Republican comradeship is always at its strongest when the struggle is under attack, and the massive show of support at the various marches, commemorations and other Easter events that took place last weekend bore testimony to that. Free article

Reports from the commemorations that took place throughout the 32 Counties last weekend. Free article

Up to 2,000 people took part in the main Dublin commemoration. In a break from tradition, a wreath was laid at the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery on Sunday morning and the main parade marched, not to the cemetery, but from the Garden of remembrance to the GPO. Free article

The confusion within Fianna Fáil about how to respond to Sinn Féin's campaign for a Green Paper on Irish Unity was starkly exposed at the second annual James Connolly Memorial Lecture in Dublin last week, one of the events organised as part of Dublin's Easter commemorative programme. Free article

There was an air of nostalgia and high emotion in Loughmacrory on Saturday as two teams from the 1980s played a challenge match in tribute to Gerard and Martin Harte. The game was part of the Céad Bliain programme of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Sinn Féin. Free article

Strabane witnessed its largest ever Republican commemoration on Sunday as thousands turned up to remember local Volunteers Charlie Breslin, Michael Devine and David Devine, who were brutally executed by undercover British forces in the early hours of 23 February 1985. Free article

"The history of the old Stormont regime is one of oppression, discrimination and elitism, the very opposite of what the was set out in the 1916 Proclamation." So said Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd as he welcomed an invited audience of republican activists to the first ever Easter Commemoration in Stormont on Thursday 24 March. Free article

As the annual Greencastle Easter Parade arrived at the junction of the Whitewell and Shore Roads on Easter Saturday 26 March, gangs of loylaist thugs pelted marchers with bricks, bottles, full cans of beer as well as bottles of beer. Free article

Sinn Féin's Údarás candidate Gráinne Mhic Géidigh has slammed the sitting members of the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta.She hit out at the members' inability to deliver quality representation to the electorate. Free article

Glens Sinn Féin representative Maria O'Hara and local councillor Oliver McMullan are pictured here with in excess of 1,200 signatures on a petition calling on the government not to implement the outrageous water tax in the North of Ireland. Free article