THE Spanish Supreme Court’s decision in a vote of 9-7 to bar new Basque pro-independence party Sortu from contesting May’s local elections has been criticised by Sinn Féin Assembly member Alex Maskey as a backward step and a denial of fundamental democracy.

Sortu has publicly declared that it rejects all political violence but the Supreme Court voted by a narrow majority to accept... Free article

GERRY ADAMS TD has appealed to National University of Ireland graduates in the USA to use their Seanad vote by voting for Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin.

A Chara,

For the first time Irish citizens who live in the US and are graduates of the National University of Ireland, will have an opportunity to vote for Sinn Féin in an Oireachtas election.

This is a unique opportunity to support... Free article

NOT SURE whether this guy did Journalism at DCU or Griffith College but it'd have you tuning in every night to see what happens next on the Six O'Clock News. Makes Vincent Browne and Conor Lenihan seem tame.

THE British Government has issued a formal apology to the family of 12-year-old girl Majella O'Hare shot dead by the British Army in County Armagh 35 years ago.

UTV interviewed still-grieving family members about the move.

In August last year, An Phoblacht’s Peadar Whelan told how a new report by the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team exposed the British Army’s version of events as... Free article

JOIN the Sinn Féin campaign against the Universal Social Charge on YouTube.

THE Dáil will hear a motion on Tuesday by Sinn Féin to abolish the Universal Social Charge, which Mary Lou McDonald has described as a “flawed and unfair” Fianna Fáil policy enforced by Fine Gael and Labour.

The motion will be heard during Private Members’ Time.

Sinn Féin is calling on the Government... Free article

THE British National Party’s sham ‘trade union’, Solidarity, is trying to recruit members from the 6,500 workforce at the Shorts Bombardier aircraft factory in east Belfast.

The drive is being backed by the BNP’s organiser in the Six Counties, Stephen Moore, from Larne.

Searchlight anti-fascist magazine’s Matthew Collins described the BNP-backed Solidarity as “a scab trade... Free article

TAXPAYERS’ MONEY should not be used to bail out gamblers, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD said today as Irish Nationwide made a settlement to bondholders after its buy-back of subordinated debt which is unguaranteed.

Deputy Doherty said that the Stg£29million being pumped into “this defunct institution” could be better used in any number of ways to benefit... Free article

SINN FÉIN'S newly-strengthened Dáil team of 14 TDs travelled to Stormont on Monday 21^st March for a series of meetings with the party's MLAs and Assembly candidates .

The meetings focused on advancing the all-Ireland agenda and mapping out a series of areas of joint work between the Sinn Féin teams in Leinster House and Stormont.

Speaking on the meeting, Fermanagh/South Tyrone... Free article

SIX Ógra Shinn Féin activists will travel to Catalonia this weekend to attend the National Congress of Young Republican Left of Catalonia (JERC), the youth wing of the political party Republican Left of Catalonia.

Earlier this year, young activists from JERC (Joventuts d'Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) attended the Ógra Shinn Féin National Congress in Derry and the two youth... Free article

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has agreed to meet with the Ballymurphy Massacre families after Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams TD raised the issue this morning during Taoiseach’s Questions.

Gerry Adams pointed out that last week the relatives of the 11 civilians shot dead by the British Army's Parachute Regiment in August 1971 in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast gave evidence at a United... Free article