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Bobby Sands writing in An Phoblacht/Republican News

12 June 2026

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in September 1977. Free article

Sinn Féin Ministerial team will continue to give leadership and act in the public interest - Kearney

6 April 2020

Writing in his latest blog for An Phoblacht, Declan Kearney said we need to what's right north and south to tackle COVID19. Free article

The case for a new indigenous enterprise agency

6 April 2020

Maurice Quinlavan makes the case for a new dynamic enterprise agency to drive Irish job creation Free article

The 2019 lockout

2 April 2020

Niall Monaghan, looks at the economic and political forces behind the farmers gate protests across Ireland last year and makes the case for why this is the left´s battle Free article

“Radical action on climate change” top priority for new SF Senator

1 April 2020

Former Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan has been elected to the 26th Seanad after taking a seat on the Agricultural panel. The Tallaght native is the second Sinn Féin Senator to be elected so far, joining Fintan Warfield who was elected to the Culture and Education panel yesterday.

Boylan elected to the European Parliament as the Sinn Féin MEP for Dublin in 2014, and campaigned strongly... Free article

Home is where the struggle is

1 April 2020

Mícheál Mac Donncha reviews Eoin Ó Broin’s key book on how to resolve Ireland’s housing crisis Free article

Fintan Warfield elected to 26th Seanad

31 March 2020

Sinn Féin Senator Fintan Warfield has been returned to the 26th Seanad after being elected today. The Inchicore native was elected to the fourth seat of the Culture and Education panel. 118 candidates are competing for election to the Seanad across seven panels, with Sinn Féin fielding seven candidates including former MP for Derry Elisha McCallion and former MEP for Dublin Lynn... Free article

Covid-19 and the need for a New World Order of Solidarity and Co-operation - Declan Kearney

23 March 2020

The latest blog by Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney on the COVID19 crisis, the scale of the challenge ahead of us and the importance of solidarity both at home and internationally. Free article

A Mother's Day like no other - Michelle O'Neill

22 March 2020

In this article by Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán and Joint Head of Government in the North, Michelle O'Neill, said that this Mother's Day will be different from any other and urged people to follow social distancing guidelines. The article first appeared in the Belfast Telegraph. Free article

Tomás Mac Curtáin

17 March 2020

In the local government elections of January 1920 the Irish Republic, which had been declared independent by the first Dáil Éireann a year previously, received another massive endorsement, with Sinn Féin majorities in 172 of the 206 councils throughout the country. Free article

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na ndaoine - Ollchruinnithe Shinn Féin

12 March 2020

Mar is eol dúinn i Sinn Féin le fada an lá is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine. Cé gur cliché seanchaite atá inti is modh maireachtála ‘an dóigh Éireannach’ é a théann siar na cianta i stair an oileáin. Braithimid ar a chéile, cabhraímid lena chéile, pléimid cúrsaí agus éistimid le chéile. Is maith linn nuair a bhíonn teagmháil agus caidreamh pearsanta eadrainn. Bímid thuas seal, thíos seal ach is le chéile a éiríonn is fearr linn. Free article

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