A FORMAL COMPLAINT is to be made to Fine Gael Justice Minister Alan Shatter and the Garda Commissioner after Garda detectives took photographs of people attending the Sinn Féin Easter Rising commemoration in Limerick City on Sunday.

Councillor Maurice Quinlivan said:

This commemoration was a perfectly legal and public event organised by the fourth-largest political party in the... Free article

MORE DETAILS of the Hunger Strike 30 Exhibition tour have been released by the National Commemoration Committee covering the remainder of April and the first three weeks in May. They are:-

April 22nd to 24th – Cornmill, Lineside, Dungannon Road, Co. Tyrone

April 25th to 28th – St Aidan’s school, Whiterock Road, Belfast

April 30th – Carnlough Community Centre, Carnlough Village,... Free article

JEFFREY DUDGEON (Unionist TCD Seanad candidate) and Eoin Ó Broin (Sinn Féin NUI Seanad candidate) are holding an evening of discussion on Irish politics, North/South relations and the future of the Seanad.

The debate will take place on Tuesday 19th April at 7pm in the Georgian Suite, Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.

The meeting is open to the public.

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An Phoblacht invites Stephen Collins to reply

Letters to the Editor, The Irish Times

Madam,

I HAVE no idea what went through the minds of those who blew up PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr. Your Political Correspondent, Stephen Collins, thinks the 1916 Rising did (April 16^th). On this basis he wants an ‘honest’ and a 'mature' examination of the Rising that will, if it agrees with... Free article

Sinn Féin to stage alternative events

SINN FÉIN will be organising a number of ‘alternative’ events, including celebrations of republicanism, when the English queen arrives for a four-day state visit to Ireland on May 17th. But the party will not be involved in demonstrations that could be hijacked by elements opposed to the Peace Process or intent on ‘recreational rioting’.Free article

WikiLeaks whistleblower’s treatment raised in Dáil by Sinn Féin

THE Labour Party Foreign Affairs Minister, Eamon Gilmore, has been asked in the Dáil by Sinn Féin Foreign Afafirs spokesperson Pádraig Mac Lochlainn if the Irish Government will raise with the United States authorities concerns about the treatment of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking classified... Free article

Sinn Féin – Shaping a better future for all

BY ROBBIE SMYTH

THE May 5th Assembly and local elections mark a watershed for Sinn Féin’s development as a party.
It is not just that there is an opportunity to improve on the 27 Assembly seats won in 2007 or the 126 councillors elected in the 2005 local elections. Nor is it that the party is on the cusp of becoming the largest... Free article

Sinn Féin to stage alternative events

SINN FÉIN will be organising a number of ‘alternative’ events, including celebrations of republicanism, when the English queen arrives for a four-day state visit to Ireland on May 17th. But the party will not be involved in demonstrations that could be hijacked by elements opposed to the Peace Process or intent on ‘recreational rioting’.
The... Free article

‘We are making huge strides forward’

AHEAD of May’s Assembly elections - and just before the murder of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr, AN PHOBLACHT spoke to Sinn Féin deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness about the Assembly and the all-Ireland institutions past, present and future. A fuller version is posted on the An Phoblacht website.

Ian Paisley Snr has just bowed out of politics... Free article