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

THE very day that the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission officials descended on Dublin was the day that the National Library of Ireland launched its exhibition ‘Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival’.
I travelled by train from Newry and was pleased to witness the new bilingual emphasis at Newry Railway Station, thanks to Conor Murphy, the Sinn Féin Regional... Free article

Scrabble as Gaeilge

AGUS rudaí i bhfad níos tromchúisí ná caitheamh aimsire ar intinn daoine na laethanta seo is dócha go bhfuil mé ag dul sa seans libh ag scríobh faoi fhiontar úr i saol na Gaeilge le cúpla seachtain anuas: Scrabble as Gaeilge.
Is  é Glór na nGael atá i ndiaidh an chluiche atá aitheanta go hidirnáisiúnta a fhoilsiú don chéad uair i nGaeilge mar chuid dá... Free article

PAT SHEEHAN, a 52-year-old Gaeilgeoir, is a republican former Hunger Striker from the Falls Road in west Belfast. He is the widower of Sinn Féin activist Siobhan O’Hanlon, who passed away from cancer in 2006. Pat is the father of their 11-year-old son.
In 1978, when Pat was 19, he was sentenced to 15 years in jail for IRA activity and entered the H-Blocks in Long Kesh. He... Free article