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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE AGREEMENT reached between prisoners and the prison administration at Maghaberry last August should be implemented in full as a matter of urgency, Raymond McCartney, the Sinn Féin Vice-Chair of the Assembly Justice Committee has told An Phoblacht.
Speaking to An Phoblacht just before we went to press, the Foyle MLA said:
“There are continuing concerns about the treatment of... Free article