Sinn Féin warned about Government’s ‘boom and bust’ policies years ago

BRIAN LENIHAN, Fianna Fáil Finance Minister, has enraged countless thousands of people with his claim in an interview with RTÉ TV’s Prime Time programme: “Let’s be fair about this - we all partied.”
This is part of the Establishment narrative that we are all really to blame for the economic crisis because... Free article

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

g BY LAURA FRIEL

NORTH AND SOUTH, jobless and waged, the ordinary people of Ireland are under attack.
In the North. Britain’s Tory-led coalition is attempting to lower wage levels by criminalising unemployment.
Meanwhile, the South is facing wholesale pauperisation as the bankrupt Fianna Fáil administration capitulates to... Free article

Anois ar theacht an tSamraidh

BY GERRY ADAMS MP
At the count centre in Stranorlar

SENATOR Pearse Doherty is about to be declared the new Teachta Dála for Donegal South-West.
Everybody here knows that.
But before it becomes a reality the votes have to be counted. The place is buzzing. Over a hundred members of the media - some say as many as 153 - including many international... Free article

Sinn Féin win signals potential of coming general election

BY ROBBIE SMYTH

“WE asked people to stand up for Donegal. We asked people to stand up for Ireland. We asked them to vote against the cuts coming down in the budget, the bail-out from the IMF, and the four year plan.” This was new Sinn Féin TD for Donegal South-West Pearse Doherty speaking before entering the count... Free article

The struggle for change is all about small battles and clear objectives

IT WAS the Sunday just after the Donegal South-West by-election when Gerry Adams completed the interview he’d started two days previously, on the day of the count. An Phoblacht had to give way to other pressing engagements in Gerry’s hectic schedule. He took up the interview with JOHN HEDGES early on Sunday... Free article

LE MÁIRTÍN Mac EOIN

TÁ na meáin, idir clóite is craolta, plúdaithe le seachtainí anuas le plé faoin géarchéim eacnamaíochta is airgeadais.  Baineann an chuid is mó de le freagathacht Fhianna Fáil as an ngéarchéim, agus tá sé sin tuillte.
Ach tá eileafant sa seomra nach bhfuil cead a lua: sé sin freagarthacht na hEorpa as an bhfadb.
Tá sé soiléir gur thug na bainc an iomad ar... Free article

A straight-up challenge to the stultified politics in this state

THE political establishment have a real talent for getting things wrong.
Take the issue of sovereignty.
In successive debates on EU treaties the ‘enlightened’ politicians comprehensively dismissed the value of managing our own affairs as a backward notion.
They have their answer now.
The EU and IMF are in town to... Free article

British response to 1980 Hunger Strike made the 1981 Hunger Strike a certainty

BY PEADAR WHELAN

RAYMOND McCARTNEY from Derry City was one of the seven republican prisoners to embark on hunger strike in 1980.
At that point, October 1980, the prison protest in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh had been in progress since 1976, which meant that some prisoners had been engaged in protest... Free article

Showing political leadership

BY SAM BAKER
Chairperson, West Belfast Sinn Féin

ON behalf of West Belfast Sinn Féin I would like to pay tribute to the work Gerry Adams has done in representing this constituency. The enormous contribution that Gerry has made towards advancing the rights of the west Belfast community - and advancing Irish republicanism - over more than four... Free article

Gerry Adams declares for Louth

GERRY ADAMS announced his decision to put his name forward for the Sinn Féin nomination for the Louth constituency at the next general election as part of his address at the Edentubber Commemoration in County Louth on November 14th.
This is what Gerry said in a dramatic initiative by Sinn Féin as an all-Ireland party facing up to the challenges of... Free article