second only to Fine Gael. Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary McDonald TD said the result of the Ipsos/MRBI poll shows that many people who voted in the general election for the Government parties — the Labour Party in particular — feel utterly betrayed.
She... Free article
Pat Finucane's family to meet British PM at Downing Street next Tuesday
6 October 2011
MEMBERS of the Finucane family are due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State Owen Paterson at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday 11th October 2011 to discuss the British Government’s position on an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane in Belfast in 1989.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, Geraldine Finucane said:
My family and I have been invited to... Free article
DUBLIN WEST DÁIL BY-ELECTION CANDIDATE | PAUL DONNELLY
6 October 2011
Dublin can make it 15
PAUL DONNELLY is Sinn Féin’s candidate in the Dublin West by-election to be held on October 27th (the same day as the Presidential election) to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fianna Fáil Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.
Currently Chairperson of Dublin Sinn Féin, among Paul’s many accomplishments are being a founding member of the Local Drugs Task... Free article
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