‘TYRONE’S STRUGGLE FOR IRISH FREEDOM’

GERARD MAGEE AND TYRONE SINN FÉIN COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE

BRUNSWICK PRESS, DUBLIN, PRICE £25/€35

‘AN PHOBLACHT’S’ backroom production staff have been working with GERARD MAGEE in helping him to produce ‘Tyrone’s Struggle for Irish Freedom’, a monumental labour of love that has materialised in a full-colour, 230mm x 297mm hard back with... Free article

Campaign Fightback: NO Family Taxes

‘The Universal Social Charge has taken significant money out of take-home pay which has considerably reduced people’s ability to spend locally. The proposed household and water taxes on top of this will push many over the edge’

Paul Donnelly
Dublin Sinn Féin Chairperson

» BY MARK MOLONEY

SINN FÉIN will fight tooth and nail against the... Free article

Uisce faoi Thalamh

‘Móin’ agus ‘múin’ an dá ábhar is mó atá ag tarraingt cainte i gConamara le cúpla seachtain. Tá an pobal dúisithe agus sluaite móra tar éis freastal ar chruinnithe poiblí a bhaineann leis na costais bhreise atá dhá bhagairt ar dhabhachanna séarachais agus leagan amach na ceantair nua speisialta cosanta nó na ‘SPAs’ (Special Areas of Conservation) a thugann... Free article

From Chelsea debutante to the IRA

ROSE DUGDALE came from a wealthy English background and her journey into the Irish republican struggle stems from her inherent interest in the world around her. From her idyllic childhood on a farm in Devon, to her nine-year prison sentence and finally her progression into Sinn Féin, Rose’s contribution to republicanism is being honoured at this... Free article

Power to the People! Direct democracy in action

“POWER TO THE PEOPLE!” cried Wolfie Smith, the 1970s BBC sitcom bedsit revolutionary of the ‘Tooting Popular Front’, to a chuckling but otherwise indifferent audience. But isn’t that what democracy is meant to be about? If the people are to be sovereign, then how do we organise politics to allow that?
Direct democracy is the idea is... Free article

Leonard Peltier: 35 years in prison

AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been held in solitary confinement under oppressively hot conditions since 27th June for minor prison disciplinary violations which his attorney maintains he did not commit.
Peltier, age 66 and in declining health, was held in what he describes as “a steel and concrete box with no... Free article

SIX REPUBLICANS who have given outstanding service to the cause of Irish freedom are being honoured at the 2011 Le Chéile celebration being held around the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis.

ANNIE CAHILL

ANNIE CAHILL was born 10th April 1935 at Whiterock Drive, Belfast. She was one of nine children born to Edward and Ethel Magee.
It was on Bodenstown Sunday in 1953 that Annie first met Joe... Free article

WHEN Declan Kearney rang me to check was he sound to move the Ard Fheis out of Dublin, I gave him the all clear without much thought. Like any right-thinking person I assumed this meant the event would now be moved to Ireland’s first city of Cork, instead of being held to ransom by those sods in 44, who consider it an adventure of epic proportions to travel to the RDS from... Free article

ECONOMICS and the euro crisis are set to dominate agendas across all Brussels institutions, in member state capitals, and in people’s lives right across the continent.
Over the coming months, EU leaders will either continue on the same dire path or face up to the economic and social realities they have so far ignored. Having dealt disastrously with the crisis so far, disregarding... Free article

BHÍ sceitimíní orm, an lá sin, nuair a tháinig mo chárta teachta chugam mar ionadaí thar cheann Chumann Sheán Dolan, Doire Trasna, chuig Ard Fheis Sinn Féin, imeacht mór san fhéilire poblachtach, i dTeach an Ardmhéara i mBaile Átha Cliath siar i Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 1975.
Bhí beirt againn ainmnithe ag an chumann, Tommy McGlinchey, iarchime ar scaoileadh saor ón Cheis Fhada níos... Free article