Speaking last night to the Foreign Relations Committee of the New York Bar Association, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD gave the following speech.

The impact of Brexit on rights

When I was invited to take part in a Brexit Questions and Answers session, I believed that we would have all of the answers to what Brexit will mean.

This week, the British parliament voted against... Free article

Writing in his latest blog, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney said British government must accept its responsibility as a protagonist in the conflict, comply with the Good Friday Agreement and end its block on the legacy mechanisms agreed at Stormont House in 2014. Free article

PIARAS MAC CANNA represented East Tipperary in the First Dáil Éireann. He was a founder member of both Sinn Féin in 1905 and the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and was commander of the Volunteers in County Tipperary. Free article

Writing in his latest blog, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney said the Local Government elections on 2 May will be a strategic opportunity to once again drive forward the momentum for political change in Ireland. Free article

Catalan political prisoners are facing 25 years in prison for organising a self-determination referendum Free article

Sinn Féin Senator and Chair of the Oireachtas Friends of Catalonia group Paul Gavan, has written an opinion piece marking the beginning of the trial of the former members of the Catalan Government. Free article

THE late 1980s saw an escalation in the use of death squads by the British regime in the Six Counties. Since the start of the 1970s, the British Army and the RUC had manipulated loyalist paramilitary organisations as part of their counter-insurgency strategy. The aim was to terrorise the entire nationalist population, killing Catholics solely because of their religion or perceived political allegiances and, where possible, assassinating leading nationalists and republicans. Free article

In this article, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA reflects on last weekend's landmark 'beyond Brexit' conference in Belfast and calls on unionists and others to become involved in the discussion on shaping a new Ireland. Free article

Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach Ó Séaghdha (2018, published by Head of Zeus Ltd) Free article

Brexit is not the first time that Ireland has been at the heart of a political and constitutional crisis in Britain. On and off from 1886 until 1922 the 'Irish Question' was high on the agenda of British politics and caused deep divisions within and between parties. The question made and broke governments.  Free article