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

BY MARK MOLONEY

JIM ALLISTER MLA was traditionally ranting and raving this weekend, screaming to the media that an Ógra Shinn Féin youthcamp last weekend was a "Terrorfest".

The well-attended weekend included political debates, lectures, a hunger strike exhibition, a historical tour of south Armagh, a talk on the Basque Country and the National Hunger Strike Commemoration on... Free article

Enda Kenny’s hospital emergency

IF Sunday Business Post reporter Niamh Connolly had erased her old election campaign recordings, it may not have been possible to prove that Enda Kenny gave an unequivocal pledge to the people of Roscommon that Fine Gael in government would keep the accident and emergency services in Roscommon County Hospital. Now he’s safely in power, Enda Kenny... Free article

LOYAL ORDER LEADERS have been urged once again by North Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly to engage in talks with elected representatives and representative community groups around the small number of contentious parades after sustained rioting in Ardoyne and other areas around Orange Order marches on The Twelfth.
The largest outbreak of trouble occurred in Ardoyne in North... Free article