SINN FÉIN faced a media dirty war during the Dáil general election as the Establishment rounded on the only serious electoral threat to the Golden Circles and the elites of Irish society. Free article

THIS ELECTION has not been the end of the process of resistance to austerity and the policies that put the interests of the richest and most privileged above those of the ordinary working man and woman. Free article

AN PHOBLACHT went on the road on election count day for what the Twitter machine hashtagged #GE16. We hitched a ride with Sinn Féin Social Media Unit roving news video maestro Mickey Rogan and Assembly Sinn Féin Press Officer Michael McMonagle to get a taste of what was happening in a few places outside of Dublin City Centre. Free article

LESS THAN 20 YEARS after Sinn Féin won its first seat in the 1997 Leinster House elections, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin was returned again in Cavan/Monaghan for a fifth consecutive win, along with 22 other Sinn Féin deputies in the party’s best performance ever in Dáil elections. Sinn Féin won 285,319 votes. Free article

Sa ceathrú cuid dár sraith ‘Ról an Stáit agus Ról an Phobail’, scríobhann An Comhairleoir Mairéad Farrell, ar comhairleoir de chuid Shinn Féin i nGaillimh í, faoin taithí atá faighte aici in earnáil an rialtais áitiúil. Free article

1 March marks the anniversary of the beginning of the 1981 Hunger Strike. JIM GIBNEY recalls the events leading up to that fateful anniversary. Free article

A KIND OF SISTERHOOD, the award-winning film produced by Michelle Devlin and Claire Hackett, is a heart-stopping account of the struggle faced by the many republican women who fought their way through the North's prison system during the conflict. Free article

THIS was a very good election for Sinn Féin. We went from 14 seats to (as we speak) 23 seats. We increased our representation by 60%. We also got a very good spread – there are very few regions in the state that there aren’t Sinn Féin TDs. If they weren’t elected this time they sure are going to be elected next time if they continue with the work they are doing. Free article

IN LIFE, Pat Finucane used his fine-tuned legal brain to protect those arrested and held in detention from ill-treatment during interrogation. He defended those who found themselves in court facing a judicial system which was politically manipulated to the point where the accused was presumed guilty, not innocent. Free article

CHAOTIC SCENES surrounded Dublin’s O’Connell Street in February as members of an extremist far-right organisation were chased off the streets by anti-fascist activists after a failed attempt to hold an anti-Islam rally in the capital to try and launch an Irish branch of Germany’s PEGIDA (“Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West”). Free article

A BRITISH EXIT from the EU would pose a serious threat to human rights in the North and undermine the Good Friday Agreement, a major conference in Belfast hosted by Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson heard on 29 January. Free article

A REDEDICATION CEREMONY for the granite tombstone of IRA Volunteer, An Phoblacht Editor and Spanish Civil War officer Frank Ryan refurbished by Friends of the International Brigades in Ireland, the Limerick International Brigade Memorial Trust and the Ryan family was attended by a wide cross-section of anti-fascists and republicans (including current An Phoblacht Editor John Hedges) in February. Free article