SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams TD and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP met US President Barack Obama when he visited Dublin.

The Irish republican leaders spoke to the President about the current situation in the Middle East and Gerry Adams raised the case of the undocumented Irish in the USA.

Speaking after the visit and the successful College Green event, Gerry... Free article

PAUL MASKEY, Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast, has been selected to run for the Westminster seat of West Belfast in the by-election which has been set for June 9th.

Declaring that he was honoured to have been selected, Paul said:

Last year, Gerry Adams, as MP for West Belfast, took the very courageous step to stand for election in County Louth, with the commitment to challenge... Free article

BY GERRY ADAMS TD

President of Sinn Féin

THE PEACE PROCESS has created the space in which the possibility of a different kind of relationship between the people of this island and between Ireland and Britain has been made possible.

That relationship is still evolving. Nationalists and unionists in the North are engaged in a unique power-sharing and partnership mode of governance –... Free article

GERRY ADAMS says he believes the expression of sincere sympathy in Queen Elizabeth’s speech at Dublin Castle last night for "those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past" is genuine but added:

The import of the Queen of England’s remarks tonight will be judged by the actions of her government in the time ahead.

The Sinn Féin leader said:

I believe that her... Free article

THE INQUEST into the killing by the SAS of Martin McCaughey and Dessie Grew in October 1990 must fully and thoroughly investigate allegations of a shoot-to-kill operation by the SAS, the Supreme Court ruled today.

Solicitors Madden & Finucane described it as “a major victory” for the men’s families.

Madden & Finucane said the case was taken because the PSNI had tried to prevent... Free article

THE NEWLY-ELECTED Sinn Féin MLA for East Antrim, Oliver McMullan, is holdING urgent meetings with the Post Office and the PSNI after a number of bullets were posted to people in the north and east Antrim areas.

As well as receiving a bullet in the post with a card claiming it was from the “Loyalist Action Force”.

Similar threats were sent to figures in the GAA in Larne and... Free article

THE JAILING of Marian Price after British Secretary of State Owen Paterson revoked her licence for release was wrong and she should be freed, Sinn Féin deputy chair of the Justice Committee Raymond McCartney MLA has said.

Price is a vocal opponent of Sinn Féin and the Peace Process but she is still entitled to due process, Sinn Féin insists.

She was on licence from a life sentence... Free article

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WITH the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Ireland due to begin, the Lancashire-born singer, songwriter and performer Steven Patrick Morrissey has written an article for Dublin’s Hot Press, which challenges in trenchant terms the appropriateness of welcoming the British monarch to Ireland.

Morrissey, both of whose parents are Irish, dismisses the four-day visit as part of a new... Free article

BY JAMES CONNOLLY

FELLOW WORKERS!

As you are aware from reading the daily and weekly newspapers, we are about to be blessed with a visit from King George V.

Knowing from previous experience of royal visits, as well as from the coronation orgies of the past few weeks, that the occasion will be utilised to make propaganda on behalf of royalty and aristocracy against the... Free article