16 January 2017 Edition
Stormont brought down by DUP arrogance

16 January 2017
STORMONT’S Executive Government was brought down by the sheer weight of the arrogance of the Democratic Unionist Party under Arlene Foster and their refusal to truly embrace the challenges of power-sharing. Free article
'There can be no return to the status quo' – Martin McGuinness
16 January 2017

FOR A DECADE, Martin McGuinness has been at the head of the Northern Executive, driving Sinn Féin’s agenda in the political institutions in the face of great challenges. Free article
DUP’s war against Irish language
16 January 2017

DUP axing of Líofa Gaeltacht bursary scheme in line with party policy outlined by Arlene Foster prior to 2016 Assembly election Premium service article
Dual Diagnosis – A new approach in treating mental health and substance addiction
16 January 2017

CORK CITY is the venue for Sinn Féin’s third regional conference on the Dual Diagnosis approach to mental health. Free article
Kevin Fox’s family meet Trust on suicide services
16 January 2017

OMAGH Sinn Féin Sinn Féin Councillors Anne-Marie Fitzgerald and Stephen McCann (who is also Chair of the council’s Health & Social Care Group) have described as ‘productive’ a meeting held the week before Christmas between Western Trust officials and family and friends of the late Kevin Fox, who tragically lost his life to suicide in July. Free article
Do we really need another new party on the Left?
16 January 2017

THE GROSS BETRAYAL of the interests of the organised labour movement by the Labour Party has rightly led thousands of trade unionists to reject the abject posturing of this personal-pension-hungry rabble. Premium service article
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Ní mór don DUP tabhairt faoin dúshlán
16 January 2017

An fhéiniúlacht agus an cothromas i leith na Gaeilge, sa phobal agus sa chóras scolaíochta, is iad sin na hábhair is mó a bhí faoi thrácht ag Slógadh Shinn Féin i nDún Richmond (Richmond Barracks), Baile Atha Cliath, le déanaí. Free article
Farewell Fidel
16 January 2017

I was being asked to be an eyewitness to a moment in history Free article
British Government’s legacy of cover-up a toxic stream of lies
16 January 2017

Pressure mounts on Britain over legacy issues – British Government warned that it cannot use national security to override its obligations to provide information about the past Free article
Cothromas diúltach agus deacracht phearsanta
16 January 2017

MAR IS NÓS anois ag an rialtas agus ag an bhfreasúra bréagach (Fianna Fáil) cluiche pholaitiúil a dhéanamh as ceisteanna a bhfuil tábhacht dhairíre ag baint leó don phobal, níl ar siúl acu maidir le riaradh cíosa ach cur i gcéill eile. Free article
‘Magical legalism’: How the British disguise their illegality as legal
16 January 2017

THE REACTION of Tory politicians and their media mouthpieces to the news of two British paratroopers being charged with the 1972 killing of ‘Official IRA’ leader Joe McCann has exposed the colonial mindset of the British Right. Free article
Kilmichael Ambush – A turning point in the birth of our nation
16 January 2017

SINN FÉIN MEP LIADH NÍ RIADA was the guest speaker at the annual Kilmichael Ambush/General Tom Barry Commemoration in Cork in November in what was reported by local media to have been attended by one of the largest crowds in recent years “and certainly a much higher proportion of young people”, Louis Whyte told The Southern Star. Free article