Irish republicans and the fight for the Spanish Republic

"WE pay tribute today to the memory of the some 70 Irishmen who as members of the International Brigades gave their lives with comrades from across the world in defence of the Spanish Republic over the years - 1936 to 1939
We remember in particular Charlie Donnelly from our neighbouring County Tyrone who died in the... Free article

PETER ROBINSON’S speech at the installation of the Mayor of Castlereagh last month about Catholic schools in the North receiving state funding - which the First Minister described as “a benign form of apartheid” - was really “little more than a thinly-disguised sectarian attack on Catholic education, parents and children”,  Sinn Féin Assembly member John O’Dowd has said.
Peter... Free article

A CROWD of over 500 people attending a vigil in West Belfast on Thursday night, October 21st, supported calls for more action to tackle the rising tide of suicides throughout the city.
In the previous week, four young men had died by suicide in the greater west Belfast area, highlighting the crisis facing communities trying to come to grips with what is being seen as an epidemic.Free article

‘A Fianna Fáil merger with Fine Gael makes sense,’ says grandson of FF founder

A FIANNA FÁIL TD has admitted on Twitter that the public sees no difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and it makes sense to him that the two should merge.
Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews later added to RTÉ that there was little difference between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Eamon Gilmore’s... Free article

Wednesday 20^th October

ON our second morning in Santiago de Cuba we began the day with a visit to Moncada Barracks. This was the location of the first action of Fidel Castro’s revolution and it was at this site on 26^th July 1963 that young men from all over Cuba were shot dead by the Batista Government. It was also the site of torture of many of the revolutionaries. The museum... Free article

MARTIN McGUINNESS will be the main speaker at this year’s Kilmichael Commemoration in County Cork which will be held on November 28th, the exact anniversary of the famous ambush led by Tom Barry.  The joint First Minister has been invited to address what will be the 90th anniversary of the historic battle.
This is one of the largest-attended commemorations in Ireland, reflecting... Free article

THE Annual Manchester Martyrs Commemoration Weekend, which takes place this year from November 26th to 28th, has become an important date in the calendar for republicans in west Cork and further afield.
The local Sinn Féin Commandant Charlie Hurley Sinn Féin Cumann, Bandon, revived the commemoration a few years back and it has grown from strength to strength since, attracting... Free article

g  BY PEADAR WHELAN

HUNDREDS of nationalists imprisoned by the British Government during the years of internment without trial between 1971 and 1975 may yet get their day in court.
A campaign spearheaded by Coiste na nIarchimí, the republican ex-prisoners’ support network, is trying to get the British Government into court to answer for the wrongs inflicted on the more than... Free article

FIRST OFF, let’s get the health warning out of the way.
Joe Duffy as a broadcaster is an immense talent. In another, better world, Tubbers would be just a Gerry Ryan radio jock clone and Duffy would be anchoring The Late Late Show. Duffy would have remembered that he was once a student radical and would have turned his innate grasp of populist outrage at any number of targets and... Free article

MÁ luaitear an Ghaeilge mar phríomhtheanga an stáit i mBunreacht na Sé Chontaetha Fichead, tá’s againn nach mar sin atá in aigne an lucht rachmais.  Dóibhsean is bac í an Ghaeilge ar bhóthar an Eorpachais, agus is cur amú aon airgead a chaitear leí.
Orthu siúd is mó a léiríonn dímheas don Ghaeilge tá Ed Walsh, iar-uachtarán Ollscoil Luimnigh, agus, dar leis féin, intleachtóir... Free article