Dublin City Council signs on for Second Freedom Flotilla to Gaza

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has unanimously passed a Sinn Féin motion condemning the Israeli commando airborne assault on the Gaza First Freedom Flotilla in the summer, murdering nine civilian aid workers and injuring 30 others.
The motion commends the Irish citizens on the MV Rachel Corrie and who took part in the First... Free article

DUBLIN Sinn Féin has launched a jobs plan to save and create 10,000 jobs in the capital.
The proposals, ‘Let’s Get Dublin Working’, were launched in Tallaght, South County Dublin, by Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD and local Councillors Seán Crowe and Cathal King.
The plan includes a history of employment in Dublin, a profile of the Dublin economy, ‘Six steps to... Free article

OUR national broadcaster has let us down again. They failed to broadcast two of the biggest sporting achievements of the year.
On September 18th, Katie Taylor won her third successive Women’s World Boxing Championship title. In Barbados, she defeated China’s Cheng Dong in the final match. The fight was also Taylor’s 100th career win.
The night before, on September 17th, the... Free article

THE report of the inquiry into the killing in Long Kesh in 1997 by INLA prisoners of Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, has failed to answer many questions, including the unionist death squad boss’s relationship with senior unionist politicians, Sinn Féin Assembly member John O’Dowd said.
Speaking after the report’s release on September 14th, John O’Dowd said:Free article

WE didn’t need the so-called ‘Independent Monitoring Commission’ (an ex-Scotland Yard supremo, an ex-CIA spook chief, an Iveagh House mandarin and a lord of the British realm and the Alliance Party) to tell us that the murder of Bobby Moffett on the Shankill Road was carried out and sanctioned by the leadership of the UVF.
Long before the IMC produced their report, the family of... Free article

BY ROSS CARMODY

THE first Annual An Phoblacht Autumn School was held over two days in Baile Bhúirne, County Cork, over the last weekend of September under the title of ‘Time to Change Ireland’.
The event drew an audience from all corners of the country, including Donegal, Belfast, Meath and Dublin.
Officialy opening the event on Friday evening, Regional Development Minister Conor... Free article

SINN FÉIN’S Bairbre de Brún MEP and Alex Maskey MLA travelled to the Basque country in the last fortnight at the request of Abertzale Left.
Sinn Féin has been engaged with the situation in the Basque country for some time and this latest engagement is a continuation of their support for the current  peace initiative following ETA’s statement declaring a ceasefire.
On Friday... Free article

‘The Future of Farming and Fishing’

THE National Ploughing Championships in Athy, County Kildare, was the stage chosen by Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris to launch his report. ‘The Future of Farming and Fishing in the West’.
The Kerry North/West Limerick TD said he was very happy to have been able to present the report to the Oireachtas All-Party Committee and to have received... Free article

THE heroic escape across the mountains from Altawark in Fermanagh to Monaghan after the famous 1957 raid on Brookeborough RUC Barracks in which Seán South and Feargal O’Hanlon lost their lives was retraced by 20 young republicans last month as they undertook ‘The Pearse Column Walk’.
The event, which was organised by Fermanagh Ógra Shinn Féin, sought through a practical,... Free article

g  BY LAURA FRIEL

ACQUELINE BUTLER was only a toddler, the youngest of six children, when her father, Paddy, was shot dead by British paratroopers in what has come to be known as ‘The Forgotten Massacre’.
“I was only 18 months old when Daddy was killed. I never knew him, only through stories and photographs.
“Mum had five other children all under 15. All she ever said was that he... Free article