Remembering Thomas McGuigan
22 March 2024
An Phoblacht would have been helpless without its drivers. They delivered the paper all over Ireland in challenging dangerous conditions. Earlier this month we were saddened to learn of the death of Thomas McGuigan, one of these valiant republican road warriors. Free article
Councillor Larry O'Toole nominated by Sinn Féin to be Mayor of Dublin
26 June 2011
THE SINN FÉIN group on Dublin City Council is to nominate group leader Councillor Larry O’Toole for the position of Mayor of Dublin when the City Council holds its Annual Meeting to elect the Mayor on Monday evening.
Sinn Féin Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha called on all groups on the Council to co-operate to elect mayors from each group in rotation for the remaining term... Free article
Amnesty online petition for equal access to quality healthcare
25 June 2011
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL in Ireland has launched an online petition to have the Fine Gael/Labour Party Government ensure everyone has the right to equal access to quality healthcare.
Sinn Féin’s elected representatives have already signed up to the 'Healthcare Guaranteed' campaign and you are being asked to sign the online petition.
The petition says:
Dear Taoiseach, Tánaiste and... Free article
Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh to speak at Saturday’s ‘Uniting Ireland’ event, Cork
24 June 2011
GAA broadcasting legend Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh is among the speakers at the ‘Uniting Ireland – Towards A New Republic’ meeting in Cork on Saturday evening.
Views will be heard not just on the aspiration of a united Ireland but the practical, positive measures needed to achieve reunification and the benefits of an all-Ireland republic.
Other speakers who will be discussing... Free article
Kader Asmal – Sinn Féin tribute to anti-apartheid and human rights activist
23 June 2011
CONDOLENCES have been extended by Gerry Adams TD on behalf of Sinn Féin to the family, friends and comrades of South African former government minister Kader Asmal (76), who died at his home in Cape Town on Wednesday. Kader spent almost 30 years in exile in Ireland during the apartheid regime’s rule and led the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement as well being a civil rights... Free article
TDs from all parties urged to ‘quietly visit’ the Six Counties to see issues
23 June 2011
GERRY ADAMS has urged TDs from all parties to "quietly visit"' the Six Counties after the street violence in east Belfast to meet representative groups and individuals and to see at first-hand the issues.
Earlier, Taoiseach Enda Kenny condemned the street violence in Belfast and told TDs in the Dáil:
This is a situation that obviously demands our serious attention.
I have... Free article
London: European conference ‘Civil liberties, the state and the EU’
21 June 2011
European Conference marking Statewatch's 20th anniversary
Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf
Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html
STATEWATCHING EUROPE
Civil liberties, the state and the EU
European Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary
Saturday 25 June 2011, 10.00 am 17.30 pm
Conway Hall, Red... Free article
The challenges of facing the past
16 June 2011
BY LAURENCE McKEOWN
Laurence McKeown was a republican prisoner for 16 years in Long Kesh and spent 70 days on the 1981 Hunger Strike. He is the author of a doctoral thesis, co-author of the feature film H3 and the plays The Laughter of Our Children and A Cold House.
IN THIS YEAR, the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike, there will be many talks, debates, exhibitions, and... Free article
DEALING WITH THE LEGACY OF CONFLICT
16 June 2011
Independent International truth commission
THE LEGACY OF THE PAST is one of the big issues that remains to be resolved in the outworking of the peace process. This includes the truth about formal and informal collusion and the wider desire of many victims and families for an effective truth recovery process.
Ten years ago, in 2001, the British and Irish Governments committed, at... Free article
From Wolfe Tone to today
16 June 2011
JUNE is the month when republicans honour ‘The Father of Irish Republicanism’, Wolfe Tone, where he is buried in Bodenstown, County Kildare.
Tone’s ideal was:
“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects.
“To unite... Free article
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