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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

Alex Maskey: First among equals

AS ALEX MASKEY steps down as a councillor after 27 years to focus on his role as an MLA for South Belfast, CAITLÍN NÍ RUNAIDH interviews him about his time on Belfast City Council and his plans for the future.

I MET the unassuming man himself in the glamourous setting of the South Belfast Sinn Féin Office.
On a cold and dreary Sunday afternoon, Alex... Free article

By Bairbre de Brún MEP

IT WAS a real pleasure for me this morning to watch my good friend and colleague Eva-Britt Svensson, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Gender Equality chair a session to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, with European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Irish former President Mary Robinson, and former European ... Free article

National Hunger Strike Exhibition at Belfast's Linen Hall Library.

SDLP LEADER Margaret Ritchie has been accused of sour grapes after saying Sinn Féin “could have done better” than getting 14 TDs elected, up from five.

Ritchie is still smarting that her party has been overtaken by Sinn Féin in the Six Counties and is becoming ineffectual and irrelevant.

Northlands Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry Mac Lochlainn said:

I think it is rich for the... Free article

SINN FÉIN MEP Bairbre de Brún has met Communications Workers' Union Vice-President Cormac Ó Dálaigh and CWU colleague Martina O’Connell in Brussels to discuss the worrying prospect of the privatisation/liberalisation of the postal market.

Bairbre de Brún said:

Experiences across Europe have continually shown that the liberalisation of the postal service has resulted in a... Free article