Scandals we need to remember
12 September 2026
Renowned Irish journalist Frank Connolly exposed some of the biggest scandals that rocked the political establishment and led to tribunals of inquiry and the resignation of at least one Taoiseach. Here Mícheál Mac Donncha interviews him about corruption then and now. Free article
Independent inquiry finds brutal and degrading treatment of republican prisoners
1 October 2020
An independent inquiry has found that the mistreatment of republican prisoners was the consequence of a deliberate policy implemented by the British Government who were fully aware that their policies and practices violated international human rights standards Free article
“Vandalism of our cultural and historical heritage”: 1916 Leader’s Home destroyed overnight
29 September 2020
The home of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, the only 1916 leader to be killed in combat during the Easter Rising, was destroyed early this morning.
At 6:30am on Tuesday morning Derryroe Ltd, a development company owned by the McSharry and Kennedy families, bulldozed 40 Herbert Park, despite Dublin City Councillors voting unanimously to support a motion by Sinn Féin Councillor Mícheál Mac... Free article
Centenary of the burning of Balbriggan
20 September 2020
THE month of September 1920 saw an intensification of war in Ireland with the British Army, regular Royal Irish Constabulary, Black and Tans and Auxiliaries targeting the civilian population in ‘reprisals’ that had the sanction of the British Government. Free article
We are all victims of Partition: 2021 should address reconciliation and Irish Unity - Declan Kearney
16 September 2020
Writing in his latest blog, Sinn Féin MLA Declan Kearney said 2021 should address reconciliation and Irish Unity. Free article
Telling the real story of inequalities accessing third level education
12 September 2020
As CAO offers are considered by tens of thousands of students this weekend Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway Walsh writes on a recent party survey about accessing education Free article
There will be no celebration of partition by nationalists - Michelle O'Neill
10 September 2020
In this article, Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán and Joint Head of Government in the North, Michelle O'Neill has said that nationalists will not be celebrating the anniversary of partition but instead working towards Irish unity. (Article first appeared in the Irish News) Free article
Execution of Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte
6 September 2020
Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte had been tried by a military court under the Offences Against the State Act and met their deaths despite pleas for their lives to Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Eamon de Valera. Free article
Pearse Doherty: This is a big win but we are still waiting for full reform of the insurance industry
3 September 2020
Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty's legislation tackling the unfair practices in the insurance industry became law in 2019. In this piece he writes about the need to further hold the insurance industry to account and ensure fairness for consumers everywhere. Free article
The myth of Saint Jack Lynch demolished
3 September 2020
Book Review by Mícheál Mac Donncha – ‘The Arms Crisis of 1970 – the Plot that Never Was’ by Michael Heney Free article
Decades of activism recalled
24 August 2020
Mícheál Mac Donncha reviews ‘From Lucifer to Lazarus – A Life on the Left’ by Mick O’Reilly. Free article
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