16 January 2017 Edition
Have your facts ready for a post-truth 2017
16 January 2017
HOW do we prepare mentally and politically for 2017? Free article
Another Europe is possible – Treo eile don Eoraip
16 January 2017
Apple and Irish Government under fire for appeal against European Commission tax ruling, Britain’s Brexit agenda causing businesses concern, Plans to militarise EU short-sighted and immoral, ‘Super trawlers’ legislation tightened and Free article
Fatah Congress in Palestine addressed by Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson
16 January 2017
THE 7th National Congress of Fatah, held in the Palestinian West Bank city of Ramallah, heard solidarity greetings from Sinn Féin delivered by Martina Anderson MEP. Free article
Hamas meets Sinn Féin to learn from Irish Peace Process
16 January 2017
THE United Nations’ designated ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’ occurred on 29 November. Free article
The politics of food
16 January 2017
The EU wants food chains that benefit the producer and the consumer, writes ROBERT ALLEN Free article
‘Fake news’ clampdown
16 January 2017
THE PROLIFERATION of “fake news” could be coming to an end now that social media giant Facebook has unveiled its plan to tackle a problem which many commentators are blaming for having a large part in Donald Trump winning the election to become President, the most powerful (and dangerous?) man in the West. Free article
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Dale Moore, Derry City
16 January 2017
THE RESPECT with which IRA Volunteer Dale Moore is held was obvious in the ‘send off’ the Derryman was given by the republican family as he was laid to rest in the City Cemetery on Thursday 15 December. Free article
Phonsie Mac Fhirleigheann, County Derry & County Meath
16 January 2017
PHONSIE Mac FHIRLEIGHEANN, IRA Volunteer and H-Blocks Blanketman – originally from Bellaghy, south Derry but in later years who had settled in Navan, County Meath – died suddenly on 23 December. Free article
Eilish Ní Bhriain, South Australia
16 January 2017
IT WAS with great sadness that republicans learned of the death in South Australia of Eilish Ní Bhriain (Elizabeth Joan O’Brien). Free article
Owen Caraher, Crossmaglen
16 January 2017
THE Morris/Harvey Sinn Féin Cumann, Crossmaglen, County Armagh, has paid tribute to founder member and lifelong Irish republican Owen Caraher, who passed away in December. Free article
Donaill Ó Shea, Skibbereen, Cork
16 January 2017
THE unexpected death of Donaill Ó Shea (54), Droma’dúin, Skibbereen, County Cork, was received with great sadness by his relations and wide circle of friends from all over County Cork. Free article
‘Forgotten’ 1916 Volunteer remembered in east Galway
16 January 2017
GALWAY SINN FÉIN held a wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of Volunteer Martin ‘Mattie’ Reney in the Old Cemetery at the Weir, Kilcolgan, on Saturday 17 December. Free article