Tralee, County Kerry

AR AN Luan, 18 Aibreán, fuair Brendan ‘Brendie’ Bonn, Baile Mhic Uileagóid, Trá Lí bás.  Rugadh ‘Brendie’ i Londain ach tháinig sé abhaile nuair a bhí sé dhá bhliain d’aois.
Bhí suim láidir i gcúrsaí polaitiúla agus i gcursaí poblachtánacha aige agus d’oibrigh sé go dian dícheallach ar son na Poblachta.
Republicans from Kerry and beyond were saddened to learn... Free article

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Brian Keenan Annual Mountain Challenge
This years challenge takes place at 11am Saturday 27th August. Starting at the Flagstaff, outside Nerwy and finishing in Carlingford followed by food, ceol agus craic.  Sponsorship €100/£100 per person. For details: Jane (+ 353) 87 141 2768.

I nDíl Chuimhne

1 August  1981: Volunteer Kevin LYNCH (INLA), Long Kesh
2 August 1981: Volunteer Kieran DOHERTY, Long Kesh
3 August 1972: Volunteer  Robert McCRUDDEN, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
3 August 1974: Volunteer Martin SKILLEN, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
4 August 1985: Volunteer Tony CAMPBELL,  Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
6 August 1985: Volunteer Charles... Free article

A LARGE NUMBER of republicans from Strabane and Lifford gathered at midday on Saturday 16th July at the unveiling of a new memorial plaque to mark the 39th anniversary of the death of Fianna Éireann member Tobias Molloy, killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army at the ‘Camel’s Hump’ checkpoint on 16th July 1972.
In a ceremony jointly organised by Ógra Shinn Féin and... Free article

REPUBLICANS from across Ireland gathered in Balgriffin Cemetery in north Dublin on Saturday 16th July to remember IRA Volunteer Patrick Cannon (20), from Edenmore in Raheny, who died in a premature explosion on the Donegal/Tyrone border along with his comrade Volunteer Peter McElcar (19) on 17th July 1976.
Pat’s nephew, Conor O’Moore, read the Dublin Brigade Roll of Honour and... Free article

LE CHÉILE, the event at which people’s contribution to the struggle for Irish freedom is honoured by the republican family, takes place in the Europa Hotel, Belfast, on Saturday 10th September, the weekend of the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in the city for the very first time.
A special brochure containing profiles of the six honourees and messages of support and solidarity from their... Free article

Cavan/Monaghan pays tribute to Kieran Doherty TD

THE 30th anniversary Kieran Doherty TD Commemoration was held in Cavan Town on Sunday 31st July by Cavan Sinn Féin Comhairle Ceantair.
Colour parties, bands, elected representatives and supporters made their way through Main Street, College Street and around to the monument at Cavan Courthouse where the Kieran Doherty Sinn Féin... Free article

BBC broadcaster Mark Sidebottom is presented with the Edward Carson Trophy, named after the unionist icon who was a keen hurler, by Francie Molloy

THERE IS a scene in the ‘Michael Collins’ film where Liam Neeson is pacing a darkened room in brooding silence. Julia Roberts, as Kitty Kiernan, senses that something is up and says to him, “You’ve sent your boys out tonight, haven’t you?”
There were several of us of a similar demeanour at my sister’s wedding in Tullamore last Saturday as 7 o’clock approached and we realised that... Free article

Man shot in back by British Army was ‘innocent’

FOUR DECADES to the day an unarmed Belfast man was shot in the back and killed by the British Army in 1971, the Historical Enquiries Team declared he was “innocent” of any wrongdoing. The British Army had consistently argued that Billy McKavanagh was an armed IRA activist.
British soldiers came upon the 21-year-old Markets man... Free article