Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week. Free article

In early July 1981 An Phoblacht reported on the deaths of Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, the fifth and sixth strikers to die. Free article

Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week. Free article

Addressing a mass rally in west Belfast in 1975, then Sinn Féin Vice-President Máire Drumm spoke of the emergence of what she called “The risen people.” There had been resistance before, even armed resistance, but now “we have a risen people” and, as Máire told the crowd, “No one can beat a risen people.” Free article

Party President Mary Lou McDonald revealed her team and outlined Sinn Féin’s objectives as the lead Opposition party in the Dáil at a press conference earlier today. Free article

Andy McGibbon writes that within every crisis lies great opportunity. The musical response to the Black Lives Matter movement has a role in creating the momentum for equality of opportunity and justice for all. Free article

Oisín McCann gives his analysis on yesterday's election of Micheál Martin as Taoiseach, and the opportunity that lies ahead as Sinn Féin take position as lead Opposition in the Dáil. Free article

Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week. Free article

Jim Gibney remembers a turning point in the struggle Free article

Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile reflects on the meaning of the Battle of St Matthew’s to republicans today and how the events of 50 years ago has left an indelible imprint on his politics and understanding of the conflict and the republican struggle. Free article