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IS LÉIR AMACH is amach nach bhfuil Ian Óg Paisley ag foghlaim agus nach bhfuil ‘an coileán mar bhí an cú mór’.
Agus é ag caint le gairid ar The Politics Show (18/09/11), ní raibh aige ach dímheas ar Mháirtín Mhac Aonghusa atá ag dul chun tosaigh le bheith ina Uachtarán orainn. Tá an méid sin féin le moladh — go bhfuil Sinn... Free article

‘Not knowing’ is not good enough

‘SHANNONWATCH’, the human rights group monitoring US military and rendition-linked flights in and out of Shannon Airport and through Irish airspace, has challenged Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore about his turnaround on inspecting suspect aircraft since becoming Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
A New York court has heard in recent... Free article

Arnaldo Otegi sentenced

ARNALDO OTEGI, the former leader of outlawed Basque independence party Batasuna, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after being convicted by a Spain’s National Court of trying to rebuild Batasuna. Four other accused were handed prison sentences ranging from 8 to 10 years; three others were acquitted.
Batasuna was banned in 2003 for alleged links with... Free article

Bid to name new Children’s Hospital after Kathleen Lynn | 1916 hero, suffragette and humanitarian Free article

WITH ALL EYES on the Presidential election, it is interesting to recall an event 35 years ago when a President questioning repressive legislation used against Irish republicans led to him being effectively forced out of office by a Fine Gael/Labour government.
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, a former Chief Justice, became President without an election in 1974 following the death in office... Free article

MÁIRE DRUMM was an inspirational republican leader who came to be widely regarded as the voice of the risen people in the Six Counties in the early 1970s.
While Máire was synonymous with republican Belfast, she was actually a native of Killeen in South Armagh, where she was born in October 1919. She was the eldest of four children in the militant republican McAteer family. Her... Free article

FERMANAGH

Hunger Strike Exhibition
The Louis Leonard Sinn Féin Cumann will host a Hunger Strike Exhibition in St Mary’s Parish Hall in Newtownbutler, on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October. Opening times: Friday 12 noon to 10pm; Saturday 10am to late

I nDíl Chuimhne

1 October 1977: Seán Ó CONAILL, Sinn Féin (Parkhurst Prison)
1 October 1996: Pat McGEOWN, Sinn Féin
2 October 1971: Volunteer Terence McDERMOTT, Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion
2 October 1978: Volunteer Pat HARKIN, Derry Brigade
6 October 1972: Volunteer Daniel McAREAVEY, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
9 October 1976: Noel JENKINSON, Sinn Féin (Leicester Prison)
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BY IAN McBRIDE

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H-BLOCKS Hunger Striker Paddy Quinn, from south Armagh, told the Volunteer Charlie McGlade Commemoration in Dublin that the best monument that could be given to Charlie McGlade, his Hunger Strike comrades and all those who have given their lives for Irish freedom is to build the Republic which they fought and died for. “This can only be given to... Free article

HE ICONIC MEMORY of the Dublin v Kerry 2011 All-Ireland final that will stay with me will not be Stephen Cluxton’s free floating into a seat of blue. Nor even Kevin McMenamon’s eerie recreation of a certain goal in 1977 also involving a Brogan.
Oh, don’t get me wrong! I will never tire of watching that. And even repeated viewings of the game have failed to stop the incredible... Free article