Issue 2 - 2024 200dpi

25 May 2023 Edition

British and Irish Governments must act

25 May 2023

It is often the case that the news media latch onto a word or a phrase, and it becomes repeated across TV, radio, online, and in print. It is frequently an attempt to describe complex social and political events with a term that implies that journalists and the organisations they belong to can impart the core understanding of a specific moment in time. 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

We must stand with the Kurdish people in their struggle

25 May 2023

Chris Hazzard visited Istanbul earlier this year as a participant in a human rights delegation to observe the current conditions of the Turkish state and investigate the impact of the political situation. He offers his thoughts on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent electoral victory. Free article

'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

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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

The legalised lawlessness of the British Empire

25 May 2023

In the days before the coronation of Charles III, indigenous leaders and other representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries, former British colonies, issued a joint call on the new monarch to formally apologise for British imperial crimes and to make reparations by redistributing the wealth of the British crown and returning artefacts and human remains to their rightful owners. Free article

Gerry Adams elected in West Belfast 1983

25 May 2023

The British government, still stunned by the strong showing of Sinn Féin in the October 1982 Assembly elections, were further shaken when Gerry Adams resoundingly won the West Belfast seat in the Westminster election of 9 June 1983. Free article


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