SYMPHYSIOTOMY – the operation that entailed the sawing in half during childbirth of the pubic bone of a woman to open the birth canal and in theory make the baby’s passage into the world easier – was both unnecessary and barbaric. Free article

FAIRNESS, objectivity and impartiality in the Irish news media – what are the steps to such a utopia? Premium service article

BEN GILROY and his new Direct Democracy Ireland party burst onto the scene in the Meath East by-election, attracting anti-Government voters who took DDI’s rhetoric at face value. But what does DDI and its leading figures stand for? Free article

REPUBLICANS across Kerry and particularly around Listowel were left shocked by the sudden death pf Sinn Féin Town Councillor and former Mayor of Listowel Anthony Curtin. He passed away at his home in Clounmacon in the early hours of Wednesday morning, 3 April. He was aged 77. Free article

THE sad news of the passing of lifelong republican Mattie Ganley was received throughout Galway County with disbelief that our Giolla Mear had passed away at his home in Cnoc Dunloe in his native Ballinasloe. Free article

Milo – Directors: Berend and Roel Boersma. Cast: Lorcan Bonner, Stuart Graham, Jer O’Leary, Laura Vasiliu, Charlotte Bradley and Dolf de Vries. Runtime: 90 minutes Free article

WREATHS were laid on behalf of the families of three Civil War republican prisoners at the annual Wexford Sinn Féin commemoration at Taghmon on Saturday 6 April. Free article

“Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.” – Pádraig Mac Piarais Free article

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