In the first is a series of five interviews focusing on the 1981 hunger strike, Eoin O'Broin talks to former South African political prisoner Srinivasa Moodley about his memories of the Irish Hunger strike and how it inspired his own prison life. Free article

Tá ciníochas oscailte ag fás in Éirinn chomh scioptha agus atá líon na ndídeanaithe, dteifeach agus inimirceach ag dul i méad. Ach ní i gcónaí a bhíonn ciníochas ann mar rud d'aon ghnó. Uaireanta is de thaisme nó i ngan fhios a léirítear an mothúchán nimhneach. Agus, i mbealach amháin, is measa sin ná an ciníochas oscailte. Free article

Perusing the sporting headlines this weekend, a couple of incidents have led to calls for the use of video evidence in order to ensure fair play. There were allegations of a point that never was in the Offaly v Clare National Hurling League Game and in the Bray Wanderers v Bohemians FAI Cup tie there were accusations of punches thrown, penalties not given and legitimate goals disallowed. Free article

Sinn Féin as we now it today, owes much to the important Ard Fheis held in Dublin's Mansion House on 25 October 1917. The basis for the socialist republican programme of later years was laid at that Ard Fheis, as were the main elements of today's Sinn Féín Constitution. Free article

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