DESCRIBED by some media as “a Who’s Who of Left-leaning Londoners” opposing the Conservative/Lib-Dem Govern-ment’s Budget cuts, the 2011 Progressive London conference on Saturday 19th February was launched by “‘once and future Mayor” Ken Livingstone and heard Sinn Féin Assembly Economy spokesperson Mitchel McLaughlin.
They were joined by over a quarter of London’s Assembly... Free article

MITCHEL McLAUGHLIN has hit back at SDLP criticism of the Assembly Draft Budget, accusing it of being “devoid of imaginative thinking”.
“The only manifestation of the SDLP’s ‘Hokey Cokey’ relationship with the Executive that is visible so far is it is increasingly identified as an ally of the UUP/Tory Party,” Mitchel McLaughlin said.
He added:
“The SDLP’s spokespersons seem to... Free article

IN the late 1980s, the British police and judicial system came under intense national and international scrutiny as the framing of Irish people for offences they did not commit was exposed in the media and in the courts. The best-known of these frame-up victims were the Birmingham Six.
Irishmen Billy Power, Paddy Hill, John Walker, Gerry Hunter, Hugh Callaghan and Richard... Free article

BY DANNY MORRISON

MEN would arrive late at night, on foot or on bicycle. They stayed for a couple of nights, were fed and rested. Someone would come out from Derry and rendezvous with them, bringing them a message of when it was safe to travel.
Among the fugitives were escapees from Crumlin Road Jail, including former IRA Chief of Staff Hugh McAteer. Hugh had been sentenced to... Free article

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Sinn Féin na Mí – 6th Annual Dinner Dance

This years Annual Dinner Dance will take place in the Ardboyne Hotel Navan, County Meath on March 16th 2011. Speaker: Martin Ferris TD. Honouree:  Celine Collins. Táille inteach €35. Music by Setanta. For ticket or more information contact: Eileen Shiels 00 353 86 816 8675

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TWIN PEAKS MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE

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I nDíl Chuimhne

1 March 1983: Volunteer Eddie DYNES, North Armagh Brigade.
3 March 1991: Volunteer Malcolm NUGENT, Volunteer Dwayne O’DONNELL, Volunteer John QUINN, Volunteer Noel WILKINSON, Tyrone Brigade.
4 March 1972: Volunteer Albert KAVANAGH, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion.
6 March 1988: Volunteer Mairéad FARRELL; Volunteer Dan McCANN; Volunteer Seán SAVAGE, GHQ Staff.
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LIVERPOOL’S Irish community has paid tribute to one its sons who fell in the ambush immortalised in the ballad The Lonely Woods of Upton on February 15th 1921.
Seán Phelan hailed from Evelyn Street in the Kirkdale area of the city but travelled to Ireland to take up work as a teacher in Cork. He also became a staff officer in one of the IRA’s most active columns in the Tan War,... Free article

A dedicated Tyrone Volunteer

MICHAEL McGILLIAN passed away on Christmas Day 2010. Michael’s family has asked An Phoblacht to print the oration given at Michael’s funeral by his lifelong friend, Liam McElhinney.

ONCE AGAIN the sad duty falls on me to pay a final tribute to an old comrade and fellow Volunteer of the old Strabane unit, Óglaigh na hÉireann, veteran republican activist... Free article

THE 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strike was the catalyst for Sinn Féin’s electoral success and advancing the republican struggle on an all-Ireland basis, Sinn Féin deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said at the opening of a new exhibition in Belfast’s Linen Hall Library on March 1st on the prison protests.
The event was attended by newly-elected TDs Gerry Adams and Mary Lou... Free article

A chance for democratic solutions: Credibility our first battle

THE pro-independence and socialist Basques have constructed a new political scenario in our country. Despite the sterile attempts to avoid it, today nobody is able to argue seriously, beyond mere political propaganda, that nothing has changed.
Those who are determined to hold to clearly immobile positions cannot... Free article