Issue 2 - 2024 200dpi

25 May 2023 Edition

A mentor in momentous times

25 May 2023

I got to know Rita shortly after I joined Sinn Féin in the late 1980s. I think I was 19, having just returned from a year in London. Rita was editor of An Phoblacht/Republican News (AP/RN) at the time, but I knew her as a member of Dún Laoghaire Sinn Féin. We would often travel together to cumann meetings in Mountown in the back of Kevin Fitzpatrick’s milk van! Free article

Ár Seacht nDícheall don Ghaeilge

25 May 2023

Aengus Ó Snodaigh sets out ambitious seven point policy for promoting Irish in the public sphere Free article

Human rights compromised by Brexit

25 May 2023

International report finds that human rights in the north of Ireland would:'be better protected in a reunified Ireland' Free article

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'We would play an All-Ireland Final anywhere'

25 May 2023

Every GAA player dreams of playing in Páirc an Chrócaigh on All-Ireland Final Day. Boys and girls. Men and women. And the dream can very much become a reality. Not if you’re a junior ladies club player. This dream has not become a reality. Yet. Laura Carroll, 2022 All-Ireland Club Final winner with Salthill Knocknacarra, takes us through the bizarre twists and turns of her teams’ journey to an All-Ireland Final. Free article

Lions in slumber

25 May 2023

On the 225th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion Joe Dwyer delves into an overlooked part of early Irish republican history – that of republicans in Britain and the allies they found there. Free article


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