Three years as a senator, and nearly 12 as a TD for Donegal going head to head with three different Finance Ministers has honed Pearse Doherty’s economic policy skills leaving him ready for Sinn Féin in government. An Phoblacht’s Robbie Smyth sat down with Pearse to talk Budgets, radical policies, and being a messenger for the people. Free article

COP26 took place in Glasgow from 1 to 12 November. A COP or ‘Conference of Parties’ takes place annually, involving all states that are party to the ‘United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’. COP26 is the 26th such summit. Free article

Jim Gibney reads Mary Lou McDonald’s Ard Fheis speech and discusses the new reality that Irish political culture is being radically changed and that Sinn Féin is in the lead of that radicalisation. Free article

Ba í Ard Fheis Shinn Féin 2021 an chéad seans a bhí ag an gcuid is mó againn castáil le comrádaithe dár gcuid ó cheann ceann na tíre. Murab ionann agus Ard Fheiseanna eile, bhí de dheis agamsa gach duine a tháinig chomh fada leis an Helix, nach mór, a fheiceáil ó tharla mé ag freastal ar an doras tosaigh ó mhaidin mar chuid d’fhoireann an pháirtí. Is cinnte gur thaitnigh sé liom i bhfad ní b’fhearr ná na seacht n-uaire a chaith mé ag coinneáil súil ar dhoras éigeandála taobh thiar den TF i gCaisleán an Bharraigh lár mhí Aibreáin i 2012, an lá céanna ar bhain mé 21 bhliain d’aois amach. Duine ná deoraí a casadh orm an lá sin nó gurbh éigean dom an doras a oscailt leis na príomhchainteoirí a scaoileadh amach ag an deireadh ar fad. Ní gan chúis a thugtar “streachailt” ar an bhfeachtas ar son saoirse na hÉireann. Free article

The Irish Government fights for English-only language policy, even as EU set to make Irish fully official in January 2022 Free article

Welsh Language Commissioner Aled Roberts explains how a model of language standards transformed the consistency and quality of how public institutions provide Welsh language services. Free article

The EU Commission has relaunched its review of the Eurozone’s fiscal rules. Announced with something of a whisper, expect a lot of raised voices in the coming months. The rules were thankfully suspended at Covid’s onset and won’t return until 2023. Free article

Martina Anderson outlines the ambitious scale of work in her new appointment as Sinn Féin’s Representative to Europe. Free article

We need 100% redress for our families with crumbling homes. Sinn Féin TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn writes on the personal experiences of those directly affected by the ongoing Mica and Pyrite scandal Free article

It’s been a bad time for some newspaper columnists and broadcasters. Recent months witnessed an ill-judged pile-on by a group of Dublin-based commentators against President Michael D Higgins in the wake of his decision to decline an invitation to a church service in Armagh marking Partition and the establishment of the 'Northern Ireland' state. Free article