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Máire Drumm (Free article)
30 September 2011
MÁIRE DRUMM was an inspirational republican leader who came to be widely regarded as the voice of the risen people in the Six Counties in the early 1970s. While Máire was synonymous with republican Belfast, she was actually a native of Killeen in South Armagh, where she was born in October 1919. She was the eldest of four children in the…
Cosgrave Coalition forces President out of office (Free article)
30 September 2011
WITH ALL EYES on the Presidential election, it is interesting to recall an event 35 years ago when a President questioning repressive legislation used against Irish republicans led to him being effectively forced out of office by a Fine Gael/Labour government. Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, a former Chief Justice, became President without an election…
The Rebel Doctor (Free article)
30 September 2011
Bid to name new Children’s Hospital after Kathleen Lynn | 1916 hero, suffragette and humanitarian
SPAIN SENTENCES BASQUE LEADERS AT HEART OF PEACE PROCESS | SINN FÉIN CALLS FOR RELEASE (Free article)
30 September 2011
Arnaldo Otegi sentenced ARNALDO OTEGI, the former leader of outlawed Basque independence party Batasuna, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after being convicted by a Spain’s National Court of trying to rebuild Batasuna. Four other accused were handed prison sentences ranging from 8 to 10 years; three others were acquitted. Batasuna was…
NEW YORK COURT CASE REVEALS SHANNON AIRPORT RENDITION FLIGHTS | LABOUR LEADER CHALLENGED BY SHANNONWATCH (Free article)
30 September 2011
‘Not knowing’ is not good enough ‘SHANNONWATCH’, the human rights group monitoring US military and rendition-linked flights in and out of Shannon Airport and through Irish airspace, has challenged Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore about his turnaround on inspecting suspect aircraft since becoming Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs. A…
Ian Óg agus Diúltú don Dul Chun Cinn (Free article)
30 September 2011
LE DONNCHADH Mac AMHLAIDH » LE DONNCHADH Mac AMHLAIDH IS LÉIR AMACH is amach nach bhfuil Ian Óg Paisley ag foghlaim agus nach bhfuil ‘an coileán mar bhí an cú mór’. Agus é ag caint le gairid ar The Politics Show (18/09/11), ní raibh aige ach dímheas ar Mháirtín Mhac Aonghusa atá ag dul chun tosaigh le bheith ina Uachtarán orainn. Tá an…
The State of the European Union (Free article)
30 September 2011
MUCH was being made of the importance of the European Commission President’s annual ‘State of the Union’ address to MEPs on September 28th to the future of the EU. All the kerfuffle ignores the fact that, with every passing week, EU leaders find themselves at least once in “now or never” or “crunch time” meeting, yet none of the so-called…
DESMOND GREAVES SUMMER SCHOOL 2011 | SINN FÉIN SENATOR KATHRYN REILLY (Free article)
30 September 2011
An All-Ireland Economic Area does it make sense? THE 23rd Desmond Greaves Summer School took place at the Ireland Institute in Dublin over the weekend of September 9th to 11th. Discussion themes included The International Economic Crisis – Making the Periphery Pay; Is Ireland a Democratic Republic?; Ireland and the Eurozone Crisis; and Where…
The Seanad, House of Lords and upper houses (Free article)
30 September 2011
Do we want a Seanad? BY TALLYER THE POOR OUL’ SEANAD has more arrows hanging out of it than Custer had. No one has a good word to say about it. Most of us have an opinion about the Seanad but how many of us understand how it works or what its purpose is? Political systems that have two houses are called bicameral, camera being the Latin…
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | MLAs CALL FOR RIGHT TO VOTE FOR ALL IRISH CITIZENS (Free article)
30 September 2011
Votes for the Six SIX Sinn Féin MLAs wearing county jerseys representing each of the Six Counties and holding their Irish passports made a call for Irish citizens in the North to be given the right to vote for the President of Ireland. Sinn Féin also wants the vote to be given to the Irish Diaspora. Tyrone MLA Barry McElduff took Fine Gael…
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