2 June 2013 Edition
Dialogue for an Equal Future
2 June 2013
IN RECENT MONTHS, the Sinn Féin leadership has said unambiguously our party is committed to guaranteeing parity of esteem for both British and Irish identities. Free article
Every week 10 people die by suicide 8 of them are men
2 June 2013
“BY THIS DAY NEXT WEEK, 10 people in Ireland will have died by suicide, and 8 of them will be men,” Joan Freeman of Pieta House tells An Phoblacht. It is this shocking statistic that brought the suicide and self-harm crisis centre to launch the ‘Mind Our Men’ campaign. Free article
Wolfe Tone Commemoration, Sunday 23rd June
2 June 2013
A WEEKEND of festival activities to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the founder of Irish republicanism, is being organised by Kildare Sinn Féin over Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23. Free article
‘We don’t want a 32-County Free State’
2 June 2013
THE Crossmaglen Rangers club was buzzing when upwards of 200 people packed the debate on a United Ireland chaired by Eamonn Mallie and addressed by unionists as well as republicans ahead of the people’s Border poll. Premium service article
Border Busters – Poll backs united Ireland
2 June 2013
THE GREAT EFFORT by the people of South Armagh and North Louth in organising the first-ever ‘People’s Referendum on Irish Unity’ paid off on Saturday 25 May when over a thousand people went out to cast their votes. Premium service article
Volunteer Hugh Hehir 25th Anniversary Commemoration, County Clare
2 June 2013
THE largest attendance in many years was in Clarecastle, County Clare, on 5 May to mark the 25th anniversary of the death on active service of Volunteer Hugh Hehir. Free article