Irish Times corrected on burial of hunger striker Frank Stagg
29 March 2024
A serious inaccuracy in the Irish Times concerning the burial of Frank Stagg has been corrected by Danny Morrison. In its obituary of Frank’s brother the late Emmet Stagg, former Labour Party TD, the newspaper omitted the hijacking and burial of Frank’s body by the Fine Gael/Labour government and gave the wrong location for that first burial. Free article
POLITICAL CRISIS IN THE SOUTH | THE FALL OF THE FIANNA FÁIL/GREEN PARTY GOVERNMENT
27 January 2011
Sinn Féin emerges strong from winter of turmoil
BY MÍCHEÁL
Mac DONNCHA
THE winter of 2011 has been an incredible time in Irish politics. Central to all these events - both in helping to finally topple the Fianna Fáil/Green Government and in exposing the Fine Gael/Labour Consensus for Cuts - has been Sinn Féin.
The amazing sequence of events began with the victory of Sinn... Free article
CÚIGE ULADH AGM | SINN FÉIN ASSEMBLY LEADER’S CALL TO ACTION
27 January 2011
We are the drivers for change across the island of Ireland
SINN FÉIN Assembly leader John O’Dowd issued a rallying call to republicans across the island when he addressed the Cúige Uladh AGM in Toomebridge on Saturday 22nd January.
The task for republicans, John O’Dowd said, is to go out to work harder than we ever have to take a major step on the road to the Republic and... Free article
The Mary Lou McDonald Column
27 January 2011
Winning people’s confidence
EVEN the most seasoned political observers were stunned by the political fiasco that has unfolded over the past weeks. The Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government imploded. An Taoiseach Brian Cowen stepped aside as leader of Fianna Fáil as part of an eleventh-hour political makeover in advance of the general election.
The Greens relocated to the Opposition... Free article
Make A Stand – There is a Better Way
27 January 2011
I DON’T NEED to tell An Phoblacht readers that these are dramatic times we are living in.
Politics is a rough trade. I’m sure Brian Cowen’s family are feeling sore and on a personal level I empathise with them and him - and with the hundreds of thousands of other families who have been impoverished and traumatised by this bad government.
The Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government... Free article
PAT FINUCANE MURDER INQUIRY | DECISION DELAYED
27 January 2011
Family insists independent probe the way forward
SEAMUS FINUCANE, the brother of assassinated solicitor Pat Finucane, has reiterated the family’s demands for an independent inquiry into the events surrounding Pat’s murder in February 1989.
Seamus Finucane was speaking after it was disclosed that the British Government is to take a further two months to decide whether or not there... Free article
Unite trade union says Left government can be formed with Sinn Féin
27 January 2011
THE Unite trade union has urged people to vote to elect a left-wing government for the first time in Irish history. The union, the second largest in the state and a Labour Party affiliate, has also called on Labour to go into coalition with Sinn Féin and other Left parties and “progressive Independents” to make this happen.
“A vote for Fine Gael is a vote for more Fianna Fáil... Free article
Tá an tIarthar Dúisithe!
27 January 2011
LE TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH
TÁ RUD éigin iontach speisialta ag tarlú i nGaillimh ó thaobh Sinn Féin di. Le roinnt blianta bhí muid beagán trína chéile agus ní raibh an páirtí chomh haontaithe agus a d’fhéadfadh sé a bheith.
D’athraigh sé sin ar an Luan seo caite nuair a bhí coinbhinsiún ar siúl le hiarrthóir a roghnú do Ghaillimh Thiar san olltoghchán. Bhí slua mór millteach i... Free article
BLOODY SUNDAY COMMEMORATION | THE LAST MARCH
27 January 2011
The truth has been brought home at last
THE 39th anniversary of Bloody Sunday takes place in an unprecedented atmosphere of celebration marking the successful culmination of a long and arduous campaign for truth and justice. Against all the odds, ordinary people have wrested an outstanding moral and legal victory over a state that murdered peaceful protesters and then told the... Free article
OPINION | SINN FÉIN MLA JENNIFER McCANN
27 January 2011
Budget aims to counter blow from Tory-led British Government
THE Assembly’s draft Budget released for public consultation on December 15th contains several measures aimed at countering the severe economic blow inflicted by the British Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition government.
In its October Comprehensive Spending Review, the British Government announced not only massive cuts... Free article
Finance & Famine . . . Why Ireland is ‘hungry’ for change
27 January 2011
Finance & Famine
“I DON’T KNOW WHY, they must have just liked potatoes.” Speaking of what is known here as ‘The Great Hunger’ and elsewhere less accurately as ‘The Irish Famine’, a tour-guide expressed ignorant bewilderment.
Along with others, my daughter and I were in England on ‘The Shakespeare Trail’ and I can’t even remember why the potato blight came up. Aoife... Free article
Page 417 of 478
Follow us on Facebook
An Phoblacht on Twitter
Uncomfortable Conversations
An initiative for dialogue
for reconciliation
— — — — — — —
Contributions from key figures in the churches, academia and wider civic society as well as senior republican figures