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5 December 2019 Edition

The real alternative

5 December 2019

A vision of a positive future or the politics of fear and division, this is the choice facing Six-County voters in the December 12th elections. “This is a once in a generation election, the stakes are very high”, was the message from Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald, as she announced that the party would contest 15 of the 18 Westminster constituencies. “People have a fundamental choice to make, to vote for a positive, inclusive future or turn their backs on that”. Free article

The real alternative

5 December 2019

A vision of a positive future or the politics of fear and division, this is the choice facing Six-County voters in the December 12th elections. “This is a once in a generation election, the stakes are very high”, was the message from Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald, as she announced that the party would contest 15 of the 18 Westminster constituencies. “People have a fundamental choice to make, to vote for a positive, inclusive future or turn their backs on that”. Free article

Vote for our future

5 December 2019

Sinn Féin vice President Michelle O’Neill writes on how the party’s approach to the election is part of the campaign for a referendum on Irish unity. Free article

The 2019 lockout

5 December 2019

Niall Monaghan, looks at the economic and political forces behind the farmers gate protests across Ireland this year and makes the case for why this is the left´s battle Free article

Sinn Féin’s alternatives to budget failures

5 December 2019

Pearse Doherty takes apart the failures in the Fine Gael budget explaining the Sinn Fein alternative. Free article

Bagairt an aontaithe… do roinnt daoine

5 December 2019

Aoife Ní Chorráin ag maíomh go bhfuil cás na haontachta inchreidte agus réalaíoch i ndiaidh bhagairt an Bhreatimeachta. Free article

Young men's health needs forgotten

5 December 2019

Gambling addiction, cancer and mental health issues are just some of the health challenges facing men today according to Louise O’Reilly. Free article

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The case for a new indigenous enterprise agency

5 December 2019

Maurice Quinlavan makes the case for a new dynamic enterprise agency to drive Irish job creation Free article

Máire Drumm and Bobby Sands

5 December 2019

A unique look through the lens of Gérard Harlay (print edition) and an exclusive extract from Gerry Adams’s book on Maire Drumm. Free article

One island – No border

5 December 2019

To mark the decades of resistance to the border in Ireland 'An Phoblacht' has a collection of views from both sides of the border and an extensive gallery of images of border busters (print edition) through the decades. Free article

The Implications of Brexit for Border Communities

5 December 2019

Joe McVeigh gives a personal view from Fermanagh on why communities will never accept a hard border. Free article

Remembering Border busters 25 years on

5 December 2019

Oisín McCann takes us through the decades of border busters, the communities who refused to accept Partition Free article

Brexit and the Border – No going back!

5 December 2019

From Leitrim Seán Mac Brádaigh on the determination to resist the Conservative/DUP Brexit agenda. Free article


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