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John McQuaid and Mick McKernan (Free article)
5 January 2012
County Monaghan THE passing in the last months of 2011 of two County Monaghan, lifelong republican activists in their 90s has caused great sadness but has also given rise to great memories shared by their many comrades and friends across north County Monaghan. The death in mid-September of John McQuaid of Barratitoppy in the Knockatallon…
Less EU empire building and more republicanism (Free article)
5 January 2012
BY MICHAEL BURKE Independent economic commentator and writer for Socialist Economic Bulletin JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the DUP won a vote for a motion it tabled in the House of Commons. It is extremely unusual for an opposition party to win a parliamentary vote. But the DUP is not really an opposition party at all and the motion was to…
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin (Free article)
5 January 2012
Átha Cliath LE P Ó SNODAIG ‘LAOCH AR LÁR’ - ró-mhinic ráite ach i gcás Dháithí Ui hÓgáin do b’fhíor é. Is trua linn mar a bhuail a bhás a theaghlach féin, a ghaolta, a chairde. Cé gur theagmhaigh ailse leis tá breis agus trí bhliain ó shin bhi sé chomh láidir, chomh dearfach, chomh leanúnach sin go deire gur ar éigin gur ghlac muid go raibh…
Tom Kealy Commemoration, Kildare (Free article)
5 January 2012
A CROWD of close to 100 people gathered in Donaghcumper Cemetery, Celbridge, on Sunday 27 November to remember veteran Celbridge republican Tom Kealy. Speaking at the graveside, Ide Cussen of Kildare Sinn Fein said: “It is of great significance to hold this commemoration on the 30th anniversary of Tom’s passing which is also the…
The Tories stir sectarianism in Ireland (Free article)
5 January 2012
THE YEAR 2012 marks the centenary of the escalation of what was known as the Home Rule crisis during which the opposition Conservative & Unionist Party in Britain ruthlessly stoked Ulster unionist sectarianism. The Tories went so far as to threaten civil war in order to topple the Liberal Government and to prevent any measure of even…
A duty to defend the people’ (Free article)
5 January 2012
NEW YEAR INTERVIEW | GERRY ADAMS TD, PRESIDENT OF SINN FÉIN AFTER A BANNER YEAR for Sinn Féin and five elections since January 2011, An Phoblacht’s ROBBIE SMYTH (below left) caught up with party president Gerry Adams in Dublin and found him tired and itching to get back home. We found a Gerry Adams who refuses to be simply reflective on over…
Time for the Irish Government to make good on the promises of 1916 (Free article)
5 January 2012
A GENUINE IRISH REPUBLIC | AS WE APPROACH 2016 . . . BY CIARÁN QUINN MICHAEL NOONAN, in his introduction to the 2012 Budget as the Fine Gael/Labour Finance Minister, told the Dáil: “On this day 90 years ago, on 6 December 1921, the Treaty was signed. The Treaty restored Ireland’s sovereignty which for so long had been lost.” Getting the…
Lanigan’s Ball recruitment undermines policing progress (Free article)
5 January 2012
BY PEADAR WHELAN And I stepped out, and I stepped in again Learning to dance for Lanigan’s Ball THE PSNI is now employing hundreds of former RUC members who resigned from the force and benefited from the Patton redundancy plan. But the PSNI claims it cannot provide details of how many former RUC members it now employs. Nor…
Taxing times (Free article)
5 January 2012
ONE of the interesting things about Irish political journalists and commentators is how little they know, or understand, about politics. Collectively, they sometimes appear to be a group of priests giving marriage advice. They don’t really understand it, they’ve no particular experience of it, but they’re very sure they’re right. Now don’t…
Do theanga – do thacaíocht de dhíth (Free article)
5 January 2012
An Coimisinéar agus an Acht faoi ionsaí TÁ IONSAÍ fíochmhar dhá dhéanamh ag Rialtas Bhaile Átha Cliath ar an nGaeilge agus cearta Gaeilgeoirí agus tá do thacaíocht phraiticiúil ag teastáil le sin a throid. Tá sé íorónach, ag am nuair atá feachtas láidir ar siúl sna Sé Chontae le Acht Teanga don Ghaeilge a chuir in áit - agus iad ag féachaint…
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