MEDIA SPECULATION has suggested that the British Government is to announce an inquiry into the murder of civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane.

Pat Finucane was shot 14 times in his north Belfast home on February 12th 1989. The attack was claimed by the Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters.

An RUC Special Branch agent and UDA gunman, Ken Barrett, was sentenced to... Free article

THE Labour/Fine Gael Government's Employment Action Plan is just not fit for purpose and doesn't do the job it's supposed to, Sinn Féin Social Protection spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has said.

I acknowledge the commitment in the Jobs Initiative to reinvigorate the National Employment Action Plan. That plan is badly in need of an update as it is no longer fit to activate... Free article

SINN FÉIN TDs have published their Dáil motion to be debated next week during the state visit by Queen Elizabeth pressing her Government to finally acknowledge and co-operate with the all-party Dáil motion passed three years ago urging Whitehall to open its files on the Dublin/Monaghan bombings.

The motion reiterates a previous all-party motion which was passed in July 2008 and... Free article

MAY 5th was not just the day voters in the Six Counties went to the polls – it was the 30th anniversary of the death on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh of IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands, elected Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone.
There was a poignancy of the coincidence of the dates of these events that was keenly felt by republicans and nationalists.
The... Free article

Device aimed at Cairde na hÉireann like bomb sent to Celtic manager

REPUBLICANS in Scotland have been urged to be vigilant after police revealed that a parcel sent through the Post Office and intended for Sinn Féin support group Cairde na hÉireann was a bomb that could have caused “real harm”.
The device was one of a series of five targeting high-profile people in Scotland,... Free article

Big bills for water in the pipeline

FAMILY INCOMES in the 26 Counties are to be hit by an annual €175 bill from the Fine Gael/Labour Government for water regardless of household income.
The charge will be introduced in the next two years.
Both Labour and Fine Gael told voters before the election that they would not bring in domestic water charges. Fine Gael said it would not... Free article

In the whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution

CHE GUEVARA’S second-in-command in the Congo and a veteran fighter at the Bay of Pigs, VÍCTOR DREKE took time out from his visit to Ireland to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion to talk to An Phoblacht’s MARK MOLONEY about his revolutionary journey.

HE GUEVARA wrote of Víctor Dreke in a report to Fidel Castro after the... Free article

Ulster Unionist Party leader taunts ‘Sinn Féin scum’ on live TV Free article

I DON’T pay my TV licence fee. I’d like to argue that it’s a political principle, a decision motivated by the continued presence of Joe Duffy and Katherine Lynch on RTÉ but it’s actually because Roisín and I live in an apartment and the TV licence guy can’t get to us. And we’re cheap.
Occasionally, An Post leaves a polite little card in the mailbox to let us know they were in the... Free article

Electoral growth continues

TWENTY-NINE seats and a 26.9% share of first-preferences were just two of the critical markers for Sinn Féin in the 2011 Assembly election. It is not easy taking the responsibilities of power and it is even more difficult in the face of an ongoing economic crisis yet Sinn Féin’s performance in this election demonstrates a growing trust with the... Free article